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New TrickMo Variant Uses TON C2 and SOCKS5 to Create Android Network Pivots https://thehackernews.com/2026/05/new-trickmo-variant-uses-ton-c2-and.html Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new version of the TrickMo Android banking trojan that uses The Open Network (TON) for command-and-control (C2). The new variant, observed by ThreatFabric between January and February 2026, has been observed actively targeting banking and cryptocurrency wallet users in France, Italy, and Austria. "TrickMo relies on a runtime-loaded APK  (dex.module),

Webinar: What the Riskiest SOC Alerts Go Unanswered - and How Radiant Security Can Help https://thehackernews.com/2026/05/webinar-what-riskiest-soc-alerts-go.html Why do the Riskiest SOC Alerts Go Unanswered? Security operations teams are drowning in alerts. But the real problem isn't always alert volume; it's the blind spots. The most dangerous alerts are the ones no one is investigating. A recent report from The Hacker News examined why certain high-risk alert categories - WAF, DLP, OT/IoT, dark web intelligence, and supply chain signals- consistently

Why Agentic AI Is Security's Next Blind Spot https://thehackernews.com/2026/05/why-agentic-ai-is-securitys-next-blind.html Agentic AI is already running in production environments across many organizations today. It is executing tasks, consuming data, and taking actions — most likely without meaningful involvement from the security team. The industry conversation has largely framed this as a question of policy: allow it, restrict it, or monitor it? However, that framing misses the point.  The more urgent

Mini Shai-Hulud Worm Compromises TanStack, Mistral AI, Guardrails AI & More Packages https://thehackernews.com/2026/05/mini-shai-hulud-worm-compromises.html TeamPCP, the threat actor behind the recent supply chain attack spree, has been linked to the compromise of the npm and PyPI packages from TanStack, UiPath, Mistral AI, OpenSearch, and Guardrails AI as part of a fresh Mini Shai-Hulud campaign. The affected npm packages have been modified to include an obfuscated JavaScript file ("router_init.js") that's designed to profile the execution

Instructure Reaches Ransom Agreement with ShinyHunters to Stop 3.65TB Canvas Leak https://thehackernews.com/2026/05/instructure-reaches-ransom-agreement.html American educational technology company Instructure, the parent company of Canvas, said it reached an "agreement" with a decentralized cybercrime extortion group after it breached its network and threatened to leak stolen information from thousands of schools and universities. In an update shared on Monday, the Utah-based firm said it "reached an agreement with the unauthorized actor involved in

OpenAI Launches Daybreak for AI-Powered Vulnerability Detection and Patch Validation https://thehackernews.com/2026/05/openai-launches-daybreak-for-ai-powered.html OpenAI has launched Daybreak, a new cybersecurity initiative that brings together frontier artificial intelligence (AI) model capabilities and Codex Security to help organizations identify and patch vulnerabilities before attackers find a way in using the same issues. "Daybreak combines the intelligence of OpenAI models, the extensibility of Codex as an agentic harness, and our partners across

iOS 26.5 Brings Default End-to-End Encrypted RCS Messaging Between iPhone and Android https://thehackernews.com/2026/05/ios-265-brings-default-end-to-end.html Apple on Monday officially released iOS 26.5 with support for end-to-end encryption (E2EE) to Rich Communication Services (RCS) in beta as part of a "cross-industry effort" to replace traditional SMS with a more secure alternative. To that end, E2EE RCS messaging is rolling out to iPhone users running iOS 26.5 with supported carriers and Android users on the latest version of Google Messages.

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,"