01 Oct, 2026

Hackers exploiting Acrobat Reader zero-day flaw since December

Attackers have been exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Reader using maliciously crafted PDF documents since at least December. The attacks have been discovered by security researcher Haifei Li (the founder of the sandbox-based exploit-detection platform EXPMON), who warned on Tuesday that the attackers are using what he described as a “highly sophisticated, fingerprinting-style PDF exploit” to […]

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Hackers steal $3.6 million from crypto ATM giant Bitcoin Depot

Bitcoin Depot, which operates one of the largest Bitcoin ATM networks, says attackers stole $3.665 million worth of Bitcoin from its crypto wallets after breaching its systems last month. The company manages more than 25,000 Bitcoin ATMs and BDCheckout locations worldwide and reported revenue of $615 million in 2025. As revealed in a filing with […]

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Microsoft suspends dev accounts for high-profile open source projects

Microsoft has suspended developer accounts used to maintain multiple high-profile open-source projects without proper notification and no way to quickly reinstate them, effectively blocking them from publishing new software builds and security patches for Windows users. The list of affected projects includes, but is not limited to, Virtual Private Network (VPN) software WireGuard, on-the-fly encryption […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Microsoft rolls out fix for broken Windows Start Menu search

Microsoft has pushed a server-side fix for a known issue that broke the Windows Start Menu search feature on some Windows 11 23H2 devices. In a Windows release health update (WI1273488) seen by GeekFeed, Microsoft said these problems have affected only a small number of users since April 6 and are caused by a server-side […]

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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, […]

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