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Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on an updated version of ToxicPanda (aka TgToxic) that comes with "significant enhancements," including a set of 167 remote commands and expands its targeting footprint globally. Zimperium zLabs, in a Wednesday report , said the Android malware also features a PIN harvesting workflow targeting more than 140 banking and cryptocurrency applications. ToxicPanda is known to be active in the wild since at least July 2022. "By abusing the Android accessibility service, threat actors can steal every UI element on the screen, alongside an overlay-based credential theft mechanism targeting 349 financial institutions [across 16 countries], compared to the previous version, which targeted only 16 banking applications, the latest iteration demonstrates a significant expansion in targeting scope and capabilities," security researcher Vishnu Pratapagiri said. The new version also fleshes out some of the previously unimplemented c...

A set of 40 Mozilla Firefox extensions has been found to engage in cryptocurrency wallet theft by masquerading as OKX, Rabby Wallet, TronLink, and other Web3 products. According to the Socket Threat Research team, the extensions are part of a broader set of 77 browser add-ons that share source code and infrastructure overlaps. The campaign, dubbed Offside Wallet Theft Factory , is believed to have been active since March 2026. The activity has not been attributed to any known threat actor or group. "Extension-level analysis confirms 40 as malicious," security researcher Kirill Boychenko said . "Another 37 form a coordinated multi-sport score-shell operation. Their analyzed builds contain no confirmed credential- or wallet-stealing payloads, but their deceptive functionality, shared publishing artifacts, and version histories indicate malicious intent." Among those 40 extensions, seven use threat actor-controlled Supabase projects as remote switches to server ...

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a critical flaw in the Elementor Pro WordPress plugin that, if successfully exploited, could lead to remote code execution. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-32475 , carries a CVSS score of 9.0 out of 10.0. It has been described as a case of unrestricted upload of a file with a dangerous type. "The flaw lives in the Forms module's File Upload field, where the extension check and the file-move step run in two separate loops with different handling of empty file entries," Patchstack said . "By submitting two file parts for the same field, an unauthenticated attacker skips the extension blocklist entirely and writes a PHP file into a public directory." This discrepancy in how it validates the file's extension and moves the uploaded file to a public directory when empty file entries are processed turns a restricted file-upload field into an unauthenticated remote code execution primitive. Succes...

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a  remote Spectre attack  against Cloudflare Workers that leaked a JSON Web Token (JWT) from a co-located Worker in the production environment at up to 12 bits per second, 360 times the rate of an earlier attack demonstrated in 2021. The end-to-end experiment used an attacker Worker and a victim Worker controlled by the researchers, with the JWT intentionally placed in the victim's memory. The research paper stated that no customer data was accessed. Cloudflare said the attack has already been mitigated in production after it improved Dynamic Process Isolation (DyPrIs), integrated the  V8 Sandbox , and deployed Memory Protection Keys (MPK)-based in-process isolation, adding that it found no indicators of active exploitation over the last three years. "We demonstrate that the production implementation of DyPrIs was insufficient," the researchers said in  the paper . Cloudflare Workers runs code from multiple...

OpenAI on Tuesday revealed that it paused reinforcement learning ( RL ) training for its latest artificial intelligence (AI) models for two weeks while it shored up additional defenses and increased the scope of its monitoring to avert another Hugging Face-like incident . "As models become more capable, the risks associated with developing and testing them internally also grow," the AI company said . "Our standards for monitoring, alignment, and security must stay ahead of those risks. We wanted to take the time necessary to meet those standards, so we temporarily slowed the pace of scaling." The company said its largest planned frontier RL run remains on hold for the time being as it conducts smaller-scale training and evaluations to evaluate model behavior, validate its safeguards, and establish more concrete evidence of alignment before moving to the next phase. To that end, OpenAI said it plans to strengthen safeguards across its development process, inc...