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Showboat Linux Malware Hits Middle East Telecom with SOCKS5 Proxy Backdoor 2026-05-21 at 18:15 By Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new Linux malware dubbed Showboat that has been put to use in a campaign targeting a telecommunications provider in the Middle East since at least mid-2022. “Showboat is a modular post-exploitation framework designed […]

ThreatsDay Bulletin: Linux Rootkits, Router 0-Day, AI Intrusions, Scam Kits and 25 New Stories 2026-05-21 at 16:56 By This week starts small. A token leaks. A bad package slips in. A login trick works. An old tool shows up again. At first, it feels like the usual mess. Then you see the pattern: attackers are

Strategies, Expert Insights from the 2026 Verizon DBIR 2026-05-21 at 16:16 By The overarching theme of this year’s report is “keeping a strong foundation in the face of change.” This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Microsoft Warns of Two Actively Exploited Defender Vulnerabilities 2026-05-21 at 15:24 By Microsoft has disclosed that a privilege escalation and a denial-of-service flaw in Defender has come under active exploitation in the wild. The former, tracked as CVE-2026-41091, is rated 7.8 on the CVSS scoring system. Successful exploitation of the flaw could allow an attacker

When Identity is the Attack Path 2026-05-21 at 14:22 By Consider a cached access key on a single Windows machine. It got there the way most cached credentials do – a user logged in, and the key stored itself automatically. Standard AWS behavior. No one misconfigured anything or violated a policy. Yet that single key,

The Maximalism Trap: When More Becomes Too Much 2026-05-21 at 13:14 By Alisha Smith Why more tools, more alerts, and more data aren’t making you any safer This article is an excerpt from SECURITY.COM View Original Source

9-Year-Old Linux Kernel Flaw Enables Root Command Execution on Major Distros 2026-05-21 at 11:40 By Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a vulnerability in the Linux kernel that remained undetected for nine years. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-46333 (CVSS score: 5.5), is a case of improper privilege management that could permit an unprivileged local user

Highly Critical Drupal Core Flaw Exposes PostgreSQL Sites to RCE Attacks 2026-05-21 at 08:00 By Drupal has released security updates for a “highly critical” security vulnerability in Drupal Core that could be exploited by attackers to achieve remote code execution, privilege escalation, or information disclosure. The vulnerability, now tracked as CVE-2026-9082, carries a CVSS score

GitHub Internal Repositories Breached via Malicious Nx Console VS Code Extension 2026-05-21 at 08:00 By GitHub on Wednesday officially confirmed that the breach of its internal repositories was the result of a compromise of an employee device involving a poisoned version of the Nx Console Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extension.  The development comes

Elon Musk’s SpaceX readies for Wall Street blastoff with new filing projecting $28.5 trillion in future revenue 2026-05-21 at 02:02 By Marc Vartabedian Elon Musk’s SpaceX on Wednesday filed paperwork to go public next month, aiming for an out-of-this-world valuation projected around $1.5 trillion – the biggest IPO in history. Wednesday’s filing also disclosed new

Nvidia’s revenue hits record $81B — easily topping Wall Street estimates — on massive demand for AI chips 2026-05-21 at 01:46 By Reuters, Associated Press “The buildout of AI factories — the largest infrastructure expansion in human history — is accelerating at extraordinary speed,” said CEO Jensen Huang in a statement. This article is an

Tech titan Sergey Brin pours 500K into revolt against SF ‘Overpaid CEO Tax’ 2026-05-21 at 01:20 By Titus Wu San Francisco voters are set to weigh in on Measures C and D, two competing proposals on the June 2 ballot that would radically reshape the city’s business tax system. This article is an excerpt from

Ditch the net: The cordless AI robot that buys you 30 days of perfectly pristine water 2026-05-20 at 23:46 By Barret Wertz Your summer won’t suck, as long as your AI pool vac does. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post View Original Source

Ex-Meta worker warns of more firings to come — despite Zuckerberg pledge that bloodbath is over: ‘need therapy’ 2026-05-20 at 21:16 By Ariel Zilber, Thomas Barrabi Brittany Pierson, a Dallas-based content designer who spent four-and-a-half years at Meta, said she felt “so much relief” after getting laid off. This article is an excerpt from Latest

Microsoft Open-Sources RAMPART and Clarity to Secure AI Agents During Development 2026-05-20 at 20:16 By Microsoft has unveiled two new open-source tools called RAMPART and Clarity to assist developers in better testing the security of artificial intelligence (AI) agents. RAMPART, short for Risk Assessment and Measurement Platform for Agentic Red Teaming, functions as a Pytest-native

Sam Altman’s OpenAI reportedly preparing to file for blockbuster IPO soon 2026-05-20 at 20:01 By Reuters The ChatGPT maker is working with bankers at firms, including Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, on a draft IPO prospectus that it plans to file confidentially possibly as early as Friday. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology

Financial Services, Cybersecurity and the Evolving Threat Landscape 2026-05-20 at 19:15 By How can financial institutions manage evolving cyber threats? This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Social media platforms now required to take down deepfake and revenge porn: ‘Big Tech can no longer look the other way’ 2026-05-20 at 18:31 By Ben Cost Social media will be a porn hub no longer. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post View Original Source

Microsoft Takes Down Malware-Signing Service Behind Ransomware Attacks 2026-05-20 at 17:48 By Microsoft on Tuesday said it disrupted a malware-signing-as-a-service (MSaaS) operation that weaponized the company’s Artifact Signing system to deliver malicious code and conduct ransomware and other attacks, compromising thousands of machines and networks across the world. The tech giant attributed the activity to

Webworm Deploys EchoCreep and GraphWorm Backdoors Using Discord and MS Graph API 2026-05-20 at 16:31 By Cybersecurity researchers have flagged fresh activity from a China-aligned threat actor known as Webworm in 2025, deploying custom backdoors that employ Discord and Microsoft Graph API for command-and-control (C2 or C&C) communications. Webworm, first publicly documented by Broadcom-owned Symantec