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Google Password Manager Attacks Could Let Malware Hijack Passkey-Protected Accounts - The Hacker News

Technology August 4, 2026

Malware running as an ordinary user on a Windows machine can sign into a victim's passkey-protected accounts without a fingerprint, a PIN, or anything at all appearing on the victim's screen. Unit 4οΏ½...

Hijacked Hotel Wi-Fi Pushes Fake Updates to Deliver Surveillance Malware - The Hacker News

Technology August 2, 2026

A fake browser update served over hijacked hotel Wi-Fi has been used to deliver CornFlake, a remote access trojan (RAT) that can capture webcam images, microphone audio, and keystrokes, Microsoft saiοΏ½...

Microsoft Says New Cybersecurity AI Model Helps MDASH Score 95.95% at Half the Cost - The Hacker News

Technology July 29, 2026

Microsoft has launched its first cybersecurity-specific model inside MDASH, its multi-model vulnerability identification and remediation harness. The company says MDASH, using MAI-Cyber-1-Flash and οΏ½...

Nine-Year-Old RefluXFS Linux Flaw Gives Local Users Root on Default RHEL Installs - The Hacker News

Technology July 24, 2026

RefluXFS, a new Linux kernel flaw disclosed on July 22 and tracked as CVE-2026-64600, lets an unprivileged local user overwrite root-owned files on an XFS filesystem and gain persistent root access. οΏ½...

Hackers Exploit Windmill Flaw to Read Arbitrary Server Files Without Authentication - The Hacker News

Technology July 24, 2026

A high-severity security flaw impacting open-source developer platform Windmill has come under active exploitation in the wild, per VulnCheck. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-29059 (CVSS sοΏ½...

Police Dismantle Kratos Phishing Kit Built to Steal Microsoft 365 Sessions and Bypass MFA - The Hacker News

Technology July 23, 2026

German and US law enforcement have taken down the core infrastructure of Kratos, described by German investigators as one of the world's most widely used criminal phishing kits, and Indonesian authorοΏ½...

OpenAI Says Its AI Models Escaped Sandbox, Targeted Hugging Face to Cheat Benchmark - The Hacker News

Business July 23, 2026

OpenAI on Tuesday said a combination of its artificial intelligence (AI) models, including GPT-5.6 Sol and an "even more capable pre-release model," was behind the security incident that targeted HugοΏ½...

Critical SharePoint RCE CVE-2026-50522 Under Active Exploitation After Public PoC - The Hacker News

Technology July 22, 2026

A third SharePoint Server flaw patched by Microsoft as part of its Patch Tuesday update for July 2026 has come under active exploitation, per watchTowr. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-505οΏ½...

Critical NGINX Vulnerability Can Crash Workers and May Allow Remote Code Execution - The Hacker News

Technology July 21, 2026

F5 has shipped fixes for a critical nginx flaw that lets a remote, unauthenticated attacker trigger a heap buffer overflow in the worker process with crafted HTTP requests. CVE-2026-42533 was patchedοΏ½...

New wp2shell WordPress Core Flaw Lets Unauthenticated Attackers Run Code - The Hacker News

Technology July 19, 2026

An anonymous HTTP request can run code on a WordPress site. The bug is in core, so a bare install with zero plugins is exploitable. Every 6.9 and 7.0 site was in range until Friday, when WordPress sοΏ½...