Tag: cyber
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Heimdal Survey: Executives Four Times More Confident About AI Risk Than the Teams Managing It
London, United Kingdom, June 17th, 2026, CyberNewswire New research from cybersecurity company Heimdal finds 29% of US executives say AI risk is under control, against 7% of the practitioners running it day-to-day. Across 1,000 IT professionals in the UK and US, AI adoption has outpaced security controls by roughly two to one. Heimdal today published…
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Modular Phishing Kit Uses GitHub Pages to Steal Payment Card Details and Passwords
A sophisticated, long-running phishing operation has evolved into a serverless, modular campaign that weaponizes GitHub Pages to harvest payment card data, credentials, and customer identifiers from banking customers in Mexico. The campaign’s architecture centers on a phishing kit containing a selector panel that operators use to generate institution-specific landing pages. Those landing pages impersonate at…
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Google Cloud Vertex AI Vulnerability Lets Attackers Take Over and Poison AI Models
A critical vulnerability in Google Cloud’s Vertex AI has been discovered, allowing attackers to hijack machine learning model uploads, poison artifacts, and achieve cross-tenant remote code execution (RCE) without any prior access to the victim’s environment. Dubbed “Pickle in the Middle” by researchers from Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42, this flaw affects the Python SDK…
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Google Cloud Vertex AI Vulnerability Lets Attackers Take Over and Poison AI Models
A critical vulnerability in Google Cloud’s Vertex AI has been discovered, allowing attackers to hijack machine learning model uploads, poison artifacts, and achieve cross-tenant remote code execution (RCE) without any prior access to the victim’s environment. Dubbed “Pickle in the Middle” by researchers from Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42, this flaw affects the Python SDK…
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Hackers Target npm Ecosystem by Compromising 140+ Mastra Packages
A large-scale software supply chain attack has compromised more than 140 npm packages under the widely used Mastra namespace, exposing developers, CI/CD pipelines, and enterprise environments to a stealthy cross-platform infostealer. The campaign, uncovered by the Socket Research Team on June 17, 2026, leveraged a typosquatting dependency, easy-day-js, to silently deliver malicious payloads during package…
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Hackers Target npm Ecosystem by Compromising 140+ Mastra Packages
A large-scale software supply chain attack has compromised more than 140 npm packages under the widely used Mastra namespace, exposing developers, CI/CD pipelines, and enterprise environments to a stealthy cross-platform infostealer. The campaign, uncovered by the Socket Research Team on June 17, 2026, leveraged a typosquatting dependency, easy-day-js, to silently deliver malicious payloads during package…
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Sapphire Sleet macOS Malware Abuses curlosascript Execution for Multi-Stage Payload Delivery
Sapphire Sleet’s latest macOS campaign uses crafted .scpt AppleScript lures that pipe curl output directly to osascript, enabling a compact, multi-stage payload chain that executes entirely within Script Editor and evades many built”‘in macOS protections. The infection begins with a socially engineered lure fake SDK or update AppleScript files such as Zoom SDK Update.scpt or…
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Attackers Exploit Cloud Logging Platforms to Hide Malicious Activity
Attackers are increasingly targeting cloud logging platforms to evade detection and maintain persistent visibility into compromised environments. The report highlights how critical services such as AWS CloudTrail and Google Cloud Logging, designed to provide comprehensive audit trails, are being actively abused by threat actors to manipulate, disable, or redirect logs, effectively “blinding” security teams while…
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Attackers Exploit Cloud Logging Platforms to Hide Malicious Activity
Attackers are increasingly targeting cloud logging platforms to evade detection and maintain persistent visibility into compromised environments. The report highlights how critical services such as AWS CloudTrail and Google Cloud Logging, designed to provide comprehensive audit trails, are being actively abused by threat actors to manipulate, disable, or redirect logs, effectively “blinding” security teams while…
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EU Security Experts to Support Ukrainian Organizations in Case of Cyber-Attacks
Ukraine has been added to the EU Cybersecurity Reserve, which provides incident response services against large-scale incidents First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/ukraine-included-eu-cyber-reserve/
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SprySOCKS Windows Backdoor Uses Kernel Driver to Hide Processes, Files, and Network Traffic
Windows variants of SprySOCKS, a backdoor long associated with FishMonger (aka Earth Lusca/TAG-22), expanding a toolset that was until now Linux-only. The two Windows builds internally labelled WIN_DRV and WIN_PLUS preserve the original SprySOCKS protocol and command set while adding Windows-native loading techniques and, in WIN_DRV’s case, a kernel-mode driver that substantially increases stealth and…
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SprySOCKS Windows Backdoor Uses Kernel Driver to Hide Processes, Files, and Network Traffic
Windows variants of SprySOCKS, a backdoor long associated with FishMonger (aka Earth Lusca/TAG-22), expanding a toolset that was until now Linux-only. The two Windows builds internally labelled WIN_DRV and WIN_PLUS preserve the original SprySOCKS protocol and command set while adding Windows-native loading techniques and, in WIN_DRV’s case, a kernel-mode driver that substantially increases stealth and…
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Ukraine can now tap EU cyber support during major attacks
Ukraine can now call on emergency cyber support from the European Union during large-scale cybersecurity incidents. The move follows a decision by the Council of the European … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/06/17/ukraine-eu-cybersecurity-reserve-support/
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Steam Workshop Malware Campaign Uses Wallpaper Engine to Steal Accounts and Infect Gamers
A sophisticated malware campaign has been abusing Steam Workshop’s sharing model to distribute backdoors, infostealers and crypto miners hidden inside Wallpaper Engine packages, primarily targeting gamers in China and Russia. The campaign exploits Wallpaper Engine’s “application” wallpaper type essentially standalone executables that run as animated desktop backgrounds to execute arbitrary code the moment a user…
