TECHZONE™

The Verification Step Is the New ATO Battleground in 2026 https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/the-verification-step-is-new-ato.html For years, account takeover (ATO) followed a predictable script. Attackers bought stolen credentials in bulk, ran them through automated tools, and waited for matches. Credential stuffing was cheap, scalable, and for defenders, relatively well understood. That era is ending. Not because attackers gave up, but because the front door finally got harder to kick in. Passkeys are now mainstream.

GitHub Copilot Refuses Harmful Requests in Chat, Then Writes Them in Code https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/github-copilot-refuses-harmful-requests.html An AI coding assistant that refuses to answer a dangerous request in its chat box can answer it anyway if the same request is broken into small, ordinary-looking steps inside a code editor. That is the finding of a new study of GitHub Copilot by researchers Abhishek Kumar and Carsten Maple. The models they tested through Copilot, Claude from Anthropic, and Gemini from Google, refused

China-Linked UAT-7810 Expands ORB Network With New LONGLEASH Malware https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/china-linked-uat-7810-expands-orb.html A Chinese threat actor tracked as UAT-7810 is actively refining its bespoke malware to expand its Operational Relay Box (ORB) network by breaking into internet-facing networking devices. According to findings from Cisco Talos, UAT-7810 is an advanced persistent threat (APT) actor that's responsible for maintaining and proliferating LapDogs, an ORB network that first came to light in June 2025.

15-Year-Old GhostLock Flaw Enables Root and Container Escape on Most Linux Distros https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/15-year-old-ghostlock-flaw-enables-root.html Researchers at Nebula Security have disclosed GhostLock (CVE-2026-43499), a 15-year-old Linux kernel flaw that lets any logged-in user take full root control of a machine that has not been patched. The vulnerable code has shipped by default in essentially every mainstream distribution since 2011. The flaw needs no special permission, no unusual settings, and no network

CISA Adds 4 Actively Exploited Adobe, Joomla, and Langflow Flaws to KEV https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/cisa-adds-4-actively-exploited-adobe.html The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added four security flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerabilities are listed below - CVE-2026-48282 (CVSS score: 10.0) - A path traversal vulnerability in Adobe ColdFusion that could lead to arbitrary code execution in the context of the

RedWing MaaS Packages Android Bank Fraud as a Telegram Rental Service https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/redwing-maas-packages-android-bank.html A new Android malware operation called RedWing is being rented out on Telegram as a ready-made bank-fraud service. It lets even low-skill criminals take over a victim's phone, steal their banking logins, and capture the one-time codes that protect their accounts. Zimperium's zLabs, which found the operation, says it looks like a new variant of Oblivion, a $300-a-month rent-a-malware tool

Rogue Agent Flaw Could Have Let Attackers Hijack Google Dialogflow CX Chatbots https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/rogue-agent-flaw-could-have-let.html A critical flaw in Google's Dialogflow CX could have let an attacker with edit rights on one Code Block-enabled agent compromise other Code Block-enabled agents in the same Google Cloud project. From there, they could read live conversations, steal the data users shared, and make the bots send attacker-written messages, including requests to re-enter a password. Security firm Varonis found it

DEBULL Tooling Abuses Microsoft Device-Code Flow to Target M365 Accounts https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/debull-tooling-abuses-microsoft-device.html A Microsoft 365 device code phishing campaign has been observed leveraging collaboration-themed lures to take control of victim accounts between the last week of June 2026 and into early July, per findings from ZeroBEC. "The campaign did not depend on a fake Microsoft password page. It used a malicious collaboration-style lure to push users into the legitimate Microsoft device login experience,

Public GitHub Issue Could Trick GitHub Agentic Workflows Into Leaking Private Repo Data https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/public-github-issue-could-trick-github.html A public issue can trick GitHub Agentic Workflows into leaking the contents of an organization's private repositories, researchers at Noma Security have shown. The attacker needs only to open a normal-looking issue on a public repository, with no stolen credentials and no access to the organization. If that organization has given the agent read access across its repositories, private ones

Court Filing Reveals Windows Device ID Helped FBI Trace Alleged Scattered Spider Hacker https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/court-filing-reveals-windows-device-id.html U.S. prosecutors linked an alleged Scattered Spider hacker to a break-in at a luxury jewelry retailer using a persistent Windows device ID, according to a newly unsealed federal complaint. Microsoft records tied that ID first to the account the attackers used to keep access during the May 2025 intrusion, then to online accounts prosecutors say belong to 19-year-old Peter Stokes. Stokes is

