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Malicious NGINX Configurations Enable Large-Scale Web Traffic Hijacking Campaign

Malicious NGINX Configurations Enable Large-Scale Web Traffic Hijacking Campaign

Ravie LakshmananFeb 05, 2026Web Security / Vulnerability Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of an active web traffic hijacking campaign that has targeted NGINX installations and management panels like Baota (BT) in an attempt to route… 

Microsoft Develops Scanner to Detect Backdoors in Open-Weight Large Language Models

Microsoft Develops Scanner to Detect Backdoors in Open-Weight Large Language Models

Ravie LakshmananFeb 04, 2026Artificial Intelligence / Software Security Microsoft on Wednesday said it built a lightweight scanner that it said can detect backdoors in open-weight large language models (LLMs) and improve the overall trust in… 

DEAD#VAX Malware Campaign Deploys AsyncRAT via IPFS-Hosted VHD Phishing Files

DEAD#VAX Malware Campaign Deploys AsyncRAT via IPFS-Hosted VHD Phishing Files

Ravie LakshmananFeb 04, 2026Malware / Endpoint Security Threat hunters have disclosed details of a new, stealthy malware campaign dubbed DEAD#VAX that employs a mix of “disciplined tradecraft and clever abuse of legitimate system features” to… 

China-Linked Amaranth-Dragon Exploits WinRAR Flaw in Espionage Campaigns

China-Linked Amaranth-Dragon Exploits WinRAR Flaw in Espionage Campaigns

Threat actors affiliated with China have been attributed to a fresh set of cyber espionage campaigns targeting government and law enforcement agencies across Southeast Asia throughout 2025. Check Point Research is tracking the previously undocumented… 

Orchid Security Introduces Continuous Identity Observability for Enterprise Applications

Orchid Security Introduces Continuous Identity Observability for Enterprise Applications

The Hacker NewsFeb 04, 2026Identity Security / Security Operations An innovative approach to discovering, analyzing, and governing identity usage beyond traditional IAM controls. The Challenge: Identity Lives Outside the Identity Stack Identity and access management… 

Microsoft Warns Python Infostealers Target macOS via Fake Ads and Installers

Microsoft Warns Python Infostealers Target macOS via Fake Ads and Installers

Ravie LakshmananFeb 04, 2026Malvertising / Infostealer Microsoft has warned that information-stealing attacks are “rapidly expanding” beyond Windows to target Apple macOS environments by leveraging cross-platform languages like Python and abusing trusted platforms for distribution at… 

Eclipse Foundation Mandates Pre-Publish Security Checks for Open VSX Extensions

Eclipse Foundation Mandates Pre-Publish Security Checks for Open VSX Extensions

Ravie LakshmananFeb 04, 2026Supply Chain Security / Secure Coding The Eclipse Foundation, which maintains the Open VSX Registry, has announced plans to enforce security checks before Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extensions are published… 

CISA Adds Actively Exploited SolarWinds Web Help Desk RCE to KEV Catalog

CISA Adds Actively Exploited SolarWinds Web Help Desk RCE to KEV Catalog

Ravie LakshmananFeb 04, 2026Software Security / Vulnerability The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added a critical security flaw impacting SolarWinds Web Help Desk (WHD) to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog,… 

Docker Fixes Critical Ask Gordon AI Flaw Allowing Code Execution via Image Metadata

Docker Fixes Critical Ask Gordon AI Flaw Allowing Code Execution via Image Metadata

Ravie LakshmananFeb 03, 2026Artificial Intelligence / Vulnerability Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a now-patched security flaw impacting Ask Gordon, an artificial intelligence (AI) assistant built into Docker Desktop and the Docker Command-Line Interface (CLI),…