Tag: malicious
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Forminator WordPress Flaw Can Enable Unauthenticated RCE via Malicious PHP Uploads
A critical security flaw has been disclosed in Forminator Forms, a WordPress plugin with more than 600,000 active installations, that could be exploited to achieve arbitrary code execution on susceptible sites.The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-15748, is rated 9.8 out of 10.0 on the CVSS scoring system. It was discovered and reported by a security researcher…
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Forminator WordPress Flaw Can Enable Unauthenticated RCE via Malicious PHP Uploads
A critical security flaw has been disclosed in Forminator Forms, a WordPress plugin with more than 600,000 active installations, that could be exploited to achieve arbitrary code execution on susceptible sites.The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-15748, is rated 9.8 out of 10.0 on the CVSS scoring system. It was discovered and reported by a security researcher…
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Forminator WordPress Flaw Can Enable Unauthenticated RCE via Malicious PHP Uploads
A critical security flaw has been disclosed in Forminator Forms, a WordPress plugin with more than 600,000 active installations, that could be exploited to achieve arbitrary code execution on susceptible sites.The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-15748, is rated 9.8 out of 10.0 on the CVSS scoring system. It was discovered and reported by a security researcher…
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C2Looper: A New Backdoor Likely Tied To Ransomware With GitHub C2
IntroductionIn July 2026, Zscaler ThreatLabz identified a new Rust-based malware family that we track as C2Looper, which is likely leveraged by a ransomware-related threat actor. Furthermore, ThreatLabz assesses with low to medium confidence that C2Looper has been delivered to victims through a multi-stage ClickFix infection chain. C2Looper supports backdoor commands including executing arbitrary commands, performing reconnaissance,…
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LiteLLM Supply-Chain Attack Exposed Credentials Across 2,500 Organizations
Malicious LiteLLM releases may have exposed credentials from more than 2,500 organizations and hundreds of thousands of CI/CD pipelines. First seen on esecurityplanet.com Jump to article: www.esecurityplanet.com/cybersecurity-threats/news-litellm-supply-chain-attack-credential-theft/
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Shattering the Dream When a Job Offer Becomes a Zero-Day Attack
ey Points Introduction Since early 2026, Check Point Research has tracked a wave of theOperation Dream Jobcampaign. This wave primarily targeted the defense sector worldwide, with a particular emphasis on companies operating in the aerospace and aviation industries. We observed the threat actor distributing modified PDF viewers designed to execute malicious payloads embedded within specially…
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LiteLLM Attack Shows AI Infrastructure Is Becoming a Strategic Software Supply Chain Target
Tags: ai, attack, breach, cloud, credentials, cyber, infrastructure, malicious, pypi, software, supply-chain, theftThe March 2026 compromise of LiteLLM was more than a short-lived malicious PyPI upload. It demonstrated how an upstream breach in developer tooling can turn AI infrastructure into a high-value conduit for credential theft, cloud intrusion, and downstream software supply chain abuse. The packages were available for roughly 40 minutes before quarantine, but their brief…
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A Malicious SIM Card Can Run Attacker Code Inside the Modems Behind Cellular IoT Devices
A malicious SIM card can order the device it sits in to run commands of the attacker’s choosing. On the cellular modules built into electric-vehicle chargers, industrial routers, and car telematics units, that is enough to take the whole device over.Researchers at the University of Birmingham and the security firm Fuzzware tested 26 phones and…
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Malicious SIMs can hijack smartphones, steal files, and lock them onto 2G
Tags: maliciousResearchers have found that compromised or malicious SIM cards can issue commands to some smartphones and cellular-connected devices, allowing attackers to steal information, … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/08/11/malicious-sim-cards-hijack-phones-ev-chargers/
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Malicious MCP Servers Can Split Instructions to Make AI Coding Agents Exfiltrate Secrets
A malicious tool server connected to an AI coding assistant can quietly walk off with SSH keys, environment secrets, source code, and customer data without ever sending one obviously harmful instruction.The trick can work even after a blunt version of the same theft is refused: split the request into fragments that each look routine, place…
