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GlassWorm Malware Takedown Disrupts Developer Supply Chain Attack Infrastructure
CrowdStrike, in partnership with Google and the Shadowserver Foundation, has announced the simultaneous disruption of all command-and-control (C2) channels associated with GlassWorm, a persistent software chain campaign targeting software developers through malicious packages and extensions.
"Since at least early 2025, GlassWorm operators have systematically targeted software developers, a
3 SOC Steps that Shut Down Incident Risks Early
Most organizations still picture cyber defense as a fortress problem: build stronger walls, add more guards, buy another detection engine. But modern incidents rarely crash through the front gate. They drift in disguised as routine activity, hide inside legitimate processes, and quietly accumulate risk long before anyone labels them an "incident."
That changes the role of the SOC entirely.
The
Gitea Vulnerability Exposes Private Container Images without Authentication
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a security flaw in Gitea, an open-source, self-hosted platform for version control, that allows unauthenticated remote attackers to pull private container images from Gitea deployments without requiring an account, password, or other credentials.
The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-27771 (CVSS score: 8.2), affects all versions of Gitea prior to 1.26.2
AI Chatbot Recommendations Redirect Users to Cryptojacking Malware Sites
Microsoft has warned of an active cryptojacking campaign that makes use of artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot interactions as a mechanism for surfacing malicious download sites.
"This emerging delivery technique extends social engineering beyond conventional search results and increases the visibility of malicious software recommendations," Microsoft Defender Experts and the Microsoft
Internet Starts to Return in Iran After 3-Month Blackout
Some internet connectivity is returning in Iran after nearly 90 days offline, web monitoring groups say. But it isn’t clear if the reconnection is permanent.
MuddyWater Uses DLL Side-Loading in Espionage Campaign Targeting 9 Countries
The Iranian hacking group known as MuddyWater has been linked to a new campaign affecting at least nine organizations across nine countries on four continents in the first quarter of 2026.
The activity targeted industrial and electronics manufacturing, education and public-sector bodies, financial services, and professional services, per the Threat Hunter Team from Symantec and Carbon Black.
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[THN Webinar] New AI DDoS Attacks Are Smarter. Learn How to Fight Back
Every single day, hackers are finding new ways to crash websites and steal data.
But right now, something has changed. Hackers are no longer working alone. They are now using powerful Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools to make their attacks faster, stronger, and much harder to stop.
According to recent updates from The Hacker News, bad actors are using AI to find weak spots in systems and
Microsoft Patches SharePoint RCE Flaw CVE-2026-45659 Across Server Versions
Microsoft has rolled out updates to fix a remote code execution vulnerability impacting SharePoint that could be exploited by bad actors in attacks without requiring any specialized conditions to be met.
The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-45659, carries a CVSS score of 8.8. It has been assigned an important severity.
"Deserialization of untrusted data in Microsoft Office SharePoint allows
MFA Prompt Bombing: Why Your Second Factor Isn't Saving You
Multi-factor authentication (MFA) was supposed to close a critical gap in identity security. It meant that, even if an attacker possessed the account credentials, they couldn't log in without the second factor. While that logic was sound, attackers have now figured out that they don't need to steal the second factor: they just need the user to hand it over.
If your workforce authenticates with
US Law Enforcement Warns of ‘Anti-Tech Extremism’ as AI Hatred Grows
As Americans stew over the looming risk of job-stealing AI and data centers in their back yards, the feds are raising the alarm about a new category of threat, documents obtained by WIRED show.
CERT-In Recommends 12-Hour Patching for Internet-Facing Flaws Amid AI-Assisted Attacks
The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) has issued new guidelines requiring organizations to patch critical security vulnerabilities in internet-exposed systems within 12 hours of being flagged where "feasible" to safeguard against potential threats stemming from threat actors' abuse of artificial intelligence (AI) tools and large language models (LLMs) to automate vulnerability
Iranian Hackers Deploy MiniFast and MiniJunk V2 via Phishing and SEO Poisoning
The Iranian state-sponsored threat actor known as Nimbus Manticore (aka Screening Serpens and UNC1549) has been attributed to a fresh campaign using lures impersonating organizations in the aviation and software sectors across the U.S., Europe, and the Middle East following the joint U.S.-Israeli military campaign against the country in late February 2026.
The activity, besides embracing
KnowledgeDeliver LMS Flaw Exploited to Deploy Godzilla and Cobalt Strike
A now-patched high-severity security flaw affecting Digital Knowledge KnowledgeDeliver, a Learning Management System (LMS) popular in Japan, was exploited as a zero-day to deliver the Godzilla web shell and ultimately facilitate the deployment of Cobalt Strike Beacon.
The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-5426 (CVSS score: 7.5), stems from the use of hard-coded ASP.NET machine keys, leading to
⚡ Weekly Recap: Linux Flaws, Defender 0-Days, Router Botnets, and Supply Chain Chaos
Monday recap. Same mess, new week.
A sketchy dev tool got people pwned, old bugs came back from the dead, and security products somehow needed protecting from themselves. A bunch of companies spent the week checking old boxes and forgotten servers they should've patched years ago. Good times.
Phishing crews are getting smarter too - less obvious scam junk, more targeted stuff that actually
Ghost CMS CVE-2026-26980 Exploited to Hijack 700+ Sites for ClickFix Attacks
Threat actors are exploiting a recently disclosed critical security flaw in Ghost CMS to inject malicious JavaScript code with an aim to fuel ClickFix attacks.
According to QiAnXin XLab, the activity involves the exploitation of CVE-2026-26980 (CVSS score: 9.4), an SQL injection vulnerability in Ghost's Content API that could allow an unauthenticated attacker to read arbitrary data from the