Your Purple Team Isn’t Purple — It’s Just Red and Blue in the Same Room
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…
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Fake OpenAI Privacy Filter Repo Hits #1 on Hugging Face, Draws 244K Downloads
Ravie LakshmananMay 11, 2026Supply Chain Attack / Threat Intelligence 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…
Ollama Out-of-Bounds Read Vulnerability Allows Remote Process Memory Leak
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…
cPanel, WHM Release Fixes for Three New Vulnerabilities — Patch Now
Ravie LakshmananMay 09, 2026Vulnerability / Web Hosting 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…
TCLBANKER Banking Trojan Targets Financial Platforms via WhatsApp and Outlook Worms
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.…
Fake Call History Apps Stole Payments From Users After 7.3 Million Play Store Downloads
Ravie LakshmananMay 08, 2026Android / Mobile Security 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…
Quasar Linux RAT Steals Developer Credentials for Software Supply Chain Compromise
Ravie LakshmananMay 08, 2026Linux / DevOps 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,…
What 25M Alerts Reveal About Low-Severity Risk
The dark secret of enterprise security operations is that defenders have quietly institutionalized the practice of not looking. This is not just anecdotal, but rather backed by a recent report investigating more than 25 million…
New Linux PamDOORa Backdoor Uses PAM Modules to Steal SSH Credentials
Ravie LakshmananMay 08, 2026Malware / Threat Intelligence Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new Linux backdoor named PamDOORa that’s being advertised on the Rehub Russian cybercrime forum for $1,600 by a threat actor called…
Linux Kernel Dirty Frag LPE Exploit Enables Root Access Across Major Distributions
Ravie LakshmananMay 08, 2026Linux / Vulnerability Details have emerged about a new, unpatched local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability impacting the Linux kernel. Dubbed Dirty Frag, it has been described as a successor to Copy Fail…