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Metabase SQL Zero-Day Attacks Could Have Wide Blast Radius
The maximum-severity vulnerability, which still has no CVE, allows malicious, remote administrator access to the business-analytics platform and its downstream users. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilities-threats/metabase-sql-zero-day-attacks-wide-blast-radius
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GitHub Expands Dependabot Malware Alerts to Detect Malicious Packages Across 8 Ecosystems
GitHub has expanded its Dependabot malware alerts beyond npm, enabling the detection of malicious dependencies across various package ecosystems, including PyPI, Maven, RubyGems, NuGet, Go, crates.io, and PHP Composer. This rollout is supported by a new GitHub Advisory Database importer for OpenSSF’s malicious-packages repository, which enhances supply chain detection across these eight ecosystems. GitHub Expands…
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Fake Solidity Pro Extensions Turn Trusted Developer Tooling Into Credential-Stealing Malware
Malicious “Solidity Pro” extensions are abusing the trust developers place in VS Code and Open VSX tooling, evolving from delayed payload droppers into broad credential and cryptocurrency-wallet stealers. Yeeth Security identified two publishers, helper-beeps and web3devtoolsx, distributing related solidity-pro packages that use Solidity-themed branding, obfuscation, and version churn to target web3 developers. The campaign reflects…
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Atlassian Rovo AI Vulnerability Lets Attackers Steal Enterprise Data With a Single Click
RovoBlast is a recently disclosed vulnerability affecting Atlassian’s Rovo AI assistant that allows attackers to expose sensitive enterprise data through a single malicious link. According to Varonis Threat Labs, the vulnerability exploits Rovo’s handling of URL-supplied prompts, enabling attackers to inject malicious instructions into an authenticated user’s AI session. The attack does not require traditional…
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North Korean Hackers Explore AI Transcription for Stolen Calls and Meetings
Tags: ai, breach, cyber, hacker, intelligence, korea, malicious, north-korea, phishing, powershell, spear-phishing, windowsNorth Korea-linked Kimsuky operators are expanding their artificial intelligence capabilities, with newly observed evidence showing experimentation with local large language models. Retrieval-augmented generation, AI agents, and speech-to-text tooling that could accelerate analysis of stolen calls, meetings, and documents. The operation retains Kimsuky’s established use of spear-phishing lures, malicious Windows shortcut files, PowerShell loaders, and Git-based…
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Solidity Pro VS Code Extensions Steal Crypto Wallets, API Keys, and Credentials
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a malicious Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extension named Solidity Pro (“solidity-pro”) that has been observed delivering a browser wallet and credential stealer.The names of the extensions are below – helper-beeps.solidity-pro web3devtoolsx.solidity-proAlthough neither of the extensions is now available on Open VSX, the GitHub repository First seen on thehackernews.com Jump…
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Hackers breach TrueConf to trojanize client installers with backdoors
The Head Mare hacktivist group has been exploiting vulnerabilities in unpatched TrueConf video conferencing servers to replace client installers with malicious versions that deliver backdoors. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-breach-trueconf-to-trojanize-client-installers-with-backdoors/
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Russian Hackers Use AI Slopsquatting to Publish 700+ Malicious npm Packages
A large-scale supply chain attack has hit the npm registry, with a suspected Russian threat actor publishing more than 700 malicious packages in just 48 hours. Researcher Paul McCarty documented the campaign, tracked as WEL1DROPPER, and the package count has since grown past 1,000. WEL1DROPPER marks an evolution in AI slopsquatting, where attackers register randomly…
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AI coding tools vulnerable to malicious GitHub issues
First seen on scworld.com Jump to article: www.scworld.com/brief/ai-coding-tools-vulnerable-to-malicious-github-issues
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AI Phishing Now Frighteningly Normal, Hard to Detect
