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Kaspersky has documented a new weapon in the hands of Armored Likho, a threat group it has tracked before: a previously undocumented, Python-based infostealer called "BusySnake." The group is targeting government agencies and electrical power entities across Russia, Brazil and Kazakhstan with spear-phishing emails disguised as official government or social assistance communications.
BusySnake steals browser passwords and cookies, clipboard contents, cryptographic keys, and Telegram session data, and opens backdoor access through reverse SSH tunnels and remote-access software. It consolidates into one tool what the group previously ran as separate components, including its Go2Tunnel utility.
Kaspersky also sees the group leaning on AI to build its first-stage loaders — inferred from redundant comments and code blocks atypical of human developers, rather than from any recovered tooling. The group's nation-state affiliation remains unconfirmed.
Source: Dark Reading
Kaspersky has documented a new weapon in the hands of Armored Likho, a threat group it has tracked before: a previously undocumented, Python-based infostealer called "BusySnake." The group is targeting government agencies and electrical power entities across Russia, Brazil and Kazakhstan with spear-phishing emails disguised as official government or social assistance communications.
BusySnake steals browser passwords and cookies, clipboard contents, cryptographic keys, and Telegram session data, and opens backdoor access through reverse SSH tunnels and remote-access software. It consolidates into one tool what the group previously ran as separate components, including its Go2Tunnel utility.
Kaspersky also sees the group leaning on AI to build its first-stage loaders — inferred from redundant comments and code blocks atypical of human developers, rather than from any recovered tooling. The group's nation-state affiliation remains unconfirmed.
Source: Dark Reading
Researchers at Socket have tracked a North Korea-linked campaign quietly compromising open source software since December 2025, which they've named PolinRider. It sits under the broader Contagious Interview operation.
The attackers hijack legitimate GitHub maintainer accounts, inject obfuscated JavaScript loaders into real repositories, and use Git history rewriting to make the changes look old. The loaders pull encrypted payloads from blockchain and public RPC infrastructure, which makes the delivery channel hard to take down. Two payloads follow: the DEV#POPPER RAT and OmniStealer.
So far, 162 malicious artifacts across 108 packages have been found on NPM, Packagist, Go modules and Chrome extensions. Any developer who installed an affected package should assume their environment is compromised — and because credentials may already be exposed, remediate from a clean machine rather than the infected host.
Source: SecurityWeek
Researchers at Socket have tracked a North Korea-linked campaign quietly compromising open source software since December 2025, which they've named PolinRider. It sits under the broader Contagious Interview operation.
The attackers hijack legitimate GitHub maintainer accounts, inject obfuscated JavaScript loaders into real repositories, and use Git history rewriting to make the changes look old. The loaders pull encrypted payloads from blockchain and public RPC infrastructure, which makes the delivery channel hard to take down. Two payloads follow: the DEV#POPPER RAT and OmniStealer.
So far, 162 malicious artifacts across 108 packages have been found on NPM, Packagist, Go modules and Chrome extensions. Any developer who installed an affected package should assume their environment is compromised — and because credentials may already be exposed, remediate from a clean machine rather than the infected host.
Source: SecurityWeek
A critical vulnerability in the LiteSpeed cPanel user-end plugin is being actively exploited, threatening shared hosting environments globally. Tracked as CVE-2026-54420, the flaw lets attackers with limited access — like stolen FTP credentials — bypass CloudLinux's CageFS isolation and escalate all the way to root, potentially exposing every site on a shared server. CISA has flagged it as actively exploited.
Namecheap researchers discovered the issue after spotting suspicious API call patterns: rapid concurrent chaining of the generateEcCert and packageUserSize functions across multiple threads.
LiteSpeed patched it on June 1, 2026 — in user-end plugin version 2.4.8 and WHM plugin version 5.3.2.1. Update both immediately, or remove the user-end plugin as a stopgap. And because exploitation started before the patch existed, review your logs for those API call patterns: updating now won't tell you whether you were already hit.
Source: Cybersecurity News
A critical vulnerability in the LiteSpeed cPanel user-end plugin is being actively exploited, threatening shared hosting environments globally. Tracked as CVE-2026-54420, the flaw lets attackers with limited access — like stolen FTP credentials — bypass CloudLinux's CageFS isolation and escalate all the way to root, potentially exposing every site on a shared server. CISA has flagged it as actively exploited.
Namecheap researchers discovered the issue after spotting suspicious API call patterns: rapid concurrent chaining of the generateEcCert and packageUserSize functions across multiple threads.
