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hackernews Jun 06, 2026 at 08:29

Free Apps Are Quietly Turning Smart TVs Into Web-Scraping Proxies for AI

A researcher has reverse-engineered the iOS SDK that Bright Data embeds in consumer apps and documented how it turns devices, including always-on smart TVs, into exit nodes that relay web-scraping traffic for a data business Bright Data markets heavily to the AI industry. The company, the successor to Luminati, operates what it calls the largest residential proxy network in the world,

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hackernews Jun 06, 2026 at 08:14

CISA Adds Actively Exploited SolarWinds Serv-U DoS Flaw to KEV Catalog

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a high-severity security flaw impacting SolarWinds Serv-U multi-protocol file server software to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-28318 (CVSS score: 7.5), is a denial-of-service (DoS) bug that causes the service to crash

Related CVEs: CVE-2026-28318

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hackernews Jun 06, 2026 at 07:28

AI Agent Uncovers 21 Zero-Days in FFmpeg; Chrome Patches Record 429 Bugs

Two things landed within days of each other this week. A security startup reported 21 previously unknown vulnerabilities in FFmpeg, the media library inside almost everything that touches video, all of them found by an autonomous AI agent. The same week, Google shipped Chrome 149 with patches for 429 security bugs, the most ever in a single release. Only the FFmpeg bugs were found by AI.

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hackernews Jun 06, 2026 at 06:58

Miasma Worm Hits 73 Microsoft GitHub Repositories in Major Supply Chain Attack

Microsoft's GitHub repositories have become the latest to fall victim to the ongoing Miasma self-replicating supply chain attack campaign. The incident impacted 73 Microsoft repositories across four of its GitHub organizations, including Azure, Azure-Samples, Microsoft, and MicrosoftDocs, per OpenSourceMalware. The development has GitHub to disable access to those repositories. "Access to this

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hackernews Jun 06, 2026 at 04:19

Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager CVE-2026-20245 Flaw Actively Exploited – No Patch Available

Cisco has warned that a high-severity security flaw impacting Catalyst SD-WAN Manager has come under active exploitation. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-20245, carries a CVSS score of 7.8 out of a maximum of 10.0. It affects the following deployment types - On-Prem Deployment Cisco SD-WAN Cloud-Pro Cisco SD-WAN Cloud (Cisco Managed) Cisco SD-WAN for Government (FedRAMP) "A

Related CVEs: CVE-2026-20245

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hackernews Jun 05, 2026 at 18:05

IronWorm and New Miasma Worm Variant Hit npm in Supply Chain Attacks

Multiple software supply chain attacks have hit the npm ecosystem, with threat actors using both malicious and poisoned versions of over 50 legitimate packages to distribute a Rust-based information stealer and a self-spreading worm, respectively. According to JFrog, the information stealer "scrapes every secret it can find on a developer's machine, hides behind an eBPF kernel rootkit, and

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hackernews Jun 05, 2026 at 14:53

Android Spyware Asin Targets Arabic Users via Fake News, PDF and War Map Apps

Arabic-speaking users have emerged as the target of a new Android spyware codenamed Asin, according to findings from ESET. The Slovakian cybersecurity company said it first detected the malware spread via multiple campaigns in early 2025, with each attack wave making use of distinct websites mimicking utilities, war-related updates, and a government news source: govlens[.]net, which

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hackernews Jun 05, 2026 at 12:33

New Threat Cluster OP-512 Targets Microsoft IIS Servers with Custom Web Shell Framework

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a previously unreported threat cluster dubbed OP-512 that has been observed targeting Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) servers to deploy a bespoke web shell framework. ReliaQuest has assessed with moderate to high confidence that the espionage-focused activity is linked to China. "OP-512 was highly likely conducting espionage through a

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hackernews Jun 05, 2026 at 11:20

Only 10% of SOCs Say They’re Getting Excellent Value From AI. Here’s What the Second Wave Has to Deliver

Eighteen months ago, the AI SOC was a marketing line. Today it's a budget item. The category has crossed over from interesting to inevitable, with billions of dollars now flowing into AI-powered security operations platforms, agentic SOC tools, and AI co-pilots built into every layer of the security stack. The data shows SOCs are buying, deploying, and standing up AI capabilities at the fastest

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hackernews Jun 05, 2026 at 08:38

Hackers Exploit Critical Everest Forms Pro WordPress Plugin Flaw to Take Over Sites

Threat actors are actively exploiting a critical security flaw in Everest Forms Pro, a WordPress plugin with about 4,000 active installations, to execute arbitrary code, leading to a complete site compromise. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-3300 (CVSS score: 9.8), a remote code execution bug impacting all versions of the plugin up to, and including, 1.9.12. A patch for the flaw was

Related CVEs: CVE-2026-3300

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hackernews Jun 05, 2026 at 07:01

