Cyber Security News
IronWorm and New Miasma Worm Variant Hit npm in Supply Chain Attacks
Multiple software supply chain attacks have hit the npm ecosystem, with threat actors using both malicious and poisoned versions of over 50 legitimate packages to distribute a Rust-based information stealer and a self-spreading worm, respectively.
According to JFrog, the information stealer "scrapes every secret it can find on a developer's machine, hides behind an eBPF kernel rootkit, and
Published: Fri, 05 Jun 2026 23:35:30 +0530, Author: info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)
Android Spyware Asin Targets Arabic Users via Fake News, PDF and War Map Apps
Arabic-speaking users have emerged as the target of a new Android spyware codenamed Asin, according to findings from ESET.
The Slovakian cybersecurity company said it first detected the malware spread via multiple campaigns in early 2025, with each attack wave making use of distinct websites mimicking utilities, war-related updates, and a government news source:
govlens[.]net, which
Published: Fri, 05 Jun 2026 20:23:40 +0530, Author: info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)
New Threat Cluster OP-512 Targets Microsoft IIS Servers with Custom Web Shell Framework
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a previously unreported threat cluster dubbed OP-512 (where "OP" stands for "opponent") that has been observed targeting Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) servers to deploy a bespoke web shell framework.
ReliaQuest has assessed with moderate to high confidence that the espionage-focused activity is linked to China.
"OP-512 was highly
Published: Fri, 05 Jun 2026 18:03:38 +0530, Author: info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)
Eighteen months ago, the AI SOC was a marketing line. Today it's a budget item. The category has crossed over from interesting to inevitable, with billions of dollars now flowing into AI-powered security operations platforms, agentic SOC tools, and AI co-pilots built into every layer of the security stack. The data shows SOCs are buying, deploying, and standing up AI capabilities at the fastest
Published: Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:50:00 +0530, Author: info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)
Hackers Exploit Critical Everest Forms Pro WordPress Plugin Flaw to Take Over Sites
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 remote code execution bug impacting all versions of the plugin up to, and including, 1.9.12. A patch for the flaw was
Published: Fri, 05 Jun 2026 14:08:59 +0530, Author: info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)
FIFA World Cup 2026 Scams Are Already Live: Fake Sites, Banking Malware, and Stolen Logins
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 least one operation that copies FIFA's login page well enough to take over real accounts.
It is an obvious target. More than
Published: Fri, 05 Jun 2026 12:31:41 +0530, Author: info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)
PCPJack Hijacks 230 AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure Servers for Covert SMTP Relay Network
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 SMTP proxies, verified for mail relay capability, and synced to a downstream consumer every five minutes," Hunt.io said in
Published: Fri, 05 Jun 2026 11:04:19 +0530, Author: info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)
Cisco Patches CVE-2026-20230 in Unified CM as Exploit Code Goes Public
Cisco has patched a bug in Unified Communications Manager that lets an unauthenticated attacker on the network write files to the box and, from there, climb to root.
It is tracked as CVE-2026-20230, and proof-of-concept exploit code is already public. Cisco's PSIRT says it has not seen the flaw used in attacks yet. The PoC shortens that runway.
The flaw is a server-side request forgery.
Published: Thu, 04 Jun 2026 22:25:51 +0530, Author: info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)
Claude Code GitHub Action Flaw Let One Malicious Issue Hijack Repositories
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 attack could have pushed malicious code into the action itself and onto the projects downstream that pull it.
RyotaK of GMO
Published: Thu, 04 Jun 2026 20:45:26 +0530, Author: info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)
Agentic AI Is Transforming Defense, But Only Secure IT Infrastructure Will Maximize It
Over the past several weeks, the cybersecurity community has been reminded how quickly frontier and agentic AI in defense networks can challenge our assumptions. When Anthropic's Claude Mythos model was made available to a limited set of organizations as a technical preview, it was reported that an unauthorized group claimed that it had gained access within hours. The incident, if true, was
Published: Thu, 04 Jun 2026 20:40:00 +0530, Author: info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)
It got stupid again.
The internet still feels held together with tape. Bad plugins, old bugs, fake tools, trusted apps doing shady things. Same mess, new wrapper. And now the weird stuff is normal. Forums go down and come back worse. Cheap hackers get better toys. AI starts breaking real systems. Great.
Read the whole thing before it ruins your week anyway.
