Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini June 08, 2026
Everest Forms Pro WordPress Flaw is Handing Attackers Admin Access

Hackers exploit CVE-2026-3300 in Everest Forms Pro to inject PHP via form fields, creating rogue admin accounts. 29,300 attempts blocked. Researcher h0xilo submitted a flaw in Everest Forms Pro for WordPress, tracked as CVE-2026-3300, to Wordfence’s bug bounty program and earned $325 for it. WPEverest patched the flaw on March 18. Wordfence published a full […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 08, 2026
UNC3753 Escalates: From Vishing Calls to Physical Office Intrusions at US Legal and Financial Firms

UNC3753 phones staff posing as IT, hijacks screen sessions, steals sensitive legal files, and now sends operatives physically into offices to plug in USB drives. Google Mandiant and the Google Threat Intelligence Group published a detailed report documenting an active extortion campaign carried out by the cybercrime group UNC3753 (aka Luna Moth, Chatty Spider, and […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 08, 2026
Meta AI Recovery Tool Flaw Exposed 20,000+ Instagram Accounts

A flaw in Meta’s AI-powered Instagram recovery tool exposed over 20,000 accounts, letting attackers reset passwords and take over profiles. Meta’s High Touch Support tool, known as HTS, was designed to help Instagram users recover locked accounts: you provide an email address, you get a password reset link. The flaw was equally simple: the tool […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 06, 2026
U.S. CISA adds SolarWinds Serv-U flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds SolarWinds Serv-U flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added SolarWinds Serv-U flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-28318 (CVSS ver 3.1 score of 7.5), to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. SolarWinds Serv-U is a managed file transfer (MFT) and secure file […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 06, 2026
Report: Anthropic Deploys Engineers to Support NSA Use of Mythos

Reports claim Anthropic engineers are helping the NSA use its restricted AI model Mythos, known for advanced cybersecurity capabilities. This week, the Financial Times reported that Anthropic has placed approximately six “forward-deployed” engineers inside the National Security Agency to help the intelligence agency use Mythos, its most capable cyber model, for offensive operations. Two people […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 06, 2026
Claude Opus Found a Four-Year-Old Hole in Zcash’s Privacy Layer. Nobody Knows If Someone Already Used It.

Claude Opus 4.8 helped uncover a four-year-old critical flaw in Zcash that could have enabled undetectable creation of counterfeit coins. On May 29, the security researcher Taylor Hornby found a critical vulnerability in Zcash Orchard privacy pool using Claude Opus 4.8. The Zcash team hired Hornby specifically to look for this kind of issue. He […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 05, 2026
PCPJack Exposed: Researchers Uncover 230-Node Cloud Email Relay Network

Researchers uncovered a 230-node cloud-based email relay network after the actor PCPJack accidentally exposed tools, logs, and C2 files online A threat actor tracked as PCPJack compromised 230 cloud servers across Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure and turned them into a covert email relay network. Hunt.io researchers discovered the operation because PCPJack […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 05, 2026
Fake Context Alignment: The Attack That Made Gemini Obey Strangers Through Your Notifications

SafeBreach tricked Gemini into obeying attackers via WhatsApp notifications, using hidden foreign-language text to bypass Google’s defenses and control smart home devices. SafeBreach Labs researcher Or Yair spent months trying to break Google’s Gemini voice assistant after Google patched the vulnerabilities he found in his previous research. The new attack class he developed, named Fake […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 04, 2026
U.S. CISA adds Mirasvit Full Page Cache Warmer flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Mirasvit Full Page Cache Warmer flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added Mirasvit Full Page Cache Warmer flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-45247 (CVSS ver 4.0 score of 9.3), to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. The CVE-2026-45247 flaw is a […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 04, 2026
Critical Cisco Unified CM Bug Patched as Public Exploit Code Emerges

Cisco patched a critical Unified CM flaw with public PoC code that allows unauthenticated attackers to launch SSRF attacks remotely. Cisco has addressed a high-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-20230, affecting Unified CM and Unified CM SME. The flaw, caused by improper validation of certain HTTP requests, allows a remote attacker without authentication to perform server-side […]