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SonicWall SMA Zero-Days Exploited Before Disclosure to Gain Root Access https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/sonicwall-sma-zero-days-exploited.html A previously undocumented threat actor has been attributed to the exploitation of recently disclosed SonicWall Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 1000 series VPN appliances as zero-days prior their public disclosure since June 22, 2026. Cybersecurity company Volexity is tracking the activity under the moniker UTA0533. The discovery was made following an incident response investigation earlier this

New wp2shell WordPress Core Flaw Lets Unauthenticated Attackers Run Code https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/new-wp2shell-wordpress-core-flaw-lets.html An anonymous HTTP request can run code on a WordPress site. The bug is in core, so a bare install with zero plugins is exploitable. Every 6.9 and 7.0 site was in range until Friday, when WordPress shipped 6.9.5 and 7.0.2 and enabled what it calls forced updates through its auto-update system. Adam Kues at Assetnote, Searchlight Cyber's attack surface management arm, found the flaw and reported

OpenSSL HollowByte Flaw Could Freeze Server Memory with 11-Byte TLS Requests https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/openssl-hollowbyte-flaw-could-freeze.html Eleven bytes will make an unpatched OpenSSL server set aside up to 131 KB of memory for a message that never arrives. On the glibc systems Okta tested, that memory is gone until the process restarts. OpenSSL shipped the HollowByte fix in June with no CVE, no advisory, and no changelog entry pointing at it. Okta's Red Team, which reported the denial-of-service bug and named it, published the

Seven Malicious Vite npm Packages Use Blockchain C2 to Deliver a RAT https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/seven-malicious-vite-npm-packages-use.html Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a cluster of seven malicious npm packages targeting the Vite frontend tooling ecosystem as part of a software supply chain attack. The malicious package campaign, codenamed ViteVenom by Checkmarx, marks an expansion of ChainVeil, which was observed using an "unprecedented" four-tier blockchain-based command-and-control (C2) infrastructure spanning Tron,

New NadMesh Botnet Hunts Exposed AI Services for Cloud Keys and Kubernetes Tokens https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/new-nadmesh-botnet-hunts-exposed-ai.html A Go botnet called NadMesh turned up in early July hunting exposed AI services, and the operator's own dashboard claims 3,811 unique AWS keys. A Shodan harvester keeps the scan queue stocked with ComfyUI, Ollama, n8n, Open WebUI, Langflow, and Gradio: the image generators, local model runners, and workflow builders that teams stand up fast and firewall late. The intel feed behind that counter

GoldenEyeDog Subgroup Linked to DigiCert Breach and Code-Signing Certificate Theft https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/goldeneyedog-subgroup-linked-to.html Cybersecurity researchers have attributed the April 2026 DigiCert security incident to a threat activity cluster dubbed CylindricalCanine. Expel, which shared technical details of the event, described the threat actor as a sub-group of GoldenEyeDog (aka APT-Q-27, Dragon Breath, and Miuuti Group), a Chinese cybercrime group known for its targeting of the gambling and gaming sectors using

Fake Coding Tests Deliver OtterCookie-Aligned Malware Hidden in SVG Flag Images https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/north-korea-linked-hackers-hide.html North Korean threat actors linked to the Contagious Interview campaign have been observed employing steganography in SVG image files to conceal malicious payloads as part of a campaign using fake job postings and coding challenges. "Any user who ran the project ended up with a four-stage payload aligned with OTTERCOOKIE: a browser credential and crypto wallet stealer, a file stealer, a

E.U. Orders Google to Open Android Mic, Camera and Screen to Rival AI Assistants https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/eu-orders-google-to-open-android-mic.html The European Commission on Thursday ordered Google to give rival AI assistants the same reach into Android that Gemini already has: the camera, the microphone, whatever is on screen, a wake word that fires with the display off, and the ability to drive other apps in the background by imitating taps and typing. Google has to ship it in the next major release, Android 18, and by 1 August 2027 at

The Race to Field Military Autonomy Is On, Can Trusted Information Infrastructure Keep Pace? https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/the-race-to-field-military-autonomy-is.html Military forces are under increasing pressure to field autonomous capabilities faster than ever before. Across the U.S., UK, and NATO, new investment, evolving defense strategies, and accelerated acquisition pathways are transforming how capability is delivered, rewarding programs that can move from concept to operational deployment at commercial speed. Now the focus shifts to the trusted

Armenia Detains Russian Tourist on U.S. Warrant for REvil Hacker, Lawyers Say Wrong Man https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/armenia-detains-russian-tourist-on-us.html Armenia has held a Russian tourist named Aleksandr Ermakov in a detention center since June 28, on a U.S. extradition request for a REvil ransomware suspect named Aleksandr Ermakov. His wife, Maria Yurova, told REN TV that border officers pulled him out of the departure hall at Yerevan's Zvartnots airport, held up a phone with a photo of him off his VKontakte page, and walked him into a side

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