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Meta Accuses NSO of Violating WhatsApp Court Injunction

Meta says NSO violated a court injunction by targeting WhatsApp users again through phishing campaigns and test accounts. Last year, WhatsApp won a landmark case against NSO Group, the Israeli spyware vendor behind Pegasus, and secured a permanent court injunction barring the company from ever targeting WhatsApp or its users again. The court was unambiguous:…

One-Character Linux Kernel Flaw Enables Local Root Access, Exploits Now Public

Security researchers have published a detailed, working exploit for a Linux kernel use-after-free that lets an unprivileged local user escalate to root and break out of a container. The flaw, CVE-2026-23111, sits in the kernel’s nf_tables packet-filtering code and was patched upstream on February 5, 2026. Exodus Intelligence released its full technical walkthrough on June…

Meta accuses NSO Group of defying spyware injunction, files contempt of court complaint

Meta said Monday that it caught a spearphishing campaign linked to spyware maker NSO Group despite a court injunction, prompting the tech giant to file a contempt-of-court complaint. The company won a civil case last year against NSO Group barring it from targeting WhatsApp users and securing $168 million in damages, although NSO Group has…

TeamPCP Supply Chain Campaign: Activity Through 2026-06-07, (Mon, Jun 8th)

This diary continues the Internet Storm Center’s tracking of the TeamPCP supply chain campaign, first documented in the SANS white paper When the Security Scanner Became the Weapon and most recently in the handler diary Activity Through 2026-05-24. Since that update, the story moved into two new places: the United States government, which formally caught up to the…

Minimus Unveils New Supply Chain Protection Proxy and Command-Line Interface for Container Management

Cloud software security firm Minimus today expanded its product portfolio with the general availability of Minimus Supply Chain Protection and minicli. The tools introduce a unified approach to managing third-party software risks and container image configurations. The release of Supply Chain Protection directly targets vulnerabilities found within the application package universe, where interwoven dependencies are…

Operationalizing AWS security: A maturity roadmap

Enabling security tooling is the starting point. Making it operational—where findings drive decisions, response times are measurable, and your security posture improves week over week—is where most organizations struggle. This blog post provides a phased maturity roadmap for organizations that have already enabled AWS Security Hub and Amazon GuardDuty. These two services form the foundation…

Guardz Launches AI Reporting Tool for MSP Security Teams

Managed service providers may finally have an easier way to explain exactly what their security work is accomplishing. Guardz today unveils a new agentic reporting capability designed to simplify how managed service providers (MSPs) create, customize, and deliver security reports to customers.  Security operations get automation boost The launch marks the company’s latest step toward…

Hackers used Meta’s AI support system to hijack over 20,000 Instagram accounts

Meta has revealed that attackers hijacked 20,225 Instagram accounts by exploiting a flaw in the company’s AI-assisted account recovery system. According to the company, a vulnerability in High Touch Support (HTS) allowed unauthorized parties to perform password resets on Instagram accounts. HTS is an AI-assisted account recovery system for Instagram designed to help users regain…

New Relic expands observability into AI-assisted software development

New Relic has announced AI Coding Observability, an open-source tool for monitoring AI-assisted software development workflows. As organizations adopt AI coding assistants, these tools often operate outside existing observability systems, limiting visibility into their use. AI Coding Observability extends monitoring into the software development process, enabling organizations to track, analyze, and audit AI-assisted coding activities.…

Silverfort Securing AI Agents With Copilot Studio Integration

Identity security organization Silverfort has announced it will integrate its Identity Security control for AI agents into Microsoft Copilot Studio. Runtime security addresses Copilot actions before execution The integration will enable Silverfort to deliver inline identity security at runtime, enforcing intelligent access control policies the moment a Copilot agent attempts to act, blocking unauthorized access…

Anthropic Calls for AI Pause as Industry Races Ahead

Anthropic picked an interesting week to warn the world about the dangers of advanced AI. Anthropic warns of self-improving AI risks Just days after filing confidentially for an IPO, the company published a rather lengthy proposal arguing that AI companies may eventually need a way to hit pause.  The company worries that AI could reach…

