Threat actors have been observed attempting to exploit a high-severity security flaw in WordPress Core shortly after patches were released. The vulnerability, which does not have a CVE identifier, relates to a case of remote code execution impacting WordPress Core versions 4.7 through 7.1.3. It carries a CVSS score of 8.1 on the CVSS scoring…

A Trezor Safe 5 hardware wallet bought from the reseller CryptoBilis has an extra circuit board that sends out the recovery phrase over a mobile network, a customer has reported. Trezor has not yet examined the device. It is telling everyone who bought a Trezor from CryptoBilis since March 2026 to move their funds to…

The alert is critical. The fix is known. And the ticket sits in a queue for days. Security teams understand the risk, but the people who keep applications available need proof that the change won’t break anything.  Their concerns are practical. An IPS protection could block legitimate traffic. A configuration change could interrupt a service….

Ahmad Umar Agha, a Syrian Electronic Army hacker known online as “Th3Pr0,” has been sentenced by a U.S. federal court to 42 months in prison for his role in a hacking conspiracy that targeted Western news outlets. The conspiracy was organized and led by members of former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s inner circle, including the commander of…

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed that the official Anthropic Claude Code extension was compromised on the Open VSX registry to install a persistent SSH backdoor on infected hosts. The issue has since been traced to the compromise of the Cursor Marketplace, prompting the AI coding platform Cursor to briefly take down the service to remove the…

The “FrostyNeighbor” advanced persistent threat (APT) launched a destructive attack in Ukraine and is raising concerns about deeper alignment with Russian cyber objectives.

Drupal has warned that threat actors are exploiting a “highly critical” security flaw in its Commerce Core component. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-118539 (CVSS score: N/A), is a case of missing authorization affecting Commerce Core versions from 0.0.0 to 2.41 and from 3.0.0 to 3.3.13. “This module enables you to sell goods and services to…

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday added two security flaws impacting Cisco and GitLab software to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV), citing evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerabilities are listed below – CVE-2026-97229 (CVSS score: 10.0) – An integer overflow or wraparound vulnerability in GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise

Cryptocurrency giant Binance said on Thursday that a “security incident” on its platform has impacted about $6.3 billion worth of assets. The world’s biggest cryptocurrency exchange said nearly $3 billion of those assets have been frozen on-chain so far.  Tether and Circle said they have frozen more than 1.567 billion USDT and 800 million related…

Obvious phishing emails with numerous red flags are somehow getting past some of the industry-leading secure email gateway (SEG) products.