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hackernews May 04, 2026 at 11:58

2026: The Year of AI-Assisted Attacks

On December 4, 2025, a 17-year-old was arrested in Osaka under Japan’s Unauthorized Access Prohibition Act. The young man had run malicious code to extract the personal data of over 7 million users of Kaikatsu Club, Japan's largest internet cafe chain. When asked, the young man shared his motivation for the hack: he wanted to buy Pokémon cards. In a sense, this is a fairly conventional story.

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hackernews May 04, 2026 at 11:57

Silver Fox Deploys ABCDoor Malware via Tax-Themed Phishing in India and Russia

The China-based cybercrime group known as Silver Fox has been linked to a new campaign targeting organizations in Russia and India with a new malware called ABCDoor. The activity involved using phishing emails that mimic correspondence from the Income Tax Department of India in December 2025, followed by a similar campaign aimed at Russian entities. "Both waves followed a nearly identical

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hackernews May 04, 2026 at 09:27

Critical cPanel Vulnerability Weaponized to Target Government and MSP Networks

A previously unknown threat actor has been observed targeting government and military entities in Southeast Asia, alongside a smaller cluster of managed service providers (MSPs) and hosting providers in the Philippines, Laos, Canada, South Africa, and the U.S., by exploiting the recently disclosed vulnerability in cPanel. The activity, detected by Ctrl-Alt-Intel on May 2, 2026, involves the

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hackernews May 04, 2026 at 05:59

Global Crackdown Arrests 276, Shuts 9 Crypto Scam Centers, Seizes $701M

A coordinated international operation involving U.S. and Chinese authorities has arrested at least 276 suspects and shut down nine scam centers used for cryptocurrency investment fraud schemes targeting Americans, resulting in millions of dollars in losses. The crackdown was led by the Dubai Police, under the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Ministry of Interior, in partnership with the U.S. Federal

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hackernews May 03, 2026 at 06:26

CISA Adds Actively Exploited Linux Root Access Bug CVE-2026-31431 to KEV

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added a recently disclosed security flaw impacting various Linux distributions to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-31431 (CVSS score: 7.8), is a case of local privilege escalation (LPE) flaw that could allow an

Related CVEs: CVE-2026-31431

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hackernews May 02, 2026 at 06:41

Trellix Confirms Source Code Breach With Unauthorized Repository Access

Cybersecurity company Trellix has announced that it suffered a breach that enabled unauthorized access to a "portion" of its source code. It said it "recently identified" the compromise of its source code repository and that it began working with "leading forensic experts" to resolve the matter immediately. It also said it has notified law enforcement of the matter. Trellix did not disclose the

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hackernews May 01, 2026 at 18:09

30,000 Facebook Accounts Hacked via Google AppSheet Phishing Campaign

A newly discovered Vietnamese-linked operation has been observed using a Google AppSheet as a "phishing relay" to distribute phishing emails with an aim to compromise Facebook accounts. The activity has been codenamed AccountDumpling by Guardio, with the scheme selling the stolen accounts back through an illicit storefront run by the threat actors. In all, roughly 30,000 Facebook accounts are

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hackernews May 01, 2026 at 14:26

Cybercrime Groups Using Vishing and SSO Abuse in Rapid SaaS Extortion Attacks

Cybersecurity researchers are warning of two cybercrime groups that are carrying out "rapid, high-impact attacks" operating almost within the confines of SaaS environments, while leaving minimal traces of their actions. The clusters, Cordial Spider (aka BlackFile, CL-CRI-1116, O-UNC-045, and UNC6671) and Snarky Spider (aka O-UNC-025 and UNC6661), have been attributed to high-speed data theft and

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hackernews May 01, 2026 at 14:02

China-Linked Hackers Target Asian Governments, NATO State, Journalists, and Activists

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new China-aligned espionage campaign targeting government and defense sectors across South, East, and Southeast Asia, along with one European government belonging to NATO. Trend Micro has attributed the activity to a threat activity cluster it tracks under the temporary designation SHADOW-EARTH-053. The adversarial collective is assessed to

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hackernews May 01, 2026 at 10:30

Top Five Sales Challenges Costing MSPs Cybersecurity Revenue

The managed security services market is projected to grow from $38.31 billion in 2025 to $69.16 billion by 2030[1], with cybersecurity being the fastest-growing sector[2]. Despite this opportunity, many MSPs leave revenue on the table because their go-to-market strategy fails to connect technical expertise with business needs. This execution gap is where most deals stall. MSPs often focus on

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hackernews May 01, 2026 at 09:56

Two Cybersecurity Professionals Get 4-Year Sentences in BlackCat Ransomware Attacks

The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Thursday announced the sentencing of two cybersecurity professionals to four years each in prison for their role in facilitating BlackCat ransomware attacks in 2023. Ryan Goldberg, 40, of Georgia, and Kevin Martin, 36, of Texas, were accused of deploying the ransomware against multiple victims located throughout the U.S. between April and December 2023.

