Latest Cybersecurity News and Articles

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Mini Shai-Hulud Pushes Malicious AntV npm Packages via Compromised Maintainer Account

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a fresh software supply chain attack campaign that has compromised various npm packages associated with the @antv ecosystem as part of the ongoing Mini Shai-Hulud attack wave. "The attack affects packages tied to the npm maintainer account atool, including echarts-for-react, a widely used React wrapper for Apache ECharts with roughly 1.1 million weekly

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CISA Admin Leaked AWS GovCloud Keys on Github

Until this past weekend, a contractor for the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) maintained a public GitHub repository that exposed credentials to several highly privileged AWS GovCloud accounts and a large number of internal CISA systems. Security experts said the public archive included files detailing how CISA builds, tests and deploys software internally, and that it represents one of the most egregious government data leaks in recent history.

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INTERPOL Operation Ramz Disrupts MENA Cybercrime Networks with 201 Arrests

INTERPOL has coordinated a first-of-its-kind cybercrime crackdown across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) that led to 201 arrests and the identification of an additional 382 suspects. The initiative involved the efforts of 13 countries from the region between October 2025 and February 2026, aiming to investigate and neutralize malicious infrastructure, arrest perpetrators behind these

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⚡ Weekly Recap: Exchange 0-Day, npm Worm, Fake AI Repo, Cisco Exploit and More

Monday opens with a trust problem. A mail server flaw is under active use. A network control system was targeted. Trusted packages were poisoned. A fake model page pushed a stealer. Then came the familiar ransom claim: the data was returned and deleted. The pattern is clear. One weak dependency can leak keys. One leaked key can open cloud access. One cloud foothold can become a production

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How to Reduce Phishing Exposure Before It Turns into Business Disruption

What happens when a phishing email looks clean enough to pass through security, but dangerous enough to expose the business after one click? That is the gap many SOCs still struggle with: the attacks that leave teams unsure what was exposed, who else was targeted, and how far the risk has spread. Early phishing detection closes that gap. It helps teams move from uncertainty to evidence faster,

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Millions Impacted Across Several US Healthcare Data Breaches

Several healthcare data breaches impacting hundreds of thousands and even millions were added to the HHS tracker. The post Millions Impacted Across Several US Healthcare Data Breaches appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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World Premiere Of “Midnight In The War Room” Documentary At Black Hat Vegas

This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – May. 18, 2026 –Watch the trailer Black Hat, the cybersecurity industry’s most established and in-depth security event series, and Semperis, the identity-driven cyber resilience and crisis management company, announced that the world premiere The post World Premiere Of “Midnight In The War Room” Documentary At Black Hat Vegas appeared first on Cybercrime Magazine.

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‘Claw Chain’ OpenClaw Flaws Allow Sandbox Escape, Backdoor Delivery

Four vulnerabilities in OpenClaw can be chained together to steal credentials, escape the sandbox, and plant persistent backdoors. The post ‘Claw Chain’ OpenClaw Flaws Allow Sandbox Escape, Backdoor Delivery appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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7-Eleven Data Breach Confirmed After ShinyHunters Ransom Demand

The hackers claimed to have stolen more than 600,000 Salesforce records, including personal information and corporate data.  The post 7-Eleven Data Breach Confirmed After ShinyHunters Ransom Demand appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Developer Workstations Are Now Part of the Software Supply Chain

Supply chain attackers are not only trying to slip malicious code into trusted software. They are trying to steal the access that makes trusted software possible. Recently, three separate campaigns hit npm, PyPI, and Docker Hub in a 48-hour window, and all three targeted secrets from developer environments and CI/CD pipelines, including API keys, cloud credentials, SSH keys, and tokens. This is

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Ivanti, Fortinet, SAP, VMware, n8n Patch RCE, SQL Injection, Privilege Escalation Flaws

Ivanti, Fortinet, n8n, SAP, and VMware have released security fixes for various vulnerabilities that could be exploited by bad actors to bypass authentication and execute arbitrary code. Topping the list is a critical flaw impacting Ivanti Xtraction (CVE-2026-8043, CVSS score: 9.6) that could be exploited to achieve information disclosure or client-side attacks. "External control of a file name

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Researcher Drops MiniPlasma Windows Exploit for Unpatched 2020 CVE

The researcher dropped the MiniPlasma exploit that uses the original proof-of-concept (PoC) code targeting the bug. The post Researcher Drops MiniPlasma Windows Exploit for Unpatched 2020 CVE appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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First Shai-Hulud Worm Clones Emerge

At least one threat actor has adopted the recently released malware source code in attacks against NPM developers. The post First Shai-Hulud Worm Clones Emerge appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Four Malicious npm Packages Deliver Infostealers and Phantom Bot DDoS Malware

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered four new npm packages containing information-stealing malware, one of which is a clone of the Shai-Hulud worm open-sourced by TeamPCP. The list of identified packages is below - chalk-tempalte (825 Downloads) @deadcode09284814/axios-util (284 Downloads) axois-utils (963 Downloads) color-style-utils (934 Downloads) "One of the packages (chalk-tempalte)

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Grafana Confirms Breach After Hackers Claim They Stole Data

Grafana appears to have been targeted by Coinbase Cartel, a cybercrime group linked to ShinyHunters, Scattered Spider, and Lapsus$. The post Grafana Confirms Breach After Hackers Claim They Stole Data appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Exploitation of Critical NGINX Vulnerability Begins

The flaw leads to denial-of-service on default configurations and to remote code execution if ASLR is disabled. The post Exploitation of Critical NGINX Vulnerability Begins appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Pre-Stuxnet Fast16 Malware Tampered with Nuclear Weapons Simulations

A new analysis of the Lua-based fast16 malware has confirmed that it was a cyber sabotage tool designed to tamper with nuclear weapons testing simulations. According to Broadcom-owned Symantec and Carbon Black teams, the pre-Stuxnet tool was engineered to corrupt uranium-compression simulations that are central to nuclear weapon design. "Fast16's hook engine is selectively interested in

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MiniPlasma Windows 0-Day Enables SYSTEM Privilege Escalation on Fully Patched Systems

Chaotic Eclipse, the security researcher behind the recently disclosed Windows flaws, YellowKey and GreenPlasma, has released a proof-of-concept (PoC) for a Windows privilege escalation zero-day flaw that grants attackers SYSTEM privileges on fully patched Windows systems. Codenamed MiniPlasma, the vulnerability impacts "cldflt.sys," which refers to the Windows Cloud Files Mini Filter Driver,

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Hackers Earn $1.3 Million at Pwn2Own Berlin 2026 

Participants demonstrated exploits for Windows, Linux, VMware, Nvidia, and AI products. The post Hackers Earn $1.3 Million at Pwn2Own Berlin 2026  appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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NGINX CVE-2026-42945 Exploited in the Wild, Causing Worker Crashes and Possible RCE

A newly disclosed security flaw impacting NGINX Plus and NGINX Open has come under active exploitation in the wild, days after its public disclosure, according to VulnCheck. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-42945 (CVSS score: 9.2), is a heap buffer overflow in ngx_http_rewrite_module affecting NGINX versions 0.6.27 through 1.30.0. According to AI-native security company depthfirst, the