TamperedChef Malware Uses Signed Productivity Apps to Deliver Stealers and RATs

Blog WriterCybersecurity News - Original News Source is cybersecuritynews.com

May 21, 2026 A new wave of malware disguised as everyday productivity tools has been quietly spreading across the internet, stealing user credentials and giving attackers remote control of infected systems. Researchers have tracked hundreds of campaigns tied to a …

Fake Invitation Phishing Campaign Targets U.S. Organizations With Credential Theft

Blog WriterCybersecurity News - Original News Source is cybersecuritynews.com

May 21, 2026 A large-scale phishing campaign is actively targeting U.S. organizations, using fake event invitations as bait to steal login credentials, intercept one-time passwords, or install remote access tools. The operation has been running since at least December 2025, …

Critical Chrome Vulnerabilities Enable Remote Code Execution Attacks – Patch Now!

Blog WriterCybersecurity News - Original News Source is cybersecuritynews.com

May 21, 2026 Google has released an urgent security update for Chrome, addressing 16 vulnerabilities including two rated Critical that could allow attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected systems. The Stable channel has been updated to 148.0.7778.178/179 for Windows …

Flipper Unveils New Flipper One Modular Linux Cyberdeck

Blog WriterCybersecurity News - Original News Source is cybersecuritynews.com

May 21, 2026 Flipper Devices has unveiled Flipper One, a modular Linux cyberdeck aimed at becoming a fully open, mainline-first ARM platform for hackers, researchers, and makers The company says the new device is not a successor to Flipper Zero, …

P2PInfect Botnet Compromises Kubernetes Clusters Through Exposed Redis Instances

Blog WriterCybersecurity News - Original News Source is cybersecuritynews.com

May 21, 2026 A well-known botnet is now targeting cloud environments in a more calculated way than before. P2PInfect, a Rust-written peer-to-peer malware active since mid-2023, has been observed compromising Kubernetes clusters by breaking into Redis instances left exposed to …

GitHub Internal Repositories Breached Via Weaponized VS Code Extension

Blog WriterCybersecurity News - Original News Source is cybersecuritynews.com

May 21, 2026 GitHub confirmed a significant security breach on May 18, 2026, after attackers leveraged a weaponized Visual Studio Code extension to compromise an employee’s device and exfiltrate data from the company’s internal source code repositories. The attack was …

Nine-year-old Linux Kernel Vulnerability Let Attackers Exfiltrate SSH Private Keys

Blog WriterCybersecurity News - Original News Source is cybersecuritynews.com

A newly disclosed Linux kernel vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-46333, exposes a serious local privilege escalation flaw that has remained undetected for nearly nine years. Security researchers at the Qualys Threat Research Unit (TRU) revealed that the issue allows attackers to …

New Microsoft Defender 0‑Days Actively Exploited in the Wild

Blog WriterCybersecurity News - Original News Source is cybersecuritynews.com

May 21, 2026 Two newly disclosed Microsoft Defender vulnerabilities are being actively exploited in the wild, enabling local attackers to elevate privileges to SYSTEM and potentially disrupt endpoint protection across Windows environments. The bugs, tracked as CVE‑2026‑41091 (Elevation of Privilege) …

New NGINX 0-Day RCE “nginx-poolslip” Affects Millions of NGINX Servers

Blog WriterCybersecurity News - Original News Source is cybersecuritynews.com

May 21, 2026 A newly disclosed zero-day remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability, dubbed nginx-poolslip, has been identified in NGINX version 1.31.0, the latest stable release of the widely deployed web server software. The discovery was made by security agent Vega, …

WantToCry Ransomware Abuses SMB Services to Remotely Encrypt Files

Blog WriterCybersecurity News - Original News Source is cybersecuritynews.com

May 21, 2026 A ransomware strain called WantToCry has been targeting businesses by abusing a widely used file-sharing protocol to encrypt files without dropping any malware on the victim’s system. The attacks mark a notable shift in how ransomware operators …