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INTERPOL has coordinated a first-of-its-kind cybercrime crackdown across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) that led to 201 arrests and the identification of an additional 382 suspects. The initiative involved the efforts of 13 countries from the region between October 2025 and February 2026, aiming to investigate and neutralize malicious infrastructure, arrest perpetrators behind these

What happens when a phishing email looks clean enough to pass through security, but dangerous enough to expose the business after one click? That is the gap many SOCs still struggle with: the attacks that leave teams unsure what was exposed, who else was targeted, and how far the risk has spread. Early phishing detection closes that gap. It helps teams move from uncertainty to evidence faster,

Supply chain attackers are not only trying to slip malicious code into trusted software. They are trying to steal the access that makes trusted software possible. Recently, three separate campaigns hit npm, PyPI, and Docker Hub in a 48-hour window, and all three targeted secrets from developer environments and CI/CD pipelines, including API keys, cloud credentials, SSH keys, and tokens. This is

Microsoft has finally brought back the resizable taskbar and Start menu to Windows 11 in the latest preview version rolling out to Insiders in the Experimental channel. [...]

A recently patched local privilege escalation vulnerability in the Linux kernel's rxgk module now has a proof-of-concept exploit that allows attackers to gain root access on some Linux systems. [...]

The Tycoon2FA phishing kit now supports device-code phishing attacks and abuses Trustifi click-tracking URLs to hijack Microsoft 365 accounts. [...]

A newly disclosed security flaw impacting NGINX Plus and NGINX Open has come under active exploitation in the wild, days after its public disclosure, according to VulnCheck. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-42945 (CVSS score: 9.2), is a heap buffer overflow in ngx_http_rewrite_module affecting NGINX versions 0.6.27 through 1.30.0. According to AI-native security company depthfirst, the

Grafana says hackers stole its source code after accessing a GitHub token, but no customer data or systems were affected.

A security researcher claims Microsoft quietly fixed an Azure Backup for AKS vulnerability after rejecting his report, and without issuing a CVE. Microsoft disputes the claim, telling BleepingComputer the behavior was expected and that "no product changes were made," despite the researcher documenting a silent fix. [...]

A critical security vulnerability impacting the Funnel Builder plugin for WordPress has come under active exploitation in the wild to inject malicious JavaScript code into WooCommerce checkout pages with the goal of stealing payment data. Details of the activity were published by Sansec this week. The vulnerability currently does not have an official CVE identifier. It

Critical Claw Chain vulnerabilities in OpenClaw expose thousands of AI servers to data theft, backdoors, and admin-level attacks globally this week. .

A critical vulnerability in the Funnel Builder plugin for WordPress is being actively exploited to inject malicious JavaScript snippets into WooCommerce checkout pages. [...]

Weaponizing a text editor for fun and profit Gather round, dear readers, because today, we (by we, we mean @h00die) dropped the ultimate persistence mechanism: Vim plugin persistence. And honestly, calling it "persistence" feels redundant — Vim is already the most persistent thing ever. Somewhere, somehow, there will still be a Vim session open since 2011, because no one has figured out how to close it. So we are not so much establishing a foothold here as we are joining an existing hostage situation. Elsewhere this week, Marvell's QConvergeConsole has been caught handing arbitrary files to unauthenticated visitors, as is tradition (CVE-2025-6793), GestioIP 3.5.7 ships an upload handler, so trusting it will cheerfully let an admin overwrite the handler with a backdoor and then dutifully execute it (CVE-2024-48760). And of course, we can't forget about Dolibarr ERP/CRM, which blocks PHP injections by checking — and we cannot stress this enough — by searching for string ?php. So @M4nu02 brought an elaborate module which changes ?php to ?PHP in the payload to successfully bypass this mitigation (CVE-2023-30253). Truly a wonderful time to be alive. New module content (4) Marvell QConvergeConsole Path Traversal (CVE-2025-6793) Authors: Michael Heinzl and rgod Type: Auxiliary Pull request: #21322 contributed by h4x-x0r Path: gather/qconvergeconsole_traversal CVE reference: ZDI-25-450 Description: This adds a new auxiliary module that exploits a path traversal vulnerability (CVE-2025-6793) in Marvell QConvergeConsole to read arbitrary files from the target host. Marvell QConvergeConsole versions 5.5.0.85 and earlier are vulnerable, and no authentication is required to exploit the issue. VIM Plugin Persistence Author: h00die Type: Exploit Pull request: #21206 contributed by h00die Path: linux/persistence/vim_plugin Description: This adds a new Linux persistence module, which establishes persistence by writing a Vim plugin to the target user's ~/.vim/plugin/ directory. The next time that user launches Vim, the plugin executes the configured payload and opens a new session as that user. GestioIP 3.5.7 Remote Command Execution Authors: maxibelino and odeez24 Type: Exploit Pull request: #21041 contributed by Odeez24 Path: multi/http/gestioip_rce AttackerKB reference: CVE-2024-48760 Description: This adds an exploit module for an authenticated remote code execution vulnerability in GestioIP 3.5.7 (CVE-2024-48760). An attacker with admin credentials can abuse the unsafe upload handler at /api/upload.cgi to overwrite the script itself with a backdoor, which is then invoked to execute attacker-supplied commands. Dolibarr ERP/CRM Authenticated Code Injection Authors: Emanuele Cervelli and Tinexta Cyber Offensive Security Team Type: Exploit Pull request: #21362 contributed by M4nu02 Path: unix/http/dolibarr_cms_rce_cve_2023_30253 AttackerKB reference: CVE-2023-30253 Description: This adds a new exploit module for Dolibarr ERP/CRM (CVE-2023-30253), an authenticated

