First VPN Dismantled in Global Takedown Over Use by 25 Ransomware Groups
Authorities in Europe and North America have announced the dismantling of a criminal virtual private network (VPN) service used by criminal actors to obscure the…
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Megalodon GitHub Attack Targets 5,561 Repos with Malicious CI/CD Workflows
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new automated campaign called Megalodon that has pushed 5,718 malicious commits to 5,561 GitHub repositories within a six-hour…
Kimwolf DDoS Botnet Operator Arrested in Canada Over DDoS-for-Hire Attacks
Ravie LakshmananMay 22, 2026Cybercrime / Law Enforcement The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Thursday announced the arrest of a Canadian man in connection with…
Cisco Patches CVSS 10.0 Secure Workload REST API Flaw Enabling Data Access
Ravie LakshmananMay 22, 2026Vulnerability / Network Security Cisco has rolled out updates for a maximum-severity security flaw impacting Secure Workload that could allow an unauthenticated,…
9-Year-Old Linux Kernel Flaw Enables Root Command Execution on Major Distros
Ravie LakshmananMay 21, 2026Linux / Vulnerability Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a vulnerability in the Linux kernel that remained undetected for nine years. The…
Microsoft Warns of Two Actively Exploited Defender Vulnerabilities
Ravie LakshmananMay 21, 2026Endpoint Security / Vulnerability Microsoft has disclosed that a privilege escalation and a denial-of-service flaw in Defender has come under active exploitation…
Showboat Linux Malware Hits Middle East Telecom with SOCKS5 Proxy Backdoor
Ravie LakshmananMay 21, 2026Cyber Espionage / Threat Intelligence Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new Linux malware dubbed Showboat that has been put to…
When Identity is the Attack Path
Consider a cached access key on a single Windows machine. It got there the way most cached credentials do – a user logged in, and…
GitHub Internal Repositories Breached via Malicious Nx Console VS Code Extension
Ravie LakshmananMay 21, 2026Supply Chain Attack / Developer Tools GitHub on Wednesday officially confirmed that the breach of its internal repositories was the result of…
Webworm Deploys EchoCreep and GraphWorm Backdoors Using Discord and MS Graph API
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged fresh activity from a China-aligned threat actor known as Webworm in 2025, deploying custom backdoors that employ Discord and Microsoft Graph…
Microsoft Open-Sources RAMPART and Clarity to Secure AI Agents During Development
Ravie LakshmananMay 20, 2026Artificial Intelligence / Security Testing Microsoft has unveiled two new open-source tools called RAMPART and Clarity to assist developers in better testing…
Microsoft Takes Down Malware-Signing Service Behind Ransomware Attacks
Microsoft on Tuesday said it disrupted a malware-signing-as-a-service (MSaaS) operation that weaponized the company’s Artifact Signing system to deliver malicious code and conduct ransomware and…