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hackernews May 01, 2026 at 09:43

Poisoned Ruby Gems and Go Modules Exploit CI Pipelines for Credential Theft

A new software supply chain attack campaign has been observed using sleeper packages as a conduit to subsequently push malicious payloads that enabled credential theft, GitHub Actions tampering, and SSH persistence. The activity has been attributed to the GitHub account "BufferZoneCorp," which has published a set of repositories that are associated with malicious Ruby gems and Go modules. As of

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hackernews Apr 30, 2026 at 16:31

PyTorch Lightning Compromised in PyPI Supply Chain Attack to Steal Credentials

In yet another software supply chain attack, threat actors have managed to compromise the popular Python package Lightning to push two malicious versions to conduct credential theft. According to Aikido Security, Socket, and StepSecurity, the two malicious versions are versions 2.6.2 and 2.6.3, both of which were published on April 30, 2026. The campaign is assessed to be an extension of the

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hackernews Apr 30, 2026 at 13:55

ThreatsDay Bulletin: SMS Blaster Busts, OpenEMR Flaws, 600K Roblox Hacks and 25 More Stories

The internet is noisy this week. We are seeing some wild new tactics, like people using fake cell towers to send scam texts, while some developers are accidentally downloading tools that peek into their private files during a simple install. It is definitely a busy time to be online. Security is always a moving target. Millions of servers are currently sitting online without any passwords, and

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hackernews Apr 30, 2026 at 12:36

New Python Backdoor Uses Tunneling Service to Steal Browser and Cloud Credentials

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a stealthy Python-based backdoor framework called DEEP#DOOR that comes with capabilities to establish persistent access and harvest a wide range of sensitive information from compromised hosts. "The intrusion chain begins with execution of a batch script ('install_obf.bat') that disables Windows security controls, dynamically extracts an

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hackernews Apr 30, 2026 at 11:30

EtherRAT Distribution Spoofing Administrative Tools via GitHub Facades

Intro A sophisticated, high-resilience malicious campaign was identified by Atos Threat Research Center (TRC) in March 2026. This operation specifically targets the high-privilege professional accounts of enterprise administrators, DevOps engineers, and security analysts by impersonating administrative utilities they rely on for daily operations. By integrating Search Engine Order (SEO)

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hackernews Apr 30, 2026 at 09:24

New Linux 'Copy Fail' Vulnerability Enables Root Access on Major Distributions

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a Linux local privilege escalation (LPE) flaw that could allow an unprivileged local user to obtain root. The high-severity vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-31431 (CVSS score: 7.8) has been codenamed Copy Fail by Xint.io and Theori. "An unprivileged local user can write four controlled bytes into the page cache of any readable file on a Linux

Related CVEs: CVE-2026-31431

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hackernews Apr 30, 2026 at 07:07

Google Fixes CVSS 10 Gemini CLI CI RCE and Cursor Flaws Enable Code Execution

Google has addressed a maximum severity security flaw in Gemini CLI -- the "@google/gemini-cli" npm package and the "google-github-actions/run-gemini-cli" GitHub Actions workflow -- that could have allowed attackers to execute arbitrary commands on host systems. "The vulnerability allowed an unprivileged external attacker to force their own malicious content to load as Gemini configuration,"

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hackernews Apr 29, 2026 at 16:26

SAP npm Packages Compromised by “Mini Shai-Hulud” Credential-Stealing Malware

Cybersecurity researchers are sounding the alarm about a new supply chain attack campaign targeting SAP-related npm Packages with credential-stealing malware. According to reports from Aikido Security, SafeDep, Socket, StepSecurity, and Google-owned Wiz, the campaign – calling itself the mini Shai-Hulud – has affected the following packages associated with SAP's JavaScript and cloud application

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hackernews Apr 29, 2026 at 14:43

New Wave of DPRK Attacks Uses AI-Inserted npm Malware, Fake Firms, and RATs

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered malicious code in an npm package after a malicious package as a dependency to the project by Anthropic's Claude Opus large language model (LLM). The package in question is "@validate-sdk/v2," which is listed on npm as a utility software development kit (SDK) for hashing, validation, encoding/decoding, and secure random generation. However, its real

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