Qilin ransomware affiliate exploited Check Point VPN zero-day (CVE-2026-50751)

A Qilin ransomware affiliate is believed to be exploiting CVE-2026-50751, an authentication bypass vulnerability in Check Point VPN Remote Access and Mobile Access, the company announced on Monday. About CVE-2026-50751 Check Point Remote Access VPN enables and secures connections between corporate networks and remote or mobile devices. Check Point Mobile Access lets mobile and remote…

Google Protocol Buffers flaw turns schemas into shells

A widely used JavaScript implementation of Google’s Protocol Buffers format is placing too much trust in untrusted data, exposing affected applications to remote code execution and other attacks. Researchers at Cyera have disclosed six vulnerabilities affecting “protobuf.js,” all stemming from the library’s handling of schema and metadata. Attackers could exploit an input validation oversight to…

The Hardest Fork

Mythos is real. I know a big chunk of the industry thinks it’s a marketing stunt, and I get why. I get it. But I’ve seen the findings, and they’re bad. These aren’t “whoops, this line right here is wrong, and that’s RCE.” They’re novel combinations of a few dozen issues out of thousands of…

EU’s cloud sovereignty push leaves room for US hyperscalers

The European Commission published its tech sovereignty package last week, including the clearest signal yet of its intention to strengthen European cloud sovereignty and reduce its dependence on US hyperscalers. It’s a response to growing concerns among European organizations and regulators about the reliance on US tech firms and legislation such as the US CLOUD…

RidgeBot 7.0 automates Active Directory attack simulations for security validation

Ridge Security has announced the release of RidgeBot 7.0, an update to its automated security validation platform that introduces automated Windows Active Directory penetration testing capabilities. The new version enables organizations to conduct end-to-end domain compromise simulations, helping security teams identify attack paths and prioritize exploitable risks. RidgeBot 7.0 delivers automated Active Directory penetration testing…

BM Blockchain says its free cloud mining could let users earn up to $4,888 a day, plus new sign-ups get $108

In the latest development, BM Blockchain says its free cloud mining could let users earn up to $4,888 a day, plus new sign-ups get $108. As more people talk about digital money, many are looking for easy ways to get into crypto rewards without buying expensive mining gear or dealing with complicated tech. BM Blockchain…

UNC3753 Escalates: From Vishing Calls to Physical Office Intrusions at US Legal and Financial Firms

UNC3753 phones staff posing as IT, hijacks screen sessions, steals sensitive legal files, and now sends operatives physically into offices to plug in USB drives. Google Mandiant and the Google Threat Intelligence Group published a detailed report documenting an active extortion campaign carried out by the cybercrime group UNC3753 (aka Luna Moth, Chatty Spider, and…

N-able CEO: AI is Becoming an MSP Competitive Risk

As artificial intelligence becomes more deeply embedded in managed services, N-able CEO John Pagliuca says MSPs are entering a new phase of opportunity and risk. Pagliuca told Channel Insider that most MSPs are no longer simply experimenting with AI for personal productivity. Instead, many are beginning to use AI to streamline technician workflows, support customer…

The AI security race needs accountability, not overregulation

AI models such as Anthropic’s Claude Mythos and OpenAI’s Daybreak represent a fundamental inflection point in security. These advances are not only reshaping technology but also redefining trust, risk, and the relationship between humans and intelligent systems. As innovation accelerates, AI governance and responsible deployment are becoming strategic priorities for every organization. Historically, governments have…

Meta AI Recovery Tool Flaw Exposed 20,000+ Instagram Accounts

A flaw in Meta’s AI-powered Instagram recovery tool exposed over 20,000 accounts, letting attackers reset passwords and take over profiles. Meta’s High Touch Support tool, known as HTS, was designed to help Instagram users recover locked accounts: you provide an email address, you get a password reset link. The flaw was equally simple: the tool…

