Trend Micro reports that at least two Russia-aligned groups, including Gamaredon, are exploiting a WinRAR flaw that was patched nearly a year ago to attack Ukrainian military and government organizations. The attacks start with emails carrying a booby-trapped RAR archive that abuses a path-traversal bug (CVE-2025-8088) to silently drop a malicious shortcut into the Windows Startup folder using NTFS Alternate Data Streams. One cluster, tracked by Ukraine's CERT-UA as UAC-0226, then installs an updated GiftedCrook stealer that grabs browser passwords, session cookies, and documents before deleting itself. The campaigns are a reminder that unpatched WinRAR remains a reliable foothold for attackers.
ServiceNow has quietly told affected customers that attackers exploited an unauthenticated flaw in one of its API endpoints to pull data from hosted customer instances. The company applied a fix to hosted instances on June 5 that restricts the endpoint to authenticated users, and confirmed attackers had successfully queried customer instance tables, though it did not say what data was taken. ServiceNow instances routinely hold sensitive material such as IT support tickets, employee records, asset inventories, and internal documentation, and support tickets in particular often contain credentials, API tokens, and secrets shared during troubleshooting. ServiceNow has opened support cases with the customers it believes were impacted.
Check Point has rushed out a fix for a critical flaw in its Remote Access VPN, Mobile Access, and Spark firewall products that attackers have been exploiting since May 7. The bug (CVE-2026-50751, rated 9.3) is a logic error in how the software checks certificates, letting an unauthenticated attacker log into the VPN with no password, but only on gateways still using the old IKEv1 key-exchange protocol. So far a few dozen organizations have been hit, and at least one intrusion was tied to an affiliate of the Qilin ransomware gang, which used the access to steal data with Rclone before deploying ransomware. A second, unexploited flaw was also patched.
Researchers at Bishop Fox have shown that three maximum-severity flaws Ubiquiti patched in May can be chained into a single attack that hands an unauthenticated attacker root access to UniFi OS Server with one crafted web request. Two flaws (CVE-2026-34908 and CVE-2026-34909) bypass the login gateway by abusing how the server reads encoded web addresses; the third (CVE-2026-34910) injects commands into the package-update feature, which runs with passwordless sudo, making escalation to root trivial. The flaws hit version 5.0.6 and earlier across widely used gear like UDM, UCG, and UNVR appliances. Bishop Fox released a free script to check for exposure.
Gogs, a popular self-hosted Git service, has finally patched a critical zero-day that Rapid7 disclosed in late May when no fix existed. The flaw (CVSS 9.4, no CVE assigned yet) lets a logged-in user with no admin rights run commands on the server by opening a pull request whose branch name secretly injects an exec option into a git rebase. Because Gogs ships with open registration on by default, an attacker can simply create an account to reach it. Successful exploitation means full server takeover: reading every private repository, dumping password hashes, API tokens, SSH keys, and 2FA secrets, and tampering with hosted source code.
A working exploit is now public for a Linux kernel bug that lets an ordinary local user become root and break out of containers. The flaw (CVE-2026-23111) lives in nf_tables, the kernel's packet-filtering code, and came down to a single inverted character that the upstream fix removed in one line back in February. It is reachable on common setups that have nf_tables plus unprivileged user namespaces enabled, both default on most desktops and many servers. Ubuntu rates it 7.8. There is no remote path on its own, but Exodus Intelligence published a full exploit walkthrough on June 8, making weaponization easy.
The ongoing Shai-Hulud supply-chain campaign has struck again, this time trojanizing 19 Python packages on PyPI, many of them popular bioinformatics tools like Dynamo, Spateo, CoolBox, and Napari-UFISH that have been downloaded hundreds of thousands of times. Discovered by Socket, the wave pushed 37 malicious package versions from what looks like a single compromised maintainer, each carrying code that steals developer secrets such as cloud keys and tokens, then uses them to spread further. PyPI has quarantined affected releases. The credential-stealing behavior and tactics match earlier Shai-Hulud activity tied to the group TeamPCP, whose worm code leaked publicly last month.
Researchers at D3Lab warn that new versions of the NFCShare Android malware are spreading as fake updates for real banking apps, hosted on GitHub to look legitimate. Targeting customers of European banks, the malware shows a fake verification screen that tells victims to hold their payment card against the phone. It then uses the phone's NFC chip to read the card number, type, and expiry, and tricks the victim into typing their 4-digit PIN, sending it all to the attacker's server. That stolen data feeds NFC relay fraud, where criminals use it to make contactless payments or withdrawals. The malware only works if users sideload it.
Meta has confirmed that attackers took over 20,225 Instagram accounts by abusing a flaw in its AI-assisted account recovery tool, called High Touch Support. A bug meant the system never checked that the email address someone supplied actually belonged to the account, so an attacker could request a password reset for any account and have the link sent to their own inbox, then walk in, unless the target had two-factor authentication on. High-profile accounts, reportedly including the Obama White House and US Space Force personnel, were hijacked and sold on the dark web. Meta has secured the accounts and is fixing the verification check before relaunching the tool.
Meta says it caught and shut down fresh spear-phishing attempts linked to Israeli spyware maker NSO Group that tried to lure WhatsApp users into clicking malicious links leading to sites outside the app, mirroring the one-click attacks NSO has used to plant its Pegasus spyware. Meta also found and removed NSO-created test accounts and groups, and published the malicious domains involved. The company is now asking a US federal court to hold NSO in contempt for violating the permanent injunction issued last year barring it from targeting WhatsApp. High-risk users such as journalists, activists, and officials are the usual targets of this kind of mercenary spyware.
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