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GitLab CVE-2026-19478 Comes Under Active Exploitation Within Days of Disclosure https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/gitlab-cve-2026-19478-comes-under.html A newly disclosed security flaw in GitLab has come under active exploitation within days of public disclosure, according to watchTowr. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-19478 (CVSS score: 9.4), a case of code injection that allows an unauthenticated attacker to modify or delete publicly accessible GitLab projects and rewrite their data under certain conditions without requiring

Microsoft Entra ID Flaw (CVSS 10.0) Exploited in Wild, Allows Remote Code Execution https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/microsoft-entra-id-flaw-cvss-100.html Microsoft on Thursday warned of a maximum-severity security flaw in Entra ID that it said has been exploited in the wild, but noted that no customer action is required. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-69836 (CVSS score: 10.0), is a case of remote code execution impacting the tech giant's cloud-based identity and access management service. It was previously called Azure Active Directory

Rust Supply Chain Attack Puts Build-Time Malware in Crates with 245 Million Downloads https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/rust-supply-chain-attack-puts-build.html The Rust Project has deleted malicious versions of three widely used Rust crates from crates.io after a compromised maintainer account published releases that added a typosquatted dependency whose build script downloaded and executed a remote payload during compilation. The affected releases are arrayref 0.3.10, internment 0.8.7, and append-only-vec 0.1.9, all published from the same owner

Suspected Russian Hackers Abuse Google OAuth and WhatsApp Linking to Hijack Accounts https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/suspected-russian-hackers-abuse-google.html Three distinct suspected Russian cyber espionage threat clusters have been observed leveraging legitimate authentication flows to single out individuals working in academia, aerospace and defense, governments, and think tanks across Europe, as well as academia and think tanks within the U.S. These clusters include UNC6293, UNC7005, and UNC5976. "These clusters engage in persistent, adaptive

Attackers Exploit Zimbra SNMP Flaw for Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/attackers-exploit-zimbra-snmp-flaw-for.html A now-patched security flaw impacting Zimbra Collaboration (ZCS) has come under active exploitation in the wild, according to the Polish Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT Polska). The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-73570 (CVSS score: 8.9), which refers to a case of command injection that can lead to remote code execution. "A remote code execution vulnerability exists in Zimbra

ToxicPanda 2.0 and GoldDigger Expand Android Banking Attacks with On-Device Fraud https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/toxicpanda-20-and-golddigger-expand.html Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on an updated version of ToxicPanda (aka TgToxic) that comes with "significant enhancements," including a set of 167 remote commands and expands its targeting footprint globally. Zimperium zLabs, in a Wednesday report, said the Android malware also features a PIN harvesting workflow targeting more than 140 banking and cryptocurrency applications.

40 Malicious Firefox Extensions Pose as Web3 Products to Steal Wallet Secrets https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/40-malicious-firefox-extensions-pose-as.html A set of 40 Mozilla Firefox extensions has been found to engage in cryptocurrency wallet theft by masquerading as OKX, Rabby Wallet, TronLink, and other Web3 products. According to the Socket Threat Research team, the extensions are part of a broader set of 77 browser add-ons that share source code and infrastructure overlaps. The campaign, dubbed Offside Wallet Theft Factory, is believed to

Elementor Pro Flaw Could Let Unauthenticated Attackers Upload PHP and Execute Code https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/elementor-pro-flaw-could-let.html Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a critical flaw in the Elementor Pro WordPress plugin that, if successfully exploited, could lead to remote code execution. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-32475, carries a CVSS score of 9.0 out of 10.0. It has been described as a case of unrestricted upload of a file with a dangerous type. "The flaw lives in the Forms module's File

Cloudflare Workers Spectre Attack Leaks JWT From Co-Located Worker at 12 Bits/Second https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/cloudflare-workers-spectre-attack-leaks.html Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a remote Spectre attack against Cloudflare Workers that leaked a JSON Web Token (JWT) from a co-located Worker in the production environment at up to 12 bits per second, 360 times the rate of an earlier attack demonstrated in 2021. The end-to-end experiment used an attacker Worker and a victim Worker controlled by the researchers,

OpenAI Pauses Frontier RL Training as It Tightens Defenses Against Unsafe AI Behavior https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/openai-pauses-frontier-rl-training-as.html OpenAI on Tuesday revealed that it paused reinforcement learning (RL) training for its latest artificial intelligence (AI) models for two weeks while it shored up additional defenses and increased the scope of its monitoring to avert another Hugging Face-like incident. "As models become more capable, the risks associated with developing and testing them internally also grow," the AI company

