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Critical CVEs & Vulnerabilities 18 items

The Hacker News2026-06-29 07:06 UTC
A public proof-of-concept is now out for CVE-2026-55200, a critical flaw in libssh2 that lets a malicious or compromised SSH server trigger memory corruption on a connecting client, with possible code execution. No credentials, no user interaction. The bug affects every release up to and including 1.11.1 and carries…
The Hacker News2026-06-26 13:57 UTC
A flaw in the Linux kernel's traffic-control subsystem can let a local unprivileged user gain root on affected systems. CVE-2026-46331, nicknamed "pedit COW," is an out-of-bounds write in the packet-editing action (act_pedit) that corrupts shared page-cache memory. A public, working exploit appeared within a day of…
The Hacker News2026-06-26 13:53 UTC
A high-severity flaw in Amazon Q Developer let a malicious repository run commands and steal a developer's cloud credentials. The path was short: a developer opens the repo, trusts the workspace, and Amazon Q does the rest. Amazon has patched it. Tracked as CVE-2026-12957 (CVSS 8.5), the bug sat in how Amazon's AI…
The Hacker News2026-06-26 12:31 UTC
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday added a critical remote code execution vulnerability impacting PTC Windchill PDMlink and PTC FlexPLM enterprise Product Data Management (PDM) and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV)…
The Hacker News2026-06-26 11:51 UTC
DirtyClone is a new Linux kernel privilege escalation in the DirtyFrag family. JFrog Security Research published a working exploit walkthrough for the flaw on June 25, the first public demonstration for this variant. Tracked as CVE-2026-43503 (CVSS 8.8), it lets a local user corrupt file-backed memory through a…
CISA KEV2026-06-25 00:00 UTC
Added to KEV 2026-06-25. Required action: Apply mitigations in accordance with vendor instructions, ensuring compliance with CISA’s BOD 26-04 Prioritizing Security Updates Based on Risk (see URL in Notes) guidance and CISA’s “Forensics Triage Requirements” (see URL in Notes). Follow applicable BOD 26-04 guidance for cloud services or…
CISA KEV2026-06-23 00:00 UTC
Added to KEV 2026-06-23. Required action: Apply mitigations in accordance with vendor instructions, ensuring compliance with CISA’s BOD 26-04 Prioritizing Security Updates Based on Risk (see URL in Notes) guidance and CISA’s “Forensics Triage Requirements” (see URL in Notes). Follow applicable BOD 26-04 guidance for cloud services or…
CISA KEV2026-06-23 00:00 UTC
Added to KEV 2026-06-23. Required action: Apply mitigations in accordance with vendor instructions, ensuring compliance with CISA’s BOD 26-04 Prioritizing Security Updates Based on Risk (see URL in Notes) guidance and CISA’s “Forensics Triage Requirements” (see URL in Notes). Follow applicable BOD 26-04 guidance for cloud services or…
CISA KEV2026-06-23 00:00 UTC
Added to KEV 2026-06-23. Required action: Apply mitigations in accordance with vendor instructions, ensuring compliance with CISA’s BOD 26-04 Prioritizing Security Updates Based on Risk (see URL in Notes) guidance and CISA’s “Forensics Triage Requirements” (see URL in Notes). Follow applicable BOD 26-04 guidance for cloud services or…
CISA KEV2026-06-16 00:00 UTC
Added to KEV 2026-06-16. Required action: Apply mitigations in accordance with vendor instructions, ensuring compliance with CISA’s BOD 26-04 Prioritizing Security Updates Based on Risk (see URL in Notes) guidance and CISA’s “Forensics Triage Requirements” (see URL in Notes). Follow applicable BOD 26-04 guidance for cloud services or…
CISA KEV2026-06-12 00:00 UTC
Added to KEV 2026-06-12. Required action: Apply mitigations in accordance with vendor instructions, ensuring compliance with CISA’s BOD 26-04 Prioritizing Security Updates Based on Risk (see URL in Notes) guidance and CISA’s “Forensics Triage Requirements” (see URL in Notes). Follow applicable BOD 26-04 guidance for cloud services or…
CISA KEV2026-06-11 00:00 UTC
Added to KEV 2026-06-11. Required action: Apply mitigations in accordance with vendor instructions, ensuring compliance with CISA’s BOD 26-04 Prioritizing Security Updates Based on Risk (see URL in Notes) guidance and CISA’s “Forensics Triage Requirements” (see URL in Notes). Follow applicable BOD 26-04 guidance for cloud services or…
Krebs on Security2026-06-09 22:07 UTC
Microsoft today released software updates to plug nearly 200 security holes across its Windows operating systems and supported software, a record number of fixes for the company's monthly Patch Tuesday cycle. Nearly three dozen of those bugs earned Microsoft's most dire "critical" rating, and exploit code for at…

