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VerdantBamboo Deploys BSD Variant of BRICKSTORM on Linux Appliances

A China-nexus cyber espionage group has been observed deploying a BSD variant of a known backdoor called BRICKSTORM, as well as two other malware families codenamed PLENET (aka GRIMBOLT ) and AGENTPSD to target Linux systems. The activity has been attributed by Volexity to a threat cluster it tracks as VerdantBamboo , which it said overlaps with hacking groups known as Clay Typhoon (Microsoft), UNC5221 (Google), and Warp Panda (CrowdStrike). The cybersecurity company said it discovered the intrusion during an incident response engagement in September 2025, when it emerged that the adversary had compromised an unnamed victim's Egnyte Storage Sync system by exploiting a local privilege escalation flaw to deploy BRICKSTORM. The issue was addressed in Storage Sync version 13.13 , released in March 2026.

Jun 08, 2026

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UNC3753 Used Vishing and Physical Intrusions in U.S. Data Theft Extortion Campaign

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a financially motivated data theft extortion campaign that has targeted dozens of organizations across professional, legal, and financial services in the U.S. between January and May 2026. The activity has been attributed by Google Mandiant and Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) to a threat actor dubbed UNC3753 , which is also known as Chatty Spider, Luna Moth, and Silent Ransom Group (SRG). "UNC3753 leverages voice phishing (vishing) and social engineering deception techniques to achieve remote access into corporate environments," researchers Chad Reams, Tufail Ahmed, Keith Knapp, Ashley Frazer, and Tyler McLellan said . "Using pretexts such as data migration or invoice-related emails, the threat actors initiate phone conversations posing as IT support and convince targets to host screen-sharing sessions and download remote monitoring and management (RMM) utilities." Upon gaining access, the threat a...

Jun 08, 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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VS Code Adds 2-Hour Extension Auto-Update Delay to Limit Supply Chain Attacks

Microsoft has announced that Visual Studio Code (VS Code) will apply a two-hour delay before extensions for the integrated development environment (IDE) are updated automatically to a newer version in an attempt to tackle software supply chain threats. "When automatic updates are enabled, new versions are auto-updated two hours after they are published, adding an extra layer of protection against problematic or potentially compromised releases," Microsoft said . The new feature is available starting in VS Code 1.123. The tech giant noted that users still have the option to update any extension immediately at any point in time by using the "Update" button. When extensions have pending updates, a reason for why they haven't been updated yet will be available in the details view, along with when the automatic update will take place. That said, this two-hour delay does not apply to extensions from trusted publishers such as Microsoft, GitHub, and OpenAI, it...

Jun 08, 2026

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New ChatGPT Lockdown Mode Limits Tools That Could Enable Data Exfiltration

OpenAI has begun rolling out a new Lockdown Mode to ChatGPT for eligible personal accounts to reduce the risk of data exfiltration arising from prompt injection attacks . The feature is primarily designed for people and organizations that handle sensitive data and require stricter protection guarantees. Lockdown Mode is available to logged-in users across Free, Go, Plus, and Pro, and self-serve ChatGPT Business plans. "Lockdown Mode is an optional advanced security setting that limits many tools and capabilities in OpenAI products that can connect to the web or external services," OpenAI said . "It is designed to reduce the risk of data exfiltration from prompt injection attacks by limiting outbound network requests, at the expense of disabling or limiting some useful features." The safeguards are aimed at hardening the attack surface against prompt injections, which continues to be a "frontier" problem impacting all large language models (LLMs...

Jun 06, 2026

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Free Apps Are Quietly Turning Smart TVs Into Web-Scraping Proxies for AI

A researcher has reverse-engineered the iOS SDK that Bright Data embeds in consumer apps and documented how it turns devices, including always-on smart TVs, into exit nodes that relay web-scraping traffic for a data business Bright Data markets heavily to the AI industry. The company, the successor to Luminati, operates what it calls the largest residential proxy network in the world, advertised at more than 400 million residential IPs. Part of that supply comes from this SDK, shipped inside free apps behind an opt-in screen and described as a consent-sourced pool of 150 million-plus IPs. The findings, published June 5 by Include Security and independent researcher Buchodi, matter because the scraping comes from the user's home IP, not the customer's. The immediate risk is not a hacked account or stolen data; it is that a home connection and its bandwidth get used as someone else's scraping infrastructure. A connected TV is close to ideal for that: usually plugged i...

Jun 06, 2026

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CISA Adds Actively Exploited SolarWinds Serv-U DoS Flaw to KEV Catalog

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a high-severity security flaw impacting SolarWinds Serv-U multi-protocol file server software to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities ( KEV ) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-28318 (CVSS score: 7.5), is a denial-of-service (DoS) bug that causes the service to crash under certain conditions. CISA described it as an uncontrolled resource consumption vulnerability that results in a DoS condition. "SolarWinds Serv-U is susceptible to specially crafted POST requests that crash the Serv-U service without authentication using Content-Encoding: deflate," SolarWinds said in an advisory released earlier this week. The issue has been addressed in SolarWinds Serv-U version 15.5.4 HF1. As mitigations, it's advised to limit access to known addresses and block any request containing "content-encoding" since the vulnerable service does not r...

Jun 06, 2026

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AI Agent Uncovers 21 Zero-Days in FFmpeg; Chrome Patches Record 429 Bugs

Two things landed within days of each other this week. A security startup reported 21 previously unknown vulnerabilities in FFmpeg, the media library inside almost everything that touches video, all of them found by an autonomous AI agent. The same week, Google shipped Chrome 149 with patches for 429 security bugs, the most ever in a single release. Only the FFmpeg bugs were found by AI. Chrome's record landed after Google overhauled its bounty program to cope with a flood of AI-generated reports. The mechanisms differ, but the pressure is the same: AI is putting more vulnerabilities in front of the people who have to deal with them, and faster than before. The FFmpeg findings come from depthfirst , whose autonomous security agent scanned the project's roughly 1.5 million lines of C and produced 21 confirmed zero-days, each with a reproducible proof-of-concept input. The company puts the cost of the run at around $1,000. Several of the bugs had been latent for 15 to 2...

Jun 06, 2026

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Miasma Worm Hits 73 Microsoft GitHub Repositories in Major Supply Chain Attack

Microsoft's GitHub repositories have become the latest to fall victim to the ongoing Miasma self-replicating supply chain attack campaign. The incident impacted 73 Microsoft repositories across four of its GitHub organizations, including Azure, Azure-Samples, Microsoft, and MicrosoftDocs, per OpenSourceMalware . The development has GitHub to disable access to those repositories. "Access to this repository has been disabled by GitHub Staff due to a violation of GitHub's terms of service," reads the message when attempting to access the " Azure/azure-functions-host " repository. "If you are the owner of the repository, you may reach out to GitHub Support for more information." According to OpenSourceMalware, some of the repositories impacted by the incident are listed below - azure-search-openai-demo-purviewdatasecurity Connectors-NET-LSP Connectors-NET-SDK durabletask durabletask-dotnet durabletask-go durabletask-js ...

Jun 06, 2026