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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 Read More …
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 Read More …
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 Read More …
Hackers are targeting Signal users in an attempt to steal their chat backups as part of a new hacking campaign, TechCrunch has learned. On Wednesday, Washington Post analyst Josh Rogin posted a screenshot of a new kind of attack against Read More …
Carnival Corporation – the world’s largest cruise operator – has confirmed a digital heist, a month after hacking crew ShinyHunters claimed to have stolen millions of customers’ records. The breach, Carnival confirmed, stemmed from an April 14 social engineering attack Read More …
A critical command injection vulnerability has been discovered in Universal Robots PolyScope 5, the operating system whucg powers the company’s collaborative robots. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-8153, carries a CVSS score of 9.8 and affects all software versions prior to PolyScope 5.25.1. Read More …
Unit 42 researchers have observed evidence of cyberattacks by the Iran-nexus advanced persistent threat (APT) group Screening Serpens (aka UNC1549, Smoke Sandstorm and Iranian Dream Job). Based on Unite 42 visibility, researchers believe that the group targeted entities in the U.S., Read More …
GitHub, the world’s biggest code repository and DevOps platform, fell victim to a malicious Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extension. The company’s initial assessment is that only internal repositories were exfiltrated. The incident was reported by GitHub on X, with follow-up Read More …
SophosLabs analysts investigated WantToCry ransomware attacks that involved the threat actors abusing the Server Message Block (SMB) service for initial access and then exfiltrating files to attacker-controlled infrastructure for remote encryption. The detection surface is significantly reduced because WantToCry operates Read More …
Exploit attempts are already hammering a newly disclosed NGINX bug dubbed “NGINX Rift,” proving once again that attackers read patch notes faster than most admins. Researchers at VulnCheck said they are seeing active exploitation tied to CVE-2026-42945, a heap buffer overflow flaw Read More …
