Feeding Frenzy: ‘Megalodon’ Malware Infects Thousands of GitHub Repos
In just six hours, the campaign quietly pushed thousands of malicious commits to more than 5,500 GitHub repositories, stealing credentials, developer secrets, and more.
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In just six hours, the campaign quietly pushed thousands of malicious commits to more than 5,500 GitHub repositories, stealing credentials, developer secrets, and more.
TeamPCP, the hackers behind the Shai-Hulud worm, has done significant damage to the open source ecosystem. But it’s not necessarily due to skill alone.
SharePoint access often means access to the keys of the kingdom, something attackers and defenders understand all too well.
The Iranian hacking group known as MuddyWater has been linked to a new campaign affecting at least nine organizations across nine countries on four continents in the first quarter of 2026. The activity targeted industrial and electronics manufacturing, education and public-sector bodies, financial services, and professional services, per the Threat Hunter Team from Symantec and…
The co-founder and former editor-in-chief passed away five years ago in November. As Dark Reading enters is third decade, we pause to celebrate and honor Wilson’s instrumental role in building and elevating the media site.
Every single day, hackers are finding new ways to crash websites and steal data. But right now, something has changed. Hackers are no longer working alone. They are now using powerful Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools to make their attacks faster, stronger, and much harder to stop. According to recent updates from The Hacker News, bad…
Microsoft has rolled out updates to fix a remote code execution vulnerability impacting SharePoint that could be exploited by bad actors in attacks without requiring any specialized conditions to be met. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-45659, carries a CVSS score of 8.8. It has been assigned an important severity. “Deserialization of untrusted data in Microsoft…
Multi-factor authentication (MFA) was supposed to close a critical gap in identity security. It meant that, even if an attacker possessed the account credentials, they couldn’t log in without the second factor. While that logic was sound, attackers have now figured out that they don’t need to steal the second factor: they just need the…
The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) has issued new guidelines requiring organizations to patch critical security vulnerabilities in internet-exposed systems within 12 hours of being flagged where “feasible” to safeguard against potential threats stemming from threat actors’ abuse of artificial intelligence (AI) tools and large language models (LLMs) to automate vulnerability
What is the Vulnerability? CVE-2026-41940 is a critical authentication bypass vulnerability affecting WebPros cPanel & WHM, DNSOnly, and WP Squared installations. The vulnerability stems from improper handling of CRLF injection during the login and session-loading process, enabling attackers to forge authenticated sessions and gain unauthorized administrative access. Successful exploitation may allow remote unauthenticated attackers to…