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June 20, 2026Jun 20, 2026 · #86
Episode 86
Security Brief Daily | 20 Jun 2026
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CISA: Splunk Enterprise flaw actively exploited, patch by Sunday — Bleeping Computer
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has urged federal agencies to secure their systems by Sunday against a critical Splunk Enterprise vulnerability that is being exploited in attacks. Tracked as CVE-2026-20253 , this security flaw affects Splunk...

Klue OAuth breach victim list grows as Icarus hackers claim attack — Bleeping Computer
Market intelligence platform Klue has publicly confirmed a recent security incident that allowed threat actors to steal OAuth tokens used to connect to customers' Salesforce environments, as the new "Icarus" extortion group publicly claims the attack. The disclosure comes...

Texas govt data breach exposes over 3 million driver’s licenses — Bleeping Computer
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) disclosed a data breach at its license system vendor that exposed personal information for more than three million individuals. The Texas Cyber Command discovered the intrusion and launched an investigation to determine the...

Operation Endgame Disrupts SocGholish Servers, Cleans 14,971 WordPress Sites — The Hacker News
Dutch law enforcement authorities, along with counterparts from Canada , Germany, and the U.S., have disrupted malicious infrastructure associated with SocGholish and cleaned up nearly 15,000 infected WordPress websites. "With these actions we deprive cybercriminals of access...

Gentlemen ransomware uses multiple EDR killers to disable defenses — Bleeping Computer
The Gentlemen ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) is actively developing and maintaining a suite of endpoint detection and response (EDR) killers to help affiliates evade detection in attacks. The gang employs a collection of EDR-killing tools, most notably a utility that...

Unpatchable 'usbliter8' Exploit Breaks Apple A12 and A13 SecureROM Boot Chain — The Hacker News
Security researchers at Paradigm Shift have published a working exploit, dubbed usbliter8, that achieves arbitrary code execution inside the SecureROM of Apple's A12 and A13 chips. That code is burned into the silicon at manufacture. No software update can reach it. Affected...

Apple Patches Beats Studio Buds Flaw Letting Nearby Attackers Spy via Microphone — The Hacker News
Apple has updated its Beats Studio Buds wireless earbuds to patch a high-severity vulnerability that could be exploited by nearby hackers to eavesdrop on users. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-20701 (CVSS score: 8.8), refers to a case of incorrect authorization...

The Gentlemen RaaS Uses GentleKiller EDR Framework Targeting 400 Security Processes — The Hacker News
The Gentlemen ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation is actively developing and maintaining a suite of endpoint detection and response (EDR) killers that it hands out to affiliates for impairing system defenses before deploying the encryptor. This mature portfolio of...
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June 19, 2026Jun 19, 2026 · #85
Episode 85
Security Brief Daily | 19 Jun 2026
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F5 issues out-of-band patches for critical NGINX vulnerabilities — Bleeping Computer
Cybersecurity company F5 has released out-of-band security updates to address multiple NGINX web server vulnerabilities, including two critical-severity flaws that could allow attackers to execute code on vulnerable systems. The two critical vulnerabilities were found in the...

Klue OAuth breach linked to 'Icarus' Salesforce data theft attacks — Bleeping Computer
Market intelligence platform Klue suffered a OAuth breach that enabled the "Icarus" threat actors to steal Salesforce CRM data from multiple organizations in an ongoing extortion campaign. Sources told BleepingComputer of the attack yesterday, telling us that numerous...

Gentlemen ransomware uses multiple EDR killers to disable defenses — Bleeping Computer
The Gentlemen ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) is actively developing and maintaining a suite of endpoint detection and response (EDR) killers to help affiliates evade detection in attacks. The gang employs a collection of EDR-killing tools, most notably a utility that...

Police cleans nearly 15,000 SocGholish-infected sites tied to Evil Corp — Bleeping Computer
International law enforcement agencies cleaned nearly 15,000 malware-infected WordPress websites and took down more than 100 servers linked to the SocGholish botnet and the Evil Corp Russian cybercrime group. This joint action (supported by Europol and Eurojust) was part of...

Microsoft Confirms RoguePlanet Defender Zero-Day, Says Patch is in Development — The Hacker News
Microsoft has formally disclosed that it's working to release a patch to address a Defender zero-day codenamed RoguePlanet. The vulnerability has now been assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2026-50656 (CVSS score: 7.8), with the tech giant describing it as a privilege escalation...

