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Lotus Wiper Hits Venezuelan Energy Grid in Destructive Campaign
A previously uncatalogued wiper dubbed Lotus has surfaced in attacks against Venezuelan energy infrastructure, destroying data rather than encrypting it for ran
Microsoft patches critical ASP.NET Core flaw letting attackers forge SYSTEM-level auth
Microsoft pushed an emergency fix for CVE-2026-40372, a high-severity bug in the Microsoft.AspNetCore.DataProtection NuGet package (versions 10.0.0 through 10.0
Microsoft Ships Emergency Fix for Critical ASP.NET Core Auth Bypass
Microsoft has issued out-of-band patches for CVE-2026-40372, a critical privilege escalation flaw in ASP.NET Core's Data Protection cryptographic APIs. A regres
Microsoft Ships Fix for Critical ASP.NET Core Privilege Escalation Flaw
Microsoft has released a patch for CVE-2026-40372, a critical privilege escalation vulnerability in ASP.NET Core. The flaw allows an attacker to elevate privile
Mustang Panda Deploys LOTUSLITE Variant Against Indian Banks, South Korean Policy Targets
China-linked threat actor Mustang Panda has resurfaced with a refined variant of its LOTUSLITE backdoor, aimed squarely at financial institutions in India and p
NASA's Artemis II proves laser comms can stream HD video from the Moon
Artemis II's four-person crew beamed most of their video home over radio — S-band at 3-5 MB/s, a modest step up from Apollo's 50 KB/s but still low-definition b
North Korea's 'Contagious Interview' Job Scam Now Self-Propagates Through Victims
DPRK-aligned threat actors running the long-tracked 'Contagious Interview' campaign have evolved their playbook: the fake job recruitment scheme now spreads thr
Ransomware Negotiator Flips Sides, Pleads Guilty in BlackCat Extortion Scheme
A ransomware negotiator — one of the professionals companies hire to broker payments with extortion crews — has pleaded guilty to conspiring with the BlackCat/A
Scattered Spider's 'Tylerb' Pleads Guilty to $8M Crypto Theft Spree
Tyler Robert Buchanan, a 24-year-old Scottish national and senior operator in the Scattered Spider cybercrime collective, has pleaded guilty in U.S. federal cou
Self-Propagating npm Worm Hijacks Packages to Exfiltrate Developer Tokens
A worm is spreading laterally through the npm ecosystem by compromising maintainer accounts, injecting malicious payloads into published packages, and using har
Self-propagating npm worm steals dev tokens and republishes via hijacked publish rights
A worm-class supply-chain attack is moving through the npm registry by abusing publish tokens it finds on compromised developer machines. Socket and StepSecurit
Spain takes down Spanish-speaking world's largest manga piracy site, $4.7M seized
Spanish police dismantled what they describe as the largest Spanish-language manga piracy operation, running since 2014 and pulling in millions of monthly visit