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Trump Memo Paves Way for U.S. Firms to Hack and Disrupt Foreign Crime Groups https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/trump-memo-paves-way-for-us-firms-to.html A new White House memo signed by U.S. President Donald Trump has instructed the National Coordination Center (NCC) to establish a program that would allow private sector companies to take advantage of their "innovative capabilities" to break into foreign Transnational Criminal Organizations (TCOs) and disrupt them. "By partnering with vetted United States companies subject to the direction and

China-Linked Jewelbug Uses XG-Web for Government Espionage and Crypto Fraud https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/china-linked-jewelbug-uses-xg-web-for.html The China-linked threat actor known as Jewelbug has been observed carrying out cyber espionage operations targeting governments and militaries, while simultaneously engaging in cryptocurrency fraud. "Both missions are administered from a single control panel, XG-Web, a browser-centric remote-access and information-stealing framework that turns a victim's browser into a full remote-control

GeoServer Zero-Day Targeted in Active Exploitation Attempts, Can Lead to RCE https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/unpatched-geoserver-zero-day-targeted.html A newly disclosed zero-day flaw in GeoServer is seeing active exploitation efforts, per watchTowr. The vulnerability, which has yet to be assigned a CVE identifier, is an SQL injection vulnerability in the open-source platform that can lead to remote code execution (RCE). The security defect remains unpatched. It was first disclosed on August 12, 2026, at 10:46 UTC, by a researcher named @

ThreatsDay: GhostJacking AI Attacks, EtherHiding ClickFix, Cursor CLI Flaw + 17 More Stories https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/threatsday-ghostjacking-ai-attacks.html Some weeks have one big security story. Others bring many smaller updates that are easy to miss but still matter. This week has plenty of them, covering cloud services, AI tools, malware, data breaches, scams, and new attack methods. The latest ThreatsDay Bulletin puts all of these short updates in one place, so you can quickly catch up on what happened, what changed, and what security teams

New PATCHCORD Backdoor Targets Afghan Telecom and Indian Critical Infrastructure https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/new-patchcord-backdoor-targets-afghan.html Afghan telecom providers and South Asian critical infrastructure organizations have emerged as the target of a new ongoing campaign that delivers a previously undocumented backdoor called PATCHCORD. According to Acronis Threat Research Unit (TRU), the backdoor is a compiled C/C++ implant delivered by means of sector-specific lures, including fake VPN installers impersonating Afghan Telecom (

AmnesiaStealer Hijacks Chromium Sessions to Give Attackers Live Browser Control on macOS https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/amnesiastealer-hijacks-chromium.html Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new macOS-oriented, Rust-based information stealer called AmnesiaStealer that's capable of hijacking Chromium web browsers to steal session data. The multi-stage stealer is spread via a counterfeit GitHub download page titled "Download for macOS" and claims to be from a verified publisher. The page employs a ClickFix-style lure that

WindRelay Android Malware Turns Victims' Phones Into NFC Relays for Payment Fraud https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/windrelay-android-malware-turns-victims.html A previously unseen Android near field communication (NFC) relay malware family dubbed WindRelay is being deployed in conjunction with a known remote access trojan (RAT) called SpyNote as part of a contactless payment fraud scheme. The purpose-built malware, according to Group-IB, is designed to capture live card data via NFC and transmit it to fraudsters in real time. It was first detected in

North Korean Remote Workers Are Infiltrating Government and Businesses: How to Expose Them Before Hiring https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/north-korean-remote-workers-are.html Companies are used to thinking about attackers as outsiders trying to break in. North Korean IT workers flip that model. They apply for jobs, pass interviews, receive legitimate credentials, and can end up inside the same systems companies spend millions trying to protect. That risk is no longer theoretical. The FBI is now investigating a North Korean remote IT worker who reportedly worked for

Black Hat USA 2026: Will vulnerability discovery eventually decline in the AI era? https://www.welivesecurity.com/en/business-security/black-hat-usa-2026-vulnerability-discovery-decline-ai-era/ And will today’s surge in AI-driven vulnerability discovery eventually make tomorrow’s software safer?

