Backdoor.Mistic (Zscaler: MLTBackdoor), used since April 2026 by the access broker Woodgnat/KongTuke, is a fileless RAT that establishes durable remote access and sells it to ransomware crews including Qilin, Akira, and Black Basta. It spreads via fake IT-helpdesk lures on Microsoft Teams.
Miasma/Shai-Hulud trojanized 20+ Leo Platform and RStreams npm packages in a sub-three-second burst on June 24, hiding its install hook in binding.gyp. It reads CI runner memory for masked secrets and exfiltrates via the victim's own GitHub token, beating egress blocklists.
A high-severity flaw in Amazon Q Developer (CVE-2026-12957, CVSS 8.5) let a single config file in a cloned repo run commands and steal live AWS credentials. Amazon patched it in Language Servers for AWS 1.65.0. Update to 1.69.0.
Lantronix EDS5000 serial-to-IP converters are under active attack via CVE-2025-67038, a CVSS 9.8 unauthenticated command-injection flaw that yields root code execution. Forescout saw it exploited before public details existed, and CISA has added it to KEV with a 26 June federal deadline.
SentinelOne has detailed Gaslight, a Rust-based macOS implant tied to North Korea-aligned actors that embeds 38 fake system messages to trick AI-assisted triage tools into aborting analysis. It runs a Telegram-based C2 shell and drops a Python stealer that lifts browser data and the Keychain.
FulcrumSec is a financially motivated data-extortion group that breaches large organizations, loots plaintext cloud secrets and over-privileged IAM roles, exfiltrates at scale, then publishes detailed breakdowns to extort. Confirmed victims include LexisNexis and Arup Group.
Elastic Security Labs has uncovered OXLOADER, a previously undocumented Windows loader delivering the CASTLESTEALER infostealer through malicious Google Ads impersonating Node.js. It abuses the PE .reloc section to stage shellcode and evades static engines and sandboxes.
Ireland's DPC has fined the HSE €300,000 over a 2018 ransomware attack on a hospital lab system that encrypted diagnostic data belonging to 84,000 patients - the fine took eight years to land.
Splunk has patched CVE-2026-20253, a CVSS 9.8 flaw in Splunk Enterprise where an unauthenticated PostgreSQL sidecar endpoint allows arbitrary file writes. watchTowr Labs chained it to pre-auth remote code execution. Splunk Cloud is unaffected - patch to 10.0.7 or 10.2.4 now.
Group-IB, INTERPOL and Algerian police dismantled SniperDz, a decade-old free phishing-as-a-service platform: 80 templates, 30+ brands, 20,000+ domains, 45,000+ stolen records. Its developer Guedz was arrested after exposing his own admin panel in recruitment videos.
A public PoC named GreatXML bypasses BitLocker on Windows systems that have ever run a Defender Offline Scan. With brief physical access, an attacker copies two files to the recovery partition, reboots into WinRE, and gets a SYSTEM shell on the encrypted volume. No patch, no CVE.
ShinyHunters has listed Ralph Lauren on its leak site, claiming 220GB of customer PII, transaction records and unreleased 2027 product designs. The posting sets a June 14 leak deadline and is framed as a final warning. Ralph Lauren has not confirmed a breach.