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WinRAR Flaw Exploited by Russia-Aligned Groups to Deploy Stealers in Ukraine

Two Russia-aligned cyber attack campaigns have continued to exploit a security flaw in WinRAR to target Ukrainian organisations, almost a year after patches for the vulnerability were released. The activity has been attributed by Trend Micro to Earth Dahu (aka Gamaredon) and SHADOW-EARTH-066 (aka UAC-0226). It involves the exploitation of CVE-2025-8088 , a path traversal flaw that allows an attacker to write files outside the extraction directory via NTFS Alternate Data Streams (ADS). It was patched by WinRAR in July 2025. The findings show "how unmanaged software keeps an exploited entry point open long after the fix ships," Trend Micro researchers Hiroyuki Kakara and Feike Hacquebord said in an analysis published Monday. The WinRAR exploit chain exploited by SHADOW-EARTH-066 is a departure from Excel macro droppers previously used by the threat actor to deliver an information stealer called GIFTEDCROOK. The latest iteration makes use of crafted RAR archives featur...

Jun 09, 2026

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Researchers Build Self-Replicating AI Worm That Operates Entirely on Local, Open-Weight Models

University of Toronto researchers have built and tested a proof-of-concept AI-driven computer worm that uses a locally hosted open-weight large language model to reason its way through a network, generate tailored attack strategies for each target it encounters, and replicate itself, all without human intervention and without touching a commercial AI service. The preprint, posted to arXiv on June 2 and currently under peer review, shows why single-CVE patching breaks down when malware can inspect exposed services, read fresh advisories, and generate a new attack path at runtime. In 15 isolated runs on a deliberately vulnerable 33-host network, the worm identified an average of 31.3 vulnerabilities and gained elevated access on 23.1 hosts, roughly three-quarters of the hosts it actively targeted. It then replicated autonomously to 20.4 of those hosts, or 62% of the full network, over seven days, with no prior knowledge of the network topology and no human input. Traditional worm...

Jun 09, 2026

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State of AI in the Cloud 2026: How AI is Reshaping Cloud Attack Surface

Join Wiz Research on June 16 to explore key findings from the State of AI in the Cloud 2026 report, covering AI adoption trends, evolving cloud risks, and how attackers are leveraging AI to exploit misconfigurations.

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Chrome V8 Zero-Day CVE-2026-11645 Exploited in the Wild - Patch Now

Google has released security updates to address 74 vulnerabilities, including one that has come under active exploitation in the wild. The high-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-11645 (CVSS score: 8.8), has been described as an out-of-bounds memory access in V8, Chrome's JavaScript and WebAssembly engine. "Out-of-bounds read and write in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 149.0.7827.103 allowed a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code inside a sandbox via a crafted HTML page," reads a description of the flaw in the NIST's National Vulnerability Database (NVD). A security researcher named "303f06e3" has been credited with discovering and reporting the flaw on April 27, 2026. The researcher has been awarded a bug bounty of $55,000 for responsible disclosure. As is customary in these cases, Google acknowledged that an "exploit for CVE-2026-11645 exists in the wild," but stopped short of sharing additional specifics to ensure that a m...

Jun 09, 2026

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The Hidden Security Risk in Modern Networks: The Work Between Tools

Organizations have more visibility than ever. Growing tech stacks provide greater coverage, and network security teams are increasingly adopting AI and automation to help with routine tasks and reduce manual effort. But the same challenges persist. Outages still last hours, causing significant financial losses, operational disruption, and reputational impact. Threat response and mean time to remediate (MTTR) remain slow. Misconfigurations and human error still create major incidents. And, despite the promises of AI, teams remain overwhelmed and burnt out. Detection isn't the issue. Neither is tooling. Today, the real problem is execution - that is, the work that happens between tools. The hidden operational layer most organizations overlook Every time an alert fires, network security teams must: Gather context across systems Validate ownership and severity Route tickets to the appropriate people Request approvals Implement changes manually Log evidence...