Microsoft Details Windows Clipper Malware Campaign Using USB LNK Worm and Tor-Based C2 — The Hacker News
Microsoft has disclosed details of a Windows-based cryptocurrency clipper campaign that has targeted users since February 2026 with clipboard-intercepting malware with self-spreading capabilities and using the Tor anonymity network to hide communication. "The clipper in this...

DragonForce Hackers Abuse Microsoft Teams Relays to Hide Backdoor.Turn C2 Traffic — The Hacker News
Threat actors associated with the DragonForce ransomware have been observed using a custom Go-based remote access trojan (RAT) called Backdoor.Turn to conceal command-and-control (C2) traffic inside Microsoft Teams relay infrastructure. According to findings from...

INC Ransomware Emerges as Major RaaS Threat in 2026 with 830+ Victims Since 2023 — The Hacker News
Cybersecurity researchers have charted the evolution of INC from an nascent ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation to one of the most prolific cybercrime groups in 2026, claiming no less than 830 victims since August 2023. "The disruption of LockBit and the shutdown of...
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June 18, 2026Jun 18, 2026 · #84
Episode 84
Security Brief Daily | 18 Jun 2026
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FortiBleed leak exposes Fortinet VPN credentials for 73,000 devices. — Bleeping Computer
Update: Added Fortinet's statement to the end of the article. A newly discovered data leak dubbed "FortiBleed" has exposed what appears to be a collection of Fortinet and FortiGate VPN credentials for 73,932 firewall URLs at organizations worldwide. The exposed data was first...

CISA orders feds to patch max severity Joomla plugin flaw by Friday — Bleeping Computer
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has ordered federal agencies to patch a maximum-severity flaw in the Widget Factory Joomla Content Editor (JCE) plugin that is being actively exploited in the wild. Tracked as CVE-2026-48907 , this vulnerability...

Crypto Clipper Campaign Abuses Fake Reviews, AI Narrators, and VirusTotal Comments — The Hacker News
An unknown threat actor has been observed leveraging paid or promoted posts on legitimate news websites to drum up buzz for their warez, according to new findings from Check Point Research. The threat actor also has at their disposal a dedicated WordPress phishing page that...

Kodak confirms data breach claimed by ShinyHunters extortion gang — Bleeping Computer
Kodak has confirmed that it's working with external cybersecurity experts to investigate a security breach after hackers gained access to some of the company's data. Founded in 1880 as the Eastman Kodak Company and headquartered in Rochester, New York, Kodak has 79,000...

Steam Workshop abused to spread malware via Wallpaper Engine app — Bleeping Computer
Threat actors are abusing Steam Workshop, Valve's community hub for downloading game-related content, to push various malware hidden in wallpaper packages. Infected wallpapers can lead to hijacking Steam accounts, compromising the system with a backdoor, or running...

CISA Warns of Actively Exploited Joomla JCE Flaw Allowing PHP Code Execution — The Hacker News
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...

Junior Hacker Used Tailscale and OpenSSH to Keep Access After His C2 Went Offline — The Hacker News
A French-speaking attacker broke into a small French automotive business, planted a keylogger, and stole banking and email credentials. Ordinary stuff, until one move near the end. Before his command-and-control server went dark, he installed OpenSSH and Tailscale on a...

New Rokarolla Android Malware Steals PINs, SMS Codes, and Crypto Wallet Funds — The Hacker News
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...
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June 17, 2026Jun 17, 2026 · #83
Episode 83
Security Brief Daily | 17 Jun 2026
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Microsoft working on Defender patch for RoguePlanet zero-day — Bleeping Computer
Microsoft confirmed that it's working on a security patch for a Defender zero-day vulnerability named "RoguePlanet," disclosed one week ago. The security researcher who published a RoguePlanet exploit during the June 2026 Patch Tuesday (known as Nightmare Eclipse) said it...

Kodak confirms data breach claimed by ShinyHunters extortion gang — Bleeping Computer
Kodak has confirmed that it's working with external cybersecurity experts to investigate a security breach after hackers gained access to some of the company's data. Founded in 1880 as the Eastman Kodak Company and headquartered in Rochester, New York, Kodak has 79,000...

144 Mastra npm Packages Compromised via Hijacked Contributor Account — The Hacker News
As many as 144 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...

