Security
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Hackers use pixel-large SVG trick to hide credit card stealer
A massive campaign impacting nearly 100 online stores using the Magento e-commerce platform hides credit card-stealing code in a pixel-sized Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) image. When clicking the checkout button, the victim is shown a convincing overlay that can validate card details and billing data. The campaign was discovered by eCommerce security company Sansec, whose researchers believe […]
Google: New UNC6783 hackers steal corporate Zendesk support tickets
A threat actor tracked as UNC6783 is compromising business process outsourcing (BPO) providers to gain access to high-value companies across multiple sectors. According to the Google Threat Intelligence Group, dozens of corporate entities have been targeted through this method to exfiltrate sensitive data for extortion. Austin Larsen, GTIG principal threat analyst, says that UNC6783 typically relies on social engineering and phishing […]
New macOS stealer campaign uses Script Editor in ClickFix attack
A new campaign delivering the Atomic Stealer malware to macOS users abuses the Script Editor in a variation of the ClickFix attack that tricked users into executing commands in Terminal. Script Editor is a built-in macOS application for writing and running scripts, primarily AppleScript and JXA, that can execute local scripts and shell commands. It […]
CISA orders feds to patch exploited Ivanti EPMM flaw by Sunday
CISA has given U.S. government agencies four days to secure their systems against a critical-severity vulnerability in Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM) that has been exploited in attacks since January. Tracked as CVE-2026-1340, this critical-severity code injection flaw enables threat actors without privileges to gain remote code execution on Internet-exposed and unpatched EPMM appliances. Ivanti flagged this and a second security […]
13-year-old bug in ActiveMQ lets hackers remotely execute commands
Security researchers discovered a remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in Apache ActiveMQ Classic that has gone undetected for 13 years and could be exploited to execute arbitrary commands. The flaw was uncovered using the Claude AI assistant, which identified an exploit path by analyzing how independently developed components interact. Tracked as CVE-2026-34197, the security issue received […]
Hackers exploit critical flaw in Ninja Forms WordPress plugin
A critical vulnerability in the Ninja Forms File Uploads premium add-on for WordPress allows uploading arbitrary files without authentication, which can lead to remote code execution. Identified as CVE-2026-0740, the issue is currently exploited in attacks. According to WordPress security company Defiant, its Wordfence firewall blocked more than 3,600 attacks over the past 24 hours. With over 600,000 downloads, […]
FBI: Americans lost a record $21 billion to cybercrime last year
U.S. victims lost nearly $21 billion to cyber-enabled crimes last year, driven primarily by investment scams, business email compromise, tech support fraud, and data breaches, the Federal Bureau of Investigation says. The figure continues the year-over-year record trend as it is up 26% compared to 2024, when Americans lost $16.6 billion to cybercrime. A similar uptick was recorded […]
Snowflake customers hit in data theft attacks after SaaS integrator breach
Over a dozen companies have suffered data theft attacks after a SaaS integration provider was breached and authentication tokens stolen. While numerous cloud storage and SaaS vendors were targeted using the stolen tokens, GeekFeed has learned that the majority of the data theft attacks targeted the cloud data platform Snowflake. Snowflake confirmed “unusual activity” to GeekFeed, […]
Authorities disrupt router DNS hijacks used to steal Microsoft 365 logins
An international operation from law enforcement authorities in partnership with private companies has disrupted FrostArmada, an APT28 campaign hijacking local traffic from MikroTik and TP-Link routers to steal Microsoft account credentials. The Russian threat group APT28, also tracked as Fancy Bear, Sofacy, Forest Blizzard, Strontium, Storm-2754, and Sednit, has been linked to Russia’s General Staff Main […]
German authorities identify REvil and GandCrab ransomware bosses
The Federal Police in Germany (BKA) has identified two Russian nationals as the leaders of GandCrab and REvil ransomware operations between 2019 and 2021. According to BKA’s disclosure, 31-year-old Daniil Maksimovich Shchukin and 43-year-old Anatoly Sergeevitsch Kravchuk acted as the heads of the two ransomware groups “from at least the beginning of 2019 until at least July 2021.” Shchukin hid behind the […]