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Eyes wide open: How to mitigate the security and privacy risks of smart glasses https://www.welivesecurity.com/en/privacy/eyes-wide-open-mitigate-security-privacy-risks-smart-glasses/ Smart glasses allow anyone to track and record the world around them. That could put your data and the privacy of those nearby at risk.

TeamPCP Compromises Checkmarx Jenkins AST Plugin Weeks After KICS Supply Chain Attack https://thehackernews.com/2026/05/teampcp-compromises-checkmarx-jenkins.html Checkmarx has confirmed that a modified version of the Jenkins AST plugin was published to the Jenkins Marketplace. "If you are using Checkmarx Jenkins AST plugin, you need to ensure that you are using the version 2.0.13-829.vc72453fa_1c16 that was published on December 17, 2025 or previously," the cybersecurity company said in a statement over the weekend. As of writing, Checkmarx has released

cPanel CVE-2026-41940 Under Active Exploitation to Deploy Filemanager Backdoor https://thehackernews.com/2026/05/cpanel-cve-2026-41940-under-active.html A threat actor named Mr_Rot13 has been attributed to the exploitation of a recently disclosed critical cPanel flaw to deploy a backdoor codenamed Filemanager on compromised environments. The attack exploits CVE-2026-41940, a vulnerability impacting cPanel and WebHost Manager (WHM) that could result in an authentication bypass and allow remote attackers to gain elevated control of the control

Hackers Used AI to Develop First Known Zero-Day 2FA Bypass for Mass Exploitation https://thehackernews.com/2026/05/hackers-used-ai-to-develop-first-known.html Google on Monday disclosed that it identified an unknown threat actor using a zero-day exploit that it said was likely developed with an artificial intelligence (AI) system, marking the first time the technology has been put to use in the wild in a malicious context for vulnerability discovery and exploit generation. The activity is said to be the work of cybercrime threat actors who appear to

⚡ Weekly Recap: Linux Rootkit, macOS Crypto Stealer, WebSocket Skimmers and More https://thehackernews.com/2026/05/weekly-recap-linux-rootkit-macos-crypto.html Rough Monday. Somebody poisoned a trusted download again, somebody else turned cloud servers into public housing, and a few crews are still getting into boxes with bugs that should’ve died years ago — the same old holes, same lazy access paths, same “how the hell is this still open” feeling. One report this week basically reads like a guy tripped over root access by accident and decided to stay

Your Purple Team Isn't Purple — It's Just Red and Blue in the Same Room https://thehackernews.com/2026/05/your-purple-team-isnt-purple-its-just.html Defending a network at 2 am looks a lot like this: an analyst copy-pasting a hash from a PDF into a SIEM query. A red team script is being rewritten by hand so the blue team can use it. A patch waiting on a change-approval window that's longer than the exploitation window itself. Nobody in that chain is incompetent. Every human is doing their job correctly. The problem is the system, its

Fake OpenAI Privacy Filter Repo Hits #1 on Hugging Face, Draws 244K Downloads https://thehackernews.com/2026/05/fake-openai-privacy-filter-repo-hits-1.html A malicious Hugging Face repository managed to take a spot in the platform's trending list by impersonating OpenAI's Privacy Filter open-weight model to deliver a Rust-based information stealer to Windows users. The project, named Open-OSS/privacy-filter, masqueraded as its legitimate counterpart, released by OpenAI late last month (openai/privacy-filter), including copying the entire

Ollama Out-of-Bounds Read Vulnerability Allows Remote Process Memory Leak https://thehackernews.com/2026/05/ollama-out-of-bounds-read-vulnerability.html Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a critical security vulnerability in Ollama that, if successfully exploited, could allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to leak its entire process memory. The out-of-bounds read flaw, which likely impacts over 300,000 servers globally, is tracked as CVE-2026-7482 (CVSS score: 9.1). It has been codenamed Bleeding Llama by Cyera. Ollama is a

cPanel, WHM Release Fixes for Three New Vulnerabilities — Patch Now https://thehackernews.com/2026/05/cpanel-whm-patch-3-new-vulnerabilities.html cPanel has released updates to address three vulnerabilities in cPanel and Web Host Manager (WHM) that could be exploited to achieve privilege escalation, code execution, and denial-of-service. The list of vulnerabilities is as follows - CVE-2026-29201 (CVSS score: 4.3) - An insufficient input validation of the feature file name in the "feature::LOADFEATUREFILE" adminbin call that could result

TCLBANKER Banking Trojan Targets Financial Platforms via WhatsApp and Outlook Worms https://thehackernews.com/2026/05/tclbanker-banking-trojan-targets.html Threat hunters have flagged a previously undocumented Brazilian banking trojan dubbed TCLBANKER that's capable of targeting 59 banking, fintech, and cryptocurrency platforms. The activity is being tracked by Elastic Security Labs under the moniker REF3076. The malware family is assessed to be a major update of the Maverick, which is known to leverage a worm called SORVEPOTEL to spread via

