VS Code Adds 2-Hour Extension Auto-Update Delay to Limit Supply Chain Attacks
Ravie LakshmananJun 08, 2026Software Supply Chain / Malware Microsoft has announced that Visual Studio Code (VS Code) will apply a two-hour delay before extensions for…
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Hackers Spied on a Stock Exchange Executive’s Outlook Mailbox for Five Months
Swati KhandelwalJun 04, 2026Cyber Espionage / Malware Unknown attackers spent at least five months inside the Outlook mailbox of a senior executive at a major…
Fake Sites Mimicking Open-Source Tools Rank High on Google to Deliver Malware via TDS
Swati KhandelwalJun 04, 2026Malware / Open Source Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a large-scale operation that impersonates open-source and freeware projects to funnel unsuspecting users through…
FlutterShell Backdoor Spreads to macOS via Malicious Google and YouTube Ads
Ravie LakshmananJun 04, 2026Malvertising / Browser Security Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a macOS malvertising campaign codenamed Operation FlutterBridge that spreads a new backdoor…
PCPJack Hijacks 230 AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure Servers for Covert SMTP Relay Network
Ravie LakshmananJun 05, 2026Threat Intelligence / Cloud Security The threat actor known as PCPJack has hijacked cloud servers associated with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google…
Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager CVE-2026-20245 Flaw Actively Exploited – No Patch Available
Ravie LakshmananJun 06, 2026Vulnerability / Network Security Cisco has warned that a high-severity security flaw impacting Catalyst SD-WAN Manager has come under active exploitation. The…
Miasma Worm Hits 73 Microsoft GitHub Repositories in Major Supply Chain Attack
Ravie LakshmananJun 06, 2026Supply Chain Attack / Malware Microsoft’s GitHub repositories have become the latest to fall victim to the ongoing Miasma self-replicating supply chain…
CISA Adds Actively Exploited SolarWinds Serv-U DoS Flaw to KEV Catalog
Ravie LakshmananJun 06, 2026Vulnerability / Patch Management The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a high-severity security flaw impacting SolarWinds Serv-U multi-protocol…
New ChatGPT Lockdown Mode Limits Tools That Could Enable Data Exfiltration
Ravie LakshmananJun 06, 2026Cybersecurity / Artificial Intelligence OpenAI has begun rolling out a new Lockdown Mode to ChatGPT for eligible personal accounts to reduce the…
Free Apps Are Quietly Turning Smart TVs Into Web-Scraping Proxies for AI
A researcher has reverse-engineered the iOS SDK that Bright Data embeds in consumer apps and documented how it turns devices, including always-on smart TVs, into…
AI Agent Uncovers 21 Zero-Days in FFmpeg; Chrome Patches Record 429 Bugs
Swati KhandelwalJun 06, 2026Vulnerability / Endpoint Security Two things landed within days of each other this week. A security startup reported 21 previously unknown vulnerabilities…
New Threat Cluster OP-512 Targets Microsoft IIS Servers with Custom Web Shell Framework
Ravie LakshmananJun 05, 2026Cyber Espionage / Threat Intelligence Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a previously unreported threat cluster dubbed OP-512 (where “OP” stands for “opponent”) that…