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Fast16 Malware

Researchers have reverse-engineered a piece of malware named Fast16. It’s almost certainly state-sponsored, probably US in origin, and was deployed against Iran years before Stuxnet: “…the Fast16 malware was designed to carry out the most subtle form of sabotage ever seen in an in-the-wild malware tool: By automatically spreading acrossRead More »Fast16 Malware

New Linux ‘Copy Fail’ Vulnerability Enables Root Access on Major Distributions

New Linux ‘Copy Fail’ Vulnerability Enables Root Access on Major Distributions

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a Linux local privilege escalation (LPE) flaw that could allow an unprivileged local user to obtain root. The high-severity vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-31431 (CVSS score: 7.8) has been codenamed Copy Fail by Xint.io and Theori. “An unprivileged local user can write four controlled bytesRead More »New Linux ‘Copy Fail’ Vulnerability Enables Root Access on Major Distributions

Sandhills Medical Says Ransomware Breach Affects 170,000

It took the healthcare organization nearly one year to publicly disclose a data breach after it was targeted by Inc Ransom. The post Sandhills Medical Says Ransomware Breach Affects 170,000 appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Google Fixes CVSS 10 Gemini CLI CI RCE and Cursor Flaws Enable Code Execution

Google Fixes CVSS 10 Gemini CLI CI RCE and Cursor Flaws Enable Code Execution

Google has addressed a maximum severity security flaw in Gemini CLI — the “@google/gemini-cli” npm package and the “google-github-actions/run-gemini-cli” GitHub Actions workflow — that could have allowed attackers to execute arbitrary commands on host systems. “The vulnerability allowed an unprivileged external attacker to force their own malicious content to loadRead More »Google Fixes CVSS 10 Gemini CLI CI RCE and Cursor Flaws Enable Code Execution

SAP-Related npm Packages Compromised in Credential-Stealing Supply Chain Attack

SAP-Related npm Packages Compromised in Credential-Stealing Supply Chain Attack

Cybersecurity researchers are sounding the alarm about a new supply chain attack campaign targeting SAP-related npm Packages with credential-stealing malware. According to reports from Aikido Security, SafeDep, Socket, StepSecurity, and Google-owned Wiz, the campaign – calling itself the mini Shai-Hulud – has affected the following packages associated with SAP’s JavaScriptRead More »SAP-Related npm Packages Compromised in Credential-Stealing Supply Chain Attack

New Wave of DPRK Attacks Uses AI-Inserted npm Malware, Fake Firms, and RATs

New Wave of DPRK Attacks Uses AI-Inserted npm Malware, Fake Firms, and RATs

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered malicious code in an npm package after a malicious package as a dependency to the project by Anthropic’s Claude Opus large language model (LLM). The package in question is “@validate-sdk/v2,” which is listed on npm as a utility software development kit (SDK) for hashing, validation, encoding/decoding,Read More »New Wave of DPRK Attacks Uses AI-Inserted npm Malware, Fake Firms, and RATs

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