Critical Fortinet FortiSandbox flaws now exploited in attacks — Bleeping Computer
Attackers are now exploiting several critical vulnerabilities in Fortinet's FortiSandbox cyber threat detection platform, according to threat intelligence company Defused. Fortinet released security updates for these three critical-severity security flaws (tracked as...

Ransomware gang abuses Microsoft Teams relays to hide malicious traffic — Bleeping Computer
DragonForce ransomware used a custom malware named 'Backdoor.Turn' to hide command-and-control traffic inside Microsoft Teams relay infrastructure. The backdoor abuses the Traversal Using Relays around NAT (TURN) protocol used by Microsoft Teams to distribute messages when a...

CISA Warns of Actively Exploited Joomla JCE Flaw Allowing PHP Code Execution — The Hacker News
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...

ClickFix Campaigns Expand Malware Delivery With New Loaders and Fake Update Lures — The Hacker News
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,...

China-Linked SprySOCKS Backdoor Expands to Windows with Driver-Based Stealth — The Hacker News
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged two previously undocumented Windows variants of what was believed to be a Linux-only backdoor called SprySOCKS. "The Windows variants discovered are internally marked as WIN_DRV and WIN_PLUS," ESET said in a report shared with The Hacker...
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June 16, 2026Jun 16, 2026 · #82
Episode 82
Security Brief Daily | 16 Jun 2026
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Cisco Releases Security Updates for Actively Exploited SD-WAN Manager Flaw — The Hacker News
Cisco has released security updates for a medium-severity security flaw in Catalyst SD-WAN Manager that has come under active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-20262, carries a CVSS score of 6.5 out of 10.0. "A vulnerability in the web UI of...

New attack turned Microsoft 365 Copilot into 1-click data theft tool — Bleeping Computer
A critical vulnerability chain dubbed SearchLeak in Microsoft 365 Copilot Enterprise could allow attackers to steal sensitive data from a target's mailbox, OneDrive, or SharePoint account through a specially crafted URL. The exfiltrated information could be email content...

SimpleHelp bug lets hackers create rogue remote support accounts — Bleeping Computer
A vulnerability in the SimpleHelp remote management software allows unauthenticated attackers to create privileged technician accounts on servers using the OpenID Connect (OIDC) authentication protocol. The flaw is tracked as CVE-2026-48558 and received a critical severity...

iRhythm discloses data breach, says hackers stole patient info — Bleeping Computer
Digital healthcare company iRhythm Holdings has disclosed a data breach after hackers stole patients' personal and health information stored on third-party-hosted business applications. The company says its cardiac monitoring service has been used to analyze more than 2...

OptinMonster WordPress plugin hacked in CDN supply-chain attack — Bleeping Computer
WordPress plugins OptinMonster, TrustPulse, and PushEngage have been compromised in a supply-chain attack impacting Awesome Motive's content distribution network (CDN). Of the three products, the OptinMonster lead-generation and conversion optimization platform is the most...

CISA Flags LiteSpeed cPanel Plugin Flaw Exploited for Root Privilege Escalation — The Hacker News
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a security flaw impacting LiteSpeed cPanel Plugin to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, requiring Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) agencies to apply the fixes by June 18, 2026....

Fake Microsoft Alerts Used to Deploy North Korean NarwhalRAT Malware — The Hacker News
The North Korean state-sponsored hacking group known as ScarCruft (aka APT37) has been observed using spear-phishing messages impersonating Microsoft Account security notifications to deliver malware called NarwhalRAT. "The attack email contained a message impersonating an MS...

LiteLLM Vulnerability Chain Lets Low-Privilege Users Take Over AI Gateway Servers — The Hacker News
A default low-privilege account on a LiteLLM proxy can climb to full admin and run code on the server by chaining three vulnerabilities, researchers at Obsidian Security disclosed LiteLLM is a widely deployed open-source AI gateway that brokers calls to more than 100 model...
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June 12, 2026Jun 12, 2026 · #81
Episode 81
Security Brief Daily | 12 Jun 2026
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CISA orders feds to patch actively exploited Ivanti flaw by Sunday — Bleeping Computer
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) ordered government agencies to patch an actively exploited Ivanti Sentry flaw within three days, as mandated by the newly issued Binding Operational Directive (BOD) 26-04. Tracked as CVE-2026-10520 , this...

