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A single poisoned notification from WhatsApp, Slack, SMS, Signal, Instagram, or Messenger could have hijacked Google Gemini's voice assistant on Android and made it open a victim's connected windows, fake a message from their boss, push the phone into a Zoom call, or quietly poison its long-term memory. No malicious app on the phone is required. The assistant just had to treat a hostile notification as useful context. The research, published by SafeBreach's Or Yair, follows the team's earlier " Invitation Is All You Need " work, which pulled off similar tricks through malicious Google Calendar invites. After that, Google hardened Gemini against indirect prompt injection. Yair found a way around the new defenses. Google has since patched it, SafeBreach lists no CVE for the issue, and there is no evidence that the technique was ever used in the wild. On Android, Gemini's Utilities feature can read and reply to your notifications, including ones ...

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a one-click attack via Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) that makes it possible to steal a user's GitHub token. "Just by clicking a link, it's possible for an attacker to steal a GitHub token that can read and write to your repos, including private ones," security researcher Ammar Askar said . GitHub supports a feature called GitHub.dev that runs as a lightweight web-based source code editor in the web browser's sandbox by launching a VS Code environment. It allows users to send pull requests and make commits. "This functionality is achieved by github.com POSTing over an OAuth token to github.dev that allows it to interact with GitHub on your behalf," Askar said. "The token is not scoped to the particular repo you interacted with, meaning it has full access to every other repo that you have access to." In a nutshell, the vulnerability allows attackers to install malicious VS Code extensio...

Redis has patched a use-after-free in its blocking-client code that lets an authenticated user run arbitrary OS commands on the machine hosting the database. The flaw was found by an autonomous AI tool built to hunt bugs in large codebases. Tracked as CVE-2026-23479 , the flaw was introduced in Redis 7.2.0 and remained in every stable branch until the May 5 fixes, unnoticed for over two years. NVD rates it 8.8 under CVSS 3.1; Redis lists it as 7.7 under CVSS 4.0. It was reported by Team Xint Code, and a complete technical  write-up is now public. The cloud footprint makes this worse. Wiz's analysis, published with the exploit writeup, puts Redis in a large majority of cloud environments, with most of those instances running without a password. The exploit needs an authenticated session, but in a default deployment, the default user already holds every privilege the chain requires. The flaw lives in unblockClientOnKey() in src/blocked.c , which fires when a key event wakes ...

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Wednesday added a critical flaw impacting Mirasvit Cache Warmer, a popular Magento full-page cache extension, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, following reports of active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-45247 (CVSS score: 9.8), is a case of deserialization of untrusted data that could be exploited to execute arbitrary PHP code on an affected server. "Mirasvit Full Page Cache Warmer contains a deserialization of untrusted data vulnerability that could allow unauthenticated attackers to achieve remote code execution by supplying a crafted serialized PHP object in the CacheWarmer cookie," CISA said . The shortcoming impacts all versions of the extension prior to version 1.11.12. Patches for the were released on May 25, 2026. The addition of CVE-2026-45247 to the KEV catalog comes days after Sansec said the PHP object injection vulnerability could...

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new malspam campaign that makes use of Google's DoubleClick domain as a way to evade detection and ultimately deliver an unidentified .NET-based loader. "Before the victim ever reaches attacker-controlled infrastructure, the lure routes through DoubleClick, a legitimate Google-owned domain that many security tools are less likely to treat as suspicious," Huntress researchers Anna Pham and Adam Mooney said in a report shared with The Hacker News. "From there, the victim is passed into a malspam kit that personalizes itself on the fly using the victim's email address, dynamically pulling in company branding and location details to make the page feel convincing without requiring the operators to handcraft a lure for each target." What makes this attack noteworthy is that it eliminates the need for having a bespoke kit for each targeted organization, thereby making these operations more scalable and cost-effective...

Assume the breach. Zero-days keep shipping, AI is writing exploits faster than anyone patches, and "patch everything in time" stopped working years ago. Stop betting the org on winning that race. You don't control which bug lands. You control what it can reach once it does. That is a question about the shape of your network, and most teams have the shape wrong. HD Moore, creator of Metasploit and now CEO of runZero, spends the session showing you that shape from the attacker's side. Save your seat for a LIVE session , or register, and we will send you the recording. The segmentation you think you have The comfortable assumption: critical systems sit behind a firewall or off on their own segment, so a foothold over here cannot become a disaster over there. Call it the segmentation illusion. It holds until someone maps the network for real. Then the seams show up. A device wired into two networks at once, quietly bridging the zones you meant to keep apart. Co...