Unauthenticated
Published: Thu, 04 Jun 2026 19:30:49 +0530, Author: info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)
China-Linked TA4922 Expands Phishing Attacks to U.K., Germany, Italy, and South Africa
A new China-linked cybercrime group known as TA4922 has expanded its targeting focus to target European organizations in the U.K., Germany, Italy, and South Africa.
These efforts have been complemented by a "rapid operational tempo" and a continually evolving malware arsenal comprising known families like ValleyRAT (aka Winos 4.0) and Atlas RAT (aka AtlasCross RAT), as well as previously
Published: Thu, 04 Jun 2026 17:52:25 +0530, Author: info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)
FlutterShell Backdoor Spreads to macOS via Malicious Google and YouTube Ads
Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a macOS malvertising campaign codenamed Operation FlutterBridge that spreads a new backdoor called FlutterShell.
According to Palo Alto Networks Unit 42, the campaign is said to be the next stage of a previously reported activity cluster dubbed JSCoreRunner (aka FileRipple) in late August 2025. The cybercrime group behind the two attack chains is
Published: Thu, 04 Jun 2026 16:49:53 +0530, Author: info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)
Fake Sites Mimicking Open-Source Tools Rank High on Google to Deliver Malware via TDS
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a large-scale operation that impersonates open-source and freeware projects to funnel unsuspecting users through a Traffic Distribution System (TDS) and deliver malware families like Remus Stealer, AnimateClipper, and the SessionGate framework.
"The sites are well-designed and often look like legitimate project portals at a glance, sometimes referencing
Published: Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:21:28 +0530, Author: info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)
Hackers Spied on a Stock Exchange Executive's Outlook Mailbox for Five Months
Unknown attackers spent at least five months inside the Outlook mailbox of a senior executive at a major global stock exchange, copying the inbox out in small, repeated batches and routing it through Dropbox and OneDrive so the traffic blended into normal cloud activity.
Symantec and Carbon Black's Threat Hunter Team reported the campaign this week. This points to espionage, not a money grab:
Published: Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:03:57 +0530, Author: info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)
DoJ Disrupts Southeast Asia Crypto Fraud Networks, Freezes $3.8 Million in Assets
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Wednesday announced the results of a sweeping action undertaken by government authorities and private sector companies to combat cyber-enabled and cryptocurrency fraud targeting Americans.
The "Disruption Week" operation began May 18, 2026, leading to the takedown of millions of social media, email, and internet access accounts used by transnational
Published: Thu, 04 Jun 2026 11:36:25 +0530, Author: info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)
WhatsApp, Slack Notifications Could Hijack Google Gemini on Android
A single poisoned notification from WhatsApp, Slack, SMS, Signal, Instagram, or Messenger could have hijacked Google Gemini's voice assistant on Android and made it open a victim's connected windows, fake a message from their boss, push the phone into a Zoom call, or quietly poison its long-term memory.
No malicious app on the phone is required. The assistant just had to treat a hostile
Published: Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:41:15 +0530, Author: info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)
One-Click GitHub Dev Attack Lets Attackers Steal Full GitHub OAuth Tokens
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a one-click attack via Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) that makes it possible to steal a user's GitHub token.
"Just by clicking a link, it's possible for an attacker to steal a GitHub token that can read and write to your repos, including private ones," security researcher Ammar Askar said.
GitHub supports a feature called GitHub.dev that runs as
Published: Wed, 03 Jun 2026 23:28:00 +0530, Author: info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)
Autonomous AI Tool Finds 2-Year-Old RCE Flaw in Redis (CVE-2026-23479)
Redis has patched a use-after-free in its blocking-client code that lets an authenticated user run arbitrary OS commands on the machine hosting the database. The flaw was found by an autonomous AI tool built to hunt bugs in large codebases.
Tracked as CVE-2026-23479, the flaw was introduced in Redis 7.2.0 and remained in every stable branch until the May 5 fixes, unnoticed for over two years.
Published: Wed, 03 Jun 2026 22:10:00 +0530, Author: info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)
CISA Adds Exploited Magento RCE Flaw CVE-2026-45247 to KEV Catalog
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Wednesday added a critical flaw impacting Mirasvit Cache Warmer, a popular Magento full-page cache extension, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, following reports of active exploitation in the wild.
The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-45247 (CVSS score: 9.8), is a case of deserialization of untrusted
Published: Wed, 03 Jun 2026 22:00:00 +0530, Author: info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)