Showboat Linux Malware Hits Middle East Telecom with SOCKS5 Proxy Backdoor
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new Linux malware dubbed Showboat that has been put to use in a...
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ThreatsDay Bulletin: Linux Rootkits, Router 0-Day, AI Intrusions, Scam Kits and 25 New Stories
Ravie LakshmananMay 21, 2026Hacking News / Cybersecurity News This week starts small. A token leaks. A bad package slips in....
Microsoft Warns of Two Actively Exploited Defender Vulnerabilities
Ravie LakshmananMay 21, 2026Endpoint Security / Vulnerability Microsoft has disclosed that a privilege escalation and a denial-of-service flaw in Defender...
When Identity is the Attack Path
Consider a cached access key on a single Windows machine. It got there the way most cached credentials do -...
9-Year-Old Linux Kernel Flaw Enables Root Command Execution on Major Distros
Ravie LakshmananMay 21, 2026Linux / Vulnerability Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a vulnerability in the Linux kernel that remained...
GitHub Internal Repositories Breached via Malicious Nx Console VS Code Extension
Ravie LakshmananMay 21, 2026Supply Chain Attack / Developer Tools GitHub on Wednesday officially confirmed that the breach of its internal...
Highly Critical Drupal Core Flaw Exposes PostgreSQL Sites to RCE Attacks
Ravie LakshmananMay 21, 2026Web Security / Vulnerability Drupal has released security updates for a "highly critical" security vulnerability in Drupal...
Microsoft Open-Sources RAMPART and Clarity to Secure AI Agents During Development
Ravie LakshmananMay 20, 2026Artificial Intelligence / Security Testing Microsoft has unveiled two new open-source tools called RAMPART and Clarity to...
Microsoft Takes Down Malware-Signing Service Behind Ransomware Attacks
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...
Webworm Deploys EchoCreep and GraphWorm Backdoors Using Discord and MS Graph API
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged fresh activity from a China-aligned threat actor known as Webworm in 2025, deploying custom backdoors that...
Agent AI is Coming. Are You Ready?
The Hacker NewsMay 20, 2026Identity Security / Enterprise Security New Industry Data Just Released Suggests Not. On May 19th, 2026,...
Grafana GitHub Breach Exposes Source Code via TanStack npm Attack
Ravie LakshmananMay 20, 2026Supply Chain Attack / Cloud Security Grafana Labs, on May 19, 2026, said an investigation into its...
GitHub Investigating TeamPCP Claimed Breach of ~4,000 Internal Repositories
GitHub on Tuesday said it's investigating unauthorized access to its internal repositories after the notorious threat actor known as TeamPCP...
Trapdoor Android Ad Fraud Scheme Hit 659 Million Daily Bid Requests Using 455 Apps
Ravie LakshmananMay 19, 2026Malvertising / Mobile Security Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new ad fraud and malvertising operation...
DirtyDecrypt PoC Released for Linux Kernel CVE-2026-31635 LPE Vulnerability
Proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit code has now been released for a recently patched security flaw in the Linux kernel that could...