A development flag left switched on in production builds of several Microsoft 365 Android apps disabled the check that limits account-token sharing to trusted Microsoft apps. Any other app on the same phone could ask for the signed-in user's token and get it, then read email, open files, browse the calendar, and send messages as that user. No password, no login screen, no permission prompt. Microsoft has patched it, and if you run Microsoft 365 apps on Android, update them. The bug, which Enclave calls FlagLeft , hit Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Microsoft Loop, and OneNote, six apps with billions of downloads between them. Teams shipped with the same flag set to false and were not affected, which Enclave reads as a slip rather than a design. Microsoft 365 apps share account access on purpose, so signing into Word means you do not sign in again for PowerPoint. The handoff is supposed to verify who is asking and turn away anything that is not a trusted Mi...

The Fragmented State of Modern Enterprise Identity Enterprise IAM is approaching a breaking point. As organizations scale, identity becomes increasingly fragmented across thousands of applications, decentralized teams, machine identities, and autonomous systems. The result is Identity Dark Matter: identity activity that sits outside the visibility of centralized IAM and beyond the reach of security teams. According to Orchid Security 's analysis , 46% of enterprise identity activity occurs outside centralized IAM visibility. In other words, nearly half of the enterprise identity surface may be operating unseen. This hidden layer includes unmanaged applications, local accounts, opaque authentication flows, and over-permissioned non-human identities. It is further amplified by disconnected tools, siloed ownership, and the rapid rise of Agentic AI. The consequence is a widening gap between what the security organizations think they have and the access that actually exists. Th...

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of an unpatched issue that could be exploited to disclose a user's NTLMv2 hash to the attacker. Like in the case of CVE-2026-33829 , which impacted the Windows Snipping Tool's ms-screensketch: URI handler, the newly flagged issue resides in the search: URI handler, per Huntress . CVE-2026-33829 refers to a spoofing vulnerability that could expose sensitive information to an unauthorized actor. It was patched by Microsoft in April 2026. "An attacker could induce the user into clicking a specially crafted link in a Web browser or other URL source, by embedding it in a Web page or email message," Microsoft noted in its advisory at the time. "If the user approves the launching of the link, the crafted URL can induce the computer to connect to an SMB server of the attacker's choosing, which would disclose the user's NTLMv2 hash to the attacker, who could use this to authenticate as the user." Spe...

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a remote denial-of-service exploit that affects major web servers, including NGINX, Apache HTTPD, Microsoft IIS, Envoy, and Cloudflare Pingora. The vulnerability has been codenamed HTTP/2 Bomb by Calif. "The vulnerable behavior exists in each server's default HTTP/2 configuration," the company said, adding it was discovered by OpenAI Codex by chaining together two known techniques: a compression bomb and a Slowloris -style hold. "The bomb targets HPACK, HTTP/2's header compression scheme: one byte on the wire becomes one full header allocation on the server, repeated thousands of times per request," Calif added. "The hold is a zero-byte flow-control window that keeps the server from ever freeing any of it." HPACK is a dedicated header compression algorithm for HTTP/2 used for compressing request and response metadata using Huffman encoding that results in an average reduction of 30% in header siz...

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new campaign targeting Minecraft players via YouTube to spread malware capable of gaining control of victims' systems. The Minecraft-focused malware-as-a-service (MaaS) campaign has been codenamed Weedhack by McAfee Labs, stating the activity has been active since January 2026 and impersonates Minecraft clients and mods to infect users. In all, 3820 unique malicious JAR files and over 240 URLs responsible for distributing the malware have been identified. "This campaign utilizes SEO poisoning and YouTube to generate traffic to these malicious URLs," security researcher Aayush Tyagi said . "We also found two YouTube channels and multiple videos that demonstrate Minecraft Mods and Clients and redirect viewers to these URLs." Central to the campaign is an enterprise-grade dashboard ("weedhack[.]to") that enables customers to view stolen credentials and system information, as well as remotely keep tabs on th...

Google on Monday released patches for 124 security vulnerabilities impacting its Android operating system for the month of June 2026, including one high-severity flaw in the Framework component that has come under active exploitation. Tracked as CVE-2025-48595 (CVSS score: 8.4), the security flaw has been described as a case of privilege escalation without requiring any user interaction. The vulnerability impacts devices running Android versions 14, 15, 16, and 16 QPR2 (Quarterly Platform Release 2). "In multiple locations, there is a possible way to achieve code execution due to an integer overflow," according to a description of the vulnerability on CVE.org. "This could lead to local escalation of privilege with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation." Google has acknowledged there are indications that CVE-2025-48595 may be under "limited, targeted exploitation." As is typically the case, the t...

