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2026-04-28The Hacker News
VECT 2.0 Ransomware Wipes Files Over 131KB on Windows, Linux, ESXi

The cyber‑crime group behind the VECT 2.0 ransomware has been observed deploying a strain that behaves more like a data‑wiper than conventional ransomware. In recent incidents targ...

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2026-04-28The Hacker News
Secure Data Movement: The Zero Trust Bottleneck You're Ignoring

In the rush to hybrid cloud adoption, many organizations treat data movement as a simple connectivity chore. Open a ticket, spin up an SFTP gateway, push the data across, and consi...

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2026-04-28The Hacker News
Critical Unpatched Flaw in Hugging Face LeRobot Enables Unauthenticated RCE

Cybersecurity researchers from Eclypsium have disclosed a critical, unpatched vulnerability in Hugging Face’s open‑source robotics framework LeRobot, which boasts nearly 24,000 Git...

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2026-04-28The Hacker News
New Zero-Window Playbooks: How NDR Fills the Gap in AI Threat Defense

In the past, security teams could count on a brief, predictable window between the disclosure of a vulnerability and the release of a patch. That buffer has all but vanished as AI-...

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2026-04-28The Hacker News
China's Silk Typhoon Hacker Extradited to US Over COVID Research Cyberattacks

A Chinese national linked to the Silk Typhoon advanced persistent threat (APT) group has been handed over to U.S. authorities after being arrested in Italy in July 2025. Xu Zewei, ...

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2026-04-28The Hacker News
Microsoft Patches Entra ID Role Flaw Enabling Service Principal Takeover

Silverfort’s identity threat research team disclosed a critical misconfiguration in a Microsoft Entra ID administrative role designed for AI agents. The role, named “AI Service Adm...

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2026-04-28The Hacker News
Microsoft Confirms Active Exploitation of Windows Shell CVE-2026-32202

Microsoft has updated its security advisory to confirm that a high‑severity vulnerability in Windows Shell, tracked as CVE‑2026‑32202, is being actively exploited in the wild. The ...

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2026-04-27Dark Reading
UNC6692 APT Deploys Snow Malware via Microsoft Teams, AWS S3

Cybersecurity researchers have identified a sophisticated campaign conducted by the threat actor UNC6692, who is combining social engineering, custom malware, and cloud infrastruct...

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2026-04-27Dark Reading
Unpatched PhantomRPC Flaw Enables Windows Privilege Escalation Attacks

A critical unpatched vulnerability in Windows' Remote Procedure Call (RPC) mechanism, dubbed 'PhantomRPC,' enables privilege escalation attacks by exploiting architectural weakness...

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2026-04-27Dark Reading
Fast16: 20-Year-Old Malware That Predates Stuxnet Found

Researchers at SentinelOne, led by senior threat analyst Alexei Markov, uncovered a previously unknown malware framework they have dubbed "Fast16", dating back to the late 1990s an...

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2026-04-27Dark Reading
Frontier AI Models Spark Cybersecurity Debate Among Experts

The rapid advancement of frontier large language models, including Anthropic's Claude family and OpenAI's rumored GPT-5.5, has ignited fierce debate within the cybersecurity commun...

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2026-04-27The Hacker News
Checkmarx Data Leaked on Dark Web After Supply Chain Attack

Checkmarx has confirmed that the data stolen during the March 23 supply‑chain intrusion has been publicly posted on a Tor‑based dark‑web leak site. The company’s incident response ...

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2026-04-27The Hacker News
Weekly Recap: Fast16 Malware, XChat Launch, Federal Backdoor, AI Tracking

Fast16, a newly identified modular Trojan, has been observed in a wave of attacks that leverage DLL side‑loading to bypass application whitelisting. Discovered by Cisco Talos on 20...

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2026-04-27The Hacker News
Mythos AI Transforms Vulnerability Discovery, Remediation Gap Widens

Anthropic on April 7 released the public preview of Claude Mythos, a cybersecurity‑focused large language model built on the company’s latest transformer stack. The model ships wit...

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2026-04-27The Hacker News
PhantomCore Exploits TrueConf Flaws to Target Russian Networks

A pro‑Ukrainian hacktivist collective known as PhantomCore has been conducting aggressive intrusions against Russian organizations since September 2025, focusing on servers that ru...

