How AI Hallucinations Are Creating Real Security Risks
AI hallucinations are introducing serious security risks into critical infrastructure decision-making by exploiting human trust through highly confident yet incorrect outputs. When an AI model…
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Funnel Builder Flaw Under Active Exploitation Enables WooCommerce Checkout Skimming
Ravie LakshmananMay 16, 2026Vulnerability / Website Security A critical security vulnerability impacting the Funnel Builder plugin for WordPress has come under active exploitation in the…
Ghostwriter Targets Ukrainian Government With Geofenced PDF Phishing, Cobalt Strike
The Belarus-aligned threat group known as Ghostwriter has been attributed to a fresh set of attacks targeting governmental organizations in Ukraine. Active since at least…
CISA Adds Cisco SD-WAN CVE-2026-20182 to KEV After Admin Access Exploits
Ravie LakshmananMay 15, 2026Vulnerability / Credential Theft The U.S.Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday added a newly disclosed vulnerability impacting Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN…
TanStack Supply Chain Attack Hits Two OpenAI Employee Devices, Forces macOS Updates
OpenAI has disclosed that two of its employee devices in its corporate environment were impacted via the Mini Shai-Hulud supply chain attack on TanStack, but…
Four OpenClaw Flaws Enable Data Theft, Privilege Escalation, and Persistence
Ravie LakshmananMay 15, 2026Vulnerability / AI Security Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a set of four security flaws in OpenClaw that could be chained to achieve…
Turla Turns Kazuar Backdoor Into Modular P2P Botnet for Persistent Access
Ravie LakshmananMay 15, 2026Botnet / Threat Intelligence The Russian state-sponsored hacking group known as Turla has transformed its custom backdoor Kazuar into a modular peer-to-peer…
What 45 Days of Watching Your Own Tools Will Tell You About Your Real Attack Surface
The Hacker NewsMay 15, 2026Endpoint Security / Threat Detection In Your Biggest Security Risk Isn’t Malware — It’s What You Already Trust, we made a…
On-Prem Microsoft Exchange Server CVE-2026-42897 Exploited via Crafted Email
Ravie LakshmananMay 15, 2026Microsoft / Vulnerability Microsoft has disclosed a new security vulnerability impacting on-premise versions of Exchange Server that it said has come under…
Stealer Backdoor Found in 3 Node-IPC Versions Targeting Developer Secrets
Cybersecurity researchers are sounding the alarm about what has been described as “malicious activity” in newly published versions of node-ipc. According to Socket and StepSecurity,…
Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Controller Auth Bypass Actively Exploited to Gain Admin Access
Ravie LakshmananMay 14, 2026Vulnerability / Network Security Cisco has released updates to address a maximum-severity authentication bypass flaw in Catalyst SD-WAN Controller that it said…
ThreatsDay Bulletin: PAN-OS RCE, Mythos cURL Bug, AI Tokenizer Attacks, and 10+ Stories
Ravie LakshmananMay 14, 2026Hacking News / Cybersecurity News Everything is still on fire. This week feels dumb in the worst way — bad links, weak…