A threat actor has been running an active campaign on Reddit, using fake posts that promise free TradingView Premium access to deliver two malware families — Vidar on Windows and …
Researcher Released Windows Defender 0-Day Exploit Code, Allowing Attackers to Gain Full Access
A security researcher operating under the alias Chaotic Eclipse (@ChaoticEclipse0) has publicly dropped a working zero-day local privilege escalation (LPE) exploit for Windows, dubbed BlueHammer, along with full proof-of-concept (PoC) source code on …
CISA Warns of Fortinet 0-Day Vulnerability Actively Exploited in Attacks
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added CVE-2026-35616, a critical improper access control vulnerability in Fortinet FortiClient Enterprise Management Server (EMS), to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog …
Trojanized PyPI AI Proxy Uses Stolen Claude Prompt to Exfiltrates Data
A malicious Python package has been discovered on PyPI that disguises itself as a privacy-focused AI inference tool while quietly stealing sensitive user data in the background. Named hermes-px, the package …
Hackers Drain $286 Million From Drift Protocol in Suspected North Korea-Linked Exploit
The largest decentralized perpetual futures exchange on the Solana blockchain — became the target of a massive and well-orchestrated theft on April 1, 2026, Drift Protocol. Unknown attackers managed to …
New GitHub Actions Attack Chain Uses Fake CI Updates to Exfiltrate Secrets and Tokens
A new attack campaign is actively targeting open-source repositories on GitHub by carefully disguising malicious code as completely routine CI build configuration updates. The campaign, prt-scan exploits a widely misused …
DPRK Cyber Program Uses Modular Malware Strategy to Evade Attribution and Survive Takedowns
North Korea’s cyber program has fundamentally shifted how it builds and deploys malware. Rather than relying on one all-purpose hacking tool, the regime has assembled a fragmented ecosystem of purpose-built …
North Korean IT Worker Unmasked After Refusing to Insult Kim Jong Un in Job Interview
A viral video circulating in cybersecurity and crypto circles has exposed a novel and surprisingly simple technique for unmasking North Korean state-sponsored IT workers attempting to infiltrate Western organizations: asking …
Google’s Bug Bounty Program Hits All-Time High With $17 Million in 2025 Payouts
Google’s Vulnerability Reward Program (VRP) celebrated its 15th anniversary in 2025 by breaking every payout record in its history. The tech giant awarded a staggering $17 million to external security …
Apache Traffic Server Vulnerabilities Let Attackers Trigger DoS Attack
The Apache Software Foundation has released emergency security updates to address two severe vulnerabilities in the Apache Traffic Server (ATS). ATS operates as a high-performance web proxy cache that improves …