15 tough cybersecurity questions every CISO must answer

As CISOs know, an effective security program cannot be static. Rather, it must adapt to the evolving threat landscape and an ever-changing business environment. To adapt and improve, CISOs must continuously evaluate their existing program. That starts with asking tough questions about their performance, investments, and strategies. Here, security leaders share 15 questions every CISO…

Why most enterprise security teams would fail a military readiness test

Have you ever watched a military cyber ops team go to work responding to a cyberattack simulation? It’s like that scene from Die Hard 4.0 when all the screens start flashing red and systems start shutting down; however, unlike the movies, where bumbling government IT workers are caught out and panicking, our military actually moves…

OpenAI is locking down parts of ChatGPT to reduce data theft risks

OpenAI has started rolling out Lockdown Mode for ChatGPT, an optional security setting that restricts access to external resources and several product capabilities. It is available for personal accounts, including Free, Go, Plus, and Pro plans, as well as self-serve ChatGPT Business accounts. “Lockdown Mode is not intended for everyone. It is designed for people…

UNC3753 Used Vishing and Physical Intrusions in U.S. Data Theft Extortion Campaign

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a financially motivated data theft extortion campaign that has targeted dozens of organizations across professional, legal, and financial services in the U.S. between January and May 2026. The activity has been attributed by Google Mandiant and Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) to a threat actor dubbed UNC3753, which is…

Ukraine’s foreign minister offer recipe for improved resilience

Cybersecurity professionals were offered lessons of resilience in the most extreme circumstances from Ukraine’s former minister of foreign affairs. Dmytro Kuleba, who served as Ukraine’s Minister of Foreign Affairs between 2020 and 2024, told Infosecurity Europe delegates that the key to Ukraine’s survival after the full-scale Russian invasion of 2022 was pre-planning, a lesson learned…

IoT Botnet C0XMO Adds Competitor-Killing Capability

C0XMO is a new Gafgyt botnet variant exploiting old router flaws, spreading across IoT devices, killing rivals, and enabling large-scale DDoS attacks. In March 2026, FortiGuard Labs discovered a new variant of the Gafgyt botnet, dubbed C0XMO, which is noticeably more capable than its predecessors. The malware spreads through CVE-2021-27137, a stack buffer overflow in…

VS Code Adds 2-Hour Extension Auto-Update Delay to Limit Supply Chain Attacks

Microsoft has announced that Visual Studio Code (VS Code) will apply a two-hour delay before extensions for the integrated development environment (IDE) are updated automatically to a newer version in an attempt to tackle software supply chain threats. “When automatic updates are enabled, new versions are auto-updated two hours after they are published, adding an…

DockSec: Open-source AI-powered Docker security scanner

DockSec is an OWASP Incubator Project that combines three container security scanners with a language-model layer for explanation and remediation. Created by Advait Patel, the Python tool runs Trivy, Hadolint, and Docker Scout against a developer’s Dockerfile and image, correlates the findings, returns a 0-100 security score, and proposes line-specific fixes. DockSec requires Python 3.12…

DentaQuest Breach: ShinyHunters Publish Data Impacting 2.6M People

ShinyHunters leaked 234 GB of data allegedly stolen from DentaQuest after failed negotiations, potentially impacting 2.6 million people. The ShinyHunters extortion group has published a 234 GB archive of data allegedly stolen from dental benefits administrator DentaQuest. The cybercrime gang added the company to its Tor data leak site in May, and the data was…

The IoT Appliance Repair Gap: When Your Wi-Fi Dishwasher Breaks, Who Actually Fixes It?

In this post, I will talk about the IoT appliance repair gap and aswer the question – when your Wi-Fi dishwasher breaks, who actually fixes it? Connected appliances have created a category of failure that most authorised service networks are not set up to handle. When a smart dishwasher stops working in a Dubai apartment,…

SECURITY AFFAIRS MALWARE NEWSLETTER ROUND 100

Security Affairs Malware newsletter includes a collection of the best articles and research on malware in the international landscape Malware Newsletter Malware Targeting WordPress Abuses Steam Community Profiles for Command & Control Operations   Legitimate-Looking Codex Remote UI Secretly Steals Your AI Tokens   Operation Dragon Weave : Uncovering a China-Linked Campaign Targeting Czech Republic and Taiwan…

