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thehackernews.com > 2026 > 08 > e4del-and-pinhole-rats-turn-ftp-banners.html

E4del and PINHOLE RATs Turn FTP Banners Into Dead Drops for Malware Commands

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (708+ words) Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a new campaign that employs FTP banners as dead drop resolvers (DDRs) to deliver two previously unreported remote access trojans (RATs) tracked as E4del and PINHOLE. While threat actors are known to abuse legitimate services…...

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thehackernews.com > 2026 > 08 > threatsday-ghostjacking-ai-attacks.html

ThreatsDay: GhostJacking AI Attacks, EtherHiding ClickFix, Cursor CLI Flaw + 17 More Stories

4+ week, 2+ day ago   (208+ words) Some weeks have one big security story. Others bring many smaller updates that are easy to miss but still matter. This week has plenty of them, covering cloud services, AI tools, malware, data breaches, scams, and new attack methods. The…...

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thehackernews.com > 2026 > 08 > kimsuky-builds-offline-ai-stack-that.html

Kimsuky Builds Offline AI Stack to Boost Phishing and Automate Malware Development

1+ mon, 2+ day ago   (695+ words) North Korea's state hackers are no longer content to type prompts into public chatbots. One of the country's main espionage groups has begun running artificial intelligence (AI) offline on its own servers, connecting document-search tools to files in its possession,…...

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thehackernews.com > 2026 > 08 > atlassian-rovo-can-be-tricked-into.html

Atlassian Rovo Can Be Tricked Into Sending Jira and Confluence Data to Attackers

1+ mon, 4+ day ago   (1050+ words) PromptArmor, an AI security firm, hid the instructions in content Rovo reads. It said an uploaded file was enough to make the assistant gather internal data and send it out through a URL request, with no separate approval step. The…...

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thehackernews.com > 2026 > 08 > poison-claude-sells-discounted-claude.html

Poison Claude Sells Discounted Claude Access While Its Operator Sees Every Customer Prompt

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (443+ words) One such service, Poison Claude, claims to offer access to Anthropic's large language models (LLMs), including Opus 4.8, Opus 4.7, Opus 4.6, and Sonnet 4.6. "The service plainly states on its website that: 'We add those accounts to our pool, your request is routed…...

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thehackernews.com > 2026 > 08 > hackers-poison-adform-script-to-swap.html

Hackers Poison Adform Script to Swap Crypto Wallet Addresses Across Customer Sites

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (512+ words) Attackers modified a JavaScript file served by advertising technology company Adform, turning it into a browser-side tool that rewrites cryptocurrency wallet addresses. Adform detected the incident on July 27, 2026, removed the malicious code, notified affected clients, and reported it to authorities....

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thehackernews.com > 2026 > 07 > amazon-links-debug-and-chalk-npm-hijack.html

Amazon Links Debug and Chalk npm Hijack to North Korea’s Sapphire Sleet

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (870+ words) Amazon has tied the September 2025 hijack of the npm packages debug and chalk to North Korea. For ten months, the incident sat in the public record as crypto theft: a maintainer phished through a lookalike npm domain and a wallet-draining…...

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thehackernews.com > 2026 > 07 > openai-agent-used-exposed-credentials.html

OpenAI Agent Used Exposed Credentials Across Four Services During Hugging Face Breach

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (883+ words) OpenAI on Tuesday revealed the rogue artificial intelligence (AI) agent that escaped its sealed evaluation environment and broke into Hugging Face's production environment, and also hacked multiple third-party accounts and services as part of the attack. The latest disclosure shows…...

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thehackernews.com > 2026 > 07 > critical-teamcity-flaw-could-let.html

Critical TeamCity Flaw Could Let Attackers Run OS Commands Without Logging In

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (333+ words) JetBrains is urging customers of on-premise versions of TeamCity to update to the latest version following the discovery of a critical security issue that could result in arbitrary code execution. The vulnerability, assigned CVE-2026-63077 (CVSS score: 9.8), affects all TeamCity On-Premises…...

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thehackernews.com > 2026 > 07 > devman-raas-portal-centralizes-payload.html

DevMan RaaS Portal Centralizes Payload Builds, Victim Management, and Affiliate Payouts

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (829+ words) The operators of the DevMan ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) scheme are maintaining a dedicated web platform that offers affiliates the ability to build payloads, oversee earnings, and manage various aspects related to victims. Swiss cybersecurity company PRODAFT is tracking the centrally administered…...