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Microsoft announced today at its Build 2026 developer conference the release of Coreutils for Windows, bringing many commonly used Linux command-line utilities to Windows as native applications. The project is based on the open-source uutils project, a cross-platform rewrite of the GNU coreutils in Rust, and is designed to make it easier for developers to switch […]
OpenAI says it’s rolling out a new update that improves the existing GPT-5.5 Instant model and retires multiple legacy models, including o3. GPT-5.5 Instant was released on April 23, and it has made significant progress over the past few weeks, particularly in May 2026. Now, in an updated document, OpenAI quietly confirmed that it has improved the […]
Hackers are exploiting a critical privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2026-8206) in the Kirki plugin for WordPress to take over any user account, including those belonging to administrators. The attacks were detected by WordPress security firm Defiant, whose Wordfence firewall blocked over 222 attempts against its customers in the past 24 hours. The full name of the plugin is […]
A large-scale malware campaign dubbed WeedHack is targeting Minecraft players and has infected more than 116,000 systems since January. The malware is distributed through Minecraft-related malicious mods, clients, cheats, and utilities that are promoted over YouTube and SEO (search engine optimization) poisoning. WeedHack works as a malware-as-a-service (MaaS) infostealer operation that offers a dashboard for […]
A threat actor is using an AI-built ransomware attack toolkit that automates Active Directory discovery and helps evade endpoint detection and response (EDR) solutions. Tool and payload development was assisted by Cursor and Claude Opus agents in various stages, including initial coding, analysis, and revisioning. Additionally, some agents were tasked with checking security research posts […]
Microsoft is working to address a widespread service issue affecting the mail flow pipeline for Exchange Online customers across North America, Asia-Pacific (APAC), and Europe. The company first acknowledged this incident (tracked under EX1331830) at 10:33 EDT, when it began investigating a stream of reports from users on social media. Some affected users are seeing temporary SMTP deferral errors, stating “The maximum […]
Multiple Instagram users had their accounts hijacked after attackers convinced Meta’s AI-powered support tools that they were the legitimate owners. In many cases, impacted users are unable to recover access due to the platform’s use of automated assistance that involves only AI/chatbot loops and no human support agents. On Monday, multiple holders of rare and […]
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has ordered government agencies to secure their systems against a high-severity Oracle WebLogic Server vulnerability that was patched two years ago and is now actively exploited in attacks. Oracle WebLogic Server is an enterprise-grade Java app server used as middleware for large, multi-tier distributed applications. Tracked as CVE-2024-21182, […]
Google has released the June 2026 Android security patches to address 124 vulnerabilities, including one zero-day flaw exploited in targeted attacks. Local attackers can exploit the actively abused high-severity Android Framework vulnerability (tracked as CVE-2025-48595) to gain code execution and escalate privileges on devices running Android 14 or later. “There are indications that CVE-2025-48595 may […]
A threat actor tracked as DriveSurge has been operating large-scale malware distribution campaigns using ClickFix and FakeUpdates techniques on compromised sites. Thousands of websites have been compromised in DriveSurge campaigns to redirect visitors to malware-delivery infrastructure, according to researchers at cybersecurity company SilentPush. ClickFix is a popular social engineering tactic that deceives victims into copying […]
