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ThreatsDay Bulletin: AI Agents Gone Wrong, Sketchy C2 Tools, ClickFix Tricks, JS Backdoors & 20+ New Stories

It got stupid again. The internet still feels held together with tape. Bad plugins, old bugs, fake tools, trusted apps doing shady things. Same mess, new wrapper. And now the weird stuff is normal. Forums go down and come back worse. Cheap hackers get better toys. AI starts breaking real systems. Great. Read the whole thing before it ruins your week anyway. Unauthenticated

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Gemini Voice Assistant Hijacked via Messaging Notifications

Attackers could have triggered dangerous actions, including controlling smart home devices via Google Home and starting Zoom video calls. The post Gemini Voice Assistant Hijacked via Messaging Notifications appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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China-Linked TA4922 Expands Phishing Attacks to UK, Germany, Italy, and South Africa

A new China-linked cybercrime group known as TA4922 has expanded its targeting focus to target European organizations in the U.K., Germany, Italy, and South Africa. These efforts have been complemented by a "rapid operational tempo" and a continually evolving malware arsenal comprising known families like ValleyRAT (aka Winos 4.0) and Atlas RAT (aka AtlasCross RAT), as well as previously

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Mirasvit Vulnerability Exploited to Execute Code on Magento Servers

A flaw in the Full Page Cache Warmer extension can be exploited without authentication via serialized PHP object payloads. The post Mirasvit Vulnerability Exploited to Execute Code on Magento Servers appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Chinese Cybercrime Group in Spotlight for Record Campaign Pace

Relying on social engineering, the hacking group engages in credential phishing, malware distribution, and fraud activities. The post Chinese Cybercrime Group in Spotlight for Record Campaign Pace appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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FlutterShell Backdoor Spreads to macOS via Malicious Google and YouTube Ads

Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a macOS malvertising campaign codenamed Operation FlutterBridge that spreads a new backdoor called FlutterShell. According to Palo Alto Networks Unit 42, the campaign is said to be the next stage of a previously reported activity cluster dubbed JSCoreRunner (aka FileRipple) in late August 2025. The cybercrime group behind the two attack chains is

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Over 1.4 Million Accounts Disrupted in Cybercrime Crackdown

Law enforcement and tech companies disrupted infrastructure linked to scammers operating across Southeast Asia. The post Over 1.4 Million Accounts Disrupted in Cybercrime Crackdown appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Fake Sites Mimicking Open-Source Tools Rank High on Google to Deliver Malware via TDS

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a large-scale operation that impersonates open-source and freeware projects to funnel unsuspecting users through a Traffic Distribution System (TDS) and deliver malware families like Remus Stealer, AnimateClipper, and the SessionGate framework. "The sites are well-designed and often look like legitimate project portals at a glance, sometimes referencing

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Hackers Spied on a Stock Exchange Executive's Outlook Mailbox for Five Months

Unknown attackers spent at least five months inside the Outlook mailbox of a senior executive at a major global stock exchange, copying the inbox out in small, repeated batches and routing it through Dropbox and OneDrive so the traffic blended into normal cloud activity. Symantec and Carbon Black's Threat Hunter Team reported the campaign this week. This points to espionage, not a money grab:

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Cisco Warns of Available PoC for Critical Unified CM Vulnerability

The high-severity flaw can be exploited remotely, without authentication, in server-side request forgery (SSRF) attacks. The post Cisco Warns of Available PoC for Critical Unified CM Vulnerability appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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VS Code Vulnerability Allows One-Click GitHub Token Theft

A researcher has disclosed the full details of the vulnerability and released a PoC without notifying Microsoft in advance. The post VS Code Vulnerability Allows One-Click GitHub Token Theft appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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CISA Adds Exploited Magento RCE Flaw CVE-2026-45247 to KEV Catalog

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Wednesday added a critical flaw impacting Mirasvit Cache Warmer, a popular Magento full-page cache extension, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, following reports of active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-45247 (CVSS score: 9.8), is a case of deserialization of untrusted

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DoJ Disrupts Southeast Asia Crypto Fraud Networks, Freezes $3.8 Million in Assets

The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Wednesday announced the results of a sweeping action undertaken by government authorities and private sector companies to combat cyber-enabled and cryptocurrency fraud targeting Americans. The "Disruption Week" operation began May 18, 2026, leading to the takedown of millions of social media, email, and internet access accounts used by transnational

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WhatsApp, Slack Notifications Could Hijack Google Gemini on Android

A single poisoned notification from WhatsApp, Slack, SMS, Signal, Instagram, or Messenger could have hijacked Google Gemini's voice assistant on Android and made it open a victim's connected windows, fake a message from their boss, push the phone into a Zoom call, or quietly poison its long-term memory. No malicious app on the phone is required. The assistant just had to treat a hostile

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Coralogix Raises $200M at $1.6B Valuation to Scale AI Observability Platform

Coralogix offers a full-stack observability platform that unifies logs, metrics, traces, security, and AI observability. The post Coralogix Raises $200M at $1.6B Valuation to Scale AI Observability Platform appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Google DoubleClick Abused in New Malspam Campaign to Deliver DesckVB RAT

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new malspam campaign that makes use of Google's DoubleClick domain as a way to evade detection and ultimately deliver a remote access trojan (RAT) named DesckVB RAT. "Before the victim ever reaches attacker-controlled infrastructure, the lure routes through DoubleClick, a legitimate Google-owned domain that many security tools are less likely to treat as

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Microsoft 365 Android Apps Let Any App Steal Account Tokens via Leftover Debug Flag

A development flag left switched on in production builds of several Microsoft 365 Android apps disabled the check that limits account-token sharing to trusted Microsoft apps. Any other app on the same phone could ask for the signed-in user's token and get it, then read email, open files, browse the calendar, and send messages as that user. No password, no login screen, no permission prompt.

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Autonomous AI Tool Finds 2-Year-Old RCE Flaw in Redis (CVE-2026-23479)

Redis has patched a use-after-free in its blocking-client code that lets an authenticated user run arbitrary OS commands on the machine hosting the database. The flaw was found by an autonomous AI tool built to hunt bugs in large codebases. Tracked as CVE-2026-23479, the flaw was introduced in Redis 7.2.0 and remained in every stable branch until the May 5 fixes, unnoticed for over two years.

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Kirki, Burst Statistics WordPress Plugin Flaws in Attackers’ Crosshairs

Threat actors are exploiting vulnerable Kirki and Burst Statistics deployments to elevate privileges and take over websites. The post Kirki, Burst Statistics WordPress Plugin Flaws in Attackers’ Crosshairs appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Security of 100 AI Agents Tested and Ranked – What You Need to Know

The AI Risk Quadrant evaluates AI agents based on three factors: how vulnerable they are to compromise, the potential impact of a breach, and the strength of their security defenses. The post Security of 100 AI Agents Tested and Ranked – What You Need to Know appeared first on SecurityWeek.