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JUN27
Ukraine Says Russian Intelligence Used Fake Support Texts to Steal Messaging Credentials

The Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) said it, together with the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), uncovered a long-running campaign orchestrated by Russian intelligence services to break into the messaging accounts of government officials, military personnel, politicians, and activists in Ukraine, Europe, and the U.S. The systematic cyber attacks aimed at stealing sensitive

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JUN27
OpenAI Previews GPT-5.6 Sol With Restricted Access and Stronger Cyber Safeguards

OpenAI on Friday released three versions of GPT-5.6, called Sol, Terra, and Luna, as a limited preview to a small number of companies as part of an ongoing engagement with the U.S. government. While Sol is the latest flagship model and the most powerful, Terra strikes a balance between efficiency and power, and Luna is fine-tuned for speed and affordability. "GPT‑5.6 Sol launches with our most

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JUN27
Chinese Framework Powers 200,000 Scam Sites

Threat actors are selling investment scam templates created using the legitimate DCloud Uni-App toolkit. The post Chinese Framework Powers 200,000 Scam Sites appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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JUN26
FBI Warns Russian Intelligence Hackers Target Signal Backup Recovery Keys

The FBI and CISA have updated their March warning about Russian intelligence phishing Signal accounts, and the operators have added a step: they now coax targets into handing over their Signal Backup Recovery Key. Hand it over once, and the attacker can restore the account's backup, read the private and group message history, and take over the account. Worse, the key keeps working.

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JUN26
New SharkLoader Malware Deploys Cobalt Strike in StrikeShark Cyberattacks

A newly discovered cyber attack campaign has been observed delivering a previously undocumented malware family called SharkLoader that acts as a loader for deploying Cobalt Strike Beacon on compromised hosts. Kaspersky, which is tracking the activity under the moniker StrikeShark, said the campaign has targeted a diplomatic organization in Indonesia, government organizations in Taiwan,

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JUN26
Chinese-Speaking APT Deploys New TinyRCT Backdoor in Southeast Asia Campaign

A Chinese-speaking advanced persistent threat (APT) actor has been linked to a new custom backdoor called TinyRCT as part of cyber attacks aimed at government entities and critical infrastructure in Southeast Asia. The activity, particularly aimed at state-owned enterprises in the energy and government sectors, has been attributed to a threat actor called CL-STA-1062, which Palo Alto Networks

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JUN26
Amazon Q Flaw Enabled Cloud Credential Theft via Malicious Repositories

AWS has patched the vulnerability and published its own advisory to inform customers about the potential impact. The post Amazon Q Flaw Enabled Cloud Credential Theft via Malicious Repositories appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Security Week by Eduard Kovacs
JUN26
More Klue Breach Victims Identified as Hackers Get Hacked

Roughly two dozen companies have notified their customers of the Klue-Salesforce incident impact. The post More Klue Breach Victims Identified as Hackers Get Hacked appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Security Week by Ionut Arghire
JUN26
In Other News: Chinese Mythos-Like AI, Tata Electronics Breach, Snyk Layoffs

Other noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: Russia used Cellebrite to hack activist’s phone, Five Eyes issue urgent AI threat warning, macOS Gaslight backdoor, Scattered Spider guilty pleas. The post In Other News: Chinese Mythos-Like AI, Tata Electronics Breach, Snyk Layoffs appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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JUN26
New Linux pedit COW Exploit Enables Root Access by Poisoning Cached Binaries

A flaw in the Linux kernel's traffic-control subsystem can let a local unprivileged user gain root on affected systems. CVE-2026-46331, nicknamed "pedit COW," is an out-of-bounds write in the packet-editing action (act_pedit) that corrupts shared page-cache memory. A public, working exploit appeared within a day of the CVE assignment on June 16. Red Hat rates the flaw as

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JUN26
Amazon Q Developer Flaw Could Let Malicious Repos Run Code via MCP Configs

A high-severity flaw in Amazon Q Developer let a malicious repository run commands and steal a developer's cloud credentials. The path was short: a developer opens the repo, trusts the workspace, and Amazon Q does the rest. Amazon has patched it. Tracked as CVE-2026-12957 (CVSS 8.5), the bug sat in how Amazon's AI coding assistant handled Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers. Wiz

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JUN26
Nebulock Raises $25 Million for AI-Native Contextual Security

The cybersecurity startup provides threat hunting, proactive detection, and behavioral security analytics. The post Nebulock Raises $25 Million for AI-Native Contextual Security appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Security Week by Ionut Arghire
JUN26
CISA Adds Exploited PTC Windchill RCE Flaw to KEV as Web Shell Attacks Continue

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday added a critical remote code execution vulnerability impacting PTC Windchill PDMlink and PTC FlexPLM enterprise Product Data Management (PDM) and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerability in question is

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JUN26
New DirtyClone Linux Kernel Flaw Lets Local Users Gain Root via Cloned Packets

DirtyClone is a new Linux kernel privilege escalation in the DirtyFrag family. JFrog Security Research published a working exploit walkthrough for the flaw on June 25, the first public demonstration for this variant. Tracked as CVE-2026-43503 (CVSS 8.8), it lets a local user corrupt file-backed memory through a cloned network packet and gain root. The patch landed in

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JUN26
Guardian Agents: The Next Layer of Identity Governance

AI agents are moving through enterprise environments, inheriting permissions, traversing systems, and executing decisions at machine speed with minimal oversight. The identity infrastructure built to govern human access wasn't designed for autonomous actors, and the gap between what enterprises are deploying and what their governance programs actually cover is widening fast. This guide breaks

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