Latest Cybersecurity News and Articles

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Over 500 Organizations Hit in Years-Long Phishing Campaign

Victims span across the aviation, critical infrastructure, energy, logistics, public administration, and technology sectors. The post Over 500 Organizations Hit in Years-Long Phishing Campaign appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Ollama Out-of-Bounds Read Vulnerability Allows Remote Process Memory Leak

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a critical security vulnerability in Ollama that, if successfully exploited, could allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to leak its entire process memory. The out-of-bounds read flaw, which likely impacts over 300,000 servers globally, is tracked as CVE-2026-7482 (CVSS score: 9.1). It has been codenamed Bleeding Llama by Cyera. Ollama is a

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cPanel, WHM Release Fixes for Three New Vulnerabilities — Patch Now

cPanel has released updates to address three vulnerabilities in cPanel and Web Host Manager (WHM) that could be exploited to achieve privilege escalation, code execution, and denial-of-service. The list of vulnerabilities is as follows - CVE-2026-29201 (CVSS score: 4.3) - An insufficient input validation of the feature file name in the "feature::LOADFEATUREFILE" adminbin call that could result

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TCLBANKER Banking Trojan Targets Financial Platforms via WhatsApp and Outlook Worms

Threat hunters have flagged a previously undocumented Brazilian banking trojan dubbed TCLBANKER that's capable of targeting 59 banking, fintech, and cryptocurrency platforms. The activity is being tracked by Elastic Security Labs under the moniker REF3076. The malware family is assessed to be a major update of the Maverick, which is known to leverage a worm called SORVEPOTEL to spread via

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Fake Call History Apps Stole Payments From Users After 7.3 Million Play Store Downloads

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered fraudulent apps on the official Google Play Store for Android that falsely claimed to offer access to call histories for any phone number, only to trick users into joining a subscription that provided fake data and incurred financial loss. The 28 apps have collectively racked up more than 7.3 million downloads, with one of them alone accounting for over

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In Other News: Train Hacker Arrested, PamDOORa Linux Backdoor, New CISA Director Frontrunner

Other noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: US gov targets 72-hour patch cycles, malware uses Windows Phone Link to steal OTPs, spy operation targets Eurasian drone industry. The post In Other News: Train Hacker Arrested, PamDOORa Linux Backdoor, New CISA Director Frontrunner appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Why The CISO Role Is Becoming More Demanding In 2026

This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – May. 8, 2026 – Read the full story from United States Cybersecurity Institute Personal legal liability, expanding scope, and constrained budgets have driven experienced professionals out of the chief information security officer The post Why The CISO Role Is Becoming More Demanding In 2026 appeared first on Cybercrime Magazine.

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Polish Security Agency Reports ICS Breaches at Five Water Treatment Plants

The hackers gained the ability to modify equipment operational parameters, creating a direct risk to the public water supply. The post Polish Security Agency Reports ICS Breaches at Five Water Treatment Plants appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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AI Firm Braintrust Prompts API Key Rotation After Data Breach

Hackers accessed one of the company’s AWS accounts and compromised AI provider secrets stored in Braintrust. The post AI Firm Braintrust Prompts API Key Rotation After Data Breach appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Quasar Linux RAT Steals Developer Credentials for Software Supply Chain Compromise

A previously undocumented Linux implant codenamed Quasar Linux RAT (QLNX) is targeting developers' systems to establish a silent foothold as well as facilitate a broad range of post-compromise functionality, such as credential harvesting, keylogging, file manipulation, clipboard monitoring, and network tunneling. "QLNX targets developers and DevOps credentials across the software supply chain,"

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Cyberattack Hits Canvas System Used by Thousands of Schools as Finals Loom

A system that thousands of schools and universities use went offline due to a cyberattack, creating chaos as students tried to study for finals. The post Cyberattack Hits Canvas System Used by Thousands of Schools as Finals Loom appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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One Missed Threat Per Week: What 25M Alerts Reveal About Low-Severity Risk

The dark secret of enterprise security operations is that defenders have quietly institutionalized the practice of not looking. This is not just anecdotal, but rather backed by a recent report investigating more than 25 million security alerts, including informational and low-severity, across live enterprise environments.  The dataset behind these findings includes 10 million monitored

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New Linux PamDOORa Backdoor Uses PAM Modules to Steal SSH Credentials

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new Linux backdoor named PamDOORa that's being advertised on the Rehub Russian cybercrime forum for $1,600 by a threat actor called "darkworm." The backdoor is designed as a Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM)-based post-exploitation toolkit that enables persistent SSH access by means of a magic password and specific TCP port combination.

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‘PCPJack’ Worm Removes TeamPCP Infections, Steals Credentials

The malware framework targets web applications and cloud environments, including AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, and more. The post ‘PCPJack’ Worm Removes TeamPCP Infections, Steals Credentials appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Ransomware Group Takes Credit for Trellix Hack

RansomHouse has published several screenshots to demonstrate access to internal Trellix services. The post Ransomware Group Takes Credit for Trellix Hack appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Vulnerability in Claude Extension for Chrome Exposes AI Agent to Takeover

Lax extension permissions and improper trust implementation allow attackers to inject prompts in the Claude Chrome extension. The post Vulnerability in Claude Extension for Chrome Exposes AI Agent to Takeover appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Ivanti Patches EPMM Zero-Day Exploited in Targeted Attacks

CVE-2026-6973 is a high-severity vulnerability that allows an attacker who has admin privileges to execute arbitrary code. The post Ivanti Patches EPMM Zero-Day Exploited in Targeted Attacks appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Linux Kernel Dirty Frag LPE Exploit Enables Root Access Across Major Distributions

Details have emerged about a new, unpatched local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability impacting the Linux kernel. Dubbed Dirty Frag, it has been described as a successor to Copy Fail (CVE-2026-31431, CVSS score: 7.8), a recently disclosed LPE flaw impacting the Linux kernel that has since come under active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability was reported to Linux kernel maintainers

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Canvas Breach Disrupts Schools & Colleges Nationwide

An ongoing data extortion attack targeting the widely-used education technology platform Canvas disrupted classes and coursework at school districts and universities across the United States today, after a cybercrime group defaced the service's login page with a ransom demand that threatened to leak data from 275 million students and faculty across nearly 9,000 educational institutions.

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Worries About AI’s Risks to Humanity Loom Over the Trial Pitting Musk Against OpenAI’s Leaders

Musk said that he could have founded OpenAI as a for-profit company, just like the other companies he started or took over. “I deliberately chose this,” he said, “for the public good.” The post Worries About AI’s Risks to Humanity Loom Over the Trial Pitting Musk Against OpenAI’s Leaders appeared first on SecurityWeek.