Black Hat USA 2026: What the Hugging Face hack tells us about human responsibility https://www.welivesecurity.com/en/business-security/black-hat-usa-2026-hugging-face-hack-human-responsibility/ The incident involving OpenAI models shows that autonomous hacks make human oversight more important, not less

Attackers Exploit SharePoint Authentication Bypass After Public PoC Release https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/attackers-exploit-sharepoint.html Threat actors have begun to exploit a newly disclosed Microsoft SharePoint vulnerability following the release of a proof-of-concept (PoC) code. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-55040 (CVSS score: 9.1), which refers to a critical security feature bypass that stems from weak authentication. It was patched by Microsoft as part of its July 2026 Patch Tuesday updates. "The authentication

Black Hat USA 2026: AI is racing ahead of cybersecurity controls https://www.welivesecurity.com/en/business-security/black-hat-usa-2026-ai-racing-cybersecurity-controls/ AI took center stage, but the clearest lesson was less about what AI can do than about who is accountable when something goes wrong

Lazarus Exploits Windows Zero-Day to Gain SYSTEM Access and Deploy Backdoor https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/lazarus-exploits-windows-zero-day-to.html The North Korean threat actor known as Lazarus Group has been attributed to the zero-day exploitation of a newly patched security flaw impacting Microsoft Windows to deliver a never-before-seen backdoor targeting defense and aerospace companies across France, Germany, Brazil, and India. The activity, per Check Point Research, is part of Operation Dream Job, a long-running cyber espionage and

737 Chrome VPN Extensions Caught Routing Traffic Through Proxies. Check If You Have One https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/737-chrome-vpn-extensions-caught.html A massive set of 737 free VPN and proxy extensions have been found to mainly target Russian-speaking users seeking access to blocked services with an aim to intercept browser traffic and route them through a proxy infrastructure. The extensions, published across at least 40 Chrome Web Store developer accounts, racked up 75,486 installs. Of those identified, 274 have been found to impersonate 66

OpenAI, Anthropic, Google API Flaw Let Weaker AI Models Decode Stronger Models' Reasoning https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/openai-anthropic-google-api-flaw-let.html A newly disclosed flaw in the way OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google carried hidden AI reasoning between API calls let researchers recover internal reasoning and secrets from session logs, including API keys and passwords. The weakness affected encrypted reasoning objects used by the providers' reasoning APIs, where a block created in one session could be replayed into another and, during testing,

Enterprise Defenses Recovered at the Edge and Collapsed Inside https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/enterprise-defenses-recovered-at-edge.html Enterprise defenses are tuned to catch the attacks that make noise. This year's data shows attackers winning by making none. According to Picus Labs' new Blue Report 2026, which measured more than 338 million real attack simulations across actual client production environments in the first half of 2026, defenses are having one of their strongest years yet. Average prevention effectiveness

Adobe Patches Three CVSS 10.0 ColdFusion and Campaign Classic Flaws https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/adobe-patches-three-cvss-100-coldfusion.html Adobe has shipped updates to address multiple critical security vulnerabilities impacting ColdFusion, Commerce, and Campaign Classic that, if successfully exploited, could result in arbitrary code execution and privilege escalation. The most severe of the flaws are listed below - CVE-2026-48362 (CVSS score: 10.0) - An operating system command injection vulnerability in ColdFusion that could

Attackers Exploit VMware vCenter Vulnerability to Gain Persistent Remote Access https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/attackers-exploit-vmware-vcenter.html Threat actors have begun to actively exploit a recently patched critical security flaw in Broadcom VMware vCenter, according to new findings from QUIRSO. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-59310 (CVSS score: 9.8), a directory-traversal vulnerability in the VMware vCenter server that a malicious actor with network access can exploit to execute arbitrary code. Patches for the flaw were

Malicious LiteLLM Releases Tied to Trivy Hack May Have Exposed 2,100+ Organizations https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/malicious-litellm-releases-tied-to.html Two malicious LiteLLM releases sat on PyPI for about 40 minutes in March carrying credential-stealing code capable of harvesting cloud keys, SSH keys, Kubernetes tokens, database passwords, and other secrets from systems that installed them. Threat intelligence firm CloudSEK now says a dataset it obtained, built from roughly 434,000 files the attackers captured, maps potential exposure to more

SAP Commerce Cloud Flaw Could Let Unauthenticated Attackers Execute Arbitrary Code https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/sap-commerce-cloud-flaw-could-let.html SAP has released patches to address a maximum-severity security flaw impacting Commerce Cloud (Data Hub Adapter) that could result in arbitrary code execution. The vulnerability, assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2026-58231, is rated 10.0 on the CVSS scoring system. It has been described as a case of insufficient authorization checks and input validation. "SAP Commerce Cloud allows an