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Breaches don't always start with a zero-day. An exposed admin panel can get brute-forced, or credentials reused from a previous attack. But when a vulnerability does drop — like MongoBleed earlier this year, which let attackers pull credentials and session tokens from server memory without authentication — anything internet-facing is immediately at risk. With time-to-exploit now down to a single day, the question isn't just how fast you can patch. It's why the service was exposed in the first place. The team at Intruder analyzed 3,000 attack surfaces to find out how much of a typical organization's attack surface consists of services that have no reason to be there. We grouped what we found into four categories — HTTP panels, risky ports and services, databases, and publicly accessible files and information. The full findings, including breakdowns by company size and industry, are in our 2026 Attack Surface Management Index . How widespread is the problem? ...

As many as 145 npm packages associated with the Mastra namespace ("@mastra/*"), a popular open-source JavaScript and TypeScript framework for building artificial intelligence (AI) applications, have been compromised as part of a software supply chain attack codenamed easy-day-js , per findings from Endor Labs , JFrog , OX Security , SafeDep , Socket , StepSecurity , and Synk . "A single npm account (ehindero) mass-published more than 140 malicious packages across the Mastra scope within a short window on 2026-06-17," Socket said. The infected packages themselves do not include malicious code. Instead, it's introduced by means of a third-party library named "easy-day-js" that has been added to each package's dependency list in what has been described as an automated publishing campaign spanning 88 minutes. In its analysis, SafeDep described "easy-day-js" as a clone of the "dayjs" date library that downloads and runs a ...

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added a maximum-severity security flaw impacting Widget Factory Joomla Content Editor (JCE) to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-48907 (CVSS score: 10.0), is a case of improper access control that could facilitate arbitrary code execution. "Widget Factory Joomla Content Editor contains an improper access control vulnerability which could allow for upload and execution of PHP code via the creation of new editor profiles for unauthenticated users," CISA said . According to a description of the vulnerability published on CVE.org, the issue resides in the JCE editor extension for Joomla, allowing a bad actor to create new editor profiles for unauthenticated users, effectively paving the way for PHP code upload and execution. The issue impacts JCE versions from 1.0.0 through 2.9.99.4. It has been pa...

A flaw in the Google Cloud Vertex AI SDK for Python let an attacker with no access to a victim's project hijack the victim's machine learning model upload and run code inside Google's serving infrastructure. Palo Alto Networks Unit 42, which found and reported the bug through Google's bug bounty program, calls the technique " Pickle in the Middle " and said it saw no exploitation in the wild. Google has patched it; if you use the SDK, update to version 1.148.0 or later. The attacker needed only a Google Cloud project of their own and the victim's project ID, which is often public. No credentials, no phishing, no foothold in the target. The flaw was in how the SDK chose a temporary Cloud Storage bucket for model uploads. If a user did not set a bucket, the SDK generated a predictable name from the project ID and region, such as  project-vertex-staging-region . It checked whether that bucket existed, but not whether the victim owned it. Because buc...

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged multiple ClickFix campaigns that deliver three malware loaders called BabaDeda Loader , Lorem Ipsum Loader , and Potemkin , per independent reports from Morphisec , BlueVoyant , and Huntress , respectively. Attacks involving BabaDeda Loader, observed in April 2026, have targeted education and financial organizations. "Earlier BabaDeda activity was known for concealing malicious payloads inside legitimate looking installer packages," Morphisec researcher Shmuel Uzan said. "This new framework keeps that same code genome but expands it into a far more capable loader built for stealth, evasion, and payload flexibility." The starting point of the attacks is a ClickFix social engineering attack that deceives users into running attacker-supplied PowerShell commands to deliver the loader, which is then used to drop information stealers and remote access trojans (RATs) by combining well-known techniques like hidden PowerShell, i...

Security researchers at Zimperium's zLabs have documented a new Android banking trojan, Rokarolla , that targets 217 banking and cryptocurrency apps and packs 137 remote commands. Together, they give an operator near-total control of an infected phone: it lifts lock-screen PINs, reads and sends SMS, rewrites the clipboard to redirect crypto payments, and switches off Google Play Protect. Rokarolla , named after its command-and-control servers, spreads through malicious websites posing as well-known apps such as TikTok and Chrome. The first thing a victim installs is a dropper that pretends to be Google Play Protect. It uses that disguise to get the payload installed and grab Accessibility access. Once the malware is running, one of its commands turns Play Protect off. The theft runs through overlays. Rokarolla pulls a target list from its server, and for each app flagged active, it downloads a fake HTML login page and stores it in a local database. When the victim ope...