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Nearly 800 Malicious npm Packages Deliver Cross-Platform RAT and Infostealer https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/nearly-800-malicious-npm-packages.html A cluster of nearly 800 malicious packages has been published to the npm registry as part of a new campaign designed to deliver cross-platform malware targeting Windows, Mac, and Linux systems. "These packages appear to use AI slop squatted, or randomly generated typo-squatting package names, but all of them deliver a powerful RAT and infostealer payload," OpenSourceMalware researcher Paul

ClickFix Attacks Deliver macOS Stealer That Can Drain Crypto Wallets https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/clickfix-attacks-deliver-macos-stealer.html ClickFix-style attacks are being used to deliver a Go-based malware capable of stealing cryptocurrency assets, as well as browser-stored passwords, Apple iCloud Keychain data, and cached credentials. The macOS-focused infection chain is designed to deliver a shell script that profiles the host and then fetches a macOS malware payload that's compatible with the computer's CPU architecture. "

UNC6671 Vishing Attacks Target Personal Phones to Steal SaaS Data https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/unc6671-vishing-attacks-target-personal.html A recent wave of cyber attacks targeting financial services, private equity, and professional services is attributed to a data extortion group known as UNC6671. "UNC6671 continues to rely on voice phishing (vishing) to target enterprise employees, posing as IT help desk staff facilitating mandatory, urgent security migrations. Significantly, the threat actor often contacts employees via their

New WordPress Pre-Auth XSS Could Lead to PHP Code Execution - Patch ASAP https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/new-wordpress-pre-auth-xss-could-lead.html WordPress has fixed a pre-authentication reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) flaw in its login screen that affects every version of the content management system. Under additional conditions, the bug can be chained into PHP code execution on the server. Tracked as CVE-2026-64638 (CVSS score: 8.9), the High-severity vulnerability requires no attacker privileges. According to pwn.ai,

Growing Up The Hard Way https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/growing-up-hard-way.html Open Source had a great childhood. For two decades it got to be a kid. It ran around barefoot, gave everything away, trusted strangers, and never once thought about who was watching. It ran the kind of lemonade stand that took IOUs from anyone who wandered up — take what you need, pay me back whenever, no need to leave a name. It was idyllic. It was also, in retrospect, a little feral. Then,

18-Year-Old Linux SCTP Flaw Could Let Local Users Gain Root and Escape Containers https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/18-year-old-linux-sctp-flaw-could-let.html A use-after-free bug in Linux's SCTP networking code can be turned into full root on a host, and Tencent researchers say they used it to escape a container and reach the machine underneath. The flaw has existed since 2008. The fix already shipped: stable kernels 7.1.6, 6.18.42, 6.12.101 and 6.6.148, released August 3, close it. Anyone running an older kernel with SCTP reachable should update.

Microsoft 365 AitM Phishing Hijacks Accounts to Collect Payroll and Finance Emails https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/microsoft-365-aitm-phishing-hijacks.html Cybersecurity researchers have called attention to an active "widespread email-driven phishing campaign" that employs adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) techniques to take control of Microsoft 365 accounts with an aim to identify key personnel involved in financial workflows and gather related email. "The campaign uses residential proxies to disguise malicious sign-ins as ordinary consumer traffic,

AI-Assisted HTTP Terminator Finds Novel HTTP Desync Techniques and Apache Zero-Day https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/ai-assisted-http-terminator-finds-novel.html PortSwigger says HTTP Terminator, an artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted research system built by James Kettle, generated and proved new HTTP desynchronization techniques after exploring 30,000 candidate attack vectors. PortSwigger said a separate human-guided discovery cascade also exposed a zero-day in Apache Traffic Server. Kettle said HTTP Terminator tested 30,000 websites where scanning

New NatJack Attacks Hijack TCP Sessions and Spoof DNS by Manipulating NAT Tables https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/new-natjack-attacks-hijack-tcp-sessions.html Security researcher Malcolm Stagg has disclosed a new attack class called NatJack that manipulates network address translation (NAT) connection state to hijack active TCP sessions, spoof DNS responses, expose mapped ports, and exhaust NAT tables. Presented at Black Hat USA 2026, the research found affected behavior across independently developed implementations, including Windows and

Malware Can Abuse Windows Hello for Business Keys for Persistent Entra ID Access https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/malware-can-abuse-windows-hello-for.html Security researcher Malcolm Stagg has disclosed a new attack class called NatJack that manipulates network address translation (NAT) connection state to hijack active TCP sessions, spoof DNS responses, disclose victim IP addresses and mapped ports, and exhaust NAT tables. Presented at Black Hat USA 2026, Stagg said the techniques were demonstrated across network infrastructure devices

Claude Code and Gemini CLI Flaws Let a GitHub Issue Reach CI Workflow Secrets https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/claude-code-and-gemini-cli-flaws-let.html A GitHub issue opened by an account with no repository privileges was enough to execute code on the CI runners behind Anthropic's and Google's own coding-agent repositories. On OpenAI's, it was enough to hijack the next agent run. Novee Security ran the attack against each vendor's agent in the configuration that the vendor ships by default, and presented the work at Black Hat USA on August 5.

