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WinRAR Flaw Exploited by Russia-Aligned Groups to Deploy Stealers in Ukraine

WinRAR Flaw Exploited by Russia-Aligned Groups to Deploy Stealers in Ukraine

Ravie LakshmananJun 09, 2026Vulnerability / Cyber Espionage Two Russia-aligned cyber attack campaigns have continued to exploit a security flaw in WinRAR to target Ukrainian organisations, almost a year after patches for the vulnerability were released.… 

Researchers Build Self-Replicating AI Worm That Operates Entirely on Local, Open-Weight Models

Researchers Build Self-Replicating AI Worm That Operates Entirely on Local, Open-Weight Models

University of Toronto researchers have built and tested a proof-of-concept AI-driven computer worm that uses a locally hosted open-weight large language model to reason its way through a network, generate tailored attack strategies for each… 

LiteLLM Flaw CVE-2026-42271 Exploited in the Wild, Chains to Unauthenticated RCE

LiteLLM Flaw CVE-2026-42271 Exploited in the Wild, Chains to Unauthenticated RCE

Ravie LakshmananJun 09, 2026Vulnerability / Artificial Intelligence The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added a high-severity flaw impacting BerriAI LiteLLM to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active… 

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

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

Swati KhandelwalJun 08, 2026Linux / Vulnerability 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… 

Meta Blocks NSO Group’s New WhatsApp Phishing Attack, Files Contempt Order

Meta Blocks NSO Group’s New WhatsApp Phishing Attack, Files Contempt Order

Ravie LakshmananJun 08, 2026Spyware / Mobile Security Meta on Monday said it detected and blocked spear-phishing attempts linked to Israeli spyware vendor NSO Group. In addition, the tech giant said it’s filing a federal court… 

Critical Check Point VPN Flaw Exploited to Bypass Passwords in IKEv1 Setups

Critical Check Point VPN Flaw Exploited to Bypass Passwords in IKEv1 Setups

Ravie LakshmananJun 08, 2026Vulnerability / Network Security Check Point has warned of active exploitation of a critical vulnerability impacting Remote Access VPN and Mobile Access deployments that are configured to use the deprecated IKEv1 key…