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14 Trojanized npm Packages Drop RedC2 4.0 Linux Backdoor With AI-Assisted C2

14 Trojanized npm Packages Drop RedC2 4.0 Linux Backdoor With AI-Assisted C2

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a set of trojanized npm packages that masquerade as working calendar and streak utilities but are engineered to stealthily deliver an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered Linux implant dubbed RedC2 4.0. “When the… 

Microsoft Defender’s Own Driver Can Be Weaponized to Delete Security Software at Boot

Microsoft Defender’s Own Driver Can Be Weaponized to Delete Security Software at Boot

Check Point Research has disclosed a technique that uses Microsoft Defender’s own legitimately signed boot-time remediation driver to perform arbitrary kernel-level file and registry operations on Windows systems ranging from Windows 7 through Windows 11… 

Android Car Malware Spreads Through Built-In Updaters for Ad Fraud, Proxy Botnet

Android Car Malware Spreads Through Built-In Updaters for Ad Fraud, Proxy Botnet

Ravie LakshmananAug 21, 2026Malware / Automotive Security Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new malware family that’s specifically designed to infect Android-based vehicle head unit firmware developed by DoFun. Kaspersky, which discovered the threat in June… 

Cisco Patches Nine Crosswork and Secure Workload Flaws, Five Scoring CVSS 10.0

Cisco Patches Nine Crosswork and Secure Workload Flaws, Five Scoring CVSS 10.0

Ravie LakshmananAug 21, 2026Vulnerability / Enterprise Security Cisco has published another round of security updates for Crosswork platforms and Secure Workload Software as part of a continued comprehensive internal security review. Four of the security… 

GitLab CVE-2026-19478 Comes Under Active Exploitation Within Days of Disclosure

GitLab CVE-2026-19478 Comes Under Active Exploitation Within Days of Disclosure

Ravie LakshmananAug 21, 2026Vulnerability / Enterprise Security A newly disclosed security flaw in GitLab has come under active exploitation within days of public disclosure, according to watchTowr. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-19478 (CVSS score:… 

Microsoft Entra ID Flaw (CVSS 10.0) Exploited in Wild, Allows Remote Code Execution

Microsoft Entra ID Flaw (CVSS 10.0) Exploited in Wild, Allows Remote Code Execution

Ravie LakshmananAug 21, 2026Vulnerability / Threat Intelligence Microsoft on Thursday warned of a maximum-severity security flaw in Entra ID that it said has been exploited in the wild, but noted that no customer action is… 

Rust Supply Chain Attack Puts Build-Time Malware in Crates with 245 Million Downloads

Rust Supply Chain Attack Puts Build-Time Malware in Crates with 245 Million Downloads

The Rust Project has deleted malicious versions of three widely used Rust crates from crates.io after a compromised maintainer account published releases that added a typosquatted dependency whose build script downloaded and executed a remote… 

Suspected Russian Hackers Abuse Google OAuth and WhatsApp Linking to Hijack Accounts

Suspected Russian Hackers Abuse Google OAuth and WhatsApp Linking to Hijack Accounts

Three distinct suspected Russian cyber espionage threat clusters have been observed leveraging legitimate authentication flows to single out individuals working in academia, aerospace and defense, governments, and think tanks across Europe, as well as academia…