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Channel The Hacker News (@thehackernews) in the English language segment is an active participant. Currently, the community unites 162 214 subscribers, ranking 660 in the Technologies & Applications category and 111 in the USA region.
π Audience metrics and dynamics
Since its creation on Π½Π΅Π²ΡΠ΄ΠΎΠΌΠΎ, the project has demonstrated rapid growth, gathering an audience of 162 214 subscribers.
According to the latest data from 25 August, 2026, the channel demonstrates stable activity. Although there has been a change in the number of participants by 158 over the last 30 days and by 10 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 4.47%. 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 7 255 views. Within the first day, a publication typically gains 4 828 views.
- Reactions and interaction: The audience actively supports content: the average number of reactions per post is 14.
- Thematic interests: Content is focused on key topics such as attack, credential, cve-2026, github, backdoor.
π Description and content policy
The author describes the resource as a platform for expressing subjective opinions:
ββ Official THN Telegram Channel β A trusted, widely read, independent source for breaking news and tech coverage about cybersecurity and hacking.
π¨ Contact: admin@thehackernews.com
π Website: https://thehackernews.comβ
Thanks to the high frequency of updates (latest data received on 26 August, 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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π₯ FBI shuts down Chinese hacking platforms tied to intrusions at NASA, the Fed, and U.S. Senate.
QScan exploited vulnerable IoT devices, while QTRouter hid attack traffic behind compromised devices, commercial proxies, and VPSs.
How it worked: https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/fbi-disrupts-china-linked-qtfy.html
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π CISA red teams compromised two critical infrastructure organizations. One SOC detected nothing.
The other caught the initial phishing and isolated affected workstations within 2β20 minutes.
Learn why one SOC saw it and the other didnβt: https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/cisa-red-team-compromised-two-critical.html
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Agentic SOCs can investigate alerts before analysts touch them.
AI agents can validate detections, test hypotheses against network telemetry, and return evidence-backed cases in seconds or minutes.
The shift: investigate first, escalate to humans when the evidence warrants it.
How the model works: https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/imagine-soc-without-queue-from-alert.html
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π¨ Unpatched Kaltura (a video management and streaming platform) flaws expose server files and could enable RCE.
The mwEmbed bugs need no authentication. Both stem from unsafe deserialization, and CERT/CC says no fix is available.
Read details here: https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/unpatched-kaltura-mwembed-flaws-could.html
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βΌοΈ Nobody asked #Claude to cancel another gym member's booking.
Aikido rebuilt the Australian gym app and tested Opus 4.6 on #OpenClaw. The model bypassed its browser-only 7-day booking limit in 9 of 10 runs.
In two runs, it also canceled another memberβs reservation.
Read: https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/claude-opus-46-bypasses-gym-booking.html
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β οΈ Russian operators used ChatGPT to run an influence operation.
OpenAI banned the accounts after finding they used VPNs to bypass restrictions and generated posts promoting the International Burke Institute across Substack, Telegram, X, Facebook and LinkedIn.
What OpenAI uncovered: https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/openai-bans-russian-chatgpt-accounts.html
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58 arrested in INTERPOL crackdown on West African cyber-enabled fraud.
Operation Jackal IV identified 263 suspects across 22 countries. One Romanian investment scam is estimated to have stolen and laundered β¬143 million globally.
Inside the operation: https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/interpol-operation-jackal-iv-arrests-58.html
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π¨ Attackers are exploiting a critical Gitea RCE flaw.
CVE-2026-60004 can let an external attacker gain repo write access via open registration and run shell commands as the Gitea service account.
One reported attack dropped cryptocurrency-miner-like malware.
Read: https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/critical-gitea-rce-actively-exploited.html
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β‘ U.S. sanctions Iran-linked hackers tied to critical infrastructure breaches.
Three alleged Mabna Institute members are accused of stealing data from U.S. energy, defense, healthcare, IT, and financial organizations.
TRM Labs linked 30 wallets to $16.8 million.
Who they hit and where the money went: https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/us-sanctions-iran-linked-hackers-behind.html
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UPDATE - Apple fixed the iCloud Private Relay IP leak in iOS 26.6.1 and macOS 26.6.2.
The WebKit issue could bypass proxies and expose usersβ real IPs. The fix was not in the iOS 26.6.1 beta.
See the update: https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/webkit-proxy-bypasses-can-expose-real.html
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48% of Mirage2FA-targeted emails were potentially compromised.
ANYRUN uncovered 9,000+ potential compromise events involving password and cookie theft, SSO logins, and 2FA bypass. Activity is potentially linked to 4,532 organization email domains.
See how Mirage2FA works - https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/mirage2fa-surge-hits-4500-us-and-eu.html
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βΌοΈ A malicious webpage could poison the AI running on your own machine.
A NemoClaw weakness can expose Ollama to DNS rebinding, letting an attacker alter its chat template with instructions that persist across conversations.
Read how it works - https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/a-malicious-webpage-could-poison-your.html
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βΌοΈ A Marimo notebook can launch MCP commands before cells run.
CVE-2026-75149 triggers when a crafted notebook is opened in edit mode. It affects versions before 0.23.15.
Marimo fixed it in 0.23.15.
Read the details: https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/marimo-notebook-flaw-could-run-mcp.html
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Under the EU CRA, a single security question can decide your EU market access.
Can your team prove exactly what's inside your digital product when required? With EU CRA Article 14 reporting coming into force, finding an exploited vulnerability triggers a strict 24-hour response clock. Discover your security compliance gaps with a 5-question assessment.
Take the 5-minute assessment - https://thn.news/eu-security-report
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β‘ WhatsApp now supports multiple passkeys per account.
Users can now use phishing-resistant passkeys across iOS and Android. Itβs also adding full passwords for two-step verification and more context for unknown Android calls.
WhatsApp says 1 billion+ people already use them.
Read: https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/whatsapp-adds-multiple-passkeys-for.html
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Frontier AI is outpacing traditional vulnerability management.
CVSS, EPSS, and KEV are no longer enough. Teams need exploitability, reachability, misconfigurations, and business impact, plus faster, more automated patching.
See what needs to change - https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/frontier-ai-vulnerability-managements.html
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π¨ 24 npm packages are turning unpkg into phishing infrastructure.
They serve fake Cloudflare CAPTCHA pages from trusted unpkg URLs and use attacker-controlled redirect logic.
The packages target visitors, not developers installing them.
See how it works - https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/24-npm-packages-abuse-unpkg-mirrors-to.html
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β οΈ E4del and PINHOLE RATs hide commands in FTP banners.
The campaigns turn FTP server welcome messages into dead drop resolvers to fetch commands or C2 details.
PINHOLE also uses Pinterest and SurveyMonkey for C2 resolution.
See how the technique works - https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/e4del-and-pinhole-rats-turn-ftp-banners.html
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More threat data can make OT security harder, not better.
Jaron Stammler of OMICRON Electronics explains why critical infrastructure teams need threat intelligence tied to the equipment, protocols, and processes they actually run, not another stream of generic indicators.
The real question: Does this threat affect this OT environment?
Read: https://thehackernews.com/expert-insights/2026/08/why-threat-intelligence-needs-ot.html
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π¨ Two miniOrange SAML flaws can give attackers WordPress admin access.
Attackers are probing the authentication bypasses, which let unauthenticated users sign in as any existing account, including administrators.
Read the details - https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/attackers-target-miniorange-saml-flaws.html
