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The Hacker News - Operation Endgame Disrupts SocGholish Servers, Cleans 14,971 WordPress Sites

Dutch law enforcement authorities, along with counterparts from Canada , Germany, and the U.S., have disrupted malicious infrastructure associated with SocGholish and cleaned up nearly 15,000 infected WordPress websites. "With these actions we deprive cybercriminals of access to infected computer systems," Maikel Rollman of the Netherlands National High Tech Crime Unit said. "This prevents from The Hacker News https://thehackernews.com/2026/06/operation-endgame-disrupts-socgholish.html

The Hacker News - CISA Warns Fortinet Customers as FortiBleed Hits 86,644 FortiGate Devices

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday urged Fortinet customers with FortiGate appliances to take steps to secure against ongoing malicious activity aimed at thousands of internet-accessible devices. The sweeping campaign, believed to be the work of Russian-speaking threat actors, has been codenamed FortiBleed. The number of compromised devices stands at from The Hacker News https://thehackernews.com/2026/06/cisa-warns-fortinet-customers-as.html

The Hacker News - Apple Patches Beats Studio Buds Flaw Letting Nearby Attackers Spy via Microphone

Apple has updated its Beats Studio Buds wireless earbuds to patch a high-severity vulnerability that could be exploited by nearby hackers to eavesdrop on users. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-20701 (CVSS score: 8.8), refers to a case of incorrect authorization impacting the Airoha Bluetooth audio SDK that makes it possible to pair a Bluetooth audio device without user consent. from The Hacker News https://thehackernews.com/2026/06/apple-patches-beats-studio-buds-flaw.html

The Hacker News - F5 Patches Two Critical NGINX Open Source Flaws Enabling Remote Code Execution

F5 has released security updates to address two critical security flaws in NGINX Open Source that could be exploited to achieve code execution on affected systems. The vulnerabilities are listed below - CVE-2026-42530 (CVSS v4 score: 9.2) - A use-after-free vulnerability in the ngx_http_v3_module that could be triggered by a remote unauthenticated attacker when NGINX Open Source is from The Hacker News https://thehackernews.com/2026/06/f5-patches-two-critical-nginx-open.html

Krebs - ‘Popa’ Botnet Linked to Publicly-Traded Israeli Firm

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For the past four years, a sprawling Android-based botnet called Popa has forced millions of consumer TV boxes to relay Internet traffic linked to advertising fraud, account takeovers, and mass data-scraping efforts. This week, researchers from multiple security firms concluded that the Popa botnet is linked to NetNut , a “residential proxy” provider operated by the publicly-traded Israeli firm Alarum Technologies Ltd [NASDAQ: ALAR]. Malicious streaming devices sold online that enroll the user’s home Internet address in a residential proxy service. Image: Synthient. Popa is a massive botnet, but by all accounts it is unlike traditional botnets that enlist compromised systems in destructive activities, such as coordinating huge distributed denial-of-service attacks. Rather, Popa appears designed with a singular purpose: Implementing a persistent communications layer capable of registering a device, maintaining long-lived encrypted connections, and opening communicati...

The Hacker News - ThreatsDay Bulletin: Claude Chat Abuse, NastyC2 npm Packages, Device-Code Phishing + 25 More Stories

The internet did not break this week. It got used exactly as designed, which is worse. Searches were siphoned through shady browser add-ons. AI chat links turned into malware delivery paths. macOS attacks ran in memory and left almost nothing behind. Cloud agents looked like helpers until attackers treated them like open shells. Add exposed edge gear, poisoned packages, cash courier scams, from The Hacker News https://thehackernews.com/2026/06/threatsday-bulletin-claude-chat-abuse.html

KnowBe4 - What AI Can’t Hide When It Writes a Phishing Email

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Lead Analysts: Jeewan Singh Jalal, Prabhakaran Ravichandhiran, and Shikhar Dalela from KnowBe4 Blog https://blog.knowbe4.com/what-ai-cant-hide-when-it-writes-a-phishing-email