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DEBULL Tooling Abuses Microsoft Device-Code Flow to Target M365 Accounts https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/debull-tooling-abuses-microsoft-device.html A Microsoft 365 device code phishing campaign has been observed leveraging collaboration-themed lures to take control of victim accounts between the last week of June 2026 and into early July, per findings from ZeroBEC. "The campaign did not depend on a fake Microsoft password page. It used a malicious collaboration-style lure to push users into the legitimate Microsoft device login experience,

Public GitHub Issue Could Trick GitHub Agentic Workflows Into Leaking Private Repo Data https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/public-github-issue-could-trick-github.html A public issue can trick GitHub Agentic Workflows into leaking the contents of an organization's private repositories, researchers at Noma Security have shown. The attacker needs only to open a normal-looking issue on a public repository, with no stolen credentials and no access to the organization. If that organization has given the agent read access across its repositories, private ones

Court Filing Reveals Windows Device ID Helped FBI Trace Alleged Scattered Spider Hacker https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/court-filing-reveals-windows-device-id.html U.S. prosecutors linked an alleged Scattered Spider hacker to a break-in at a luxury jewelry retailer using a persistent Windows device ID, according to a newly unsealed federal complaint. Microsoft records tied that ID first to the account the attackers used to keep access during the May 2025 intrusion, then to online accounts prosecutors say belong to 19-year-old Peter Stokes. Stokes is

Writer AI Flaw Could Let Agent Previews Leak Session Tokens Across Tenants https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/writer-ai-flaw-could-let-agent-previews.html Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a now-patched critical session isolation vulnerability in Writer, an enterprise generative artificial intelligence (AI) platform, that could result in cross-tenant compromise. The one-click vulnerability has been codenamed WriteOut by the Sand Security Research team. "An outsider could go from having no access to taking over any Writer AI

What Changes When Your Software Supply Chain Includes AI Writing Your Code? https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/what-changes-when-your-software-supply.html Software supply chain security was hard enough. Then AI joined the build pipeline. For five years, "software supply chain security" meant one question: what's in your code? Which open-source packages, which versions, which transitive dependencies three layers deep that nobody chose on purpose? SolarWinds, Log4Shell, and XZ Utils all taught the same lesson: the risk lives less in the code a

Suspected China-Aligned Hackers Exploit Roundcube Flaws Against Universities https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/suspected-china-aligned-hackers-exploit.html A suspected China-aligned threat activity cluster has been observed exploiting Roundcube webmail software belonging to physics and engineering departments of U.S. and Canadian universities as part of a new campaign. The activity involves the exploitation of now-patched, critical security flaws in the open-source email solution, such as CVE-2024-42009 (CVSS score: 9.3), to siphon credentials,

CERT/CC Warns of Hidden Admin Backdoor in Tenda Router Firmware https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/certcc-warns-of-hidden-admin-backdoor.html Several versions of firmware released by Chinese network device manufacturer Tenda have been found to embed an undocumented authentication backdoor that enables administrative access to the devices' web management interfaces, the CERT Coordination Center (CERT/CC) warned Monday. "An attacker can exploit this vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-11405, to bypass the password verification process

BeyondTrust Patches Critical Auth Bypass Flaws in Remote Support and PRA https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/beyondtrust-patches-critical-auth.html BeyondTrust has released updates to address two critical security flaws affecting Remote Support (RS) and Privileged Remote Access (PRA) products that, if successfully exploited, could allow unauthenticated attackers to take control of susceptible devices. The vulnerabilities are listed below - CVE-2026-40138 (CVSS score: 9.2) - A pre-authentication vulnerability exists in the

Iran-Linked Hackers Use New Cavern C2 Framework to Target Israeli Organizations https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/iran-linked-hackers-use-new-cavern-c2.html An Iranian hacking group affiliated with Iran's Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) has been wielding a previously undocumented modular command-and-control (C2) framework dubbed Cavern (aka Cav3rn) targeting Israeli organizations. The activity, which has primarily singled out IT providers and government sectors, has been attributed to a threat cluster tracked by Check Point Research

16-Year-Old Linux KVM Flaw Lets Guest VMs Escape to Host on Intel and AMD x86 Systems https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/16-year-old-linux-kvm-flaw-lets-guest.html A use-after-free bug in Linux's KVM hypervisor can be triggered from a guest virtual machine to corrupt the shadow-page state of the host kernel that runs it. Dubbed 'Januscape' and tracked as CVE-2026-53359, the flaw sits in the shadow MMU code that KVM shares across both Intel and AMD. The public proof-of-concept panics the host; the researcher claims that a separate, unreleased exploit

