BdThemes Supply Chain Attack Poisons JSON to Create Rogue WordPress Admins

11/08/2026 0 Comments 0 tags

Cybersecurity researchers have warned of a supply chain compromise impacting WordPress plugin vendor BdThemes, prompting the content management systems (CMS) platform’s plugins team to temporarily disable their downloads. “Unlike traditional

China-Linked Hackers Deploy New StormEncryptor Ransomware, Likely via N-central Flaw

10/08/2026 0 Comments 0 tags

Microsoft has disclosed that Storm-1175, a financially motivated threat actor linked to China, has deployed a previously undocumented ransomware strain called StormEncryptor. The use of StormEncryptor marks a shift from

⚡ Weekly Recap: AI Goes Rogue, Metabase 0-Day, MCP Supply-Chain Attacks, and Router Backdoors

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A lot of security problems still begin with someone doing a completely normal thing. Cloning a repo. Answering a call. Leaving a box exposed. Trusting the default. That pretty much

Kimsuky Builds Offline AI Stack to Boost Phishing and Automate Malware Development

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North Korea’s state hackers are no longer content to type prompts into public chatbots. One of the country’s main espionage groups has begun running artificial intelligence (AI) offline on its

New Passkey Attacks Can Recover Synced Private Keys or Bypass Phishing-Resistant MFA

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Three separate research efforts last week demonstrated ways to defeat passkey protections without breaking the cryptography they rest on. Passkeys are designed to replace reusable passwords and resist phishing. The

Shipping 10–50× More Code? Watch This Webinar on Securing AI-Speed Development

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AI is helping development teams produce far more code, far faster. But security teams still have to review vulnerabilities, manage dependencies, prioritize fixes, and control risk at human speed. When

TrueConf Server Flaws Exploited to Replace Client Installers with PhantomCore

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The threat actor known as Head Mare has been observed weaponizing security flaws in unpatched TrueConf servers once again in attacks targeting Russian companies spanning instrumentation, electronics, transport, energy, IT,

Solidity Pro VS Code Extensions Steal Crypto Wallets, API Keys, and Credentials

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Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a malicious Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extension named Solidity Pro (“solidity-pro”) that has been observed delivering a browser wallet and credential stealer. The names

OpenAI’s Next AI Model Astra Shows Cyber Performance Strong Enough to Trigger Pause

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OpenAI has announced that it’s pausing some “internal activities” involving its upcoming artificial intelligence (AI) model Astra after an internal evaluation found it had made significant advancements in agentic coding

New CSS Attacks Can Break Webmail Defenses to Steal Passwords and Tokens

08/08/2026 0 Comments 0 tags

New research shows content inside an email can escape its message boundary and interfere with the webmail interface. Across attack chains spanning Outlook, Gmail, Fastmail, Proton Mail, Yahoo Mail, and