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Adversarial Exposure Validation Turns Security Visibility into Confident Prioritization https://thehackernews.com/2026/06/adversarial-exposure-validation-turns.html For security teams, the findings never stop, but confidence in knowing which ones matter is becoming harder to maintain. The problem is no longer visibility. It's validation. Security teams must decide which findings warrant action while operating under constant pressure and incomplete information. Increasingly, the challenge is not discovering potential risks. It is determining which risks

The Top 10 Attack Surface Exposures in 2026 https://thehackernews.com/2026/06/the-top-10-attack-surface-exposures-in.html Breaches don't always start with a zero-day. An exposed admin panel can get brute-forced, or credentials reused from a previous attack. But when a vulnerability does drop — like MongoBleed earlier this year, which let attackers pull credentials and session tokens from server memory without authentication — anything internet-facing is immediately at risk. With time-to-exploit now down to a

FishMonger’s arsenal upgraded: SprySOCKS for Windows https://www.welivesecurity.com/en/eset-research/fishmongers-arsenal-upgraded-sprysocks-windows/ ESET researchers have discovered SprySOCKS for Windows, FishMonger’s backdoor weaponizing a kernel driver for advanced stealthiness

144 Mastra npm Packages Compromised via Hijacked Contributor Account https://thehackernews.com/2026/06/144-mastra-npm-packages-compromised-via.html As many as 144 npm packages associated with the Mastra namespace ("@mastra/*"), a popular open-source JavaScript and TypeScript framework for building artificial intelligence (AI) applications, have been compromised as part of a software supply chain attack codenamed easy-day-js, per findings from JFrog, SafeDep, Socket, and StepSecurity. "A single npm account (ehindero) mass-published more

CISA Warns of Actively Exploited Joomla JCE Flaw Allowing PHP Code Execution https://thehackernews.com/2026/06/cisa-warns-of-actively-exploited-joomla.html The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added a maximum-severity security flaw impacting Widget Factory Joomla Content Editor (JCE) to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-48907 (CVSS score: 10.0), is a case of improper access control that could facilitate arbitrary

Google Vertex AI SDK Flaw Let Attackers Hijack Model Uploads via Bucket Squatting https://thehackernews.com/2026/06/google-vertex-ai-sdk-flaw-let-attackers.html A flaw in the Google Cloud Vertex AI SDK for Python let an attacker with no access to a victim's project hijack the victim's machine learning model upload and run code inside Google's serving infrastructure. Palo Alto Networks Unit 42, which found and reported the bug through Google's bug bounty program, calls the technique "Pickle in the Middle" and said it saw no exploitation in the wild.

ClickFix Campaigns Expand Malware Delivery With New Loaders and Fake Update Lures https://thehackernews.com/2026/06/clickfix-campaigns-expand-malware.html Cybersecurity researchers have flagged multiple ClickFix campaigns that deliver three malware loaders called BabaDeda Loader, Lorem Ipsum Loader, and Potemkin, per independent reports from Morphisec, BlueVoyant, and Huntress, respectively. Attacks involving BabaDeda Loader, observed in April 2026, have targeted education and financial organizations. "Earlier BabaDeda activity was known for

New Rokarolla Android Malware Steals PINs, SMS Codes, and Crypto Wallet Funds https://thehackernews.com/2026/06/new-rokarolla-android-malware-steals.html Security researchers at Zimperium's zLabs have documented a new Android banking trojan, Rokarolla, that targets 217 banking and cryptocurrency apps and packs 137 remote commands. Together, they give an operator near-total control of an infected phone: it lifts lock-screen PINs, reads and sends SMS, rewrites the clipboard to redirect crypto payments, and switches off Google Play

Survey: 94% of Incidents Involve Anonymized Infrastructure. Teams Are Still Reactive https://thehackernews.com/2026/06/survey-94-of-incidents-involve.html Security teams have never had more IP data at their disposal. Every day, analysts ingest enrichment feeds, geolocation data, reputation scores, telemetry, and threat intelligence from a growing ecosystem of vendors and platforms. Yet despite this abundance of information, many organizations continue to face a fundamental challenge: sifting through the noise to understand who is behind an IP and

Attackers Exploit Three Fortinet FortiSandbox Flaws, One Patched Last Week https://thehackernews.com/2026/06/attackers-exploit-three-fortinet.html Bad actors are exploiting multiple security vulnerabilities in Fortinet FortiSandbox, according to threat intelligence firm Defused Cyber. In a post shared on X, the company said it has observed exploitation of CVE-2026-39813, CVE-2026-39808, and CVE-2026-25089 over the past 24 hours. CVE-2026-39813 (CVSS score: 9.1) refers to a path traversal vulnerability in FortiSandbox JRPC API that could