Two vulnerabilities in the Avada Builder plugin for WordPress, with an estimated one million active installations, allow hackers to read arbitrary files and extract sensitive information from the database. [...]

While the summit appeared cordial, China remains a key adversary of the United States, given its advanced intelligence and espionage capabilities.

Microsoft is updating the Edge web browser to ensure it no longer loads saved passwords into process memory in clear text at startup after previously stating it was "by design." [...]

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a set of four security flaws in OpenClaw that could be chained to achieve data theft, privilege escalation, and persistence. The vulnerabilities, collectively dubbed Claw Chain by Cyera, can permit an attacker to establish a foothold, expose sensitive data, and plant backdoors. A brief description of the flaws is below -

Microsoft is introducing a new capability that will allow it to remotely roll back problematic Windows drivers delivered through Windows Update. [...]

p CISA has added one new vulnerability to its a href="https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog" data-entity-type="node" data-entity-uuid="79453b83-86b9-4e2f-b1ec-abf73c6eb291" data-entity-substitution="canonical" title="Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog" Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog /a , based on evidence of active exploitation. /p ul li a href="https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-42897" target="_blank" CVE-2026-42897 /a Microsoft Exchange Server Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability /li /ul p This type of vulnerability is a frequent attack vector for malicious cyber actors and poses significant risks to the federal enterprise. /p p a href="https://www.cisa.gov/binding-operational-directive-22-01" Binding Operational Directive (BOD) 22-01: Reducing the Significant Risk of Known Exploited Vulnerabilities /a established the KEV Catalog as a living list of known Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) that carry significant risk to the federal enterprise. BOD 22-01 requires Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) agencies to remediate identified vulnerabilities by the due date to protect FCEB networks against active threats. See the a href="https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/publications/Reducing_the_Significant_Risk_of_Known_Exploited_Vulnerabilities_211103.pdf" BOD 22-01 Fact Sheet /a for more information. /p p Although BOD 22-01 only applies to FCEB agencies, CISA strongly urges all organizations to reduce their exposure to cyberattacks by prioritizing timely remediation of a href="https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog" data-entity-type="node" data-entity-uuid="79453b83-86b9-4e2f-b1ec-abf73c6eb291" data-entity-substitution="canonical" title="Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog" KEV Catalog vulnerabilities /a as part of their vulnerability management practice. CISA will continue to add vulnerabilities to the catalog that meet the a href="https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities" data-entity-type="node" data-entity-uuid="f2adba9a-0404-494c-a90c-4363a4a5c934" data-entity-substitution="canonical" title="Reducing the Significant Risk of Known Exploited Vulnerabilities" specified criteria /a . nbsp; /p

In Your Biggest Security Risk Isn't Malware — It's What You Already Trust, we made a simple argument: the most dangerous activity inside most organizations no longer looks like an attack. It looks like administration. PowerShell, WMIC, netsh, Certutil, MSBuild — the same trusted utilities your IT team uses every day are also the preferred toolkit of modern threat actors. Bitdefender's analysis