Latest Cybersecurity News and Articles

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Meta AI Hands Over High-Profile Instagram Accounts to Hackers

Exploiting a confused deputy weakness, the hackers simply asked the chatbot to link the account to a new email address. The post Meta AI Hands Over High-Profile Instagram Accounts to Hackers appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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How Leading Organizations Are Turning EDR Into Operational Resilience

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

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Supply Chain Attack Hits 32 Red Hat NPM Packages

Hackers published 96 malicious package versions, injected with a credential-stealing worm similar to Mini Shai-Hulud. The post Supply Chain Attack Hits 32 Red Hat NPM Packages appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Pakistan-Linked SideCopy Targets Afghanistan Finance Ministry with Xeno RAT

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,"

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Dashlane Brute-Force Attack Leads to Limited Encrypted Vault Downloads

Dashlane’s security systems automatically locked accounts to protect them against the hacking attempts. The post Dashlane Brute-Force Attack Leads to Limited Encrypted Vault Downloads appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Oracle’s First Monthly Patches Resolve 77 Vulnerabilities

Oracle’s monthly Critical Security Patch Update (CSPU) rollouts are meant to deliver critical fixes faster. The post Oracle’s First Monthly Patches Resolve 77 Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Dashlane Discloses Brute-Force Attack, Encrypted Vaults of Fewer Than 20 Users Downloaded

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)

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WP Maps Pro Vulnerability Exploited to Take Over WordPress Sites

The security defect (CVE-2026-8732) allows unauthenticated attackers to create administrative accounts on the affected installations. The post WP Maps Pro Vulnerability Exploited to Take Over WordPress Sites appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Dutch Police Dismantle Massive 17-Million-Device Botnet

Dutch authorities seized command-and-control servers tied to a botnet of infected computers, smartphones, and tablets that was allegedly used to power a residential proxy network and facilitate cybercrime. The post Dutch Police Dismantle Massive 17-Million-Device Botnet appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Miasma Supply Chain Attack Compromises Red Hat npm Packages with Credential-Stealing Worm

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

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Hackers Used Meta’s AI Support Bot to Seize Instagram Accounts

The Instagram accounts for the Obama White House and the Chief Master Sergeant of the U.S. Space Force were briefly defaced with pro-Iranian images and messages over the weekend, after instructions began circulating on Telegram showing how to trick Meta's "AI support assistant" bot into resetting account passwords.

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Critical Windows Netlogon Vulnerability in Attackers’ Crosshairs

Organizations are advised to patch CVE-2026-41089 as soon as possible, given its severity, the potential ongoing exploitation. The post Critical Windows Netlogon Vulnerability in Attackers’ Crosshairs appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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⚡ Weekly Recap: New Linux Flaw, PAN-OS Exploit, AI-Powered Attacks, OAuth Phishing and More

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

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Dragos Acquires xIoT Security Firm Phosphorus

Dragos said customers will soon gain expanded asset visibility and integrated device intelligence, with automated remediation workflows and a unified platform experience to follow. The post Dragos Acquires xIoT Security Firm Phosphorus appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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China-Aligned Groups Ramp Up Attacks: Dragon Weave Hits Czech Republic & Taiwan

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

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As the Pentagon Pushes for Battlefield AI, Some Military Leaders Urge Caution

AI’s use in the military is part of the administration’s larger push to grow the capability it sees as a unique American advantage. The post As the Pentagon Pushes for Battlefield AI, Some Military Leaders Urge Caution appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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The Security Growth Platform: Why MSPs Are Moving Beyond vCISO Tools

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

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19-Year-Old Linux Kernel Vulnerability Exposes Systems to Root Access

proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit code has been released for the CIFSwitch flaw, which allows low-privileged users to escalate to root on vulnerable Linux systems. The post 19-Year-Old Linux Kernel Vulnerability Exposes Systems to Root Access appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Recent Palo Alto Networks Vulnerability Exploited for Weeks

Hackers began exploiting CVE-2026-0257, an authentication bypass in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS, four days after public disclosure. The post Recent Palo Alto Networks Vulnerability Exploited for Weeks appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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OpenAI Codex Authentication Tokens Stolen in codexui-android npm Supply Chain Attack

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