Jun 09, 2026

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New FROST Attack Lets Websites Track What Sites and Apps You Open via SSD Timing

A malicious website can work out which sites you visit and which apps you open, using nothing but JavaScript and the timing of your SSD. The attack, called FROST , needs no native code, no extension, and no permission prompt. You open the page, leave the tab sitting there, and it watches the drive for contention in the background. Researchers at Graz University of Technology built it and described it in a new paper set to appear at DIMVA 2026. It abuses a storage feature present in every major desktop browser, and the underlying timing channel works on both macOS and Linux. SSD timing attacks are not new. Last year the same group published Secret Spilling Drive , which read user behavior off a drive by watching how reads slow down when something else is using it. The catch was that it needed native code on the machine, through a low-level interface like Linux's io_uring. FROST drops that requirement. It runs inside the browser sandbox, which turns a local attack into a remo...

Jun 09, 2026

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Hades PyPI Attack: 19 Packages Poisoned to Auto-Run Bun Credential Stealer

The Miasma supply chain campaign has sparked a fresh attack wave called Hades , this time involving 37 malicious wheel artifacts across 19 packages in the Python Package Index (PyPI) registry, as the Mini Shai-Hulud-style attacks continue to be refined and splintered to target specific ecosystems. "The compromised releases shipped a *-setup.pth file that attempts to execute automatically during Python startup, download the Bun JavaScript runtime, and run an obfuscated JavaScript payload named _index.js," Socket said in a new analysis. The list of identified packages is below - bramin 0.0.2, 0.0.3, 0.0.4 cmd2func 0.2.2, 0.2.3 coolbox 0.4.1, 0.4.2 dynamo-release 1.5.4 executor-engine 0.3.4, 0.3.5 executor-http 0.1.3, 0.1.4 funcdesc 0.2.2, 0.2.3 magique 0.6.8, 0.6.9 magique-ai 0.4.4, 0.4.5 mrbios 0.1.1, 0.1.2 napari-ufish 0.0.2, 0.0.3 nucbox 0.1.2, 0.1.3 okite 0.0.7, 0.0.8 pantheon-agents 0.6.1, 0.6.2 pantheon-toolsets 0.5....

Jun 09, 2026

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LiteLLM Flaw CVE-2026-42271 Exploited in the Wild, Chains to Unauthenticated RCE

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added a high-severity flaw impacting BerriAI LiteLLM to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities ( KEV ) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-42271 (CVSS score: 8.7), is a command injection vulnerability that could allow any authenticated user to run arbitrary commands on the host. It affects the following version of the LiteLLM Python package - >= 1.74.2 < 1.83.7 "Two endpoints used to preview an MCP server before saving it - POST /mcp-rest/test/connection and POST /mcp-rest/test/tools/list - accepted a full server configuration in the request body, including the command, args, and env fields used by the stdio transport," according to a description of the flaw shared by BerriAI. "When called with a stdio configuration, the endpoints attempted to connect, which spawned the supplied command as a subprocess on the proxy host w...

Jun 09, 2026

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One-Character Linux Kernel Flaw Enables Local Root Access, Exploits Now Public

Security researchers have published a detailed, working exploit for a Linux kernel use-after-free that lets an unprivileged local user escalate to root and break out of a container. The flaw, CVE-2026-23111, sits in the kernel's nf_tables packet-filtering code and was patched upstream on February 5, 2026. Exodus Intelligence released its full technical walkthrough on June 8, and it is not even the first public exploit: FuzzingLabs published an independent reproduction back in April. The flaw came down to a single stray character, an inverted check in nf_tables, and the upstream fix removed it in one line. Ubuntu rates the flaw CVSS 7.8 (high). If your distribution's kernel package does not yet include the fix, update and reboot. The reachable setup is common: nf_tables plus unprivileged user namespaces, a Linux feature that lets an ordinary account act as root inside a private sandbox and reach kernel code it otherwise could not. Both ship by default on most desktop...

Jun 08, 2026