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- Lunex Stealer Abuses AMD Driver to Disable Security Monitoring and Steal Browser Credentialsby info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) on September 26, 2026 at 6:22 pm
The Psychedelic Stealer malware distributed via compromised Ukrainian websites using ClickFix-style Cloudflare verification checks is part of a wider malware-as-a-service (MaaS) platform called Lunex. The new findings come from Ontinue, which described the activity as a four-stage attack chain aimed at targeting Ukrainian-speaking users. “The attack chain begins with a fake CAPTCHA page and
- Attackers Bypass WAFs to Exploit Oracle PeopleSoft Flaw and Deploy Web Shellsby info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) on September 26, 2026 at 11:46 am
Google is warning of renewed mass exploitation of a known security vulnerability in Oracle PeopleSoft as part of a campaign targeting multiple sectors globally. The ShinyHunters-linked activity involves the weaponization of CVE-2026-35273 (CVSS score: 9.8), a critical security flaw that could result in unauthenticated remote code execution. The vulnerability was first exploited as a zero-day
- Zero Trust for AI Agents Starts With Fixing Zero Visibilityby info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) on September 26, 2026 at 10:30 am
The way we talk about AI agents is shifting, and the way we implement them requires an even more fundamental shift. While earlier discourse focused on how quickly organizations could stand up agents and how much productivity they could promise, a string of recent incidents, including a widely discussed intrusion at Hugging Face during an evaluation of OpenAI agents, has spurred organizations to
- Elementor CSRF Flaw Lets Attackers Take Over Sites After Admin Clicks Crafted Linkby info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) on September 26, 2026 at 9:55 am
Details have emerged about a high-severity security flaw in the Elementor Website Builder WordPress plugin that could be exploited by an unauthenticated attacker to create rogue administrator accounts and take control of a site. The cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability, which has yet to be assigned a CVE identifier, carries a CVSS score of 8.8 out of 10.0. It only affects versions
- SharePoint RCE and MikroTik RouterOS Flaws Actively Exploited in the Wildby info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) on September 26, 2026 at 8:49 am
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added two security flaws impacting Microsoft SharePoint and Mikrotik RouterOS to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerabilities in question are as follows – CVE-2026-65660 (CVSS score: 8.8) – A code injection vulnerability in Microsoft Office SharePoint
- Kiteworks Urges Customers to Shut Down Systems for 9 Hours Over Possible Cyber Attackby info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) on September 26, 2026 at 7:48 am
Kiteworks (formerly Accellion) is urging customers to shut down their systems as a precautionary measure for nine hours over the weekend after it received threat intelligence about an imminent cyber attack. “Kiteworks received credible threat intelligence from federal intelligence authorities indicating that a threat actor may attempt to target some Kiteworks systems,” said Frank Balonis, Chief
- Compromised GitHub Actions Came Back Online and Resumed Executing Mini Shai-Hulud Malwareby info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) on September 25, 2026 at 2:44 pm
Two actions-cool GitHub Actions have been disabled for a second time after the repositories became accessible last week, months after they were compromised during the May 2026 Mini Shai-Hulud campaign. The affected GitHub Actions are listed below – actions-cool/issues-helper actions-cool/maintain-one-comment Visiting either of the repositories now shows the message: “Access to this
- PamStealer macOS Malware Adds Live C2 Payload Decryption and Multi-Layer Persistenceby info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) on September 25, 2026 at 1:18 pm
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new version of PamStealer that ensures that the main payload can only be recovered using a server-side decryption chain. The latest artifacts, per Jamf Threat Labs, continue to rely on the same JavaScript for Automation (JXA) dropper mechanism, but modify the lure and the delivery method. “Where earlier variants embedded their payload key material
- The SOC Doesn’t Need to Start Over with Every Alertby info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) on September 25, 2026 at 11:30 am
Security leaders keep debating whether AI will produce an entirely new class of cyberattack. The nearer change is quieter and already visible: AI has made a failed attack cheap to retry. The routine version looks like this. An attacker lands on a low-privilege cloud account, and the first try at privilege escalation goes nowhere. That dead end used to cost hours of documentation reading,
- Bitget Says Suspected North Korean Hackers Stole $351.6M After Backend Compromiseby info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) on September 25, 2026 at 10:35 am
Cryptocurrency exchange Bitget said suspected North Korean threat actors have stolen $351.6 million from its hot and warm wallets. “At 18:31 UTC on September 24, 2026, Bitget’s security systems identified unauthorized transfers involving a limited number of hot wallets,” BitGet said in a post shared on X. “Bitget’s cold wallets and the overwhelming majority of platform assets remain
- Roundcube Pre-Auth SQL Injection Flaw Actively Exploited in the Wildby info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) on September 25, 2026 at 10:14 am
The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security has warned that a now-patched Roundcube Webmail vulnerability is being actively exploited in the wild. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-48842 (CVSS score: 8.1), a pre-authentication SQL injection in the virtuser_query plugin of Roundcube Webmail versions 1.6.x before 1.6.16 and 1.7.x before 1.7.1. The issue stems from a preg_replace() backslash
- Cloudflare Fixes Flaw That Let One Container Read Another Customer’s Leftover Disk Databy info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) on September 25, 2026 at 4:49 am
A flaw in Cloudflare Containers let a paying customer read data that other customers’ containers had left behind on the same server, Cloudflare and the researchers who found it said on Thursday. The data came from disk space that earlier containers had used and given up, not from any live workload, and an attacker could not choose whose data they got, according to Cloudflare. The company