Active Threats & Malware 17 items

The Hacker News2026-06-29 08:32 UTC
Microsoft has shut down a long-running malicious extension operation on the Edge Add-ons store that hid its payloads inside ordinary image and font files, then woke up days after install to steal credentials and run ad fraud. The company calls it StegoAd, a mash-up of steganography and adware, and ties 119 extensions…
The Hacker News2026-06-29 05:36 UTC
Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered two hijacked npm packages and a cluster of Go packages that are designed to deploy a Python-based information stealer on compromised Windows, Linux, and macOS hosts. "This attack avoids the most common npm execution paths through lifecycle scripts, perhaps in an attempt to…
The Hacker News2026-06-27 17:27 UTC
The Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) said it, together with the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), uncovered a long-running campaign orchestrated by Russian intelligence services to break into the messaging accounts of government officials, military personnel, politicians, and activists in Ukraine, Europe,…
Bleeping Computer2026-06-27 14:22 UTC
An agentic coding tool tasked with cloning and setting up a seemingly benign GitHub repository could execute a malicious payload that remains invisible to security scanners, AI agents, and human reviewers. [...]
Bleeping Computer2026-06-26 22:06 UTC
The FBI and CISA are warning that a phishing campaign targeting Signal users tied to Russian intelligence services has evolved to steal Signal Backup Recovery Keys, allowing attackers to access victims' historical messages. [...]
The Hacker News2026-06-26 19:38 UTC
The FBI and CISA have updated their March warning about Russian intelligence phishing Signal accounts, and the operators have added a step: they now coax targets into handing over their Signal Backup Recovery Key. Hand it over once, and the attacker can restore the account's backup, read the private and group message…
The Hacker News2026-06-26 18:17 UTC
A newly discovered cyber attack campaign has been observed delivering a previously undocumented malware family called SharkLoader that acts as a loader for deploying Cobalt Strike Beacon on compromised hosts. Kaspersky, which is tracking the activity under the moniker StrikeShark, said the campaign has targeted a…
The Hacker News2026-06-26 16:21 UTC
A Chinese-speaking advanced persistent threat (APT) actor has been linked to a new custom backdoor called TinyRCT as part of cyber attacks aimed at government entities and critical infrastructure in Southeast Asia. The activity, particularly aimed at state-owned enterprises in the energy and government sectors, has…
SecurityWeek2026-06-26 14:30 UTC
Other noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: Russia used Cellebrite to hack activist’s phone, Five Eyes issue urgent AI threat warning, macOS Gaslight backdoor, Scattered Spider guilty pleas. The post In Other News: Chinese Mythos-Like AI, Tata Electronics Breach, Snyk Layoffs appeared first on…
Bleeping Computer2026-06-25 19:45 UTC
Threat actors are increasingly abusing Shop, the order-tracking app from Shopify, by adding fake purchase receipts in users' order histories to trick them into providing sensitive data or installing remote access software. [...]
Krebs on Security2026-06-18 17:37 UTC
For the past four years, a sprawling Android-based botnet called Popa has forced millions of consumer TV boxes to relay Internet traffic linked to advertising fraud, account takeovers, and mass data-scraping efforts. This week, researchers from multiple security firms concluded that the Popa botnet is linked to…
Krebs on Security2026-06-10 14:03 UTC
A cybercrime group known as The Gentlemen has emerged as the second most active ransomware gang by victim count, rapidly attracting a talented pool of hackers through an aggressive recruitment strategy that promises affiliates 90 percent of any ransom paid by victims. This post examines clues pointing to a real life…
Krebs on Security2026-05-21 21:50 UTC
Canadian authorities on Wednesday arrested a 23-year-old Ottawa man on suspicion of building and operating Kimwolf, a fast spreading Internet-of-Things botnet that enslaved millions of devices for use in a series of massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks over the past six months. KrebsOnSecurity…

Data Breaches 6 items

Bleeping Computer2026-06-28 14:13 UTC
Japanese telecommunications operator KDDI Corporation disclosed a data breach where threat actors gained access to one of its email systems used by five other internet service providers (ISPs) in the country. [...]
Bleeping Computer2026-06-26 18:04 UTC
Polymarket says it will fully reimburse customers who lost an estimated $3 million after hackers injected a malicious script into the platform's frontend following a breach at a third-party vendor. [...]
SecurityWeek2026-06-26 15:01 UTC
Roughly two dozen companies have notified their customers of the Klue-Salesforce incident impact. The post More Klue Breach Victims Identified as Hackers Get Hacked appeared first on SecurityWeek .
Krebs on Security2026-05-22 16:34 UTC
Lawmakers in both houses of Congress are demanding answers from the U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) after KrebsOnSecurity reported this week that a CISA contractor intentionally published AWS GovCloud keys and a vast trove of other agency secrets on a public GitHub account. The inquiry…
Krebs on Security2026-05-18 20:48 UTC
Until this past weekend, a contractor for the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) maintained a public GitHub repository that exposed credentials to several highly privileged AWS GovCloud accounts and a large number of internal CISA systems. Security experts said the public archive included files…