Writer AI Flaw Could Let Agent Previews Leak Session Tokens Across Tenants https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/writer-ai-flaw-could-let-agent-previews.html Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a now-patched critical session isolation vulnerability in Writer, an enterprise generative artificial intelligence (AI) platform, that could result in cross-tenant compromise. The one-click vulnerability has been codenamed WriteOut by the Sand Security Research team. "An outsider could go from having no access to taking over any Writer AI

What Changes When Your Software Supply Chain Includes AI Writing Your Code? https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/what-changes-when-your-software-supply.html Software supply chain security was hard enough. Then AI joined the build pipeline. For five years, "software supply chain security" meant one question: what's in your code? Which open-source packages, which versions, which transitive dependencies three layers deep that nobody chose on purpose? SolarWinds, Log4Shell, and XZ Utils all taught the same lesson: the risk lives less in the code a

Suspected China-Aligned Hackers Exploit Roundcube Flaws Against Universities https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/suspected-china-aligned-hackers-exploit.html A suspected China-aligned threat activity cluster has been observed exploiting Roundcube webmail software belonging to physics and engineering departments of U.S. and Canadian universities as part of a new campaign. The activity involves the exploitation of now-patched, critical security flaws in the open-source email solution, such as CVE-2024-42009 (CVSS score: 9.3), to siphon credentials,

CERT/CC Warns of Hidden Admin Backdoor in Tenda Router Firmware https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/certcc-warns-of-hidden-admin-backdoor.html Several versions of firmware released by Chinese network device manufacturer Tenda have been found to embed an undocumented authentication backdoor that enables administrative access to the devices' web management interfaces, the CERT Coordination Center (CERT/CC) warned Monday. "An attacker can exploit this vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-11405, to bypass the password verification process

BeyondTrust Patches Critical Auth Bypass Flaws in Remote Support and PRA https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/beyondtrust-patches-critical-auth.html BeyondTrust has released updates to address two critical security flaws affecting Remote Support (RS) and Privileged Remote Access (PRA) products that, if successfully exploited, could allow unauthenticated attackers to take control of susceptible devices. The vulnerabilities are listed below - CVE-2026-40138 (CVSS score: 9.2) - A pre-authentication vulnerability exists in the

Iran-Linked Hackers Use New Cavern C2 Framework to Target Israeli Organizations https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/iran-linked-hackers-use-new-cavern-c2.html An Iranian hacking group affiliated with Iran's Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) has been wielding a previously undocumented modular command-and-control (C2) framework dubbed Cavern (aka Cav3rn) targeting Israeli organizations. The activity, which has primarily singled out IT providers and government sectors, has been attributed to a threat cluster tracked by Check Point Research

16-Year-Old Linux KVM Flaw Lets Guest VMs Escape to Host on Intel and AMD x86 Systems https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/16-year-old-linux-kvm-flaw-lets-guest.html A use-after-free bug in Linux's KVM hypervisor can be triggered from a guest virtual machine to corrupt the shadow-page state of the host kernel that runs it. Dubbed 'Januscape' and tracked as CVE-2026-53359, the flaw sits in the shadow MMU code that KVM shares across both Intel and AMD. The public proof-of-concept panics the host; the researcher claims that a separate, unreleased exploit

Threat Actors Probe Gitea Docker Flaw CVE-2026-20896 13 Days After Disclosure https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/threat-actors-probe-gitea-docker-flaw.html Threat actors have been observed attempting to exploit a recently patched critical security flaw in Gitea Docker images, according to Sysdig. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-20896 (CVSS score: 9.8), a vulnerability that stems from the DevOps platform trusting the "X-WEBAUTH-USER" header from any source IP address, effectively allowing an unauthenticated internet client to get elevated

⚡ Weekly Recap: Proxy Botnets, Browser Ransomware, AI Agent Tricks, Fake PoC Malware and More https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/monday-recap-proxy-botnets-browser.html A streaming box should not need a threat model. Neither should a username field, a demo repo, a reset flow, or a browser permission prompt. That is the irritating part this week: the risky pieces were ordinary. Home devices became a routing cover. Clean code pulled dirt from a dependency. Identity shortcuts aged badly. AI systems trusted the wrong instructions. Same soft spot throughout: trust

How to Evaluate an AI SOC Platform in 2026: 6 Capabilities That Separate Leaders from Bolt-On AI solutions https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/how-to-evaluate-ai-soc-platform-in-2026.html Building a shortlist for an AI SOC evaluation can be tough. SIEM, SOAR, and pureplay AI SOC vendors are all saying the same thing. But behind the identical label sit very different products, from chat assistants bolted onto a legacy SIEM to agent platforms that run detection, triage, investigation, and response on their own data foundation. Whether a platform will materially change outcomes for