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2026-04-27The Hacker News
73 Fake VS Code Extensions Spread GlassWorm v2 Malware

Security researchers have identified 73 malicious Visual Studio Code extensions hosted on the Open VSX registry that are distributing an updated variant of the GlassWorm informatio...

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2026-04-27The Hacker News
Fake CAPTCHA IRSF Scam: 120 Keitaro Campaigns Fuel Global SMS and Crypto Fraud

Security researchers at Group-IB have uncovered a large-scale smishing operation that combines fake CAPTCHA verification pages with International Revenue Share Fraud (IRSF) and cry...

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2026-04-25The Hacker News
Pre-Stuxnet 'fast16' Lua Malware Found Targeting Engineering Software

Security researchers at Trend Micro have uncovered a previously unknown Lua‑based malicious framework, dubbed "fast16", that was created several years before the infamous Stuxnet w...

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2026-04-25The Hacker News
CISA Adds 4 Exploited Flaws to KEV, Sets May 2026 Federal Deadline

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added four actively exploited vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, signaling a...

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2026-04-24Dark Reading
Helping Romance Scam Victims: Cross-Agency, Proactive Approach

Romance scams, a form of confidence scheme that preys on emotional trust, continue to trap thousands of victims each year. Security analysts note that those who fall prey to these ...

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2026-04-24Dark Reading
US Charges 29 in Myanmar Investment Fraud Ring, Seizes 500+ Domains

The US Department of Justice has announced the indictment of 29 individuals linked to a cyber fraud syndicate operating from Myanmar, charging them with conspiracy to commit wire f...

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2026-04-24Dark Reading
Glasswing Secures Code, But Your Stack Still Exposed

Glasswing’s recent announcement that it has secured the core code of its platform is a welcome step toward reducing software vulnerabilities, but security experts warn that the bro...

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2026-04-24Dark Reading
AI Phishing Surges: Hackers Shift to 1-to-1 Personalized Attacks

In the past six months, a surge of AI‑powered phishing campaigns has reshaped the threat landscape, according to an analysis published by Dark Reading. Threat actors are moving awa...

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2026-04-24Dark Reading
North Korea's Lazarus Targets macOS Users via ClickFix

Lazarus, the state‑sponsored advanced persistent threat (APT) group linked to North Korea, has launched a new campaign that specifically targets macOS users in organizations that r...

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2026-04-24Dark Reading
Tropic Trooper APT Targets Home Routers and Japanese Entities

Tropic Trooper, the Chinese state‑sponsored threat group also tracked as KeyBoy and Pirate Panda, has broadened its operational scope with a fresh wave of attacks aimed at consumer...

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2026-04-24Dark Reading
Chinese APT Exploits Outlook, Slack, Discord & file.io to Spy on Mongolia

Security researchers at Secureworks’ Counter Threat Unit (CTU) have uncovered a sophisticated espionage operation conducted by a Chinese state‑sponsored APT that targeted Mongolian...

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2026-04-24The Hacker News
CISA: FIRESTARTER Backdoor Compromises Federal Cisco Firepower Devices

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has disclosed that an unidentified federal civilian executive branch agency fell victim to the FIRESTARTER backdoor...

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2026-04-24The Hacker News
NASA Employees Targeted by Chinese Phishing Campaign Against Defense Software

NASA's Office of Inspector General (OIG) has disclosed a sophisticated spear‑phishing campaign orchestrated by a Chinese national who masqueraded as a U.S. defense researcher. The ...

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2026-04-24The Hacker News
Bridging AI Agent Authority Gaps: Continuous Observability for Enterprise Security

Enterprise organizations deploying AI agents are confronting a critical security gap that traditional governance frameworks fail to address: the AI Agent Authority Gap. As autonomo...

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2026-04-24The Hacker News
Fake Apple Crypto Wallet Apps Steal Seed Phrases – 26 Apps Detected

Cybersecurity researchers at CleverSight Threat Intelligence have uncovered a cluster of 26 malicious iOS applications that masquerade as popular cryptocurrency wallets such as Tru...

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