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Threats
5 min read
12 Jun 2026

400+ Arch Linux AUR Packages Backdoored With Rust Credential Stealer and eBPF Rootkit

Attackers hijacked more than 400 community-maintained Arch User Repository packages this week, silently modifying build scripts to drop a Rust-based credential harvester — and, when the build ran as root, an eBPF rootkit capable of hiding itself from every standard Linux detection tool.

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Threats
4 min read
11 Jun 2026

ShinyHunters Exploited an Oracle PeopleSoft Zero-Day for Two Weeks Before a Patch Existed

The extortion crew tracked as UNC6240 spent May 27 through June 9 inside university PeopleSoft environments — stealing student records, HR files, and financial data — while Oracle's advisory sat unpublished.

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Threats
5 min read
9 Jun 2026

Meta Accuses NSO Group of Violating WhatsApp Injunction With Fresh Spear-Phishing Campaign

A federal jury awarded Meta roughly $168 million in May after NSO's Pegasus spyware abused a WhatsApp voice-call flaw in 2019. Now Meta says NSO's operators are back — this time with social-engineering lures — and is asking a judge to hold the vendor in contempt.

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Threats
4 min read
8 Jun 2026

Miasma Worm Burrows Into Microsoft's GitHub Presence, Tainting 73 Repositories Across Four Organizations

A self-replicating campaign is chaining stolen developer tokens into an ever-widening blast radius — and Microsoft's own GitHub organizations were not immune.

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Threats
5 min read
7 Jun 2026

Silent Ransom Group Calls Law Firms Directly — Then Drains Files Within Hours

A financially motivated extortion crew is impersonating IT staff over the phone, tricking employees into handing over remote access, and exfiltrating privileged client files before most firms even open a help ticket.

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Threats
5 min read
7 Jun 2026

Your Smart TV May Be Relaying Scraping Traffic Right Now — And You Probably Agreed to It

A reverse-engineering of Bright Data's iOS SDK reveals how consumer apps — including always-on televisions — quietly enlist household devices as exit nodes in a massive residential proxy network increasingly serving AI data demands.

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Threats
5 min read
5 Jun 2026

Two npm Supply-Chain Campaigns Run Simultaneously: A Rust-Based eBPF Stealer and a Self-Spreading Worm

JFrog researchers caught two parallel attacks inside the npm registry — one hiding inside the Linux kernel, the other replicating across 50-plus packages by hijacking maintainer credentials.

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Threats
5 min read
5 Jun 2026

PCPJack Hijacks 230 Cloud Servers Across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud to Build a Stealth SMTP Relay Grid

A threat actor quietly converted compromised business workloads on three major cloud platforms into a verified mail-relay network, refreshing its inventory every five minutes and burning victims' IP reputations in the process.

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Threats
4 min read
4 Jun 2026

TA4922 Expands Phishing Operations Into Europe and South Africa With ValleyRAT and Atlas RAT

A China-linked threat crew is cycling through commodity and custom malware at an unusually fast clip — and it has started targeting organizations far outside its traditional Asia-Pacific base.

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Threats
5 min read
4 Jun 2026

DOJ 'Disruption Week' Targets Southeast Asia Pig-Butchering Networks — But the Real Story Is What Platforms Already Knew

A May 18 coordinated takedown froze $3.8 million in crypto and pulled millions of social-media and email accounts linked to Southeast Asian fraud compounds. The dollar figure is almost beside the point.

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Threats
5 min read
3 Jun 2026

Weedhack MaaS Campaign Has Compromised Over 3,800 Devices by Hijacking Minecraft's Modding Culture

A malware-as-a-service operation active since January 2026 is using YouTube tutorials and fake Minecraft clients to silently hand attackers full remote control of victims' machines — and the infection count keeps climbing.

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