FIFA World Cup 2026 Scams Are Already Live: Fake Sites, Banking Malware, and Stolen Logins

Security researchers and the FBI are warning that a wave of FIFA-themed fraud is already hitting World Cup 2026 fans, days before the June 11 kickoff. Recent reports describe thousands of lookalike FIFA domains, banking malware hidden inside pirate streaming apps, and at least one operation that copies FIFA's login page well enough to take over real accounts. It is an obvious target. More than

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hackernews Jun 05, 2026 at 05:34

PCPJack Hijacks 230 AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure Servers for Covert SMTP Relay Network

The threat actor known as PCPJack has hijacked cloud servers associated with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure to create a covert SMTP email relay network. "Compromised business servers across the U.S., Europe, and Asia were quietly converted into SMTP proxies, verified for mail relay capability, and synced to a downstream consumer every five minutes," Hunt.io said in

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hackernews Jun 04, 2026 at 16:55

Cisco Patches CVE-2026-20230 in Unified CM as Exploit Code Goes Public

Cisco has patched a bug in Unified Communications Manager that lets an unauthenticated attacker on the network write files to the box and, from there, climb to root. It is tracked as CVE-2026-20230, and proof-of-concept exploit code is already public. Cisco's PSIRT says it has not seen the flaw used in attacks yet. The PoC shortens that runway. The flaw is a server-side request forgery.

Related CVEs: CVE-2026-20230

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hackernews Jun 04, 2026 at 15:15

Claude Code GitHub Action Flaw Let One Malicious Issue Hijack Repositories

A security researcher found a flaw in Anthropic's Claude Code GitHub Action that let an attacker take over vulnerable public repositories running it, with nothing more than a single opened GitHub issue. Because Anthropic's own action repo used the same workflow, a working attack could have pushed malicious code into the action itself and onto the projects downstream that pull it. RyotaK of GMO

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hackernews Jun 04, 2026 at 15:10

Agentic AI Is Transforming Defense, But Only Secure IT Infrastructure Will Maximize It

Over the past several weeks, the cybersecurity community has been reminded how quickly frontier and agentic AI in defense networks can challenge our assumptions. When Anthropic's Claude Mythos model was made available to a limited set of organizations as a technical preview, it was reported that an unauthorized group claimed that it had gained access within hours. The incident, if true, was

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hackernews Jun 04, 2026 at 14:00

ThreatsDay Bulletin: AI Agents Gone Wrong, Sketchy C2 Tools, ClickFix Tricks, JS Backdoors & 20+ New Stories

It got stupid again. The internet still feels held together with tape. Bad plugins, old bugs, fake tools, trusted apps doing shady things. Same mess, new wrapper. And now the weird stuff is normal. Forums go down and come back worse. Cheap hackers get better toys. AI starts breaking real systems. Great. Read the whole thing before it ruins your week anyway. Unauthenticated

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hackernews Jun 04, 2026 at 12:22

China-Linked TA4922 Expands Phishing Attacks to UK, Germany, Italy, and South Africa

A new China-linked cybercrime group known as TA4922 has expanded its targeting focus to target European organizations in the U.K., Germany, Italy, and South Africa. These efforts have been complemented by a "rapid operational tempo" and a continually evolving malware arsenal comprising known families like ValleyRAT (aka Winos 4.0) and Atlas RAT (aka AtlasCross RAT), as well as previously

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hackernews Jun 04, 2026 at 11:19

FlutterShell Backdoor Spreads to macOS via Malicious Google and YouTube Ads

Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a macOS malvertising campaign codenamed Operation FlutterBridge that spreads a new backdoor called FlutterShell. According to Palo Alto Networks Unit 42, the campaign is said to be the next stage of a previously reported activity cluster dubbed JSCoreRunner (aka FileRipple) in late August 2025. The cybercrime group behind the two attack chains is

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hackernews Jun 04, 2026 at 09:51

Fake Sites Mimicking Open-Source Tools Rank High on Google to Deliver Malware via TDS

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a large-scale operation that impersonates open-source and freeware projects to funnel unsuspecting users through a Traffic Distribution System (TDS) and deliver malware families like Remus Stealer, AnimateClipper, and the SessionGate framework. "The sites are well-designed and often look like legitimate project portals at a glance, sometimes referencing

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hackernews Jun 04, 2026 at 09:33

Hackers Spied on a Stock Exchange Executive's Outlook Mailbox for Five Months

Unknown attackers spent at least five months inside the Outlook mailbox of a senior executive at a major global stock exchange, copying the inbox out in small, repeated batches and routing it through Dropbox and OneDrive so the traffic blended into normal cloud activity. Symantec and Carbon Black's Threat Hunter Team reported the campaign this week. This points to espionage, not a money grab:

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