The vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2026-34621 and Adobe has confirmed that it can be exploited for arbitrary code execution. The post Adobe Patches Reader Zero-Day Exploited for Months appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Unknown threat actors compromised CPUID (“cpuid[.]com”), a website that hosts popular hardware monitoring tools like CPU-Z, HWMonitor, HWMonitor Pro, and PerfMonitor, for less than 24 hours to serve malicious executables for the software and deploy a remote access trojan called STX RAT. The incident lasted from approximately April 9, 15:00 UTC, toRead More »CPUID Breach Distributes STX RAT via Trojanized CPU-Z and HWMonitor Downloads
Adobe has released emergency updates to fix a critical security flaw in Acrobat Reader that has come under active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2026-34621, carries a CVSS score of 8.6 out of 10.0. Successful exploitation of the flaw could allow an attacker to run malicious codeRead More »Adobe Patches Actively Exploited Acrobat Reader Flaw CVE-2026-34621
Hungarian domestic intelligence, the national police in El Salvador, and several U.S. law enforcement and police departments have been attributed to the use of an advertising-based global geolocation surveillance system called Webloc. The tool was developed by Israeli company Cobwebs Technologies and is now sold by its successor Penlink after the two firmsRead More »Citizen Lab: Law Enforcement Used Webloc to Track 500 Million Devices via Ad Data
Regulation is hard: The South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organization (SPRFMO) oversees fishing across roughly 59 million square kilometers (22 million square miles) of the South Pacific high seas, trying to impose order on a region double the size of Africa, where distant-water fleets pursue species ranging from jack mackerelRead More »Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Overfishing in the South Pacific
Former Army employee indicted for allegedly sharing classified national defense information to unauthorized individuals.
Security experts share their thoughts on Claude Mythos and Project Glasswing with Security magazine.
Other noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: Jones Day hacked, Internet Bug Bounty program paused due to AI, new Mac stealer malware. The post In Other News: Cyberattack Stings Stryker, Windows Zero-Day, China Supercomputer Hack appeared first on SecurityWeek.
A critical-severity flaw could be exploited remotely, without authentication, to take over a vulnerable device. The post Juniper Networks Patches Dozens of Junos OS Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged yet another evolution of the ongoing GlassWorm campaign, which employs a new Zig dropper that’s designed to stealthily infect all integrated development environments (IDEs) on a developer’s machine. The technique has been discovered in an Open VSX extension named “specstudio.code-wakatime-activity-tracker,” which masquerades as WakaTime, a
