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ACR Stealer Uses ClickFix Lures to Steal Browser Tokens and Microsoft 365 Files https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/acr-stealer-uses-clickfix-lures-to.html ACR Stealer, an infostealer in circulation since 2024, is walking out of enterprise networks with saved browser passwords, live session tokens, PDFs, Microsoft 365 documents, and files from synced OneDrive and SharePoint folders. It gets in because someone pasted a command into a Run box and pressed Enter. Microsoft laid out two of the delivery chains on Thursday. Its Defender Experts team, the

New GoSerpent Malware Targets Southeast Asian Governments and Diplomats for Espionage https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/new-goserpent-malware-targets-southeast.html Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a previously undocumented malware called GoSerpent that has been put to use in cyber attacks targeting entities in Southeast Asia since late 2025 with a focus on long-term access and intelligence gathering. Russian cybersecurity company Kaspersky, which uncovered the activity in February 2026, said it was aimed at government and diplomatic entities in

CISA Adds Exploited SharePoint RCE Zero-Day CVE-2026-58644 to KEV https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/cisa-adds-exploited-sharepoint-rce-zero.html The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday added a newly patched security flaw impacting Microsoft SharePoint Server to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, requiring Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) agencies to apply the fixes by July 19, 2026. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-58644 (CVSS score: 9.8), a critical deserialization

20+ Hijacked Government Websites Becamean Attack Channel https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/20-hijacked-government-websites.html More than 20 Brazilian government websites were hijacked and turned into malware delivery channels in an active PhantomEnigma campaign uncovered by ANY.RUN, a leading provider of interactive malware analysis and threat intelligence solutions. The investigation revealed previously undocumented backdoor behavior, hidden infrastructure relationships, and multiple attack arms behind a campaign

New Agent Data Injection Attack Can Make AI Agents Misclick or Run Attacker Commands https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/new-agent-data-injection-attack-can.html Ask an AI agent to summarize the reviews on a product page, and a single planted review can make it click "Buy Now" instead. Ask a coding assistant to apply a maintainer's fix from a GitHub thread, and a fake comment can make it run a stranger's command on your computer. Neither trick hijacks the agent's task. Each one just corrupts the facts it trusts and lets it carry on with the job you

Daxin Resurfaces in Taiwan Alongside Stupig Pre-Login SYSTEM Backdoor https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/daxin-resurfaces-in-taiwan-alongside.html An advanced malware previously attributed to a China-linked threat actor has resurfaced after more than four years within a Taiwan manufacturing firm, along with a previously unreported backdoor dubbed Stupig. Daxin ("srt64.sys"), as the kernel-mode rootkit is referred to, was first documented by Broadcom-owned Symantec in March 2022, with evidence indicating its use in targeted attacks aimed

AI Can Find Bugs, But Human Knowledge Still Proves Them https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/ai-can-find-bugs-but-human-knowledge.html Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing offensive security, but it has not changed the standard that matters most: a finding has to be proven before it becomes useful. AI-assisted tools can read code quickly, generate payloads, summarize attack surfaces, explain unfamiliar APIs, and run repetitive testing workflows at impressive speed. That is a real advantage for security teams. It also

Unpatched Shark Vacuum Flaw Could Let Attackers Control Other Vacuums Region-Wide https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/unpatched-shark-vacuum-flaw-could-let.html Pull the certificate off the flash of a Shark RV2320EDUS robot vacuum, and you can run root commands on other people's Shark vacuums across the same AWS region: watch the camera, drive the robot, read the map of the house, and take the Wi-Fi password in plaintext. A researcher publishing under the handle tokay0 put the method online on Monday, having tested it only against vacuums he

OpenAI’s GPT-Red Automates Prompt Injection Testing to Harden GPT-5.6 Sol https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/openais-gpt-red-automates-prompt.html OpenAI has disclosed details of GPT-Red, an internal automated red-teaming model that scales prompt injection vulnerability discovery with an aim to fix issues before the tools are deployed widely. "GPT‑Red is a strong red-teamer, and our previous models are highly vulnerable to its prompt injection attacks," the artificial intelligence (AI) company said. "We use GPT‑Red to adversarially train

Zoom Patches Critical Windows Flaw That Could Enable Account Takeover https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/zoom-patches-critical-windows-flaw-that.html Zoom has released security updates for a critical security flaw impacting Zoom Workplace for Windows that could facilitate account takeover. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-53412 (CVSS score: 9.8), affects Zoom Desktop Client for Windows, Zoom VDI Client for Windows, and Zoom Meeting SDK for Windows. "Improper Input Validation in Zoom Desktop Client for Windows, Zoom VDI Client for

