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Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new China-aligned espionage campaign targeting government and defense sectors across South, East, and Southeast Asia, along with one European government belonging to NATO. Trend Micro has attributed the activity to a threat activity cluster it tracks under the temporary designation SHADOW-EARTH-053 . The adversarial collective is assessed to be active since at least December 2024, while sharing some level of network overlap with CL-STA-0049, Earth Alux, and REF7707 . "The group exploits N-day vulnerabilities in internet-facing Microsoft Exchange and Internet Information Services (IIS) servers (e.g., ProxyLogon chain), then deploys web shells ( Godzilla ) for persistent access and stages ShadowPad implants via DLL sideloading of legitimate signed executables," security researchers Daniel Lunghi and Lucas Silva said in an analysis. Targets of the campaigns include Pakistan, Thailand, Malaysia, India, Myanmar, Sri Lank...

The internet is noisy this week. We are seeing some wild new tactics, like people using fake cell towers to send scam texts, while some developers are accidentally downloading tools that peek into their private files during a simple install. It is definitely a busy time to be online. Security is always a moving target. Millions of servers are currently sitting online without any passwords, and old software bugs are showing up in the most unexpected places. Even with the right fixes available, staying one step ahead is a full-time job for all of us. Data is shifting in strange ways, too. Some browser tools are now legally selling user history for profit, and new kits are making it simpler for almost anyone to launch a campaign. You have to see these latest updates to believe them. Let’s look at the full list... SMS blaster phishing crackdown Canadian Authorities Arrest 3 Men for Alleged Use of SMS Blaster Canadian authorities have ar...

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a Linux local privilege escalation (LPE) flaw that could allow an unprivileged local user to obtain root. The high-severity vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-31431 (CVSS score: 7.8) has been codenamed Copy Fail by Xint.io and Theori. "An unprivileged local user can write four controlled bytes into the page cache of any readable file on a Linux system, and use that to gain root," the vulnerability research team at Xint.io and Theori said . At its core, the vulnerability stems from a logic flaw in the Linux kernel's cryptographic subsystem, specifically within the algif_aead module. The issue was introduced in a source code commit made in August 2017. Successful exploitation of the shortcoming could allow a simple 732-byte Python script to edit a setuid binary and obtain root on essentially all Linux distributions shipped since 2017, including Amazon Linux, RHEL, SUSE, and Ubuntu. The Python exploit involves four ...

Google has addressed a maximum severity security flaw in Gemini CLI -- the "@google/gemini-cli" npm package and the "google-github-actions/run-gemini-cli" GitHub Actions workflow -- that could have allowed attackers to execute arbitrary commands on host systems. "The vulnerability allowed an unprivileged external attacker to force their own malicious content to load as Gemini configuration," Novee Security said in a Wednesday report. "This triggered command execution directly on the host system, bypassing security before the agent’s sandbox even initialized." The shortcoming, which does not have a CVE identifier, carries a CVSS score of 10.0. It affects the following versions - @google/gemini-cli < 0.39.1 @google/gemini-cli < 0.40.0-preview.3 google-github-actions/run-gemini-cli < 0.1.22 In its advisory published last week, Google said the impact is limited to workflows using Gemini CLI in headless mode, adding that any use of...

cPanel has released security updates to address a security issue impacting various authentication paths that could allow an attacker to obtain access to the control panel software. The problem affects all currently supported versions of cPanel and WebHost Manager (WHM), according to an alert published by WebPros on Tuesday. It does not have an official identifier. The issue has been addressed in the following versions - 11.86.0.41 11.110.0.97 11.118.0.63 11.126.0.54 11.130.0.19 11.132.0.29 11.136.0.5 11.134.0.20 "If your server is not running a supported version of cPanel that is eligible for this update, it is highly recommended that you work toward updating your server as soon as possible, as it may also be affected," cPanel noted. While cPanel did not share any details about the vulnerability, web hosting and domain registration company Namecheap disclosed that it "relates to an authentication login exploit that could allow unauthorized access to the ...