WinRAR Vulnerability Exploited by Russian Hackers to Deploy GIFTEDCROOK Stealer

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June 15, 2026 Russian hackers are exploiting a known flaw in WinRAR to quietly steal passwords, session cookies, and sensitive files from Ukrainian organizations. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-8088, was patched in July 2025, yet multiple Russia-aligned groups are still …

Palo Alto Warns of GlobalProtect VPN Vulnerability Actively Exploited in the Wild

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June 15, 2026 Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 has issued an urgent warning about active exploitation of CVE-2026-0257, a critical authentication bypass vulnerability affecting the GlobalProtect portal and gateway components of PAN-OS software. The flaw allows unauthenticated remote attackers to …

Criminal IP at Infosecurity Europe 2026: Introducing AITEM, the Next Chapter of Attack Surface Management

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Torrance, United States / California, June 11th, 2026, CyberNewswire Criminal IP by AI SPERA, a cyber threat intelligence platform delivering decision-ready intelligence and attack surface visibility to security teams worldwide, participated in Infosecurity Europe 2026 at ExCeL London this week, …

Maine Takes Data Breach Reporting Portal Offline After Fake VRChat and Discord Filings

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June 14, 2026 The Office of the Maine Attorney General has temporarily taken its public-facing data breach reporting database offline after discovering that an unknown entity submitted fabricated breach notifications targeting two major online platforms, VRChat and Discord, in what …

152 Chrome Extensions Hide Ad Tracking and Fake Google Search Traffic

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June 14, 2026 152 Chrome “live wallpaper” extensions on the Chrome Web Store have been caught secretly logging user data and faking Google “organic search” traffic to inflate ad revenue, despite promising they do not collect any data. This adware‑adjacent …

New Agentjacking Attack Hijacks Your AI Coding Agent to Run Code From a Hacker’s Server

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June 13, 2026 New “Agentjacking” attack that hijacks AI coding agents and silently executes attacker-controlled code on developer machines using nothing more than a single injected Sentry error. The technique turns trusted AI assistants like Claude Code and Cursor into …

BugHunter – Bug Bounty Toolkit Powered by Claude and Free AI Providers

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June 13, 2026 A new open-source bug bounty hunting toolkit called BugHunter, built on top of Anthropic’s Claude Code and now extended to support free AI providers like Ollama and Groq, is gaining traction in the security research community for …

Splunk Enterprise Pre-Auth RCE Chain Exposes Database With Zero Authentication

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A critical vulnerability chain in Splunk Enterprise has been disclosed, enabling unauthenticated attackers to achieve remote code execution (RCE) through a misconfigured PostgreSQL sidecar service. Tracked as CVE-2026-20253, the flaw has a CVSS score of 9.8 and affects Splunk Enterprise …

Anthropic Fable 5 and Mythos 5 Access Blocked to All Users Following Government Directive

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June 13, 2026 Anthropic has disabled its two most capable AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, after the U.S. government issued an export control directive late on June 12 ordering the company to block access for any foreign national, …

Fancy Bear Hackers Abuse EdgeRouters and Cloud Services to Launch Stealthy Cyberattacks

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One of the most persistent hacking groups in the world has found a new way to stay hidden. The threat actor known as Fancy Bear, formally tracked as APT28 and attributed to Russia’s military intelligence unit GRU Unit 26165, has …