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Episode 17
Security Brief Daily | 05 Apr 2026
In This Episode
Fortinet has released out-of-band patches for a critical security flaw impacting FortiClient EMS that it said has been exploited in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-35616 (CVSS score: 9.1), has been described as a pre-authentication API access bypass leading...
The maintainers of the popular Axios HTTP client have published a detailed post-mortem describing how one of its developers was targeted by a social engineering campaign linked to North Korean hackers. This follows the threat actors compromising a maintainer account to...
Evolution of Ransomware: Multi-Extortion Ransomware Attacks Sponsored by Penta Security April 3, 2026 10:05 AM 0 Ransomware's Real-World Impact Across Industries In February 2026, the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) fell victim to a ransomware attack. The...
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered 36 malicious packages in the npm registry that are disguised as Strapi CMS plugins but come with different payloads to facilitate Redis and PostgreSQL exploitation, deploy reverse shells, harvest credentials, and drop a persistent...
The Qilin ransomware group has stolen data from Die Linke, a German democratic socialist political party, and is threatening to leak it. On March 27, a day after the threat actor compromised its network, the party disclosed a cyber incident but stopped short of confirming a...
Threat actors are increasingly using HTTP cookies as a control channel for PHP-based web shells on Linux servers and to achieve remote code execution, according to findings from the Microsoft Defender Security Research Team. "Instead of exposing command execution through URL...
A new report dubbed "BrowserGate" warns that Microsoft's LinkedIn is using hidden JavaScript scripts on its website to scan visitors' browsers for installed extensions and collect device data. According to a report by Fairlinked e.V., which claims to be an association of...
The maintainer of the Axios npm package has confirmed that the supply chain compromise was the result of a highly-targeted social engineering campaign orchestrated by North Korean threat actors tracked as UNC1069. Maintainer Jason Saayman said the attackers tailored their...
Security Brief Daily is an AI-generated cybersecurity news podcast. Always verify critical information with primary sources.
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By Security Brief DailyEpisode 17
Security Brief Daily | 05 Apr 2026
In This Episode
Fortinet has released out-of-band patches for a critical security flaw impacting FortiClient EMS that it said has been exploited in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-35616 (CVSS score: 9.1), has been described as a pre-authentication API access bypass leading...
The maintainers of the popular Axios HTTP client have published a detailed post-mortem describing how one of its developers was targeted by a social engineering campaign linked to North Korean hackers. This follows the threat actors compromising a maintainer account to...
Evolution of Ransomware: Multi-Extortion Ransomware Attacks Sponsored by Penta Security April 3, 2026 10:05 AM 0 Ransomware's Real-World Impact Across Industries In February 2026, the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) fell victim to a ransomware attack. The...
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered 36 malicious packages in the npm registry that are disguised as Strapi CMS plugins but come with different payloads to facilitate Redis and PostgreSQL exploitation, deploy reverse shells, harvest credentials, and drop a persistent...
The Qilin ransomware group has stolen data from Die Linke, a German democratic socialist political party, and is threatening to leak it. On March 27, a day after the threat actor compromised its network, the party disclosed a cyber incident but stopped short of confirming a...
Threat actors are increasingly using HTTP cookies as a control channel for PHP-based web shells on Linux servers and to achieve remote code execution, according to findings from the Microsoft Defender Security Research Team. "Instead of exposing command execution through URL...
A new report dubbed "BrowserGate" warns that Microsoft's LinkedIn is using hidden JavaScript scripts on its website to scan visitors' browsers for installed extensions and collect device data. According to a report by Fairlinked e.V., which claims to be an association of...
The maintainer of the Axios npm package has confirmed that the supply chain compromise was the result of a highly-targeted social engineering campaign orchestrated by North Korean threat actors tracked as UNC1069. Maintainer Jason Saayman said the attackers tailored their...
Security Brief Daily is an AI-generated cybersecurity news podcast. Always verify critical information with primary sources.