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FakeGit Campaign Uses 7,600 GitHub Repositories to Spread SmartLoader Malware

FakeGit Campaign Uses 7,600 GitHub Repositories to Spread SmartLoader Malware

FakeGit Campaign Uses 7,600 GitHub Repositories to Spread SmartLoader Malware

Ak July 20, 2026

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered nearly 7,600 malicious GitHub repositories, more than 800 of which claim to distribute...

Critical NGINX Vulnerability Can Crash Workers and May Allow Remote Code Execution

Critical NGINX Vulnerability Can Crash Workers and May Allow Remote Code Execution

Critical NGINX Vulnerability Can Crash Workers and May Allow Remote Code Execution

Ak July 19, 2026

F5 has shipped a fix for a critical nginx flaw that allows a remote, unauthenticated attacker to...

OpenSSL HollowByte Flaw Could Freeze Server Memory with 11-Byte TLS Requests

OpenSSL HollowByte Flaw Could Freeze Server Memory with 11-Byte TLS Requests

OpenSSL HollowByte Flaw Could Freeze Server Memory with 11-Byte TLS Requests

Ak July 18, 2026

Eleven bytes will cause an unpatched OpenSSL server to set aside up to 131 KB of memory...

New wp2shell WordPress Core Flaw Lets Unauthenticated Attackers Run Code

New wp2shell WordPress Core Flaw Lets Unauthenticated Attackers Run Code

New wp2shell WordPress Core Flaw Lets Unauthenticated Attackers Run Code

Ak July 17, 2026

Swati Khandelwal17 July 2026Vulnerability/Web Security An anonymous HTTP request can run code on a WordPress site. The...

Two Scattered Spider Hackers Get 5.5 Years Each for £29 Million TfL Hack

Two Scattered Spider Hackers Get 5.5 Years Each for £29 Million TfL Hack

Two Scattered Spider Hackers Get 5.5 Years Each for £29 Million TfL Hack

Ak July 16, 2026

Owen Flowers18, and Thalha ZubairThe 20 were each sentenced to five and a half years at Woolwich...

TuxBot v3 Evolution Shows Signs of LLM-Assisted IoT Botnet Development

TuxBot v3 Evolution Shows Signs of LLM-Assisted IoT Botnet Development

TuxBot v3 Evolution Shows Signs of LLM-Assisted IoT Botnet Development

Ak July 15, 2026

Cybersecurity researchers have revealed details of a previously unknown Internet-of-Things (IoT) botnet framework dubbed tuxbot v3 evolution...

Microsoft Patches Record 622 Flaws, Including Two Zero-Days Under Active Attack

Microsoft Patches Record 622 Flaws, Including Two Zero-Days Under Active Attack

Microsoft Patches Record 622 Flaws, Including Two Zero-Days Under Active Attack

Ak July 14, 2026

Microsoft made its largest shipment patch tuesday Today is on the record, and two fixes close holes...

CrashStealer macOS Malware Uses Notarized Dropper to Pass Gatekeeper Checks

CrashStealer macOS Malware Uses Notarized Dropper to Pass Gatekeeper Checks

CrashStealer macOS Malware Uses Notarized Dropper to Pass Gatekeeper Checks

Ak July 13, 2026

Ravi Lakshmanan13 July 2026Endpoint Security / Cyber Crime Cybersecurity researchers have identified a new macOS information stealer...

Hackers Weaponize Balochistan Police Portal in Multi-Group Espionage Campaigns

Hackers Weaponize Balochistan Police Portal in Multi-Group Espionage Campaigns

Hackers Weaponize Balochistan Police Portal in Multi-Group Espionage Campaigns

Ak July 12, 2026

Cybersecurity researchers have revealed details of sustained cyber espionage activity against multiple Pakistani law enforcement organizations by...

Compromised jscrambler 8.14.0 npm Release Drops Rust Infostealer During Install

Compromised jscrambler 8.14.0 npm Release Drops Rust Infostealer During Install

Compromised jscrambler 8.14.0 npm Release Drops Rust Infostealer During Install

Ak July 11, 2026

The jscrambler npm package was tampered with, and installing its 8.14.0 release runs an infostealer on your...