Oracle mitigates PeopleSoft zero-day exploited in data theft attacks — Bleeping Computer
Oracle is warning about a critical PeopleSoft Suite zero-day vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-35273 that allows unauthenticated remote code execution, with the flaw actively exploited in ShinyHunter data theft attacks. The flaw is within Oracle PeopleSoft PeopleTools and has...

Authorities dismantle 'AudiA6' ransomware crypto-laundering service — Bleeping Computer
Law enforcement has dismantled the “AudiA6” cryptocurrency service allegedly used by ransomware actors and other cybercriminals to launder more than $380 million. Europol says that the service has been linked to more than 15 distinct international investigations of ransomware...

The ‘Miasma’ worm source code briefly leaked on GitHub — Bleeping Computer
The Miasma credential-stealing attack framework, which has recently targeted open-source ecosystems through supply-chain attacks, was briefly open-sourced on GitHub. Miasma appears to be an evolution of the earlier Shai-Hulud worm, which was previously leaked on GitHub and...

The Gentlemen Ransomware Claims 478 Victims, Can Spread Like a Worm — The Hacker News
A new analysis of The Gentlemen operation has revealed that the financially motivated threat group initially operated as an affiliate responsible for conducting double extortion attacks, while leveraging resources from various ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) schemes like...

New GreatXML Exploit Bypasses Windows BitLocker via Recovery Partition XML Files — The Hacker News
Security researcher Chaotic Eclipse (aka Nightmare-Eclipse and MSNightmare) has released a new Windows BitLocker bypass dubbed GreatXML, a day after they published an exploit for Microsoft Defender. "This was an accidental discovery, it took a total of 4 hours to find this,"...

Who Runs the Ransomware Group ‘The Gentlemen?’ — Krebs on Security
A cybercrime group known as The Gentlemen has emerged as the second most active ransomware gang by victim count, rapidly attracting a talented pool of hackers through an aggressive recruitment strategy that promises affiliates 90 percent of any ransom paid by victims. This...

China-Linked JDY Botnet Expands to 1,500+ Devices for Cyber Reconnaissance — The Hacker News
Cybersecurity researchers have warned of a "resurgence and expansion" of JDY, a covert network associated with China-nexus state-sponsored threat actors. "The JDY botnet comprises over 1,500 SOHO [small office and home office] and IoT devices and operates as a centrally...
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June 11, 2026Jun 11, 2026 · #80
Episode 80
Security Brief Daily | 11 Jun 2026
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Path traversal flaw in AI dev platform Langflow exploited in attacks — Bleeping Computer
Attackers are actively exploiting CVE-2026-5027, a high-severity path traversal vulnerability in the AI development platform Langflow, to write arbitrary files on exposed servers. Langflow is an open-source visual platform for building AI applications, AI agents,...

Microsoft patches Exchange Server zero-day exploited in attacks — Bleeping Computer
Microsoft has patched an actively exploited Exchange Server vulnerability that allows threat actors to execute arbitrary JavaScript code in cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks targeting Outlook Web Access users. This high-severity spoofing vulnerability ( CVE-2026-42897 )...

Microsoft patches YellowKey, GreenPlasma, MiniPlasma zero-days — Bleeping Computer
On Tuesday, Microsoft patched two zero-day vulnerabilities that let attackers gain SYSTEM privileges on fully patched Windows systems, and a third one that grants access to BitLocker-protected drives. All three security flaws were disclosed last month by a security researcher...

The ‘Miasma’ worm source code briefly leaked on GitHub — Bleeping Computer
The Miasma credential-stealing attack framework, which has recently targeted open-source ecosystems through supply-chain attacks, was briefly open-sourced on GitHub. Miasma appears to be an evolution of the earlier Shai-Hulud worm, which was previously leaked on GitHub and...

Who Runs the Ransomware Group ‘The Gentlemen?’ — Krebs on Security
A cybercrime group known as The Gentlemen has emerged as the second most active ransomware gang by victim count, rapidly attracting a talented pool of hackers through an aggressive recruitment strategy that promises affiliates 90 percent of any ransom paid by victims. This...

CISA Adds Cisco, Chrome, and Arista Flaws to KEV Catalog Amid Active Exploitation — The Hacker News
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added three new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, following reports of active exploitation. The list of vulnerabilities is as follows - CVE-2026-20245 (CVSS score:...

