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thehackernews.com > 2026 > 09 > attackers-use-passkey-phishing-to.html

Attackers Use Passkey Phishing to Hijack Microsoft Cloud Accounts and Exfiltrate Data

16+ hour, 2+ min ago   (734+ words) Microsoft has disclosed details of two campaigns in which threat actors are abusing third-party email delivery infrastructure to blast financial fraud scam messages and using passkey-themed social engineering to breach cloud environments. Evidence indicates that the operators behind the campaign…...

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thehackernews.com > 2026 > 09 > infostealer-logs-expose-replayable-ai.html

Infostealer Logs Expose Replayable AI Tokens That Can Bypass MFA

4+ day, 11+ hour ago   (883+ words) Cybercriminals are hijacking artificial intelligence (AI) user accounts via information stealer logs to create "stolen keys" that grant illicit access to tools from model providers like Google, Anthropic, and others. Information stealers like Lumma Stealer or Vidar are equipped to…...

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thehackernews.com > 2026 > 09 > chrome-v8-zero-day-exploited-in-wild.html

Chrome V8 Zero-Day Exploited in the Wild Enables Code Execution Inside Sandbox

4+ day, 16+ hour ago   (321+ words) Google on Thursday released updates to patch 230 security vulnerabilities, including one that has come under active exploitation in the wild. The medium-severity vulnerability, assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2026-87491 (CVSS score: N/A), has been described as an out-of-bounds bug in V8, Chrome's…...

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thehackernews.com > 2026 > 09 > n-able-n-central-pre-auth-rce-flaw.html

N-able N-central Pre-Auth RCE Flaw Exploited in the Wild

4+ day, 21+ hour ago   (245+ words) The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added a maximum-severity security flaw impacting N-able N-central to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, requiring Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) agencies to apply the fixes by September 11, 2026. The vulnerability in…...

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thehackernews.com > 2026 > 09 > wechat-zero-click-worm-took-over.html

WeChat Zero-Click Worm Took Over Accounts on iPhone and Android via Incoming Calls

5+ day, 14+ hour ago   (733+ words) Researchers at the security firm Calif have built a worm that takes over a WeChat account via an incoming call and demonstrated it spreading among three test phones. The person being called does not have to answer or touch their…...

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thehackernews.com > 2026 > 09 > peep-turns-chrome-and-edge-into-post.html

PEEP Turns Chrome and Edge Into Post-Compromise Backdoors for Host Command Execution

6+ day, 7+ hour ago   (36+ words) PEEP uses Chrome and Edge as a post-compromise backdoor for credential theft and host command execution....

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thehackernews.com > 2026 > 09 > malicious-git-configs-can-make-claude.html

Malicious.git Configs Can Make Claude, Codex, Cursor, and Other AI Agents Run Attacker Code

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (983+ words) Manifold Security has disclosed eight security flaws across seven command-line AI coding agents in which a repository's own Git configuration names a command that the agent runs on the developer's machine, four of them still unpatched at publication. The command…...

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thehackernews.com > 2026 > 09 > researchers-use-claude-to-port-pre-auth.html

Researchers Use Claude to Port Pre-Auth RCE Exploit From One PLC Model to Another

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (827+ words) Forescout Research - Vedere Labs said it used Anthropic's Claude to port a working pre-authentication remote code execution (RCE) exploit from one WAGO programmable logic controller (PLC) to another, executing attacker-supplied ARM shellcode on live hardware. The exploit targets CVE-2021-31886, a…...

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thehackernews.com > 2026 > 08 > claude-opus-46-bypasses-gym-booking.html

Claude Opus 4.6 Bypasses Gym Booking Limit, Cancels Other Users' Reservations in Tests

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (728+ words) Aikido Security has published research that recreates the Australian gym-booking incident in a synthetic environment, finding that Claude Opus 4.6, running on the OpenClaw agent harness, exploited a client-side-only booking restriction in 9 of 10 runs. The original incident was first reported by…...

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thehackernews.com > 2026 > 08 > uat-10147-uses-ai-to-scale-server.html

UAT-10147 Uses AI to Scale Server Attacks, Deploys SPECTRE With EDR Bypass and Linux Rootkit

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (763+ words) Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a Chinese-speaking cybercrime group dubbed UAT-10147 that's targeting Windows and Linux web servers globally across the education, media, technology, and gaming sectors. The vast majority of the targets are located in Brazil, Bolivia, China,…...