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APR6
DPRK-Linked Hackers Use GitHub as C2 in Multi-Stage Attacks Targeting South Korea

Threat actors likely associated with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) have been observed using GitHub as command-and-control (C2) infrastructure in multi-stage attacks targeting organizations in South Korea. The attack chain, per Fortinet FortiGuard Labs, involves obfuscated Windows shortcut (LNK) files acting as the starting point to drop a decoy PDF

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APR6
Google DeepMind Researchers Map Web Attacks Against AI Agents

A vulnerability named ‘AI Agent Traps’ allows attackers to manipulate, deceive, and exploit visiting agents via malicious web content. The post Google DeepMind Researchers Map Web Attacks Against AI Agents appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Security Week by Ionut Arghire
APR6
Multi-OS Cyberattacks: How SOCs Close a Critical Risk in 3 Steps

Your attack surface no longer lives on one operating system, and neither do the campaigns targeting it. In enterprise environments, attackers move across Windows endpoints, executive MacBooks, Linux infrastructure, and mobile devices, taking advantage of the fact that many SOC workflows are still fragmented by platform. For security leaders, this creates a

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APR6
⚡ Weekly Recap: Axios Hack, Chrome 0-Day, Fortinet Exploits, Paragon Spyware and More

This week had real hits. The key software got tampered with. Active bugs showed up in the tools people use every day. Some attacks didn’t even need much effort because the path was already there. One weak spot now spreads wider than before. What starts small can reach a lot of systems fast. New bugs, faster use, less time to react. That’s this week. Read&

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APR6
How LiteLLM Turned Developer Machines Into Credential Vaults for Attackers

The most active piece of enterprise infrastructure in the company is the developer workstation. That laptop is where credentials are created, tested, cached, copied, and reused across services, bots, build tools, and now local AI agents. In March 2026, the TeamPCP threat actor proved just how valuable developer machines are. Their supply chain attack on

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APR6
Guardarian Users Targeted With Malicious Strapi NPM Packages

Hackers published 36 NPM packages posing as Strapi plugins to execute shells, escape containers, and harvest credentials. The post Guardarian Users Targeted With Malicious Strapi NPM Packages appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Security Week by Ionut Arghire
APR6
North Korean Hackers Target High-Profile Node.js Maintainers

The threat actor behind the Axios supply chain attack has been aiming at other maintainers in its social engineering campaign. The post North Korean Hackers Target High-Profile Node.js Maintainers appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Security Week by Ionut Arghire
APR6
Qilin and Warlock Ransomware Use Vulnerable Drivers to Disable 300+ EDR Tools

Threat actors associated with Qilin and Warlock ransomware operations have been observed using the bring your own vulnerable driver (BYOVD) technique to silence security tools running on compromised hosts, according to findings from Cisco Talos and Trend Micro. Qilin attacks analyzed by Talos have been found to deploy a malicious DLL named "msimg32.dll,"

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APR6
Fortinet Rushes Emergency Fixes for Exploited Zero-Day

The improper access control bug in FortiClient EMS allows unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code remotely. The post Fortinet Rushes Emergency Fixes for Exploited Zero-Day appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Security Week by Ionut Arghire
APR6
BKA Identifies REvil Leaders Behind 130 German Ransomware Attacks

Germany's Federal Criminal Police Office (aka BKA or the Bundeskriminalamt) has unmasked the real identities of two of the key figures associated with the now-defunct REvil (aka Sodinokibi) ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation. One of the threat actors, who went by the alias UNKN, functioned as a representative of the group, advertising the ransomware in June 2019 on the XSS cybercrime forum

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APR5
Germany Doxes “UNKN,” Head of RU Ransomware Gangs REvil, GandCrab

An elusive hacker who went by the handle "UNKN" and ran the early Russian ransomware groups GandCrab and REvil now has a name and a face. Authorities in Germany say 31-year-old Russian Daniil Maksimovich Shchukin headed both cybercrime gangs and...

Krebs on Security by BrianKrebs
APR5
$285 Million Drift Hack Traced to Six-Month DPRK Social Engineering Operation

Drift has revealed that the April 1, 2026, attack that led to the theft of $285 million was the culmination of a months-long targeted and meticulously planned social engineering operation undertaken by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) that began in the fall of 2025. The Solana-based decentralized exchange described it as "an attack six months in the

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APR5
36 Malicious npm Packages Exploited Redis, PostgreSQL to Deploy Persistent Implants

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered 36 malicious packages in the npm registry that are disguised as Strapi CMS plugins but come with different payloads to facilitate Redis and PostgreSQL exploitation, deploy reverse shells, harvest credentials, and drop a persistent implant. "Every package contains three files (package.json, index.js, postinstall.js), has no description, repository,

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APR4
Fortinet Patches Actively Exploited CVE-2026-35616 in FortiClient EMS

Fortinet has released out-of-band patches for a critical security flaw impacting FortiClient EMS that it said has been exploited in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-35616 (CVSS score: 9.1), has been described as a pre-authentication API access bypass leading to privilege escalation. "An improper access control vulnerability [CWE-284] in FortiClient EMS may allow an

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APR4
European Commission Confirms Data Breach Linked to Trivy Supply Chain Attack

Hackers stole over 300GB of data from the Commission’s AWS environment, including personal information. The post European Commission Confirms Data Breach Linked to Trivy Supply Chain Attack appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Security Week by Ionut Arghire