LiteSpeed patched it on June 1, 2026 — in user-end plugin version 2.4.8 and WHM plugin version 5.3.2.1. Update both immediately, or remove the user-end plugin as a stopgap. And because exploitation started before the patch existed, review your logs for those API call patterns: updating now won't tell you whether you were already hit.
Source: Cybersecurity News
A newly disclosed Linux kernel vulnerability called "Bad Epoll" (CVE-2026-46242) lets unprivileged local users gain full root access on Linux servers, desktops and Android devices. The flaw is a race condition and use-after-free in the kernel's epoll subsystem — a core component that can't be disabled without breaking the OS.
Researcher Jaeyoung Chung found and exploited the bug, submitting it to Google's kernelCTF program, which pays $71,337+ for working kernel exploits. The exploit hits roughly 99% reliability despite a race window of about six instructions, and it's reachable from inside Chrome's renderer sandbox — meaning it can be chained with a renderer exploit for full kernel code execution.
There's no evidence of exploitation in the wild, but full technical details and working exploit code are now public, so that window won't stay open. Upstream and distribution patches are available — apply them. Worth checking you're on the final fix rather than an early one: the first patch attempts were incomplete, and a correct fix only landed nearly two months after disclosure.
Source: Cybersecurity News
A newly disclosed Linux kernel vulnerability called "Bad Epoll" (CVE-2026-46242) lets unprivileged local users gain full root access on Linux servers, desktops and Android devices. The flaw is a race condition and use-after-free in the kernel's epoll subsystem — a core component that can't be disabled without breaking the OS.
Researcher Jaeyoung Chung found and exploited the bug, submitting it to Google's kernelCTF program, which pays $71,337+ for working kernel exploits. The exploit hits roughly 99% reliability despite a race window of about six instructions, and it's reachable from inside Chrome's renderer sandbox — meaning it can be chained with a renderer exploit for full kernel code execution.
There's no evidence of exploitation in the wild, but full technical details and working exploit code are now public, so that window won't stay open. Upstream and distribution patches are available — apply them. Worth checking you're on the final fix rather than an early one: the first patch attempts were incomplete, and a correct fix only landed nearly two months after disclosure.
Source: Cybersecurity News
A supply chain attack on market intelligence platform Klue has hit cybersecurity firms Huntress and Recorded Future, among what The Register reports are hundreds of affected Klue customers. Starting June 11, hackers reached Klue's backend servers and pushed a code update that harvested OAuth tokens for customers' integrations. Klue notified customers on June 12.
They then abused the Salesforce REST API to pull large volumes of CRM data — nearly 1,000 queries in 15 minutes, with extraction windows running over six hours. Salesforce wasn't the only exposure: the stolen tokens also covered Klue integrations with HubSpot, SharePoint, Zoom, Gong, Chorus, Clari, Google Drive and Slack.
Huntress lost business contacts, price quotes and other sales data. Recorded Future lost client contact names and email addresses, and possibly business contract information. Neither lost threat intelligence, passwords or payment data.
Huntress has linked the attack to Icarus, an extortion group that emerged in April 2026, after receiving direct extortion messages from a threat actor identifying as "mr bean." Klue customers should revoke and re-authorise their integration tokens.
Source: SecurityWeek
A supply chain attack on market intelligence platform Klue has hit cybersecurity firms Huntress and Recorded Future, among what The Register reports are hundreds of affected Klue customers. Starting June 11, hackers reached Klue's backend servers and pushed a code update that harvested OAuth tokens for customers' integrations. Klue notified customers on June 12.
They then abused the Salesforce REST API to pull large volumes of CRM data — nearly 1,000 queries in 15 minutes, with extraction windows running over six hours. Salesforce wasn't the only exposure: the stolen tokens also covered Klue integrations with HubSpot, SharePoint, Zoom, Gong, Chorus, Clari, Google Drive and Slack.
Huntress lost business contacts, price quotes and other sales data. Recorded Future lost client contact names and email addresses, and possibly business contract information. Neither lost threat intelligence, passwords or payment data.
Huntress has linked the attack to Icarus, an extortion group that emerged in April 2026, after receiving direct extortion messages from a threat actor identifying as "mr bean." Klue customers should revoke and re-authorise their integration tokens.