TeamPCP Linked To Redis Attacks Dating Back To 2020 And Later Supply Chain Campaign https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/teampcp-linked-to-redis-attacks-dating.html A new analysis has uncovered that the threat actor tracked as TeamPCP has been active on the cybercrime scene as far back as 2020, indicating the group has been compromising internet-facing infrastructure for years before training their sights on the software supply chain. "The connection is supported by overlapping domains, malware deployment paths, staging techniques, backend infrastructure,

New Zapscape KVM Flaw Could Let Privileged L1 Guest Code Escape to Linux Hosts https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/new-zapscape-kvm-flaw-could-let.html Zapscape, a new Linux kernel vulnerability, could allow an attacker with kernel privileges inside an L1 guest virtual machine (VM) to escape KVM isolation and execute code on the host. The risk applies when nested virtualization is exposed to untrusted guests. The flaw is tracked as CVE-2026-64561 and affects KVM/x86's shadow memory management unit (MMU), which manages shadow page

Cisco Patches 12 SD-WAN and IOS XE Flaws, Including Three 9.8 CVSS Score Bugs https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/cisco-patches-12-sd-wan-and-ios-xe.html Cisco has rolled out updates to address multiple critical security vulnerabilities impacting Catalyst SD-WAN and IOS XE Software as part of a comprehensive internal security review. The security issues affect Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Software, regardless of device configuration, and Cisco IOS XE Software when it is running in autonomous or controller mode. "These vulnerabilities were found

New Interrupt Injection Attack Can Bypass Spectre v2 Defenses on Intel and AMD CPUs https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/new-interrupt-injection-attack-can.html An unprivileged Linux program can time a hardware interrupt to land in the gap between a processor sanitizing its branch predictor and the kernel using it, re-poisoning the predictor after the defense has run. MIT CSAIL researchers Daniël Trujillo and Mengjia Yan named the technique INTERRUPT INJECTION. On an AMD Zen 2 machine running Linux 6.14 with every default Spectre v2 mitigation on,

ThreatsDay: Odysseus RCE, Samsung One-Click Takeover, iCloud Backdoor Fight + 27 More Stories https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/threatsday-odysseus-rce-samsung-one.html Apparently, opening the thing is now enough. A repo can run before the first prompt, a package can hide among hundreds, and a harmless-looking PDF can finish the job. This week runs on cheap leverage: exposed servers, recycled bugs, poisoned agent instructions, remote-access tools dressed as support software, and trusted defaults doing attackers a favor. Nothing here is especially mystical.

Over 4,400 Rockwell PLCs Exposed Online, 22 Found in Water Attack Cities https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/over-4400-rockwell-plcs-exposed-online.html Forescout found 22 internet-facing Rockwell Automation programmable logic controllers (PLCs) in cities hit by recent cyberattacks on US water utilities. Nineteen used the same mobile carrier network. Its August 3 scan counted 4,407 exposed Rockwell controllers worldwide, including 2,844 in the United States, but Forescout could not confirm any were compromised. That figure counts exposed

CryptoJS Weak RNG Behind $5.7 Million in Drains Affects Five Crypto Wallet Apps https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/cryptojs-weak-rng-behind-57-million-in.html Coinspect has identified CryptoJS.lib.WordArray.random() as the weak random number generator behind the Ill Bloom wallet drains. Introduced in the JavaScript cryptography library 12 years ago, the function supplied weak entropy that affected wallet apps used to generate recovery phrases. Coinspect's on-chain analysis puts the measured theft across two sweeps since late May at a lower bound of

Apple iCloud Private Relay Can Expose Real IPs Through WebKit Proxy Bypasses https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/webkit-proxy-bypasses-can-expose-real.html Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a security issue with Apple's iCloud Private Relay tool that can expose a user's real IP address. Introduced with iOS 15, iCloud Private Relay employs a dual-hop architecture to ensure users' privacy by routing their Safari web traffic through two relays so that no single third-party, including Apple, can determine where the request is originating from

AI Recommendation Poisoning: How "Ask AI" Buttons Silently Alter LLM Memory https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/ai-recommendation-poisoning-how-ask-ai.html A new class of prompt injection is spreading across commercial websites. It requires no malware, no stolen credentials, and no zero-day exploit. It abuses a standard feature built into almost every major AI assistant: pre-filled deep links. We observed production websites embedding hidden prompt injection payloads inside "Ask AI" buttons on marketing and competitor comparison pages. When a user