Veeam Backup & Replication RCE Flaw Lets Domain Users Run Remote Code — The Hacker News
Veeam has released security patches to address a critical flaw in its Backup & Replication software that could result in remote code execution. Tracked as CVE-2026-44963, the vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 9.4 out of a maximum of 10.0. "A vulnerability allowing remote...

ServiceNow Flaw Exploited to Gain Unauthorized Access to Customer Instances — The Hacker News
ServiceNow has warned about a security incident in which unknown threat actors exploited a flaw to obtain deeper unauthorized access to susceptible instances. "On June 5, 2026, ServiceNow applied a security update to hosted customer instances," the company revealed in an...
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June 10, 2026Jun 10, 2026 · #79
Episode 79
Security Brief Daily | 10 Jun 2026
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Ivanti: Max severity Sentry flaw allows code execution as root — Bleeping Computer
Security software company Ivanti has released patches to address two critical vulnerabilities in its Sentry secure mobile gateway solution, including a maximum-severity flaw that enables remote attackers to execute code with root privileges. Formerly known as MobileIron...

Microsoft Defender 'RoguePlanet' zero-day grants SYSTEM privileges — Bleeping Computer
A security researcher has released a new Microsoft Defender zero-day exploit named "RoguePlanet" just hours after Microsoft fixed two previously disclosed flaws during June 2026 Patch Tuesday. The researcher, known as Nightmare Eclipse, says the new vulnerability affects...

ServiceNow discloses security incident exposing customer data — Bleeping Computer
ServiceNow is warning about a security incident after attackers exploited an unauthenticated access flaw through a vulnerable API endpoint, allowing them to query data from customer instances. The company quietly warned impacted customers through a support bulletin and direct...

GitHub disables Microsoft repos pushing password-stealing malware — Bleeping Computer
Microsoft removed 73 repositories across its Azure, microsoft, Azure-Samples, and MicrosoftDocs organizations on GitHub, disrupting continuous integration pipelines. The incident occurred on June 5, and it was contained within just 105 seconds. The company told...

Veeam Backup & Replication RCE Flaw Lets Domain Users Run Remote Code — The Hacker News
Veeam has released security patches to address a critical flaw in its Backup & Replication software that could result in remote code execution. Tracked as CVE-2026-44963, the vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 9.4 out of a maximum of 10.0. "A vulnerability allowing remote...

Microsoft Restores Some GitHub Repos, Keeps Others Offline as Miasma Probe Continues — The Hacker News
Microsoft on Monday confirmed that it temporarily removed some GitHub repositories in response to a recent security incident that led to 73 of its open-source projects being compromised to inject an information stealer into the code. "Our priority is to protect customers and...

LiteLLM Flaw CVE-2026-42271 Exploited in the Wild, Chains to Unauthenticated RCE — The Hacker News
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added a high-severity flaw impacting BerriAI LiteLLM to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-42271 (CVSS...

WinRAR Flaw Exploited by Russia-Aligned Groups to Deploy Stealers in Ukraine — The Hacker News
Two Russia-aligned cyber attack campaigns have continued to exploit a security flaw in WinRAR to target Ukrainian organisations, almost a year after patches for the vulnerability were released. The activity has been attributed by Trend Micro to Earth Dahu (aka Gamaredon) and...
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June 09, 2026Jun 09, 2026 · #78
Episode 78
Security Brief Daily | 09 Jun 2026
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Google patches new Chrome zero-day flaw exploited in the wild — Bleeping Computer
Google has released emergency updates to patch another Chrome zero-day vulnerability that has been exploited in the wild, the fifth such flaw patched since the start of the year. "Google is aware that an exploit for CVE-2026-11645 exists in the wild," the company said in a...

CISA gives feds 3 days to patch Check Point VPN bug exploited as zero-day — Bleeping Computer
CISA has ordered U.S. government agencies to secure their Check Point Remote Access VPN and Mobile Access deployments against a critical vulnerability exploited in zero-day attacks by Qilin ransomware affiliates. Unauthenticated remote attackers can exploit this security flaw...

Critical UniFi OS bug lets hackers gain root without authentication — Bleeping Computer
Attackers can chain three already fixed vulnerabilities in the Ubiquiti UniFi OS server to execute remote code with root privileges and without authentication. The security issues are tracked as CVE-2026-34908, CVE-2026-34909, and CVE-2026-34910. They have been addressed in...