Tools & Research 18 items

SecurityWeek2026-06-29 07:45 UTC
The company says Sol matches competing systems like Mythos Preview while using only a third of the output tokens. The post OpenAI Unveils GPT-5.6 Sol as Its Most Advanced Cybersecurity AI appeared first on SecurityWeek .
The Hacker News2026-06-27 12:19 UTC
OpenAI on Friday released three versions of GPT-5.6, called Sol, Terra, and Luna, as a limited preview to a small number of companies as part of an ongoing engagement with the U.S. government. While Sol is the latest flagship model and the most powerful, Terra strikes a balance between efficiency and power, and Luna…
SecurityWeek2026-06-27 12:13 UTC
Threat actors are selling investment scam templates created using the legitimate DCloud Uni-App toolkit. The post Chinese Framework Powers 200,000 Scam Sites appeared first on SecurityWeek .
Bleeping Computer2026-06-26 19:43 UTC
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is giving federal agencies until Sunday to patch a vulnerability in Cisco Unified Communications Manager Server that is being actively exploited. [...]
Bleeping Computer2026-06-26 14:01 UTC
AI won't replace GRC analysts, but it can eliminate much of the repetitive work they do. Anecdotes walks through building an agent that continuously monitors controls, identifies evidence gaps, and opens remediation tasks. [...]
SecurityWeek2026-06-26 12:37 UTC
The cybersecurity startup provides threat hunting, proactive detection, and behavioral security analytics. The post Nebulock Raises $25 Million for AI-Native Contextual Security appeared first on SecurityWeek .

📺 NetworkChuck Cliff Notes

2026-06-19 · watch on YouTube ↗
Shadow AI exposes companies to hidden risk as employees use unauthorized AI tools — Vanta helps security teams detect and govern rogue AI usage.
  • Shadow AI refers to unapproved AI tools employees use outside IT/security visibility
  • Unmanaged AI apps create data leakage, compliance, and supply chain risks
  • Discovery and inventory of AI tool usage is the first mitigation step
  • Vanta automates AI tool detection and risk management across the org
  • Governance policy + tooling visibility are key controls against shadow AI sprawl
2026-06-18 · watch on YouTube ↗
Live 90-min AMA for Summer of CCNA program covering certification questions from the community with NetworkChuck.
  • Live Q&A format focused on CCNA exam prep and certification strategy
  • Part of the structured Summer of CCNA course series via NetworkChuck Academy
  • Community-driven session addressing real student questions on networking concepts
  • Encourages enrollment at academy.networkchuck.com/course/premium-summer-of-ccna
2026-06-18 · watch on YouTube ↗
HTTPS encrypts traffic content but DNS queries and SNI fields still expose visited hostnames to your ISP and network observers.
  • TLS/HTTPS hides payload data but not the destination hostname via unencrypted DNS lookups
  • Server Name Indication (SNI) in the TLS handshake leaks the target domain in plaintext
  • ISPs and on-path observers can log browsing activity without breaking encryption
  • Encrypted DNS (DoH/DoT) and Encrypted Client Hello (ECH) are the mitigations
  • VPNs shift trust to the VPN provider but do address ISP-level visibility
2026-06-18 · watch on YouTube ↗
Cisco Cloud Control unifies network management into a single platform, with AI agents now actively automating and executing network operations.
  • Cisco Cloud Control centralizes network visibility and management across environments
  • AI agents move beyond dashboards to actively perform networking tasks autonomously
  • Demonstrates a shift from human-operated consoles to AI-driven network automation
  • Positions Cisco's cloud-native tooling as the next evolution in enterprise networking
  • Sponsored deep-dive — hands-on look at how AI-assisted control planes work in practice
2026-06-16 · watch on YouTube ↗
Live 90-min AMA session for Summer of CCNA program covering certification questions from the community.
  • Live Q&A format focused on CCNA certification path questions and study strategies
  • Part of NetworkChuck's structured Summer of CCNA course series via NetworkChuck Academy
  • Covers common pain points and decisions around Cisco certification tracks
  • Community-driven session with real-time viewer questions and answers
  • Tied to the premium Summer of CCNA enrollment at academy.networkchuck.com