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Channel The Hacker News (@thehackernews) in the English language segment is an active participant. Currently, the community unites 164 871 subscribers, ranking 645 in the Technologies & Applications category and 106 in the USA region.
📊 Audience metrics and dynamics
Since its creation on невідомо, the project has demonstrated rapid growth, gathering an audience of 164 871 subscribers.
According to the latest data from 15 September, 2026, the channel demonstrates stable activity. Although there has been a change in the number of participants by 162 over the last 30 days and by -11 over the last 24 hours, overall reach remains high.
- Verification status: Verified (Officially confirmed by Telegram)
- Engagement rate (ER): The average audience engagement rate is 4.57%. Within the first 24 hours after publication, content typically collects 2.98% reactions from the total number of subscribers.
- Post reach: On average, each post receives 7 411 views. Within the first day, a publication typically gains 4 838 views.
- Reactions and interaction: The audience actively supports content: the average number of reactions per post is 11.
- Thematic interests: Content is focused on key topics such as attack, credential, cve-2026, github, backdoor.
📝 Description and content policy
The author describes the resource as a platform for expressing subjective opinions:
“⭐ Official THN Telegram Channel — A trusted, widely read, independent source for breaking news and tech coverage about cybersecurity and hacking.
📨 Contact: admin@thehackernews.com
🌐 Website: https://thehackernews.com”
Thanks to the high frequency of updates (latest data received on 16 September, 2026), the channel maintains relevance and a high level of publication reach. Analytics show that the audience actively interacts with content, making it an important point of influence in the Technologies & Applications category.
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⚠️ Acronis Backup flaw exploited in limited targeted attacks.
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Which builds need updating → https://thehackernews.com/2026/09/acronis-cpanel-backup-plugin.html
| 2 |  A unified security dashboard can still hide a broken incident workflow.
Run one incident from detection to clean recovery. Count every console switch, permission change, and ownership handoff.
Six tests reveal whether consolidation actually reduces operational friction: https://thehackernews.com/expert-insights/2026/09/how-to-evaluate-unified-security.html | 859 |
| 3 |  🚨 Attackers are exploiting a critical WooCommerce Wholesale Lead Capture flaw to plant PHP web shells.
Wordfence has blocked over 100,000 exploit attempts since June against CVE-2026-27540, which affects versions through 2.0.3.1.
Read: https://thehackernews.com/2026/09/attackers-exploit-woocommerce-wholesale.html | 8 782 |
| 4 |  ⚠️ Forged admin JWTs are being used in WSO2 API Manager exploitation attempts.
CVE-2026-5430 lets unsupported JWT algorithms bypass authentication and can lead to account takeover. Fixes are available.
Read: https://thehackernews.com/2026/09/active-exploitation-attempts-target.html | 2 750 |
| 5 |  🚨 KREMLIN banking malware bypasses Chromium integrity checks to install a Chrome and Edge extension that steals credentials and session tokens.
It also uses Ethereum smart contracts to rotate C2 and payload locations.
How the attack chain works: https://thehackernews.com/2026/09/kremlin-banking-malware-hijacks-chrome.html | 4 738 |
| 6 |  ‼️ Iran-attributed HEAVYGRAM, also tracked as CHOSEN BRICK, uses Telegram bots to spy on dissidents and journalists.
A joint U.S.-U.K.-Dutch advisory says the Windows malware can steal messages and passwords, record audio, capture screenshots, and exfiltrate files.
Details → https://thehackernews.com/2026/09/iranian-hackers-use-telegram-controlled.html | 4 978 |
| 7 |  🚨 BambooToken uses MQTT to control Windows and Linux hosts across Asia and South America.
Lumen identified a dozen compromised entities, with activity detected as recently as July 2026.
Learn what's inside the malware’s MQTT command-and-control: https://thehackernews.com/2026/09/bambootoken-malware-uses-mqtt-to.html | 4 789 |
| 8 |  ✅ Your Business Continuity Management Checklist.
Most resilience programs look complete on paper. Let's make sure yours holds up when it matters most.
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Get the checklist → https://thn.news/bcm-reality-check | 4 893 |
| 9 |  Phishing puts financial SOCs under constant pressure. Cut the workload with ANY.RUN: faster analysis, fewer escalations, and 21 min lower MTTR.
→ https://thn.news/phishing-soc-detection | 4 791 |
| 10 |  🚨 A human attacker exploited Marimo’s pre-auth RCE and reached an SSH bastion in eight seconds.
The operator used harvested AWS credentials to fetch the private key from Secrets Manager and authenticate over SSH. No AI agent was involved.
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| 11 |  One attack step can now decide what gets tested next.
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| 13 |  Cursor deleted a production database and its backups in nine seconds.
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| 14 |  ‼️ Warning: LiteSpeed Enterprise before 6.3.7 can let low-privilege website users gain root on shared-hosting servers.
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Manual update may be required → https://thehackernews.com/2026/09/litespeed-enterprise-flaw-could-let-one.html | 4 914 |
| 15 |  ‼️ Attackers are exploiting a Cisco Secure Email Gateway vulnerability that can let a crafted email trigger command execution as root.
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How the attack works → https://thehackernews.com/2026/09/cisco-secure-email-gateway-flaw.html | 4 947 |
| 16 |  ⚠️ Two China-linked threat actors exploited the same Chrome-Windows zero-day chain.
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| 17 |  🚨 Thai ISP 3BB attacker had root access and hid MeshCentral for persistence.
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| 18 |  ‼️ A Telegram Desktop flaw could send messages from opened HTML exports to an attacker-controlled server.
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Updating Telegram does not clean old export files.
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| 19 |  ‼️ Researchers broke Intel TDX’s confidential-computing protections with a $159 DDR5 interposer.
New "DDRop" attack silently drops memory writes so the CPU trusts stale encrypted data. In lab tests, researchers read protected VM memory and forged attestation.
No CVE. No patch. Full details here → https://thehackernews.com/2026/09/new-ddrop-attack-breaks-intel-tdx-and.html | 5 129 |
| 20 | ‼️ Researchers broke Intel TDX’s confidential-computing protections with a $159 DDR5 interposer.
New "DDRop" attack silently drops memory writes so the CPU trusts stale encrypted data. In lab tests, researchers read protected VM memory and forged attestation.
No CVE. No patch. Full details here → https://thehackernews.com/2026/09/new-ddrop-attack-breaks-intel-tdx-and.html | 1 |