LiteLLM Flaw CVE-2026-42271 Exploited in the Wild, Chains to Unauthenticated RCE — The Hacker News
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added a high-severity flaw impacting BerriAI LiteLLM to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-42271 (CVSS...

WhatsApp says it disrupted new NSO spyware phishing attacks — Bleeping Computer
WhatsApp has detected and stopped spear-phishing campaigns allegedly conducted by the NSO Group after investigating user reports of social engineering attacks. The NSO Group is an Israeli commercial spyware vendor known for its advanced “Pegasus” tool that has been deployed...

One-Character Linux Kernel Flaw Enables Local Root Access, Exploits Now Public — The Hacker News
Security researchers have published a detailed, working exploit for a Linux kernel use-after-free that lets an unprivileged local user escalate to root and break out of a container. The flaw, CVE-2026-23111, sits in the kernel's nf_tables packet-filtering code and was patched...

VerdantBamboo Deploys BSD Variant of BRICKSTORM on Linux Appliances — The Hacker News
A China-nexus cyber espionage group has been observed deploying a BSD variant of a known backdoor called BRICKSTORM, as well as two other malware families codenamed PLENET (aka GRIMBOLT) and AGENTPSD to target Linux systems. The activity has been attributed by Volexity to a...

UNC3753 Used Vishing and Physical Intrusions in U.S. Data Theft Extortion Campaign — The Hacker News
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a financially motivated data theft extortion campaign that has targeted dozens of organizations across professional, legal, and financial services in the U.S. between January and May 2026. The activity has been attributed by...
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June 05, 2026Jun 05, 2026 · #77
Episode 77
Security Brief Daily | 05 Jun 2026
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Cisco warns of unpatched SD-WAN zero-day exploited in attacks — Bleeping Computer
On Thursday, Cisco warned of a high-severity, unpatched zero-day in the Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager (tracked as CVE-2026-20245 ) actively exploited in attacks enabling root privilege escalation. The zero-day flaw impacts all deployment types, including On-Prem Deployment,...

Hackers Exploit Critical Everest Forms Pro WordPress Plugin Flaw to Take Over Sites — The Hacker News
Threat actors are actively exploiting a critical security flaw in Everest Forms Pro, a WordPress plugin with about 4,000 active installations, to execute arbitrary code, leading to a complete site compromise. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-3300 (CVSS score: 9.8), a...

Credit card theft campaign abuses Stripe to host stolen payment info — Bleeping Computer
A new Magecart campaign is using Stripe's API infrastructure to host the credit card-stealing payload and the data exfiltrated from checkout pages. The entire malicious activity relies on Google Tag Manager and Stripe domains - googletagmanager.com and api.stripe.com - that...

Cisco warns of critical Unified CM flaw with PoC exploit code — Bleeping Computer
Cisco has released security updates to patch a critical-severity Unified Communications Manager (Unified CM) flaw that allows attackers to gain root privileges. Cisco Unified CM (formerly known as Cisco CallManager) serves as the central control system for Cisco IP telephony...

Police dismantles fake ID marketplace used by migrant smugglers — Bleeping Computer
French and Spanish authorities took down an online marketplace selling fake identity documents to migrant smuggling rings operating within the European Union. On May 27, law enforcement officers arrested one suspect in Alicante, Spain, and seized document-production equipment...

PCPJack Hijacks 230 AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure Servers for Covert SMTP Relay Network — The Hacker News
The threat actor known as PCPJack has hijacked cloud servers associated with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure to create a covert SMTP email relay network. "Compromised business servers across the U.S., Europe, and Asia were quietly converted into...

FIFA World Cup 2026 Scams Are Already Live: Fake Sites, Banking Malware, and Stolen Logins — The Hacker News
Security researchers and the FBI are warning that a wave of FIFA-themed fraud is already hitting World Cup 2026 fans, days before the June 11 kickoff. Recent reports describe thousands of lookalike FIFA domains, banking malware hidden inside pirate streaming apps, and at...

Claude Code GitHub Action Flaw Let One Malicious Issue Hijack Repositories — The Hacker News
A security researcher found a flaw in Anthropic's Claude Code GitHub Action that let an attacker take over vulnerable public repositories running it, with nothing more than a single opened GitHub issue. Because Anthropic's own action repo used the same workflow, a working...
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