StrongestLayer’s Alan LeFort on Personalization, Evasion and First-Seen Attacks. AI-generated phishing no longer looks unusual or obviously malicious, lending legacy filters ineffective. StrongestLayer CEO Alan LeFort explains how personalization, trusted infrastructure and evasion techniques are making first-seen attacks harder to detect. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/ai-phishing-now-frighteningly-normal-hard-to-detect-a-32466
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Nearly 800 Malicious npm Packages Deliver Cross-Platform RAT and Infostealer
A cluster of nearly 800 malicious packages has been published to the npm registry as part of a new campaign designed to deliver cross-platform malware targeting Windows, Mac, and Linux systems.”These packages appear to use AI slop squatted, or randomly generated typo-squatting package names, but all of them deliver a powerful RAT and infostealer payload,”…
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ThreatLabz 2026 Report: Frontier AI and Enterprise Readiness
Tags: access, ai, attack, authentication, breach, cisa, ciso, control, credentials, cyberattack, data, data-breach, endpoint, exploit, flaw, governance, identity, Internet, kev, login, malicious, privacy, radius, resilience, strategy, switch, threat, update, vpn, vulnerability, zero-trustThe BreachIt was 9:14 AM when the CISO’s VPN connection momentarily dropped, something that normally wouldn’t cause any concern. What he couldn’t see was that attackers had already exploited a pre-authentication flaw in the VPN appliance itself, gaining access before any login ever occurred. From there, they extracted stored credentials, forged an identity as his…
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ThreatLabz 2026 Report: Frontier AI and Enterprise Readiness
Tags: access, ai, attack, authentication, breach, cisa, ciso, control, credentials, cyberattack, data, data-breach, endpoint, exploit, flaw, governance, identity, Internet, kev, login, malicious, privacy, radius, resilience, strategy, switch, threat, update, vpn, vulnerability, zero-trustThe BreachIt was 9:14 AM when the CISO’s VPN connection momentarily dropped, something that normally wouldn’t cause any concern. What he couldn’t see was that attackers had already exploited a pre-authentication flaw in the VPN appliance itself, gaining access before any login ever occurred. From there, they extracted stored credentials, forged an identity as his…
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Claude Code RCE Flaw Lets Malicious Pull Requests Execute Code on Developer Systems
A malicious pull request has the potential to turn Claude Code’s project-scoped Model Context Protocol (MCP) configuration into a trigger for code execution, which could expose developer secrets before a reviewer has a chance to evaluate the code. Anthropic reportedly aligns this behavior with its workspace trust model, establishing the security boundary at the initial…
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Microsoft 365 AitM Phishing Hijacks Accounts to Collect Payroll and Finance Emails
Cybersecurity researchers have called attention to an active “widespread email-driven phishing campaign” that employs adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) techniques to take control of Microsoft 365 accounts with an aim to identify key personnel involved in financial workflows and gather related email.”The campaign uses residential proxies to disguise malicious sign-ins as ordinary consumer traffic, First seen on thehackernews.com…
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Hackers Can Abuse Microsoft WSUS Servers to Deploy Malicious Updates via NTLM Relay
Security researchers have shown how attackers could exploit Microsoft Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) infrastructure to distribute malicious software updates across enterprise networks. This technique relies on NTLM authentication coercion and relay attacks targeting WSUS deployments that utilize a separate Microsoft SQL Server database. WSUS is commonly used by organizations to centrally manage, approve, and…
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Top 10 Best External Attack Surface Management (EASM) Platforms 2026
In the sprawling digital ecosystem of 2026, organizations grapple with an increasingly complex and often poorly understood external attack surface. This attack surface encompasses all internet-facing assets that are discoverable and potentially exploitable by malicious actors. These assets extend far beyond traditional network perimeters to include cloud resources, web applications, APIs, orphaned infrastructure, exposed databases,…
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China-linked LightSpy spyware caught targeting victims in 13 countries, including the US
Researchers linked the latest malicious activity to a Chinese company, after one of the spyware’s operators placed an order with KFC using their real name and office address. First seen on techcrunch.com Jump to article: techcrunch.com/2026/08/06/china-linked-lightspy-spyware-caught-targeting-victims-in-13-countries-including-the-us/