TuxBot v3 Evolution Shows Signs of LLM-Assisted IoT Botnet Development https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/tuxbot-v3-evolution-shows-signs-of-llm.html Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a previously unreported Internet-of-Things (IoT) botnet framework dubbed TuxBot v3 Evolution that shows signs of being developed with assistance from a large language model (LLM), albeit with not so successful results. "While the AI complied with their request to generate botnet code, it included a safety disclaimer that the developer failed

OkoBot Malware Framework Injects Seed Phrase Phishing Into Ledger and Trezor Apps https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/okobot-malware-framework-injects-seed.html A malware framework called OkoBot has been running on Windows machines since April 2025, and one of its modules is built to con hardware wallet owners out of their recovery phrase. On an infected PC, the request comes from inside the wallet's own desktop software. Sometimes it waits until you plug the device in first. The page is malicious. The app around it is the real one you installed, and

Firefox, Chrome, Adobe, and VMware Updates Fix Multiple Critical Security Flaws https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/firefox-chrome-adobe-and-vmware-updates.html Mozilla has released updates to address two critical flaws in Firefox for which it warned that exploit code has been published. The vulnerabilities are listed below - CVE-2026-15718, an invalid pointer in the JavaScript: WebAssembly component CVE-2026-15719, a site isolation in the DOM: Navigation component "We are aware that exploit code for this is public, however we are not aware of

SASE Has An AI Blind Spot. Inspecting Packets Is No Longer Enough. https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/sase-has-ai-blind-spot-inspecting.html For years, routing traffic through cloud proxies was good enough. Then work moved to the browser, AI entered the workflow, and the inspection model stopped keeping up. Enterprise workflows now live across SaaS applications, browsers, and an expanding ecosystem of generative AI tools, unsanctioned browser extensions, and autonomous agents. Employees routinely paste intellectual property into

Researcher Drops New Windows Zero-Day PoC Hours After Microsoft Patch Tuesday https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/researcher-drops-new-windows-zero-day.html Security researcher Chaotic Eclipse (aka Nightmare-Eclipse) has released a new proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit called LegacyHive. It has been described as a Windows User Profile Service arbitrary hive load elevation of privileges vulnerability. The Windows User Profile Service, also referred to as ProfSvc, is a core system component that manages user accounts and environments. "The PoC requires

New Webinar: Closing the Approval Gap in AI-Era Ad Tech https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/new-webinar-closing-approval-gap-in-ai.html A single approved marketing tag can quietly load fourth-party code your security team has never seen, granting full access to your forms, customer data, and checkout pages. This on-demand webinar reveals how this Approval Gap forms, and gives your team the blueprint to close it before an auditor, regulator, or attacker finds it first. The Reality of the Approval Gap It's a pattern every

Forgotten UEFI shims undermining Secure Boot https://www.welivesecurity.com/en/eset-research/forgotten-uefi-shims-undermining-secure-boot/ ESET researchers discovered 11 vulnerable UEFI shim bootloaders signed by Microsoft that allow attackers to bypass UEFI Secure Boot by exploiting decade-old vulnerabilities

Cursor Flaw Lets Malicious Cloned Repositories Trigger Windows Code Execution https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/cursor-flaw-lets-malicious-cloned.html Open a repository in Cursor on Windows and, if a file named git.exe is sitting in the project root, Cursor runs it. No click, no approval dialog, no warning that anything in the folder is about to execute. Whatever that binary does, it does as you, with your source, your SSH keys and your cloud tokens. Cursor keeps re-running it for as long as the project stays open. No prompt

Compromised AsyncAPI npm Packages Deliver Multi-Stage Botnet Malware https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/compromised-asyncapi-npm-packages.html Four compromised npm packages in the @asyncapi namespace have been observed distributing a multi-stage botnet loader, according to findings from OX Security, SafeDep, Socket, and StepSecurity. The affected packages are listed below - @asyncapi/generator-helpers@1.1.1 @asyncapi/generator-components@0.7.1 @asyncapi/generator@3.3.1 @asyncapi/specs(v6.11.2, v6.11.2-alpha.1) "The

Two SonicWall SMA 1000 Zero-Days Exploited, One Could Enable Admin Commands https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/two-sonicwall-sma-1000-zero-days.html SonicWall has warned of active exploitation of two zero-day vulnerabilities impacting Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 1000 series appliances, one of which could be exploited to achieve arbitrary command execution. The vulnerabilities are listed below - CVE-2026-15409 (CVSS score: 10.0) - A Server-side request forgery (SSRF) vulnerability that a remote unauthenticated attacker could exploit to