The Russian hacking group known as Gamaredon has been attributed to the continued exploitation of a WinRAR vulnerability to deliver multiple malware families aimed at data theft and propagation. Per Sekoia, the activity involves the weaponization of CVE-2025-8088 , a path traversal flaw in WinRAR, to launch an HTML Application payload dubbed GammaPhish, which is then used to retrieve an intermediate Visual Basic Script (VBScript) downloaders codenamed GammaLoad. The infection chain was observed by the French cybersecurity company in January 2026. "Their primary objectives are to fingerprint the host system, update the network configuration in the registry using dead drop resolvers (DDRs), fetch and execute arbitrary VBScript payloads from the C2 servers," Sekoia said . One of the payloads is a VBScript worm known as GammaWorm that establishes persistence via scheduled tasks and is designed to hide legitimate directories in network shares and USB drives and replace wit...

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added a high-severity security flaw impacting Oracle WebLogic Server to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities ( KEV ) Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerability, CVE-2024-21182 (CVSS score: 7.5), allows an unauthenticated attacker with network access to take control of susceptible servers. It was patched by Oracle in July 2024. "Oracle WebLogic contains an unspecified vulnerability that could allow an unauthenticated attacker with network access via T3, IIOP to compromise Oracle WebLogic Server," CISA said. "Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized access to critical data or complete access to all Oracle WebLogic Server accessible data." There are currently no public reports about how the vulnerability is being exploited in the wild. That said, prior flaws in the software have been repeatedly weaponized by various threat actors to...

AI-driven exploitation timelines are rapidly shrinking, and they are not going to stop shrinking. Vulnerabilities are being discovered, reproduced, and weaponized faster than ever in the history of enterprise security. As a result, the window between a vulnerability being disclosed and indiscriminate exploitation observed across the internet is now measured in hours, not days. The industry's main answer has largely been: patch faster. Regulators say it, boards expect it, and executives demand it. But for most enterprises, it is not a button defenders can press. Patching is a controlled process shaped by uptime requirements, stability testing, change windows, business approvals, compliance obligations, and the reality that production systems cannot be broken in the name of urgency. While patching is still essential, patching alone or even faster patching is no longer a complete answer to this "new normal" and influx of disclosed vulnerabilities. Anthropic's Proj...

Most organizations now recognize that endpoint protection alone is no longer sufficient. That's why adoption of endpoint detection and response (EDR) has accelerated rapidly in recent years. Organizations understand that modern attacks move faster, evade traditional prevention controls, and require continuous visibility into suspicious activity across the environment. But owning EDR capabilities does not automatically create operational cyber resilience. Many mid-sized organizations have invested in advanced endpoint security platforms and now have access to valuable detection and response functionality. Yet despite this investment, they often struggle to fully operationalize these capabilities. Lean security teams remain overwhelmed by alert volumes, investigations take too long, and response capacity is stretched thin. As threats become faster, more AI-enabled, and increasingly abuse legitimate tools to evade detection, organizations are realizing an important truth: vis...

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a spear-phishing campaign likely undertaken by the Pakistan-aligned SideCopy group targeting Afghanistan's Ministry of Finance with an open-source remote access trojan called Xeno RAT . "The campaign opens with a spear phishing delivery - a ZIP archive containing a malicious LNK file bearing a carefully crafted Pashto-language filename," Seqrite Labs researcher Dixit Panchal said in a technical breakdown of the activity. Also targeted as part of the campaign are provincial revenue and finance directorates, Pashto-speaking government officials, and provincial-level government employees. The campaign has been codenamed Operation XENOFISCAL. The choice of Pashto for the lure file is a deliberate choice on the part of the attacker, as it's the main language spoken in the Afghan government circles. This aspect reflects the attacker's familiarity with the target environment. SideCopy is the name given to a P...

Password manager Dashlane has disclosed that "fewer than" 20 users on the personal subscription plan had their encrypted vaults downloaded following a brute-force attack launched by an unknown party. On May 31, 2026, the company said an "external" threat actor launched a brute-force attack against certain Dashlane user accounts with the aim of breaking two-factor authentication (2FA) protections and allowing them to register new devices on existing user accounts. Exactly how many users were targeted remains unknown, but Dashlane said the high volume of attempts on those accounts triggered temporary account suspensions and authentication issues due to its built-in security controls. Although access to the accounts has since been restored, the company has now revealed that the attackers were successful in a handful of cases, enabling them to download a copy of the encrypted vaults belonging to less than 20 personal plan users. "We have directly notif...

