⚠️ E4del and PINHOLE RATs hide commands in FTP banners.

The campaigns turn FTP server welcome messages into dead drop resolvers to fetch commands or C2 details.

PINHOLE also uses Pinterest and SurveyMonkey for C2 resolution.

See how the technique works - https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/e4del-and-pinhole-rats-turn-ftp-banners.html

🚨 24 npm packages are turning unpkg into phishing infrastructure.

They serve fake Cloudflare CAPTCHA pages from trusted unpkg URLs and use attacker-controlled redirect logic.

The packages target visitors, not developers installing them.

See how it works - https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/24-npm-packages-abuse-unpkg-mirrors-to.html

Frontier AI is outpacing traditional vulnerability management.

CVSS, EPSS, and KEV are no longer enough. Teams need exploitability, reachability, misconfigurations, and business impact, plus faster, more automated patching.

See what needs to change - https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/frontier-ai-vulnerability-managements.html

⚡ WhatsApp now supports multiple passkeys per account.

Users can now use phishing-resistant passkeys across iOS and Android. It’s also adding full passwords for two-step verification and more context for unknown Android calls.

WhatsApp says 1 billion+ people already use them.

Read: https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/whatsapp-adds-multiple-passkeys-for.html

Under the EU CRA, a single security question can decide your EU market access.

Can your team prove exactly what's inside your digital product when required? With EU CRA Article 14 reporting coming into force, finding an exploited vulnerability triggers a strict 24-hour response clock. Discover your security compliance gaps with a 5-question assessment.

Take the 5-minute assessment - https://thn.news/eu-security-report

‼️ A Marimo notebook can launch MCP commands before cells run.

CVE-2026-75149 triggers when a crafted notebook is opened in edit mode. It affects versions before 0.23.15.
Marimo fixed it in 0.23.15.

Read the details: https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/marimo-notebook-flaw-could-run-mcp.html

‼️ A malicious webpage could poison the AI running on your own machine.


A NemoClaw weakness can expose Ollama to DNS rebinding, letting an attacker alter its chat template with instructions that persist across conversations.
Read how it works - https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/a-malicious-webpage-could-poison-your.html

48% of Mirage2FA-targeted emails were potentially compromised.

ANYRUN uncovered 9,000+ potential compromise events involving password and cookie theft, SSO logins, and 2FA bypass. Activity is potentially linked to 4,532 organization email domains.

See how Mirage2FA works - https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/mirage2fa-surge-hits-4500-us-and-eu.html

UPDATE - Apple fixed the iCloud Private Relay IP leak in iOS 26.6.1 and macOS 26.6.2.

The WebKit issue could bypass proxies and expose users’ real IPs. The fix was not in the iOS 26.6.1 beta.

See the update: https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/webkit-proxy-bypasses-can-expose-real.html

⚡ U.S. sanctions Iran-linked hackers tied to critical infrastructure breaches.

Three alleged Mabna Institute members are accused of stealing data from U.S. energy, defense, healthcare, IT, and financial organizations.

TRM Labs linked 30 wallets to $16.8 million.

Who they hit and where the money went: https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/us-sanctions-iran-linked-hackers-behind.html

🚨 Attackers are exploiting a critical Gitea RCE flaw.

CVE-2026-60004 can let an external attacker gain repo write access via open registration and run shell commands as the Gitea service account.

One reported attack dropped cryptocurrency-miner-like malware.

Read: https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/critical-gitea-rce-actively-exploited.html

58 arrested in INTERPOL crackdown on West African cyber-enabled fraud.

Operation Jackal IV identified 263 suspects across 22 countries. One Romanian investment scam is estimated to have stolen and laundered €143 million globally.

Inside the operation: https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/interpol-operation-jackal-iv-arrests-58.html

⚠️ Russian operators used ChatGPT to run an influence operation.

OpenAI banned the accounts after finding they used VPNs to bypass restrictions and generated posts promoting the International Burke Institute across Substack, Telegram, X, Facebook and LinkedIn.

What OpenAI uncovered: https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/openai-bans-russian-chatgpt-accounts.html

‼️ Nobody asked #Claude to cancel another gym member's booking.

Aikido rebuilt the Australian gym app and tested Opus 4.6 on #OpenClaw. The model bypassed its browser-only 7-day booking limit in 9 of 10 runs.

In two runs, it also canceled another member’s reservation.

Read: https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/claude-opus-46-bypasses-gym-booking.html

🚨 Unpatched Kaltura (a video management and streaming platform) flaws expose server files and could enable RCE.

The mwEmbed bugs need no authentication. Both stem from unsafe deserialization, and CERT/CC says no fix is available.

Read details here: https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/unpatched-kaltura-mwembed-flaws-could.html

Agentic SOCs can investigate alerts before analysts touch them.

AI agents can validate detections, test hypotheses against network telemetry, and return evidence-backed cases in seconds or minutes.

The shift: investigate first, escalate to humans when the evidence warrants it.

How the model works: https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/imagine-soc-without-queue-from-alert.html

🛑 CISA red teams compromised two critical infrastructure organizations. One SOC detected nothing.

The other caught the initial phishing and isolated affected workstations within 2–20 minutes.

Learn why one SOC saw it and the other didn’t: https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/cisa-red-team-compromised-two-critical.html

🔥 FBI shuts down Chinese hacking platforms tied to intrusions at NASA, the Fed, and U.S. Senate.

QScan exploited vulnerable IoT devices, while QTRouter hid attack traffic behind compromised devices, commercial proxies, and VPSs.

How it worked: https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/fbi-disrupts-china-linked-qtfy.html

⚠️ CISA added six exploited flaws to KEV, spanning NetScaler, Linux, SQL Server, Red Hat, and AjaxPro.

NetScaler CVE-2026-8452 stands out: web shells were dropped, with 36 exploitation attempts from 12 IPs in 12 days.

CISA also says injection flaws dominate recent CVEs, while AI is being used to automate exploitation.

Read: https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/cisa-adds-six-exploited-flaws-to-kev.html

‼️ New GPUThor attack defeats ECC on NVIDIA’s RTX A6000 and demonstrates host privilege escalation to root.

The Rowhammer technique uses multi-bit memory errors to corrupt GPU page tables, but requires an unprivileged CUDA kernel on the target GPU.

How the attack works: https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/gputhor-rowhammer-defeats-ecc-on-nvidia.html