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Multiple Jscrambler Packages Impacted by Supply Chain Attack

14 July 2026
A threat actor poisoned several Jscrambler NPM package versions to drop a cross-platform credential stealer. The post Multiple Jscrambler Packages Impacted by Supply Chain Attack appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Grok Build Uploads Entire Git Repositories to xAI Storage, Not Just Files It Reads

14 July 2026
xAI's Grok Build coding CLI was uploading entire Git repositories, full commit history and all, to a Google Cloud Storage bucket run by xAI, not just the files a coding task needed. A researcher publishing as cereblab, testing version 0.2.93, captured one of those uploads, cloned the git bundle out of the intercepted request, and pulled back a file the agent had been told in plain terms not

U.S. Sanctions First VPN Service and Malware Cryptor Seller Over Ransomware Support

14 July 2026
The U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has designated two individuals and a VPN service provider for enabling ransomware actors' and other cybercriminals' malicious activities, including ransomware attacks against Americans. The VPN, named First VPN Service (1VPNS), has been accused of offering its tools to ransomware groups, along with its 45-year-old Ukrainian

148 npm Packages Disguised as Student Proxies Turned Browsers Into a DDoS Botnet

14 July 2026
A campaign of 148 npm packages disguised as student web proxies turned visitors' browsers into a distributed denial-of-service botnet for roughly two weeks in May, according to new research from JFrog. The packages did not go after the developers who might install them. The operators used the registry as free hosting for a booby-trapped proxy site and let the students who came to dodge

Pentagon Suspends CMMC Phase 2 as It Rethinks Contractor Cybersecurity Rules

14 July 2026
A new CMMC review and reform task force will conduct a comprehensive review of the program. The post Pentagon Suspends CMMC Phase 2 as It Rethinks Contractor Cybersecurity Rules appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Microsoft Maps Year-Long ShinyHunters-Linked Salesforce Data Theft Across Three Paths

14 July 2026
Attackers whose methods line up with the data-extortion group ShinyHunters have spent the past year walking into corporate Salesforce environments without exploiting a single flaw in the platform. The way in has been the trust the organization had already extended, usually through the OAuth connections that tie Salesforce to the apps and third-party vendors around it. In 

CrashStealer macOS Malware Uses Notarized Dropper to Pass Gatekeeper Checks

13 July 2026
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new macOS information stealer called CrashStealer that's capable of harvesting sensitive data from compromised systems. Unlike other information stealers that are built on AppleScript droppers or Objective-C-based wrappers, CrashStealer is implemented in native C++, according to Jamf Threat Labs. "It validates the victim's login password locally before

Google and Microsoft Pull ModHeader With 1.6 Million Installs After Dormant Collector Found

13 July 2026
Google and Microsoft have pulled ModHeader, a popular header-editing extension with roughly 1.6 million installs across Chrome and Edge, after researchers found a hidden browsing-history collector built into its official store version. The collector was dormant. An empty allow-list kept it switched off, and no proof has emerged that it ever gathered or sent a single browsing domain. The

⚡ Weekly Recap: ShareFile Threat, Citrix Bleed 2 Ransomware, AI Coding Attacks, and More

13 July 2026
Somewhere right now, a security tool is quietly finding bugs faster than any human can fix them. That's supposed to be the good news. The catch is that the attackers have the same tools, pointed the other way, and they don't file tickets. That's the shape of this week. Trusted code turns on the people who installed it. Old bugs from last year are still landing because the fix sat in a queue too

Lessons Learned from CISA’s Recent GitHub Leak

13 July 2026
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued a postmortem on a data leak in which a contractor published dozens of internal CISA credentials -- including AWS Govcloud keys -- in a public GitHub repository for almost six months before being notified by KrebsOnSecurity. Experts say the gaps identified in the agency's initial response provide important lessons that all security teams should absorb.

Hacker Conversations: Jesse McGraw (GhostExodus), From Blackhat Hacker to Redemption

13 July 2026
Once a notorious blackhat hacker, McGraw shares his journey from high school hacking and prison to redemption as a cybersecurity advocate. The post Hacker Conversations: Jesse McGraw (GhostExodus), From Blackhat Hacker to Redemption appeared first on SecurityWeek.

New MemGhost Attack Plants Persistent False Memories in AI Agents Through One Email

13 July 2026
Give an AI assistant a memory and access to your inbox, and you hand an attacker a way to rewrite what it thinks it knows about you. A single email can trick that agent into saving a false "fact" about the user, hide the change, and quietly steer its answers in later sessions. When it works, the person reads an ordinary-looking reply and never learns their assistant was tampered with. The

Forg365 PhaaS Targets Microsoft 365 with Device Code and AitM Session Theft

13 July 2026
A new phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) operation called Forg365 is using a combination of device code phishing, adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) tactics, antibot evasion, artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted lure creation, and post-compromise mailbox operations targeting Microsoft 365 accounts. Distributed via Telegram and costing $400 a month (or $3,800 per year), attack chains leverage phishing

Cybersecurity M&A Roundup: 37 Deals Announced in June 2026

13 July 2026
Significant cybersecurity M&A deals announced by 1Password, Accenture, Cisco, F5, Rubrik, and SailPoint. The post Cybersecurity M&A Roundup: 37 Deals Announced in June 2026 appeared first on SecurityWeek.

RabbitMQ Vulnerability Threatens Enterprise Systems

13 July 2026
Unauthenticated attackers could obtain the broker's confidential OAuth client secret, allowing them to take control of the broker. The post RabbitMQ Vulnerability Threatens Enterprise Systems appeared first on SecurityWeek.

UK and Allies urge critical sectors to improve defences against Russian intelligence targeting

13 July 2026
New advisory highlights Russian state cyber actors’ global exploitation of poorly configured routers

Meta Files Patent for AI That Can Listen All Day and Track How You're Feeling

13 July 2026
Meta has filed a patent application for an AI that listens to your voice throughout the day, works out how it thinks you are feeling from the way you sound, and keeps a timestamped log of every read. Each read gets pinned to the moment it happened: the time, your location, what you were doing, even how you were using your phone. Some versions in the filing would listen all day; others would

Thinking Fast and Slow in the SOC: The Case for Combining Autonomous AI with Analyst Copilots

13 July 2026
A few days ago, I was sitting with the CISO of a Fortune 50 company, walking through how his security team was thinking about AI agents in the SOC. Smart team. Serious program. They had already connected Claude to a few detection tools and were seeing real value in specific investigations. But as we mapped out the broader architecture, something kept nagging at me. The design they were building

Attacker Uses Suspected AI-Generated PowerShell Script to Map Active Directory

13 July 2026
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged an intrusion in which an unknown threat actor leveraged a vibe-coded PowerShell script for Active Directory (AD) enumeration. "The script looked for the Domain Controller (DC) and mapped users, computers, and domains, before creating a directory and exporting out a number of files, and finally creating AD_Report.html to measure the success of the

Zimbra Patches Critical Code Execution Vulnerability

13 July 2026
The flaw results in malicious code embedded in crafted emails being executed when the emails are opened. The post Zimbra Patches Critical Code Execution Vulnerability appeared first on SecurityWeek.