Threat Actors Probe Gitea Docker Flaw CVE-2026-20896 13 Days After Disclosure https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/threat-actors-probe-gitea-docker-flaw.html Threat actors have been observed attempting to exploit a recently patched critical security flaw in Gitea Docker images, according to Sysdig. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-20896 (CVSS score: 9.8), a vulnerability that stems from the DevOps platform trusting the "X-WEBAUTH-USER" header from any source IP address, effectively allowing an unauthenticated internet client to get elevated

⚡ Weekly Recap: Proxy Botnets, Browser Ransomware, AI Agent Tricks, Fake PoC Malware and More https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/monday-recap-proxy-botnets-browser.html A streaming box should not need a threat model. Neither should a username field, a demo repo, a reset flow, or a browser permission prompt. That is the irritating part this week: the risky pieces were ordinary. Home devices became a routing cover. Clean code pulled dirt from a dependency. Identity shortcuts aged badly. AI systems trusted the wrong instructions. Same soft spot throughout: trust

How to Evaluate an AI SOC Platform in 2026: 6 Capabilities That Separate Leaders from Bolt-On AI solutions https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/how-to-evaluate-ai-soc-platform-in-2026.html Building a shortlist for an AI SOC evaluation can be tough. SIEM, SOAR, and pureplay AI SOC vendors are all saying the same thing. But behind the identical label sit very different products, from chat assistants bolted onto a legacy SIEM to agent platforms that run detection, triage, investigation, and response on their own data foundation. Whether a platform will materially change outcomes for

Suspected China-Nexus Hackers Use Fake Indian Tax Filing Utility to Deploy DcRAT https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/suspected-china-nexus-hackers-use-fake.html A suspected China-nexus threat activity cluster has been observed targeting Indian taxpayers, tax professionals, and corporate finance teams to deliver a remote access trojan designed to steal sensitive data from compromised hosts. The multi-stage campaign, codenamed Operation DragonReturn by Seqrite Labs, involves sending spear-phishing emails impersonating the Income Tax Department of India.

New TrojPix Attack Leaks Data From Air-Gapped Systems via Video Cable Emissions https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/new-trojpix-attack-leaks-data-from-air.html Researchers at Shandong University have shown a fast new way to pull data off computers that are cut off from every network. The technique, called TrojPix, tweaks on-screen pixels in ways the eye cannot see, so that the video cable carrying them radiates a faint radio signal a nearby receiver can decode. But TrojPix works only once malware is already on the target machine, so it

New Java-Based QuimaRAT MaaS Built to Run on Windows, Linux, and macOS https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/new-java-based-quimarat-maas-built-to.html Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a novel Java-based remote access trojan (RAT) called QuimaRAT that's capable of targeting Windows, Linux, and macOS environments. According to LevelBlue, the cross-platform malware is advertised under a malware-as-a-service (MaaS) model, costing anywhere between $150 for one month to $1,200 for lifetime access. Other subscription tiers include $300 for

Opera GX Flaw Let Malicious Sites Auto-Install Mods to Steal Data From Visited Pages https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/opera-gx-flaw-let-malicious-sites-auto.html Researchers found a flaw in Opera GX, the gaming-focused version of the Opera browser, that let a malicious website silently install a browser add-on and use it to lift specific data from the pages a victim visits. In a proof of concept, they reconstructed a signed-in user's full Gmail address from a single visit, with no click. Opera has patched the flaw and says it found no evidence that

SkillCloak Lets Malicious AI Agent Skills Evade Static Scanners with Self-Extracting Packing https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/new-skillcloak-technique-lets-malicious.html Scanners meant to catch malicious add-on "skills" for AI coding agents can be fooled by a few simple changes that leave the malware working, according to a new study from researchers at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Their strongest trick slipped past every scanner tested more than 90% of the time, and the same team built a runtime checker that catches most of the

U.S. Government Entity Paid Kairos $1 Million in Data-Theft Extortion Case https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/us-government-entity-paid-kairos-group.html A U.S. government entity paid about $1 million to keep stolen files from being leaked, according to a new case study by Rakesh Krishnan for Ransom-ISAC, built on a leaked negotiation chat and the blockchain trail the payment left. The odd part: the group that took the money calls itself Kairos, but it may not be a ransomware gang at all. Krishnan found no sign that it ever locked a single

North Korean Hackers Publish 108 Malicious Packages and Extensions in PolinRider Campaign https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/north-korean-hackers-publish-108.html The North Korean threat actors linked to the Contagious Interview campaign have been observed publishing 108 unique packages and web browser extensions spanning npm, Packagist, Go, and Google Chrome as part of an ongoing activity referred to as PolinRider. "The campaign remains active, and new malicious packages are likely to continue appearing as threat actors compromise maintainer accounts,