Ravie LakshmananMay 27, 2026Vulnerability / Software Security Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a security flaw in Gitea, an open-source, self-hosted platform for version control, that allows unauthenticated remote attackers to pull private container images from Gitea…
Microsoft has warned of an active cryptojacking campaign that makes use of artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot interactions as a mechanism for surfacing malicious download sites. “This emerging delivery technique extends social engineering beyond conventional search…
The Iranian hacking group known as MuddyWater has been linked to a new campaign affecting at least nine organizations across nine countries on four continents in the first quarter of 2026. The activity targeted industrial…
The Hacker NewsMay 26, 2026Web Security / Artificial Intelligence Every single day, hackers are finding new ways to crash websites and steal data. But right now, something has changed. Hackers are no longer working alone.…
Ravie LakshmananMay 26, 2026Vulnerability / Enterprise Security Microsoft has rolled out updates to fix a remote code execution vulnerability impacting SharePoint that could be exploited by bad actors in attacks without requiring any specialized conditions…
Multi-factor authentication (MFA) was supposed to close a critical gap in identity security. It meant that, even if an attacker possessed the account credentials, they couldn’t log in without the second factor. While that logic…
The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) has issued new guidelines requiring organizations to patch critical security vulnerabilities in internet-exposed systems within 12 hours of being flagged where “feasible” to safeguard against potential threats stemming…
The Iranian state-sponsored threat actor known as Nimbus Manticore (aka Screening Serpens and UNC1549) has been attributed to a fresh campaign using lures impersonating organizations in the aviation and software sectors across the U.S., Europe,…
Ravie LakshmananMay 26, 2026Vulnerability / Threat Intelligence A now-patched high-severity security flaw affecting Digital Knowledge KnowledgeDeliver, a Learning Management System (LMS) popular in Japan, was exploited as a zero-day to deliver the Godzilla web shell…
Ravie LakshmananMay 25, 2026Cybersecurity / Hacking Monday recap. Same mess, new week. A sketchy dev tool got people pwned, old bugs came back from the dead, and security products somehow needed protecting from themselves. A…