Ahmad Umar Agha, tied to the Syrian Electronic Army and the Th3Pr0 handle, was sentenced Thursday to 42 months for a conspiracy conviction involving attacks on Western targets.
Unknown attackers are using a counterfeit GitHub repository to trick AI coding assistants into installing malware on developers' Windows machines and opening remote access.
A security firm found that unmaintained domains tied to a decade-old application could have let attackers seize control of millions of computers; the app has been patched.
Attackers are abusing trust in SS7 and Diameter signaling to locate phones, capture calls and SMS codes, and impersonate subscribers across mobile networks, with no CVE assigned.
Ahmad Umar Agha (Th3Pr0) got 42 months for hijacking a news agency’s Twitter account and posting a fake White House explosion report that wiped $136B in market value.
Fresh advice focuses on how school districts can order remediation work from penetration test results using consistent risk scoring, with no CVE identifiers attached.
Security staff and app owners encounter queued fixes and requests for proof of change, stretching remediation timelines; no CVE is linked to this item.
Binance says North Korean hackers stole $6.3 billion in customer funds and is reviewing a DevOps engineer’s laptop compromise while promising reimbursement.
A UK intelligence agency misplaced thousands of data storage units, could not determine how many were lost, and left a code defect unresolved for years, amid detentions under terrorism law.
A Sunday cyber intrusion at Poryadok disrupted its website, mobile app, and 48 stores in 32 cities, forcing the retailer to manage an ongoing service outage.
A malicious publisher pushed a modified Claude Code extension release, version 2.1.313, through Open VSX, giving attackers SSH access to developer workstations; Microsoft’s marketplace was not affected.
A court sentenced Ahmad Umar Agha, tied to the Syrian Electronic Army, over a hacking conspiracy that included a fake tweet on a Western news account before a $136 billion market value loss.
Hackers reportedly published a cache of DHS employee information online, affecting more than 41,000 workers and raising concerns about phishing, identity theft, and targeting of government staff.
Attackers compromised a site-monitoring software supplier, planted harmful code, and seized user sessions to steal more than $2 million from people trading on Polymarket.
An Irregular assessment of Zhipu AI's GLM-5.3 on CyScenarioBench recorded three finished mock intrusion tasks out of 13, with no task refusals and no CVE assigned.
Researchers traced a tampered Claude Code extension that added an SSH backdoor, prompting Open VSX and Cursor Marketplace listings to be pulled in October 2026.
Blockchain analysts have connected a $6 billion cryptocurrency theft to North Korea’s TraderTraitor group, while Binance investigates whether an engineer’s laptop was compromised.
A threat actor known as FrostyNeighbor has carried out a damaging cyber operation against Ukraine, while Belarus and Russia appear to be coordinating more closely.