CISA Admin Exposes AWS GovCloud Credentials on Public GitHub Repository

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May 19, 2026 A major security lapse has exposed highly sensitive U.S. government cloud credentials after a contractor working with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) accidentally published them in a public GitHub repository. The repository, named “Private-CISA,” remained …

Hackers Abuse Microsoft Entra ID Accounts to Exfiltrate Microsoft 365 and Azure Data

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May 19, 2026 A compromised version of the widely used Nx Console VS Code extension was published to the Visual Studio Code Marketplace on May 18, 2026, silently targeting developer credentials, cloud infrastructure tokens, and CI/CD pipeline secrets across thousands …

Mythos Preview Builds PoC Exploits in Automated Vulnerability Research

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May 19, 2026 Anthropic’s Mythos Preview security-focused AI model is crossing a critical threshold in automated vulnerability research, not just finding bugs, but chaining them together into working proof-of-concept exploits. That’s the finding from Cloudflare’s security team, which spent several …

CISA Admin Leaked AWS GovCloud Keys on Github

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Until this past weekend, a contractor for the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) maintained a public GitHub repository that exposed credentials to several highly privileged AWS GovCloud accounts and a large number of internal CISA systems. Security experts said …

Hackers Actively Exploiting Critical NGINX RCE Vulnerability in the Wild

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May 18, 2026 Hackers are wasting no time exploiting a newly disclosed critical vulnerability in NGINX, with security researchers already observing real-world attacks just days after its public release. Security researcher Patrick Garrity from VulnCheck revealed that threat actors are …

Critical n8n Vulnerabilities Expose Automation Nodes to Full RCE

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May 18, 2026 A fresh set of critical vulnerabilities in the popular workflow automation platform n8n is raising serious security concerns, as researchers warn that attackers could chain multiple flaws to achieve full remote code execution (RCE) on affected systems. …

Linus Torvalds Says AI Bug Reports Have Made Linux Security Mailing List Unmanageable

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May 18, 2026 Linus Torvalds has warned that a “continued flood” of AI‑generated bug reports is making the Linux security mailing list “almost entirely unmanageable.” The project is now tightening rules on how AI‑found issues should be reported and handled. In …

Four Malicious npm Packages Steal SSH Keys, Cloud Credentials, and Crypto Wallets

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May 18, 2026 Four malicious npm packages capable of stealing SSH keys, cloud credentials, cryptocurrency wallets, and environment variables, while one variant quietly transforms infected machines into a DDoS botnet. The campaign appears to be the work of a single …

CISA Warns of Microsoft Exchange Server Vulnerability Exploited in Attacks

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May 18, 2026 CISA has issued a fresh warning about a newly disclosed Microsoft Exchange Server vulnerability that is already being exploited in real-world attacks, raising concerns for organizations relying on on-premises email infrastructure. The flaw CVE-2026-42897 is a cross-site scripting …

1 Million WordPress Sites Affected by Avada Builder File Read and SQL Injection Flaws

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A widely used WordPress plugin powering over one million websites has been hit by two serious vulnerabilities that could allow attackers to steal sensitive data and access server files. Security researchers warn that the flaws in the Avada Builder plugin could …