“Cyber warfare is as much about psychological strategy as technical prowess.”
― James Scott
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Palo Alto Warns of Active Exploitation of PAN-OS GlobalProtect VPN Flaw [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Palo Alto Networks has revealed that it has observed “active exploitation” of a recently disclosed PAN-OS vulnerability by an unknown threat actor to obtain unauthorized access to GlobalProtect portals. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-0257 (CVSS score: 7.8), an authentication bypass flaw affecting the portal and gateway components of PAN-OS software that could be exploited…
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Critical Splunk Enterprise Flaw Lets Attackers Run Code Without Authentication [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Splunk has released security updates to address a critical security flaw in Splunk Enterprise that could be exploited to conduct unauthenticated file operations and even remote code execution. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-20253, is rated 9.8 on the CVSS scoring system. “In Splunk Enterprise versions below 10.2.4 and 10.0.7, an unauthenticated user could create or…
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U.S. Orders Anthropic to Suspend Fable 5 and Mythos 5 Access for Foreign Nationals [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Anthropic said on Friday it will “abruptly disable” its most advanced artificial intelligence (AI) models, Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5, for all users after the U.S. government ordered it to suspend access to the models for foreign nationals, whether inside or outside the U.S., citing national security concerns. The AI company said it received…
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Over 400 Arch Linux AUR Packages Hijacked to Deploy Infostealer and eBPF Rootkit [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Attackers took over more than 400 packages in the Arch User Repository (AUR) this week and rewrote their build scripts to install a credential stealer on any machine that built them. The malware is a Rust binary built to harvest developer secrets. When it lands with root, it can also load an eBPF rootkit to…
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400+ Arch Linux AUR Packages Hijacked to Install Rust Credential Stealer [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Attackers took over more than 400 packages in the Arch User Repository (AUR) this week and rewrote their build scripts to install a credential stealer on any machine that built them. The malware is a Rust binary built to harvest developer secrets. When it lands with root, it can also load an eBPF rootkit to…
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Google Sues Chinese Smishing Network Accused of Using Gemini AI in Phishing [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Google on Friday said it’s pursuing legal action against a Chinese cybercrime network, accusing it of using its Gemini artificial intelligence (AI) agent to send phishing text messages targeting Americans. The network is said to be behind the development and management of a phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) software kit called Outsider, per the tech giant. “The operation…
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China-Linked Hackers Backdoored Linux Login Software to Hide for Nearly a Decade [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Instead of hiding on the laptops and servers defenders watch most closely, a China-nexus group spent close to a decade hidden inside the Linux login system itself. Sygnia, which tracks the group as Velvet Ant, says it backdoored the PAM and OpenSSH components that decide who is allowed to sign in, planting its access where…
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Agentjacking Attack Tricks AI Coding Agents Into Running Malicious Code [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Cybersecurity researchers have described what they say is a new class of attack that can trick artificial intelligence (AI) coding agents into running arbitrary code on developer machines. Called Agentjacking by Tenet Security, the attack can be triggered by means of a fake error report crafted using Sentry, an open-source error-tracking and performance-monitoring platform. “The…
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Rethinking MDR as Attackers and Defenders Embrace AI [email protected] (The Hacker News)
For most of the past decade, managed detection and response was the answer to a real problem. Security teams couldn’t staff around the clock, couldn’t hire enough analysts, and needed someone else to handle the alert queue. MDR stepped in. It worked well enough. Until now. The threat landscape has changed faster than the MDR…
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LangGraph Flaw Chain Exposes Self-Hosted AI Agents to Remote Code Execution [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of three now-patched security flaws impacting LangGraph, including a critical vulnerability chain that could result in remote code execution. LangGraph is an open-source framework created by LangChain to build complex, stateful, and multi-agent artificial intelligence (AI) agentic applications. “An SQL injection in LangGraph’s function couldRead More
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