A new Mini Shai-Hulud supply chain attack campaign, codenamed Miasma , has compromised @redhat-cloud-services packages to steal credentials and secrets from developer machines and deliver a self-propagating worm. "This is effectively a Mini Shai-Hulud campaign: it uses the same core tactics of install-time execution, credential harvesting, CI/CD targeting, encrypted exfiltration, and potential downstream propagation," Socket said . Exactly who is behind the attack activity is presently unknown given that TeamPCP (aka Replicating Marauder, TGR-CRI-1135, and UNC6780), an infamous cybercrime group, has open-sourced the attack tools linked to the Shai-Hulud worm, opening the door for other threat actors to pull off similar attacks and making definitive attribution harder. The names of some of the affected packages are listed below - @redhat-cloud-services/vulnerabilities-client @redhat-cloud-services/tsc-transform-imports @redhat-cloud-services/topological-inv...

Monday hit like a cron job with anger issues. A busted auth path here, a repo-side faceplant there, some "patched-ish" thing already getting chewed on in the wild, and then the usual bonus round: poisoned dev tools, sketchy forum chatter, phishing kits pretending to be productivity, and AI lowering the bar for people who already thought 'curl | sh' had a personality. The vibe is simple: old bugs, new wrappers, faster abuse. Patch the obvious crap first. Then read the rest. ⚡ Threat of the Week PAN-OS GlobalProtect Authentication Bypass Under Exploitation - Palo Alto Networks warned that a recently disclosed medium-severity security flaw impacting PAN-OS and Prisma Access has come under active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-0257 (CVSS score: 7.8), refers to a case of authentication bypass that could be exploited by bad actors to set up VPN connections. The issue specifically affects firewalls with GlobalProtect portal or gate...

A new cyber espionage campaign codenamed Operation Dragon Weave has been observed targeting officials and citizens in the Czech Republic and Taiwan to deliver an AdaptixC2 agent. According to Seqrite Labs, targets of the campaign include government, research, academic, technology, and financial services sectors. The activity entails distributing spear-phishing emails containing ZIP attachments to trigger an infection chain that uses a Rust loader to drop the final payload for data exfiltration and remote control. "When extracted, the archive contains multiple files that appear legitimate but are actually part of a structured infection chain designed to execute malicious payloads in the background," security researcher Priya Patel said . The attack chain uses two different pathways to launch the final-stage malware. One infection sequence begins when the recipient of the ZIP archive opens a malicious Windows Shortcut (LNK) file that masquerades as a PDF document. This...

Three years ago, the practical question for an MSP building a cybersecurity practice was which "vCISO platform" to buy. The term was good shorthand for the work at the time: assessments, advisory, reporting, maybe a compliance module bolted on the side. The work has since outgrown the descriptor. A Security Growth Platform is the more precise name for what MSPs and MSSPs need from the software running their security practice in 2026. It combines security program management, CISO-grade decision intelligence, multi-tenant portfolio architecture, and revenue intelligence in one system. Traditional GRC platforms track compliance, vCISO tools support single advisory engagements, and enterprise compliance platforms target end customers directly. None were built around the unit of work that defines a modern MSP security practice: the portfolio. Why The Work Outgrew The Term The demand kept outgrowing the category that named it. SMB cybersecurity spending is projected to reac...

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new malicious supply chain campaign that's targeting developers using OpenAI Codex through a legitimate-looking remote web UI. The tool, named codexui-android , is advertised on GitHub and npm as a remote web UI for OpenAI Codex, attracting over 29,000 weekly downloads. The package is still available for download from the repository. What makes this activity noteworthy is that it's not a traditional attack that uses a typosquat or throwaway package to trick developers. Rather, the malicious code is embedded into a functional npm package that has undergone active development. The associated GitHub repository remains clean. "And for the past month, every single invocation has been quietly exfiltrating your Codex authentication tokens to an attacker-controlled server," Aikido Security researcher Charlie Eriksen said . The nefarious changes are said to have been introduced about a month after the package was ...