Security Affairs newsletter Round 580 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

A new round of the weekly Security Affairs newsletter has arrived! Every week, the best security articles from Security Affairs are free in your email box. Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press. U.S. CISA adds SolarWinds Serv-U flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog Report: Anthropic Deploys Engineers…

Automated Reconnaissance Is Reshaping Cyber Risk

A single email address may now be all cybercriminals need to build a surprisingly detailed profile of a target.  Flare researchers identified an automated bot that can generate detailed dossiers from a single email address by aggregating data from multiple breached databases.  “Tools like this Telegram bot show how little effort it now takes to…

U.S. CISA adds SolarWinds Serv-U flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds SolarWinds Serv-U flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added SolarWinds Serv-U flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-28318 (CVSS ver 3.1 score of 7.5), to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. SolarWinds Serv-U is a managed file transfer (MFT) and secure file…

Report: Anthropic Deploys Engineers to Support NSA Use of Mythos

Reports claim Anthropic engineers are helping the NSA use its restricted AI model Mythos, known for advanced cybersecurity capabilities. This week, the Financial Times reported that Anthropic has placed approximately six “forward-deployed” engineers inside the National Security Agency to help the intelligence agency use Mythos, its most capable cyber model, for offensive operations. Two people…

New ChatGPT Lockdown Mode Limits Tools That Could Enable Data Exfiltration

OpenAI has begun rolling out a new Lockdown Mode to ChatGPT for eligible personal accounts to reduce the risk of data exfiltration arising from prompt injection attacks. The feature is primarily designed for people and organizations that handle sensitive data and require stricter protection guarantees. Lockdown Mode is available to logged-in users across Free, Go,…

Anthropic Says We Must Stop Authoritarian AI. But What About Its Authoritarian Investors?

Anthropic’s high-profile spat with the Pentagon gave it a killer marketing advantage, burnishing its public image as a principled AI company that puts values over profits — unlike more mercenary rivals such as OpenAI or Google. But Anthropic’s double standard on authoritarianism suggests the nearly trillion-dollar firm is as calculating and ethically flexible as any…

Claude Opus Found a Four-Year-Old Hole in Zcash’s Privacy Layer. Nobody Knows If Someone Already Used It.

Claude Opus 4.8 helped uncover a four-year-old critical flaw in Zcash that could have enabled undetectable creation of counterfeit coins. On May 29, the security researcher Taylor Hornby found a critical vulnerability in Zcash Orchard privacy pool using Claude Opus 4.8. The Zcash team hired Hornby specifically to look for this kind of issue. He…

Miasma Worm Hits 73 Microsoft GitHub Repositories in Major Supply Chain Attack

Microsoft’s GitHub repositories have become the latest to fall victim to the ongoing Miasma self-replicating supply chain attack campaign. The incident impacted 73 Microsoft repositories across four of its GitHub organizations, including Azure, Azure-Samples, Microsoft, and MicrosoftDocs, per OpenSourceMalware. The development has GitHub to disable access to those repositories. “Access to this

Six protobuf.js Vulnerabilities Expose RCE and DoS Risks 

Six vulnerabilities discovered in protobuf.js could allow attackers to execute arbitrary code, crash services, and compromise software supply chains across cloud, AI, messaging, and development environments.  According to Cyera researchers, the flaws affect the widely used JavaScript implementation of Google’s Protocol Buffers, a data serialization framework that underpins communication across countless distributed systems.  The library…

AI Threats, Zero-Days, and Data Breaches Define This Week of June 2026 in Cybersecurity

Major Threats & Vulnerabilities Zero-Day Exploits and Critical Vulnerabilities A newly discovered Comodo zero-day vulnerability can crash Windows systems through a malformed IPv6 packet. Researcher Marcus Hutchins identified the flaw, but Comodo has yet to issue a patch. Users are advised to filter suspicious IPv6 headers and test incident response plans. Google patched an Android…

