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A Russian-speaking initial access broker (IAB) driven by financial gain is assessed to be behind a large-scale credential-harvesting operation known as FortiBleed that has targeted over 430,000 FortiGate firewalls globally.

The campaign, active since February 2026, involves collecting credential lists, searching for exposed services, brute-forcing accessible systems, and deploying bespoke

Security firm AIR built a fake AI agent skill, pushed it through a popular skill marketplace and an Instagram ad, and says it reached roughly 26,000 agents, including some on corporate accounts.

Every skill security scanner the firm tested it against marked it safe. The payload was harmless by design: it collected the user’s email address and did nothing else.

The point was to show

President Trump signed an executive order on June 22 setting hard deadlines for federal agencies to move high-value assets and high-impact systems to post-quantum cryptography.

Key establishment must move by December 31, 2030; digital signatures by December 31, 2031. EO 14409 leaves national security systems on a separate track.

The deadlines matter because of a threat that does not

GitHub is moving to strengthen software supply chain security by updating “actions/checkout” to block pwn request attacks that exploit the risky use of the “pull_request_target workflow” trigger to run malicious code with the workflow’s full privileges.

Effective June 18, 2026, the latest version of “actions/checkout,” the official GitHub action for checking out a repository into the

Every weapon begins as an extension of the hand that holds it. The spear lengthened the reach of the arm. The bow sent the point flying without the throw. The rifle placed a man’s death a quarter mile beyond his sight, and the aircraft carried that death across oceans. At each turn, the distance between the warrior and the wound grew wider, and yet one thing never moved: a human chose the target

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a set of malicious npm packages that are designed to deliver a Windows-based remote access trojan (RAT).

The list of identified packages, is below –

aes-decode-runner-pro (145 downloads)
postcss-minify-selector (256 downloads)
postcss-minify-selector-parser (615 downloads)

All the packages were published over the past month by an npm user named

Direct messages sent via WhatsApp are being used to distribute malicious Visual Basic Script (VBScript) files that lead to the installation of legitimate Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) software.

Per findings from Kaspersky, the active campaign is targeting users of WhatsApp Desktop and WhatsApp Web across Malaysia, Brazil, India, Mexico, Singapore, the U.K., Spain, Taiwan, Australia,

OpenAI on Monday said it’s releasing an improved version of its GPT‑5.5‑Cyber model to trusted defenders as part of the Daybreak initiative, the artificial intelligence (AI) company announced last month.

Calling GPT‑5.5‑Cyber its “strongest model yet for finding and helping patch software vulnerabilities,” OpenAI said the model can “sustain deeper analysis across large codebases” to identify

Multiple WordPress plugins from ShapedPlugin were compromised in a supply chain attack after unknown threat actors managed to tamper with the official release channels and push backdoor code.

“Attackers compromised the vendor’s build and distribution pipeline, injecting backdoor code into Pro plugin releases distributed through official licensed update channels,” Wordfence said in an analysis

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of four vulnerabilities in Dify, an open-source agentic workflow platform with more than 146,000 GitHub stars, that could allow attackers to stealthily read artificial intelligence (AI) conversions from other customers’ applications without requiring authentication.

The vulnerabilities have been collectively codenamed DifyTap by Zafran Security.