Source: SecurityWeek
Security researchers at HawkTrace have disclosed a high-severity SSRF vulnerability in Microsoft Exchange, tracked as CVE-2026-45504 with a CVSS score of 8.8. The flaw lets authenticated low-privileged users read arbitrary files from on-premises Exchange servers — think credentials, config files, and internal service data. Exchange Online is not affected.
The attack exploits how Exchange handles attachment previews via its OneDriveProUtilities component, passing user-controlled URLs into HTTP requests without proper validation. A simple file:// URI with a fragment character (#) bypasses protections entirely.
A working PoC is now live on GitHub, making patching urgent. Check Microsoft's advisory for the affected builds and the update that fixes them, and block Exchange from reaching untrusted external endpoints in the meantime.
Source: Cybersecurity News
Security researchers at HawkTrace have disclosed a high-severity SSRF vulnerability in Microsoft Exchange, tracked as CVE-2026-45504 with a CVSS score of 8.8. The flaw lets authenticated low-privileged users read arbitrary files from on-premises Exchange servers — think credentials, config files, and internal service data. Exchange Online is not affected.
The attack exploits how Exchange handles attachment previews via its OneDriveProUtilities component, passing user-controlled URLs into HTTP requests without proper validation. A simple file:// URI with a fragment character (#) bypasses protections entirely.
A working PoC is now live on GitHub, making patching urgent. Check Microsoft's advisory for the affected builds and the update that fixes them, and block Exchange from reaching untrusted external endpoints in the meantime.
Source: Cybersecurity News
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department is offering free credit monitoring to over 3 million Texans after a cybersecurity breach exposed personal data from the state's hunting and fishing license system. Texas Cyber Command detected the incident at a third-party licensing vendor, which officials have not named, and the department disclosed it in late June.
Compromised data includes driver's license information, passport numbers, email addresses, phone numbers and home addresses. No Social Security numbers, dates of birth, financial data or minors' records were affected. License sales remain unaffected, and will proceed as scheduled for August and the next license year.
Impacted residents can enroll in one year of free Kroll credit monitoring until September 14, 2026. Support is available at (844) 959-7123, weekdays 8 a.m.–5:30 p.m. Officials also advise freezing your credit, placing fraud alerts, and staying alert to scam calls or emails impersonating the department.
Source: CBS News Texas
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department is offering free credit monitoring to over 3 million Texans after a cybersecurity breach exposed personal data from the state's hunting and fishing license system. Texas Cyber Command detected the incident at a third-party licensing vendor, which officials have not named, and the department disclosed it in late June.
Compromised data includes driver's license information, passport numbers, email addresses, phone numbers and home addresses. No Social Security numbers, dates of birth, financial data or minors' records were affected. License sales remain unaffected, and will proceed as scheduled for August and the next license year.
Impacted residents can enroll in one year of free Kroll credit monitoring until September 14, 2026. Support is available at (844) 959-7123, weekdays 8 a.m.–5:30 p.m. Officials also advise freezing your credit, placing fraud alerts, and staying alert to scam calls or emails impersonating the department.
Source: CBS News Texas
Cybersecurity firm Sophos is warning of a dangerous new partnership between ransomware group Vect and TeamPCP, a credential-theft gang whose members it says were previously affiliated with the English-speaking Com collective. Announced by the groups in late March and detailed in a July 2 blog post, the arrangement pairs TeamPCP's large-scale supply chain attacks with Vect's ransomware-as-a-service operation.
Sophos has confirmed at least one Vect deployment using TeamPCP-stolen credentials. It also found a flaw worth knowing about before anyone considers negotiating: Vect's encryption destroys files larger than 128KB rather than encrypting them, so paying up won't bring them back.
TeamPCP's side of the operation is substantial. Between March and May 2026 it compromised the Trivy, Checkmarx, LiteLLM and Telnyx developer tools, reaching more than 1,000 enterprise environments and taking around 300GB of compressed data — including over 500,000 credentials and 10,000 CI/CD workflows from Trivy alone.
The FBI issued a simultaneous FLASH warning, naming TeamPCP malware including CanisterWorm, Sandclock, Miasma, and the self-replicating worm Mini Shai-Hulud.
Source: Infosecurity Magazine
Cybersecurity firm Sophos is warning of a dangerous new partnership between ransomware group Vect and TeamPCP, a credential-theft gang whose members it says were previously affiliated with the English-speaking Com collective. Announced by the groups in late March and detailed in a July 2 blog post, the arrangement pairs TeamPCP's large-scale supply chain attacks with Vect's ransomware-as-a-service operation.