SilkParasite Espionage Campaign Targets Central Asian Governments with Five New RATs https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/silkparasite-espionage-campaign-targets.html A previously unreported cyber espionage operation dubbed SilkParasite has been observed targeting government bodies in Central Asia. The intrusion set makes use of seven remote access tool (RAT) families, five of which have never been previously documented: DriveSilkRAT, CookiETagRAT, NomadRAT, GoginRAT, and NodeEdgeRAT. SilkParasite, first discovered in late 2025, is assessed to be a

Hackers Compromised 14,500+ Dahua Devices Using Credential Attacks, Auth Bypasses, and P2P https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/hackers-compromised-14500-dahua-devices.html Cybersecurity researchers at Hunt.io have disclosed details of a campaign that they say compromised more than 14,530 Dahua devices between June 17 and July 22, 2026, using credential attacks, two authentication-bypass flaws, and a peer-to-peer (P2P) relay technique. The activity, codenamed Operation CameraSwarm, was reconstructed from a 407 MB exposed working directory containing 2,616 files

Phishing 3.0: The Fight Moves to Agent Versus Agent https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/phishing-30-fight-moves-to-agent-versus.html Most email defenses still do the job they did a decade ago. Scan the message, look for something malicious, block it. That worked when the danger sat in the payload, a bad link or an attachment. It stopped working when the danger moved into the message's intent, and it is failing now that the sender is no longer a person. From Bad Content to Bad Intent to AI on Both Sides Phishing 1.0 was bad

StopAndProtect Uses Nearly 2,000 Hacked WordPress Sites to Spread Malware and Steal Data https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/stopandprotect-uses-nearly-2000-hacked.html Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a global cybercrime operation that abuses thousands of hacked WordPress websites as infrastructure to disseminate malware, commandeer infected hosts, store stolen documents, screenshots, and activity logs created to track the status of the activity. "The operation doesn't rely on a single piece of malware, but on a whole toolkit of criminal software

Critical macOS, SharePoint, vCenter, and Microsoft IKE Flaws Under Active Exploitation https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/critical-macos-sharepoint-vcenter-and.html The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added four critical vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, stating they are being exploited in the wild. The shortcomings added to the KEV catalog are listed below - CVE-2026-65400 (CVSS score: 9.8) - An improper authentication vulnerability impacting Apple macOS that could allow an

Microsoft Links 30+ Rotating Domains to MacSync Stealer Infrastructure https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/microsoft-links-30-rotating-domains-to.html Microsoft Defender Experts have linked more than 30 web domains to MacSync Stealer, a macOS-focused information stealer, after correlating recurring endpoint and network behaviors across changing infrastructure, tracing the malware from payload retrieval through data collection, staging, and exfiltration. The tech giant said it required multiple endpoint and network behaviors to align before

Clop-Linked Windchill Web Shell Decrypts Credentials and Maps Engineering Data https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/clop-linked-windchill-web-shell.html A JavaServer Pages (JSP) web shell deployed following the exploitation of a critical security flaw in PTC Windchill and FlexPLM servers is specifically designed for the enterprise Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software, according to new findings from ReliaQuest. The cybersecurity company characterized the web shell as a fully equipped extortion platform capable of mapping sensitive vault

Microsoft Copilot Personal Flaws Could Let One Click Exfiltrate Data From Connected Apps https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/microsoft-copilot-personal-flaws-could.html Varonis Threat Labs has disclosed three vulnerabilities in Microsoft Copilot Personal that it said could allow a single click on a crafted link to silently pull data from connected apps and other information available to the victim's Copilot session. The flaws, which the researchers collectively named CoSnitch, turn in part on an undocumented URL parameter that the assistant itself surfaced

Attackers Exploit MLflow SSRF Flaw to Steal Cloud Credentials and Secrets https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/attackers-exploit-mlflow-ssrf-flaw-to.html Two critical vulnerabilities impacting MLflow, an open-source artificial intelligence (AI) platform, and FUXA, an open-source, web-based SCADA / HMI software built for operational technology (OT) and industrial automation, are witnessing malicious scanning and exploitation efforts. According to independent reports from watchTowr and VulnCheck, the vulnerabilities in question are as follows -

Ransom Busters Claims It Hacked Ransomware Servers, Asks Victims for Up to $60,000 https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/ransom-busters-claims-it-hacked.html A ransomware affiliate calling itself Ransom Busters has been spotted proactively sending emails to victim organizations and claims to delete stolen data from ransomware groups' servers in exchange for a fee ranging from $20,000 to $60,000. "In these messages, the third-party offers to help the victim recover from ransomware attack. This immediately stands out as anomalous," GuidePoint Research