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CISA Issues Alert on Oracle PeopleSoft Vulnerability Exploited by Ransomware Groups
Tags: authentication, cisa, control, cve, cyber, cybersecurity, exploit, flaw, group, infrastructure, oracle, ransomware, vulnerabilityThe U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued an urgent alert regarding the active exploitation of a critical vulnerability in Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools, identified as CVE-2026-35273. This vulnerability, categorized as CWE-306 (Missing Authentication for Critical Function), allows unauthenticated attackers to gain full control of vulnerable PeopleSoft environments. According to CISA, this flaw…
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CISA Issues Alert on Oracle PeopleSoft Vulnerability Exploited by Ransomware Groups
Tags: authentication, cisa, control, cve, cyber, cybersecurity, exploit, flaw, group, infrastructure, oracle, ransomware, vulnerabilityThe U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued an urgent alert regarding the active exploitation of a critical vulnerability in Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools, identified as CVE-2026-35273. This vulnerability, categorized as CWE-306 (Missing Authentication for Critical Function), allows unauthenticated attackers to gain full control of vulnerable PeopleSoft environments. According to CISA, this flaw…
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Hackers Inject Malicious JavaScript Into WordPress Sites to Deploy ErrTraffic ClickFix Lures
Hackers are injecting malicious JavaScript into compromised WordPress sites to deploy ErrTraffic-powered ClickFix lures, a campaign that achieved nearly 60% victim conversion rates an unprecedented figure in malware ecosystems. Threat actors exploit WordPress vulnerabilities to inject a single line of JavaScript that visually glitches websites, then trick users into executing malicious PowerShell commands under the…
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Hackers Inject Malicious JavaScript Into WordPress Sites to Deploy ErrTraffic ClickFix Lures
Hackers are injecting malicious JavaScript into compromised WordPress sites to deploy ErrTraffic-powered ClickFix lures, a campaign that achieved nearly 60% victim conversion rates an unprecedented figure in malware ecosystems. Threat actors exploit WordPress vulnerabilities to inject a single line of JavaScript that visually glitches websites, then trick users into executing malicious PowerShell commands under the…
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JetBrains Plugin Security Alert: 70,000+ Installs Linked to AI Key Theft
A coordinated supply chain attack targeting JetBrains IDE users has exposed over 70,000 developers to silent credential theft. The campaign involves at least 15 malicious plugins distributed via the JetBrains Marketplace, masquerading as AI-powered coding assistants built on models such as DeepSeek. While these plugins function as advertised, offering features like code review, chat, and…
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NVIDIA NeMo Security Flaw Exposes Systems to Command Injection Attacks
NVIDIA has disclosed multiple high-severity vulnerabilities in its NeMo Framework, including a critical command injection flaw that could allow attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected systems. These issues, outlined in the June 2026 security bulletin, impact NeMo versions up to 2.7.2 across all platforms. Exploitation could lead to privilege escalation, data tampering, and the…
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NVIDIA NeMo Security Flaw Exposes Systems to Command Injection Attacks
NVIDIA has disclosed multiple high-severity vulnerabilities in its NeMo Framework, including a critical command injection flaw that could allow attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected systems. These issues, outlined in the June 2026 security bulletin, impact NeMo versions up to 2.7.2 across all platforms. Exploitation could lead to privilege escalation, data tampering, and the…
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Fortra Access Manager Security Flaw Exposes Systems to Command Injection
Fortra has reported a critical command injection vulnerability in its Core Privileged Access Manager (BoKS) platform, which could allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands with elevated privileges. This could potentially lead to a full system compromise. Tracked as CVE-2026-9862 and assigned a CVSS v3.1 score of 9.8, the flaw exists in the boks_autoregisterd service,…
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Critical Chrome Flaws Let Attackers Execute Arbitrary Code Update Immediately
Google has released an urgent Chrome security update addressing multiple critical vulnerabilities that could allow attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected systems. The update, now rolling out to users globally, upgrades Chrome to version 149.0.7827.155/.156 for Windows and macOS and 149.0.7827.155 for Linux. Security researchers and enterprise defenders are strongly advised to apply the…
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Critical LiteLLM Flaw Allows Authentication Bypass via Host Header Injection
Tags: advisory, attack, authentication, cve, cyber, flaw, framework, github, injection, vulnerabilityA critical security vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-49468 has been disclosed in the LiteLLM framework, exposing deployments to authentication bypass attacks via Host header injection. The issue, published in the GitHub Advisory Database and classified under GHSA-4xpc-pv4p-pm3w, affects all LiteLLM versions before 1.84.0 and has been assigned a critical severity rating due to its potential impact…
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Critical LiteLLM Flaw Allows Authentication Bypass via Host Header Injection
Tags: advisory, attack, authentication, cve, cyber, flaw, framework, github, injection, vulnerabilityA critical security vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-49468 has been disclosed in the LiteLLM framework, exposing deployments to authentication bypass attacks via Host header injection. The issue, published in the GitHub Advisory Database and classified under GHSA-4xpc-pv4p-pm3w, affects all LiteLLM versions before 1.84.0 and has been assigned a critical severity rating due to its potential impact…
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Angreifer im System: Drei kritische Lücken in Fortinet aktiv ausgenutzt
Das Sicherheitsunternehmen Defused Cyber meldet die aktive Ausnutzung von drei kritischen Schwachstellen in der Sandbox-Software von Fortinet. First seen on it-daily.net Jump to article: www.it-daily.net/it-sicherheit/cybercrime/fortinet-drei-kritische-luecken