Sophos has confirmed at least one Vect deployment using TeamPCP-stolen credentials. It also found a flaw worth knowing about before anyone considers negotiating: Vect's encryption destroys files larger than 128KB rather than encrypting them, so paying up won't bring them back.
TeamPCP's side of the operation is substantial. Between March and May 2026 it compromised the Trivy, Checkmarx, LiteLLM and Telnyx developer tools, reaching more than 1,000 enterprise environments and taking around 300GB of compressed data — including over 500,000 credentials and 10,000 CI/CD workflows from Trivy alone.
The FBI issued a simultaneous FLASH warning, naming TeamPCP malware including CanisterWorm, Sandclock, Miasma, and the self-replicating worm Mini Shai-Hulud.
Source: Infosecurity Magazine
The threat actors behind FortiBleed — a massive credential-harvesting campaign targeting Fortinet FortiGate firewalls — are feeding stolen access to the Inc Ransom and Lynx ransomware gangs. SOCRadar researchers caught a single operator logged into both groups' ransom negotiation panels while using infrastructure tied directly to FortiBleed, though they assess FortiBleed runs as a separate outfit selling access rather than as a partner in either operation.
Of 430,000 FortiGate devices targeted globally, roughly 12,000 currently carry FortiBleed's Golang sniffer, which quietly turns the firewall itself into a credential harvester. Credentials have been stolen from over 30,000. Of 409 targets where attackers gained admin access, 354 saw the full chain executed — VPN breach, domain controller access, domain admin.
At least 12 ransomware deployments have been confirmed, encrypting hundreds of endpoints. SOCRadar also flagged an unpatched Nextcloud zero-day being actively exploited during FortiBleed's access-brokering stage; Nextcloud says it has had no formal report and has promised a fast fix.
Source: Dark Reading
The threat actors behind FortiBleed — a massive credential-harvesting campaign targeting Fortinet FortiGate firewalls — are feeding stolen access to the Inc Ransom and Lynx ransomware gangs. SOCRadar researchers caught a single operator logged into both groups' ransom negotiation panels while using infrastructure tied directly to FortiBleed, though they assess FortiBleed runs as a separate outfit selling access rather than as a partner in either operation.
Of 430,000 FortiGate devices targeted globally, roughly 12,000 currently carry FortiBleed's Golang sniffer, which quietly turns the firewall itself into a credential harvester. Credentials have been stolen from over 30,000. Of 409 targets where attackers gained admin access, 354 saw the full chain executed — VPN breach, domain controller access, domain admin.
At least 12 ransomware deployments have been confirmed, encrypting hundreds of endpoints. SOCRadar also flagged an unpatched Nextcloud zero-day being actively exploited during FortiBleed's access-brokering stage; Nextcloud says it has had no formal report and has promised a fast fix.
Source: Dark Reading
Aflac has disclosed a significant data breach at its Japanese subsidiary, affecting nearly 4.4 million customers. Hackers were inside Aflac Japan's systems from June 15 until discovery on June 25, stealing policy details, personal information, and bank account data — including premium payment records for around 230,000 customers.
The company filed with the SEC on June 30, confirming US operations were unaffected. Some customer portal services remain offline, including medical check-up reservations and the AI support concierge, though claims and payments continue via call centers. Aflac Japan has notified authorities and says no misuse has been confirmed yet.
No attribution has been made, though researchers have raised the possibility of Scattered Spider involvement — the group blamed for a 2025 intrusion at Aflac. It's the third breach Aflac has disclosed since 2023. Anyone with premium payments set up should keep an eye on their bank account regardless.
Source: Infosecurity Magazine
Aflac has disclosed a significant data breach at its Japanese subsidiary, affecting nearly 4.4 million customers. Hackers were inside Aflac Japan's systems from June 15 until discovery on June 25, stealing policy details, personal information, and bank account data — including premium payment records for around 230,000 customers.
The company filed with the SEC on June 30, confirming US operations were unaffected. Some customer portal services remain offline, including medical check-up reservations and the AI support concierge, though claims and payments continue via call centers. Aflac Japan has notified authorities and says no misuse has been confirmed yet.
No attribution has been made, though researchers have raised the possibility of Scattered Spider involvement — the group blamed for a 2025 intrusion at Aflac. It's the third breach Aflac has disclosed since 2023. Anyone with premium payments set up should keep an eye on their bank account regardless.
Source: Infosecurity Magazine
