Study of 281 Free Android VPN Apps Finds Traffic Leaks, Unencrypted Data, and Tracking
Researchers ran 281 of the most popular free VPN apps on the Google Play Store through a new testing system and found that many fail…
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Exposed Hacker Server Reveals WP-SHELLSTORM Backdooring Thousands of WordPress Sites
A cybercrime crew left one of its own servers wide open on the internet for three weeks, and it exposed the operation’s inner workings: the…
From 17,000 to 1.1 Million Assets: How Lumen Technologies Rebuilt Exposure Management at Scale
Most enterprises assume their asset inventory is close enough to accurate. The evidence suggests otherwise. According to a survey of over 600 security leaders in…
Unpatched XRING Flaw in XQUIC Lets Remote Clients Crash HTTP/3 Servers
A single wrong variable on one line in XQUIC, Alibaba’s QUIC and HTTP/3 library, lets any remote client crash the server with a short burst…
New MODBEACON RAT Uses gRPC Streaming for Encrypted C2 Traffic
Ravie LakshmananJul 10, 2026Malware / Enterprise Security The China-linked cybercrime group known as Silver Fox has been attributed to a new Rust-based remote access trojan…
Hackers Weaponize Balochistan Police Portal in Multi-Group Espionage Campaigns
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of sustained cyber espionage activity against several Pakistani law enforcement organizations undertaken by suspected China- and India-aligned threat actors between…
Compromised jscrambler 8.14.0 npm Release Drops Rust Infostealer During Install
The jscrambler npm package was compromised, and simply installing its 8.14.0 release runs an infostealer on your machine. Published on July 11, 2026, the malicious version carries…
Laser Attack Resets Tangem Wallet Passwords on Cards That Can’t Be Patched
Researchers at Ledger’s Donjon security team have shown that a precisely timed laser pulse, aimed at the chip inside a Tangem crypto wallet card, can reset the…
Critical Zimbra Flaw Could Let Crafted Emails Run Malicious Code in User Sessions
Ravie LakshmananJul 11, 2026Vulnerability / Email Security Zimbra is urging customers to apply updates to address a critical security vulnerability impacting the Classic Web Client…
Six New U-Boot Flaws Could Let Malicious Images Crash Devices or Run Code at Boot
Researchers at firmware security firm Binarly have found six new flaws in U-Boot, the small program that starts up hardware as varied as home routers, smart cameras,…
Injective Labs GitHub Compromise Pushes Wallet-Key-Stealing npm Packages
Ravie LakshmananJul 10, 2026Software Supply Chain / Malware Unknown threat actors compromised the Injective Labs SDK project’s GitHub repository and leveraged it to publish a…
Progress Tells ShareFile Customers to Shut Down Storage Zone Controllers Over Security Threat
Swati KhandelwalJul 10, 2026Enterprise Security / Security Incident Progress Software has told ShareFile customers to shut down the Windows servers running their Storage Zone Controllers,…