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Microsoft Removes 119 Edge Extensions That Hid Malware in Images and Fonts 2026-06-29 at 11:32 By Microsoft has shut down a long-running malicious extension operation on the Edge Add-ons store that hid its payloads inside ordinary image and font files, then woke up days after install to steal credentials and run ad fraud. The company […]

Why Insider Threats Deserve a Spot at the Top of Your Risk List 2026-06-29 at 11:00 By Most people picture insider threats one way — the disgruntled employee, the corporate spy, the contractor who walked out with a thumb drive. Those exist, and they matter, but they’re not the majority of what this category actually

Hijacked npm and Go Packages Use VS Code Tasks to Deploy Python Infostealer 2026-06-29 at 10:31 By Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered two hijacked npm packages and a cluster of Go packages that are designed to deploy a Python-based information stealer on compromised Windows, Linux, and macOS hosts. “This attack avoids the most common npm execution

Ukraine Says Russian Intelligence Used Fake Support Texts to Steal Messaging Credentials 2026-06-27 at 20:27 By The Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) said it, together with the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), uncovered a long-running campaign orchestrated by Russian intelligence services to break into the messaging accounts of government officials, military personnel, politicians, and

US allows Anthropic to release Mythos AI to ‘trusted’ US organizations 2026-06-27 at 19:17 By Reuters Anthropic’s powerful AI model, Mythos 5, gets government go-ahead for “trusted” US organizations after a two-week ban. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post View Original Source

OpenAI Previews GPT-5.6 Sol With Restricted Access and Stronger Cyber Safeguards 2026-06-27 at 15:19 By OpenAI on Friday released three versions of GPT-5.6, called Sol, Terra, and Luna, as a limited preview to a small number of companies as part of an ongoing engagement with the U.S. government. While Sol is the latest flagship model

FBI Warns Russian Intelligence Hackers Target Signal Backup Recovery Keys 2026-06-26 at 22:38 By The FBI and CISA have updated their March warning about Russian intelligence phishing Signal accounts, and the operators have added a step: they now coax targets into handing over their Signal Backup Recovery Key. Hand it over once, and the attacker can restore

New SharkLoader Malware Deploys Cobalt Strike in StrikeShark Cyberattacks 2026-06-26 at 21:17 By A newly discovered cyber attack campaign has been observed delivering a previously undocumented malware family called SharkLoader that acts as a loader for deploying Cobalt Strike Beacon on compromised hosts. Kaspersky, which is tracking the activity under the moniker StrikeShark, said the

Mom gets groundbreaking mastectomy from a $2M robot named Carol — and went to the beach with a tiny scar weeks later 2026-06-26 at 20:26 By Allie Yang The robot was cleared by the FDA a few months ago to perform the delicate surgery that avoids skin and preserves the nipple. This article is an

Chinese-Speaking APT Deploys New TinyRCT Backdoor in Southeast Asia Campaign 2026-06-26 at 19:21 By A Chinese-speaking advanced persistent threat (APT) actor has been linked to a new custom backdoor called TinyRCT as part of cyber attacks aimed at government entities and critical infrastructure in Southeast Asia. The activity, particularly aimed at state-owned enterprises in the

Security Leaders Discuss Texas Hunting, Fishing License Data Breach 2026-06-26 at 18:30 By The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department reported that the personal information of more than three million Texas hunting and fishing license customers may have been affected by a recent data breech. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS

🎙️SECURITY.COM The Podcast: The Parasite in the Machine: Unmasking the Speagle Infostealer 2026-06-26 at 17:30 By Enterprise Security Group Innocuous error reports, hypersonic targets, and a mystery with no fingerprints This article is an excerpt from SECURITY.COM View Original Source

New Linux pedit COW Exploit Enables Root Access by Poisoning Cached Binaries 2026-06-26 at 16:57 By A flaw in the Linux kernel’s traffic-control subsystem can let a local unprivileged user gain root on affected systems. CVE-2026-46331, nicknamed “pedit COW,” is an out-of-bounds write in the packet-editing action (act_pedit) that corrupts shared page-cache memory. A public, working

Amazon Q Developer Flaw Could Let Malicious Repos Run Code via MCP Configs 2026-06-26 at 16:53 By A high-severity flaw in Amazon Q Developer let a malicious repository run commands and steal a developer’s cloud credentials. The path was short: a developer opens the repo, trusts the workspace, and Amazon Q does the rest. Amazon

CISA Adds Exploited PTC Windchill RCE Flaw to KEV as Web Shell Attacks Continue 2026-06-26 at 15:31 By The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday added a critical remote code execution vulnerability impacting PTC Windchill PDMlink and PTC FlexPLM enterprise Product Data Management (PDM) and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software to its

New DirtyClone Linux Kernel Flaw Lets Local Users Gain Root via Cloned Packets 2026-06-26 at 14:51 By DirtyClone is a new Linux kernel privilege escalation in the DirtyFrag family. JFrog Security Research published a working exploit walkthrough for the flaw on June 25, the first public demonstration for this variant. Tracked as CVE-2026-43503 (CVSS 8.8), it lets a local

Guardian Agents: The Next Layer of Identity Governance 2026-06-26 at 14:30 By AI agents are moving through enterprise environments, inheriting permissions, traversing systems, and executing decisions at machine speed with minimal oversight. The identity infrastructure built to govern human access wasn’t designed for autonomous actors, and the gap between what enterprises are deploying and what

Google Details Turla’s New STOCKSTAY Backdoor Used in Ukraine Espionage Attacks 2026-06-26 at 13:42 By The Russian state-sponsored threat actor known as Turla has been attributed to a previously undocumented .NET backdoor called STOCKSTAY that has been deployed against government and military organizations in Ukraine, and entities that have an interest in Italian foreign policy.

Microsoft Warns of Photo ZIP Phishing Campaign Targeting Hotels with Node.js Implant 2026-06-26 at 12:27 By An active phishing campaign has been targeting hotel and other hospitality organizations across Europe and Asia since April 2026, using photo-themed ZIP files to drop a Node.js implant and dig into front-desk machines, Microsoft says. The company has not attributed the

Identifying Government Leaders Who Will Succeed in Corporate Security 2026-06-26 at 12:00 By A candidate’s background and career level by themselves do not forecast results. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source