Fake Call History Apps Stole Payments From Users After 7.3 Million Play Store Downloads https://thehackernews.com/2026/05/fake-call-history-apps-stole-payments.html Cybersecurity researchers have discovered fraudulent apps on the official Google Play Store for Android that falsely claimed to offer access to call histories for any phone number, only to trick users into joining a subscription that provided fake data and incurred financial loss. The 28 apps have collectively racked up more than 7.3 million downloads, with one of them alone accounting for over

One Click, Total Shutdown: The "Patient Zero" Webinar on Killing Stealth Breaches https://thehackernews.com/2026/05/one-click-total-shutdown-patient-zero.html The hardest part of cybersecurity isn't the technology, it’s the people. Every major breach you’ve read about lately usually starts the same way: one employee, one clever email, and one "Patient Zero" infection. In 2026, hackers are using AI to make these "first clicks" nearly impossible to spot. If a single laptop gets compromised on your watch, do you have a plan to stop it from taking down

Quasar Linux RAT Steals Developer Credentials for Software Supply Chain Compromise https://thehackernews.com/2026/05/quasar-linux-rat-steals-developer.html A previously undocumented Linux implant codenamed Quasar Linux RAT (QLNX) is targeting developers' systems to establish a silent foothold as well as facilitate a broad range of post-compromise functionality, such as credential harvesting, keylogging, file manipulation, clipboard monitoring, and network tunneling. "QLNX targets developers and DevOps credentials across the software supply chain,"

One Missed Threat Per Week: What 25M Alerts Reveal About Low-Severity Risk https://thehackernews.com/2026/05/one-missed-threat-per-week-what-25m.html The dark secret of enterprise security operations is that defenders have quietly institutionalized the practice of not looking. This is not just anecdotal, but rather backed by a recent report investigating more than 25 million security alerts, including informational and low-severity, across live enterprise environments.  The dataset behind these findings includes 10 million monitored

New Linux PamDOORa Backdoor Uses PAM Modules to Steal SSH Credentials https://thehackernews.com/2026/05/new-linux-pamdoora-backdoor-uses-pam.html Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new Linux backdoor named PamDOORa that's being advertised on the Rehub Russian cybercrime forum for $1,600 by a threat actor called "darkworm." The backdoor is designed as a Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM)-based post-exploitation toolkit that enables persistent SSH access by means of a magic password and specific TCP port combination.

Fake call logs, real payments: How CallPhantom tricks Android users https://www.welivesecurity.com/en/eset-research/fake-call-logs-real-payments-how-callphantom-tricks-android-users/ ESET researchers uncovered fraudulent apps on Google Play that claim to provide the call history “for any number” and had been downloaded more than seven million times before being taken down

Fixing the password problem is as easy as 123456 https://www.welivesecurity.com/en/cybersecurity/fixing-password-problem-as-easy-as-123456/ How come it’s still possible to ‘secure’ an online account with a six-digit string?

Linux Kernel Dirty Frag LPE Exploit Enables Root Access Across Major Distributions https://thehackernews.com/2026/05/linux-kernel-dirty-frag-lpe-exploit.html Details have emerged about a new, unpatched local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability impacting the Linux kernel. Dubbed Dirty Frag, it has been described as a successor to Copy Fail (CVE-2026-31431, CVSS score: 7.8), a recently disclosed LPE flaw impacting the Linux kernel that has since come under active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability was reported to Linux kernel maintainers

Ivanti EPMM CVE-2026-6973 RCE Under Active Exploitation Grants Admin-Level Access https://thehackernews.com/2026/05/ivanti-epmm-cve-2026-6973-rce-under.html Ivanti is warning that a new security flaw impacting Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM) has been explored in limited attacks in the wild. The high-severity vulnerability, CVE-2026-6973 (CVSS score: 7.2), is a case of improper input validation affecting EPMM before versions 12.6.1.1, 12.7.0.1, and 12.8.0.1. It allows "a remotely authenticated user with administrative access to achieve remote code

PCPJack Credential Stealer Exploits 5 CVEs to Spread Worm-Like Across Cloud Systems https://thehackernews.com/2026/05/pcpjack-credential-stealer-exploits-5.html Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new credential theft framework dubbed PCPJack that targets exposed cloud infrastructure and ousts any artifacts linked to TeamPCP from the environments. "The toolset harvests credentials from cloud, container, developer, productivity, and financial services, then exfiltrates the data through attacker-controlled infrastructure while attempting