Microsoft patches LegacyHive Windows zero-day vulnerability
Microsoft has released security patches to address a Windows zero-day vulnerability known as “LegacyHive,” disclosed after the July 2026 Patch Tuesday. The security flaw was disclosed by a security researcher who uses the “Nightmare Eclipse” handle in protest of Microsoft’s bug bounty and vulnerability disclosure practices. Nightmare Eclipse published a LegacyHive proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit hours […]
AI ‘watermark removers’ flood the web. Almost none can prove they work.
A market for removing AI watermarks has sprung up days after Anthropic disclosed switching on invisible marks in everything Claude writes, spanning a GitHub project with over 4,500 stars, a cluster of newly registered web tools, and at least one established AI detection evasion service. None of the claims about defeating the text watermark can […]
Critical VMware vCenter RCE flaw exploited for reverse SSH access
A recently patched critical vulnerability (CVE-2026-59310) in VMware vCenter Syslog Server is being exploited in an active campaign to deploy a reverse SSH tool for persistence and remote access. Compromises have been identified at 361 IP addresses across 47 countries, more than half located in Germany, the U.S., Turkey, Iran, and France. Broadcom disclosed CVE-2026-59310 […]
Trezor discloses data breach affecting nearly 14,000 customers
Hardware wallet manufacturer Trezor disclosed a data breach affecting nearly 14,000 of its customers after ShipMonk, its shipping and logistics provider, was hacked. During the incident, the attackers gained access to customers’ order data, including their full names, shipping addresses, email addresses, and phone numbers. As the company explained in a Thursday blog post, the […]
White House taps security firms for offensive hack-back operations
A new White House memo signed by U.S. President Donald Trump instructs the National Coordination Center (NCC) to establish a program that would allow private security companies to apply for approval to hack foreign cybercrime organizations. Signed on Wednesday, the national security presidential memorandum (NSPM) enables the NCC (part of the Homeland Security Task Force) […]
WhatsApp rolls out new feature that flags potential scam messages
WhatsApp has begun rolling out a new optional “Scam Alert” feature, which uses a local machine learning model to warn users when scammers are targeting them. Scam Alert is now available as part of a limited beta rollout while the company tests this new warning system with researchers in its Bug Bounty community. “Today, we’re […]
“City-Forum” data-theft attacks target Salesforce, ServiceNow portals
An ongoing data theft campaign uses custom tools to steal data exposed to anonymous users through Salesforce Experience Cloud and ServiceNow customer portals. The data-theft campaign, dubbed City-Forum by SaaS security firm Reco, has been traced to a single server that has targeted multiple organizations worldwide. These organizations include telecommunications companies, banks and financial services firms, […]
Android malware combo takes out loans and relays victims’ credit cards
A new Android NFC relay malware called WindRelay is being used alongside the SpyNote remote administration tool (RAT) to steal card data and send it to attackers in real time. In an incident investigated by the cybersecurity company Group-IB, a fraudster impersonated a bank employee and called the victim under the pretense of a problem […]
Hackers exploit critical Adobe Commerce flaw to hijack customer accounts
Attempts to exploit a critical vulnerability (CVE-2026-71362) in Adobe’s Commerce and Magento e-commerce platforms have been detected, potentially allowing attackers to hijack customer accounts. The flaw is described as an incorrect authorization vulnerability that could be leveraged to “gain elevated access to sensitive resources” without authentication and is one of the seven issues that Adobe […]
Hundreds of fake Chrome VPN extensions route traffic through a proxy
More than 737 browser extensions published on the Chrome Web Store impersonated well-known VPN and proxy services while routing users’ traffic through SOCKS5 proxies operated by a single provider. Some of the extensions impersonated dozens of established brands, including Proton VPN, NordVPN, Surfshark, ExpressVPN, and Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1 public domain name system (DNS) resolver. Researchers at […]