China-Linked SprySOCKS Backdoor Expands to Windows with Driver-Based Stealth https://thehackernews.com/2026/06/china-linked-sprysocks-backdoor-expands.html Cybersecurity researchers have flagged two previously undocumented Windows variants of what was believed to be a Linux-only backdoor called SprySOCKS. "The Windows variants discovered are internally marked as WIN_DRV and WIN_PLUS," ESET said in a report shared with The Hacker News. "Both come with a hard-coded C&C [command-and-control] configuration and support communication over TCP, UDP,

Fake Microsoft Alerts Used to Deploy North Korean NarwhalRAT Malware https://thehackernews.com/2026/06/fake-microsoft-alerts-used-to-deploy.html The North Korean state-sponsored hacking group known as ScarCruft (aka APT37) has been observed using spear-phishing messages impersonating Microsoft Account security notifications to deliver malware called NarwhalRAT. "The attack email contained a message impersonating an MS account security alert," the Genians Security Center (GSC) said. "It was designed to create concern over possible

EvilTokens: A phishing attack that doesn’t steal your password https://www.welivesecurity.com/en/cybercrime/eviltokens-phishing-doesnt-steal-password/ A phishing kit subverting Microsoft’s legitimate authentication flow lets attackers break into accounts without stealing passwords or creating fake login pages

Cisco Releases Security Updates for Actively Exploited SD-WAN Manager Flaw https://thehackernews.com/2026/06/cisco-releases-security-updates-for.html Cisco has released security updates for a medium-severity security flaw in Catalyst SD-WAN Manager that has come under active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-20262, carries a CVSS score of 6.5 out of 10.0. "A vulnerability in the web UI of Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager, formerly SD-WAN vManage, could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to create a file or

CISA Flags LiteSpeed cPanel Plugin Flaw Exploited for Root Privilege Escalation https://thehackernews.com/2026/06/cisa-flags-litespeed-cpanel-plugin-flaw.html The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a security flaw impacting LiteSpeed cPanel Plugin to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, requiring Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) agencies to apply the fixes by June 18, 2026. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-54420 (CVSS score: 8.5), which has been described as a case of privilege

Chinese Hackers Abused Google Workspace Rules to Steal Research and Defense Emails https://thehackernews.com/2026/06/chinese-hackers-abused-google-workspace.html A China-linked espionage group hid inside North American medical, academic, and military research networks for more than a year, quietly stealing sensitive research and defense email. The way in was a backdoor on their REDCap research servers that stole login credentials. The exfiltration was the unusual part: the attackers rewired the victims' own Google Workspace rules to copy any message

North Korean Hackers Are Turning Developer Tools Into Malware Delivery Channels https://thehackernews.com/2026/06/north-korean-hackers-are-turning.html Cybersecurity researchers have flagged two malicious cyber campaigns that exhibit similarities with a persistent North Korean threat cluster known as Contagious Interview (aka Famous Chollima, HexagonalRodent, and Void Dokkaebi). According to a report published by Proofpoint, the threat actor has been found orchestrating phishing campaigns using developer role recruitment or code review themes

LiteLLM Vulnerability Chain Lets Low-Privilege Users Take Over AI Gateway Servers https://thehackernews.com/2026/06/litellm-vulnerability-chain-lets-low.html A default low-privilege account on a LiteLLM proxy can climb to full admin and run code on the server by chaining three vulnerabilities, researchers at Obsidian Security disclosed LiteLLM is a widely deployed open-source AI gateway that brokers calls to more than 100 model providers behind one OpenAI-compatible interface. A server takeover exposes every provider key it holds, the secrets that

One-Click Microsoft 365 Copilot Flaw Could Have Let Attackers Steal Emails, Files, and MFA Codes https://thehackernews.com/2026/06/one-click-microsoft-365-copilot-flaw.html A single click on a trusted Microsoft link could have let an attacker pull emails, calendar details, and indexed files out of Microsoft 365 Copilot Enterprise Search. Researchers at Varonis Threat Labs chained three bugs into a one-click exfiltration path they call SearchLeak. Because the link pointed to a real microsoft.com domain, traditional anti-phishing and URL filtering tools were

⚡ Weekly Recap: Chrome 0-Day, UniFi Exploits, macOS Stealers, VPN Flaw and More https://thehackernews.com/2026/06/weekly-recap-chrome-0-day-unifi.html Stuff broke again. Not in a movie way. An old tool was left exposed. An abandoned package was abused. A deprecated feature was still running in prod. This week is the same lesson in a new form: phishing kits are easier to rent, AI names are useful bait, old login paths still fail, and forgotten software keeps becoming someone else's entry point. Scroll through the full Monday Cybersecurity