IronWorm and New Miasma Worm Variant Hit npm in Supply Chain Attacks

Multiple software supply chain attacks have hit the npm ecosystem, with threat actors using both malicious and poisoned versions of over 50 legitimate packages to distribute a Rust-based information stealer and a self-spreading worm, respectively. According to JFrog, the information stealer “scrapes every secret it can find on a developer’s machine, hides behind an eBPF…

Silent Ransom Group (SRG): Switching To DNS Fast Flux Infrastructure

Researchers exposed the Silent Ransom Group ‘s Fast Flux infrastructure as the FBI warns of ongoing attacks targeting U.S. law firms and businesses. Resecurity uncovered the Silent Ransom Group (SRG)’s Fast Flux network infrastructure and shares available intelligence with the cybersecurity community to disrupt their malicious activities and enable ISP/DNS providers to counter this threat.…

Building secure B2C applications with fine-grained access control using Amazon Cognito and Amazon Verified Permissions

Modern web applications require robust security controls to protect user data and application resources. Authentication and authorization are two fundamental pillars of application security that answer critical questions: Who are you? and What are you allowed to do? Implementing these controls correctly can be challenging for developers, especially when building data-intensive applications with frameworks like…

CVE-2026-20245: Cisco SD-WAN Manager Zero-Day Enables Root Command Execution

Cisco has disclosed a seventh SD-WAN zero-day exploited in 2026, tracked as CVE-2026-20245. The flaw affects the command-line interface of Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager and can allow an authenticated remote attacker with netadmin privileges to execute arbitrary commands as root by uploading a crafted file. Cisco says exploitation has already been observed in limited cases,…

Understanding LLM Coding Personalities Is Now Key to Developer Improvement

Secure code development goes beyond tools and software – it is a complex activity grounded in risk management and involves an understanding of a developer’s strengths and weaknesses.  Recognizing your developers’ level of expertise goes a long way, and helps determine where security issues are most likely to occur, and which developer is best suited…

CVE-2026-49975: HTTP/2 Bomb Attack Can Knock Web Servers Offline in Seconds

A newly disclosed denial-of-service vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-49975, shows how long-known HTTP/2 weaknesses can still be chained into a highly effective modern attack. SecurityWeek reports that researchers at Calif demonstrated an HTTP/2 Bomb exploit capable of knocking major web servers offline within seconds by combining a compression bomb with a Slowloris-style hold that prevents the…

How to Use AI Video to Boost Your Email Marketing Open Rates and Conversions in 2026

Discover how adding AI-generated video to your campaigns can significantly increase open rates and click-throughs. Complete guide with strategies, tools, and benchmarks. Email marketing isn’t dead — but it’s drowning in sameness. The average professional receives 121 emails per day, according to Radicati Group’s 2026 Email Statistics Report. Open rates across industries hover around 21%,…

How to Use AI Video to Boost Your Email Marketing Open Rates and Conversions in 2026

Discover how adding AI-generated video to your campaigns can significantly increase open rates and click-throughs. Complete guide with strategies, tools, and benchmarks. Email marketing isn’t dead — but it’s drowning in sameness. The average professional receives 121 emails per day, according to Radicati Group’s 2026 Email Statistics Report. Open rates across industries hover around 21%,…

Android Spyware Asin Targets Arabic Users via Fake News, PDF and War Map Apps

Arabic-speaking users have emerged as the target of a new Android spyware codenamed Asin, according to findings from ESET. The Slovakian cybersecurity company said it first detected the malware spread via multiple campaigns in early 2025, with each attack wave making use of distinct websites mimicking utilities, war-related updates, and a government news source: govlens[.]net,…

Nightmare Eclipse incident shows the researcher-vendor fights may never fully go away

Microsoft reopened some wounds and has reignited debate over the past couple weeks about vulnerability disclosure and the sometimes adversarial dynamic it creates between security researchers and vendors.  The latest controversy ensued when Microsoft threatened criminal legal action against a security researcher who publicly disclosed a series of zero-day vulnerabilities with proof-of-concept exploits. Microsoft insisted…