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June 17, 2026
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The Top 10 Attack Surface Exposures in 2026

Breaches don’t always start with a zero-day. An exposed admin panel can get brute-forced, or credentials reused from a previous attack. But when a vulnerability does drop — like MongoBleed earlier this year, which let attackers pull credentials and session tokens from server memory without authentication — anything internet-facing...

June 17, 2026
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Malicious JetBrains Plugins Steal AI API Keys as Chrome Extensions Capture Chatbot Chats

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a “coordinated malware campaign” on the JetBrains Marketplace that has published no less than 15 malicious plugins capable of exfiltrating artificial intelligence (AI) provider keys. “Every plugin poses as an AI coding assistant built on DeepSeek and other large language models, offering chat, commit messages,...

June 17, 2026
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144 Mastra npm Packages Compromised via Hijacked Contributor Account

As many as 144 npm packages associated with the Mastra namespace (“@mastra/*”), a popular open-source JavaScript and TypeScript framework for building artificial intelligence (AI) applications, have been compromised as part of a software supply chain attack codenamed easy-day-js, per findings from JFrog, SafeDep, Socket, and StepSecurity. “A single npm...

June 17, 2026
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CISA Warns of Actively Exploited Joomla JCE Flaw Allowing PHP Code Execution

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added a maximum-severity security flaw impacting Widget Factory Joomla Content Editor (JCE) to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-48907 (CVSS score: 10.0), is a case of improper access control...

June 16, 2026
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Google Vertex AI SDK Flaw Let Attackers Hijack Model Uploads via Bucket Squatting

A flaw in the Google Cloud Vertex AI SDK for Python let an attacker with no access to a victim’s project hijack the victim’s machine learning model upload and run code inside Google’s serving infrastructure. Palo Alto Networks Unit 42, which found and reported the bug through Google’s bug...

June 16, 2026
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ClickFix Campaigns Expand Malware Delivery With New Loaders and Fake Update Lures

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged multiple ClickFix campaigns that deliver three malware loaders called BabaDeda Loader, Lorem Ipsum Loader, and Potemkin, per independent reports from Morphisec, BlueVoyant, and Huntress, respectively. Attacks involving BabaDeda Loader, observed in April 2026, have targeted education and financial organizations. “Earlier BabaDeda activity was known for

June 16, 2026
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New Rokarolla Android Malware Steals PINs, SMS Codes, and Crypto Wallet Funds

Security researchers at Zimperium’s zLabs have documented a new Android banking trojan, Rokarolla, that targets 217 banking and cryptocurrency apps and packs 137 remote commands. Together, they give an operator near-total control of an infected phone: it lifts lock-screen PINs, reads and sends SMS, rewrites the clipboard to redirect crypto payments,...

June 16, 2026
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Survey: 94% of Incidents Involve Anonymized Infrastructure. Teams Are Still Reactive

Security teams have never had more IP data at their disposal. Every day, analysts ingest enrichment feeds, geolocation data, reputation scores, telemetry, and threat intelligence from a growing ecosystem of vendors and platforms. Yet despite this abundance of information, many organizations continue to face a fundamental challenge: sifting through...

June 16, 2026
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China-Linked SprySOCKS Backdoor Expands to Windows with Driver-Based Stealth

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged two previously undocumented Windows variants of what was believed to be a Linux-only backdoor called SprySOCKS. “The Windows variants discovered are internally marked as WIN_DRV and WIN_PLUS,” ESET said in a report shared with The Hacker News. “Both come with a hard-coded C&C...

June 16, 2026
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Attackers Exploit Three Fortinet FortiSandbox Flaws, One Patched Last Week

Bad actors are exploiting multiple security vulnerabilities in Fortinet FortiSandbox, according to threat intelligence firm Defused Cyber. In a post shared on X, the company said it has observed exploitation of CVE-2026-39813, CVE-2026-39808, and CVE-2026-25089 over the past 24 hours. CVE-2026-39813 (CVSS score: 9.1) refers to a path traversal...