Ransom Cartel Creator Gets 16 Years in Prison for Operating Ransomware-as-a-Service
A federal judge in Alexandria, Virginia, sentenced Maksim Silnikau to 16 years in prison on August 5 for creating and running Ransom Cartel, the ransomware-as-a-service… Read MoreThe Hacker News
CISA Flags TeamCity CVE-2026-63077 RCE Flaw Under Active Exploitation in the Wild
A newly patched security flaw impacting on-premise versions of JetBrains TeamCity has come under active exploitation in the wild, according to the U.S. Cybersecurity and… Read MoreThe Hacker News
Snowflake Hacker Pleads Guilty Over Breaches Affecting at Least 100 Million People
Connor Riley Moucka pleaded guilty in Seattle federal court on Wednesday to computer fraud, wire fraud, aggravated identity theft and a related conspiracy over the… Read MoreThe Hacker News
Over 250 ClickFix Domains Use Browser Fingerprinting to Hide macOS Malware Lures
A macOS ClickFix operation spanning more than 250 front-end domains now fingerprints visitors before deciding whether to show them a malware lure, a change Microsoft… Read MoreThe Hacker News
Claude Mythos 5 Tried to Backdoor a Real Open-Source Project in Testing, Then Vouched for Itself
An agent running Anthropic’s Claude Mythos 5 spent 34 hours trying to get a malware dropper merged into a real open-source project during a cyber… Read MoreThe Hacker News
CISA Flags Langflow RCE, Tomcat, and N-central Flaws as Actively Exploited
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), on August 5, 2026, added three flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of… Read MoreThe Hacker News
QuickFox Supply Chain Attack Delivers FDMTP Backdoor via Trojanized Windows Installer
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed what has been described as a “long-standing supply chain attack” on QuickFox, a virtual private network (VPN) and network acceleration tool… Read MoreThe Hacker News
Greatness PhaaS Adds Device Code Phishing to Bypass MFA and Steal Tokens
The commercial phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) toolkit known as Greatness has become the latest crimeware solution to add support for device code phishing, a rapidly growing cyber… Read MoreThe Hacker News
Keyv-Linked npm Worm Poisons Hundreds of Packages, Plants Claude Code and VS Code Hooks
A credential-stealing npm worm that first appeared in keyv@6.0.0 spread beyond the Keyv and Cacheable namespaces into hundreds of packages across multiple organizations on August… Read MoreThe Hacker News
CISA Adds Exploited N-able N-central Flaw to KEV After Customer Compromises
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added a high-severity security flaw impacting N-able N-central to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog… Read MoreThe Hacker News