Threat actors are attempting to actively exploit a critical security flaw impacting WP Maps Pro , a WordPress plugin that has had over 15,000 sales on the Envato Market, to create malicious administrator accounts on susceptible sites. WP Maps Pro allows site owners to embed customizable Google Maps and OpenStreetMap with markers, listings, and advanced location features on WordPress sites. It is used as a store locator tool, making it easier for users to find nearby locations, view listing details, and get directions. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-8732 (CVSS score: 9.8), a privilege escalation bug that allows unauthenticated attackers to create a WordPress user with administrative permissions, effectively allowing them to take control of a site. The shortcoming impacts all versions of the plugin prior to and including 6.1.0. It has been addressed in version 6.1.1. Security researcher David Brown has been credited with discovering and reporting the flaw. At a high ...

Dutch authorities have announced the takedown of a botnet that enslaved millions of infected devices, including computers, tablets, smartphones, and IoT devices, to carry out malicious attacks. The bot network, per the Dutch Politie and the National Cyber Security Center (NCSC), consisted of at least 17 million infected devices. More than 200 servers located in the Netherlands acted as the platform's backend infrastructure. According to a statement issued by the NCSC, police officials seized a subset of these servers from a hosting provider that provided the infrastructure. The provider is said to have subsequently taken the botnet offline following its use for criminal purposes. Although the name of the botnet was not explicitly mentioned, local news outlet NL Times reported that the service in question was Asocks, a company that offers residential proxies . In April 2024, HUMAN's Satori Threat Intelligence team identified a campaign dubbed PROXYLIB that involved inf...

Palo Alto Networks has warned that a recently disclosed medium-severity security flaw impacting PAN-OS and Prisma Access has come under active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-0257 (CVSS score: 7.8), refers to a case of authentication bypass that could be exploited by bad actors to set up VPN connections. "Authentication bypass vulnerabilities in the GlobalProtect portal and gateway of Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS® software allow the attacker to bypass security restrictions and establish an unauthorized VPN connection," Palo Alto Networks said in an advisory released on May 13, 2026. The issue specifically affects firewalls with GlobalProtect portal or gateway configured when authentication override cookies are enabled and a specific certificate configuration exists, the network security company said. In an update to its advisory on May 29, 2026, Palo Alto Networks said it has "become aware of limited exploit attempts on unpatched P...

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a vulnerability in OpenAI ChatGPT that leverages the artificial intelligence (AI) assistant's implicit trust in Markdown links and images to trigger prompt injections and open the door to phishing attacks. The technique has been codenamed ChatGPhish by Permiso Security. "The chatgpt.com response renderer trusts Markdown links and Markdown image URLs that originated from a third-party page the assistant has just summarized. It auto-fetches those images and surfaces those links as live, clickable elements inside the trusted assistant UI," security researcher Andi Ahmeti said in a report shared with The Hacker News. In a hypothetical attack scenario, a bad actor can append a small payload to any web page that the victim later prompts ChatGPT to summarize, causing it to leak their IP, User-Agent, and Referer details when attacker-hosted images embedded in the page are automatically fetched when the answer is rendered...

An unknown threat actor has been observed using a large language model (LLM) agent to conduct post-compromise actions after obtaining initial access following the exploitation of a publicly-accessible Marimo network using a recently disclosed vulnerability. "The attacker compromised an internet-reachable Marimo notebook via CVE-2026-39987, extracted two cloud credentials from the compromised host, replayed them through a fanned-out egress pool to retrieve an SSH private key from AWS Secrets Manager, and used that key to drive eight short SSH sessions against a downstream SSH bastion server," Sysdig said . "The bastion phase exfiltrated the schema and full contents of an internal PostgreSQL database in under two minutes." CVE-2026-39987 refers to a critical pre-authenticated remote code execution vulnerability impacting all versions of Marimo prior to and including 0.20.4. It allows an unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary system commands. The issu...

A previously undocumented threat actor dubbed GREYVIBE has been attributed to ongoing and persistent attacks targeting Ukraine and Ukraine-related entities since at least August 2025. GREYVIBE, per WithSecure, is assessed to be a Russian-speaking group operating broadly in the Russian time zone, with the activities aligning with Kremlin state interests, specifically when it comes to intelligence gathering efforts aimed at Ukraine in the context of the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian war. "The group has leveraged multiple attack vectors, including spear-phishing e-mails, fake captcha pages, and fraudulent Ukrainian adult club websites, to deliver malware to a diverse set of victims," WithSecure researcher Mohammad Kazem Hassan Nejad said in an analysis. "Across these campaigns, the group has relied on custom-developed obfuscators, loaders, and malware." The victimology footprint spans military, government, civilian, and business-related organizations. GREYVIBE, its ...