1. Microsoft confirmed active exploitation of two Microsoft Defender vulnerabilities including CVE-2026-41091 which grants SYSTEM privileges (The Hacker News). 2. CISA added critical vulnerabilities in Langflow and Trend Micro Apex One to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog following evidence of active use (The Hacker News). 3. Cisco patched a maximum severity vulnerability CVE-2026-20223 in Secure Workload that allows unauthenticated remote attackers to access sensitive data…
Posts tagged as “ransomware”
1. GitHub is investigating a breach of approximately 3800 internal repositories after an employee installed a malicious VS Code extension (The Hacker News). 2. Microsoft released a mitigation for the YellowKey BitLocker bypass vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-45585 (The Hacker News). 3. Grafana Labs confirmed a breach of its internal GitHub environment involving source code, though customer production systems remain unaffected (The Hacker News). 4. The…
1. A new Linux kernel local privilege escalation vulnerability named Fragnesia tracked as CVE-2026-46300 allows attackers to gain root access (The Hacker News). 2. A critical heap buffer overflow vulnerability in the NGINX rewrite module tracked as CVE-2026-42945 enables unauthenticated remote code execution (The Hacker News). 3. West Pharmaceutical Services confirmed a cyberattack involving data exfiltration and system encryption (BleepingComputer). 4. The Gentlemen ransomware group…
1. A mass npm supply chain attack involving the Mini Shai-Hulud worm has compromised over 170 packages including TanStack and Mistral AI. (https://thehackernews.com/2026/05/mini-shai-hulud-worm-compromises.html) 2. Instructure reached an agreement with the ShinyHunters extortion group to prevent the leak of 3.65TB of stolen data. (https://thehackernews.com/2026/05/instructure-reaches-ransom-agreement.html) 3. A rogue version of the official Checkmarx Jenkins plugin was published on the Jenkins Marketplace containing an infostealer. (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/official-checkmarx-jenkins-package-compromised-with-infostealer/) 4. A…
1. The ShinyHunters extortion group breached the Canvas education platform and defaced login portals for thousands of schools, threatening to leak 275 million records (krebsonsecurity.com). 2. A new unpatched Linux kernel vulnerability named Dirty Frag allows local attackers to gain root access on most major distributions (thehackernews.com). 3. The Copy Fail vulnerability, identified as CVE-2026-31431, is currently under active exploitation in the wild (thehackernews.com). 4.…
1. Instructure confirmed a data breach involving its Canvas platform with the ShinyHunters extortion gang claiming responsibility for the attack (bleepingcomputer.com). 2. An IBM subsidiary responsible for managing Italian public administration infrastructure suffered a breach where attackers maintained access for two weeks (reddit.com). 3. A critical cPanel vulnerability is being mass exploited in ongoing Sorry ransomware attacks (reddit.com). 4. A global law enforcement operation involving…
1. Trellix confirmed a security breach involving unauthorized access to a portion of its internal source code repository (thehackernews.com). 2. A Vietnamese-linked operation named AccountDumpling compromised 30,000 Facebook accounts using Google AppSheet as a phishing relay (thehackernews.com). 3. China-linked threat group SHADOW-EARTH-053 is conducting an espionage campaign targeting government and defense sectors across Asia and a NATO member state (thehackernews.com). 4. Cybercrime groups Cordial Spider…
1. A high severity SSRF vulnerability in LMDeploy tracked as CVE 2026 33626 is being actively exploited in the wild within 13 hours of its disclosure (thehackernews.com). 2. The Bitwarden CLI npm package was compromised as part of an ongoing supply chain attack involving malicious code in the bw1.js file (thehackernews.com). 3. The threat group UNC6692 is conducting a campaign by impersonating IT helpdesk staff…
1. Over 1300 Microsoft SharePoint servers remain vulnerable to a spoofing zero day exploit that is currently being used in active attacks (BleepingComputer). 2. Microsoft released emergency out of band security updates to address a critical privilege escalation vulnerability in ASP.NET Core (BleepingComputer). 3. CISA has flagged a new SD WAN vulnerability that is currently being exploited in the wild (Reddit). 4. Researchers discovered a…
1. Ukraine: Ukrainian drone units continue operations against Russian targets, including a recent strike on the 150th Guards Motor Rifle Division in Novocherkassk and the interception of Russian Shahed drones over the Cherkasy region. Source: Telegram (r_combatfootage). 2. Middle East: U.S. Vice President JD Vance is expected to travel to Islamabad for negotiations with Iranian representatives, following the Supreme Leader’s authorization for the Iranian team…