- Password manager Dashlane says hackers stole some customers’ password vaults
June 2, 2026
Password manager maker Dashlane says hackers have obtained at least a dozen encrypted vaults used for storing customer passwords during a weekend cyberattack. The company said on its website that hackers brute-forced the company’s two-factor authentication system, granting the hackers access to about 20 customer accounts. By defeating its two-factor mechanism, the hackers were able to download a copy of ...
- Operation FlutterBridge: macOS Malvertising Campaign Spreads New FlutterShell Backdoor
June 2, 2026
Palo Alto Unit 42 are tracking an increasingly widespread malvertising campaign targeting macOS. This campaign appears to be the next stage of a previous campaign known as JSCoreRunner, which was first identified in August 2025. In recent months, the financially-motivated attackers behind these campaigns transitioned from delivering standard adware, to delivering adware with full backdoor ...
- Russian spy agency says foreign spies turned officials’ smartphones into surveillance devices
June 2, 2026
Russia’s domestic spy agency says it has uncovered a sprawling foreign espionage operation that allegedly turned the smartphones of senior Russian officials into pocket-sized surveillance devices, though it has so far offered little in the way of evidence. In a statement Tuesday, the Federal Security Service (FSB) claimed foreign intelligence agencies implanted malware on the mobile devices ...
- Fake virus alerts are invading mobile games
June 2, 2026
Sometimes it happens. You’re happily playing a game on your phone or laptop when suddenly alarms pop up out of nowhere: “Your device is infected!” “Your iCloud is full!” “Your account is restricted for watching porn!” Some games can be played for free if you agree to watch ads, and in others you can get extra lives, perks, or ...
- Palo Alto VPN bug graduates from advisory to active exploitation
June 1, 2026
Palo Alto customers are being been told to patch yet another internet-facing security flaw after researchers caught attackers bypassing GlobalProtect authentication and gaining unauthorized VPN access. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-0257, affects PAN-OS deployments using GlobalProtect authentication override cookies under specific configurations. Read more… Source: The Register Sign up for the Cyber Security Review Newsletter The latest cyber security news and ...
- Grand Theft Auto V cheat service gets hacked, exposing thousands of gamers
June 1, 2026
Atlas Menu, a cheat service for popular online video game Grand Theft Auto V, has been hacked, according to data breach notification website Have I Been Pwned. The stolen data included users’ email addresses, usernames, scrambled passwords, IP addresses, and support tickets, according to Have I Been Pwned, which said almost 64,000 accounts were part of the ...
- CVE-2026-0826: How an Old Bug Can Feed AI-Powered Impersonation
June 1, 2026
Rapid7 Senior Principal Security Researcher Stephen Fewer discovered CVE-2026-0826, a critical unauthenticated stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability affecting multiple HP Poly VoIP devices. If you’ve been around vulnerability research long enough, the bug class here is going to feel very familiar. And interestingly enough, that’s exactly why it deserves attention. These older exploitation primitives never really went ...
- Containers on fire: from container escapes to supply chain attacks
June 1, 2026
Modern infrastructures universally rely on containerization to deploy applications, scale services, and build cloud platforms. The use of Docker, Kubernetes, and similar technologies has become the corporate standard for efficient automation. However, as containers grow in popularity, so does the interest of malicious actors — a trend Kaspersky actively track in our research into advanced ...
- Physical attacks on major crypto holders is on the rise as ‘Whales’ are targeted for kidnapping News
May 30, 2026
Cryptocurrency executives and whales alike are increasingly being targeted by a mix of criminal elements worldwide, even as security continues to be beefed up to protect the not-so-anonymous owners of cryptocurrency. The transparency introduced to the crypto world is putting some coin-collectors at risk of physical harm, and even kidnapping. But many are also being outed by ...
- Dutch cops wrest 17M devices from mystery botnet’s clutches
May 29, 2026
Dutch police say they dismantled a large botnet this week comprising at least 17 million infected devices. After being tipped off by a researcher at the Netherlands’ National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC-NL), police began an investigation, which resulted in the discovery of 200 servers underpinning the botnet’s infrastructure located in the country. Cybercrime specialists at The Hague ...
- No fix yet for critical RCE bug in open-source Git service Gogs – exploit module is out
May 29, 2026
There’s a huge hole and no one is patching it thus far. A critical, remote code execution (RCE) bug in Gogs, a popular open-source self-hosted Git service, can be exploited by any authenticated user – no special privileges required – on a default installation to fully compromise vulnerable servers, steal credentials and multi-factor authentication secrets, ...