- FBI Warns Russian Hackers Target Signal, WhatsApp in Mass Phishing Attacksby info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) (The Hacker News) on March 21, 2026 at 1:17 pm
Threat actors affiliated with Russian Intelligence Services are conducting phishing campaigns to compromise commercial messaging applications (CMAs) like WhatsApp and Signal to seize control of accounts belonging to individuals with high intelligence value, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said Friday. "The campaign
- Oracle Patches Critical CVE-2026-21992 Enabling Unauthenticated RCE in Identity Managerby info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) (The Hacker News) on March 21, 2026 at 10:24 am
Oracle has released security updates to address a critical security flaw impacting Identity Manager and Web Services Manager that could be exploited to achieve remote code execution. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-21992, carries a CVSS score of 9.8 out of a maximum of 10.0. "This vulnerability is remotely exploitable without authentication," Oracle said in an advisory. "If successfully
- Trivy Supply Chain Attack Triggers Self-Spreading CanisterWorm Across 47 npm Packagesby info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) (The Hacker News) on March 21, 2026 at 8:25 am
The threat actors behind the supply chain attack targeting the popular Trivy scanner are suspected to be conducting follow-on attacks that have led to the compromise of a large number of npm packages with a previously undocumented self-propagating worm dubbed CanisterWorm. The name is a reference to the fact that the malware uses an ICP canister, which refers to tamperproof smart contracts on
- CISA Flags Apple, Craft CMS, Laravel Bugs in KEV, Orders Patching by April 3, 2026by info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) (The Hacker News) on March 21, 2026 at 8:25 am
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added five security flaws impacting Apple, Craft CMS, and Laravel Livewire to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, urging federal agencies to patch them by April 3, 2026. The vulnerabilities that have come under exploitation are listed below - CVE-2025-31277 (CVSS score: 8.8) - A vulnerability in Apple
- Patch Now: Oracle's Fusion Middleware Has Critical RCE Flawby Nate Nelson (darkreading) on March 20, 2026 at 7:30 pm
Attackers can execute arbitrary code without authentication if Oracle's Identity or Web Services Managers are exposed to the Web.
- Trivy Security Scanner GitHub Actions Breached, 75 Tags Hijacked to Steal CI/CD Secretsby info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) (The Hacker News) on March 20, 2026 at 5:47 pm
Trivy, a popular open-source vulnerability scanner maintained by Aqua Security, was compromised a second time within the span of a month to deliver malware that stole sensitive CI/CD secrets. The latest incident impacted GitHub Actions "aquasecurity/trivy-action" and "aquasecurity/setup-trivy," which are used to scan Docker container images for vulnerabilities and set up GitHub Actions workflow
- Cyber OpSec Fail: Beast Gang Exposes Ransomware Serverby Robert Lemos (darkreading) on March 20, 2026 at 4:31 pm
Files on a central cloud server used by the ransomware group highlight a systematic, aggressive attack on network backups as a key TTP.
- Critical Langflow Flaw CVE-2026-33017 Triggers Attacks within 20 Hours of Disclosureby info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) (The Hacker News) on March 20, 2026 at 3:15 pm
A critical security flaw impacting Langflow has come under active exploitation within 20 hours of public disclosure, highlighting the speed at which threat actors weaponize newly published vulnerabilities. The security defect, tracked as CVE-2026-33017 (CVSS score: 9.3), is a case of missing authentication combined with code injection that could result in remote code execution. "The POST /api/v1
- Interlock Ransomware Targets Cisco Enterprise Firewallsby Alexander Culafi (darkreading) on March 20, 2026 at 1:00 pm
The ransomware gang, known for double-extortion attacks, had access to a critical Cisco firewall vulnerability weeks before it was publicly disclosed.
- Google Adds 24-Hour Wait for Unverified App Sideloading to Reduce Malware and Scamsby info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) (The Hacker News) on March 20, 2026 at 10:57 am
Google on Thursday announced a new "advanced flow" for Android sideloading that requires a mandatory 24-hour wait period to install apps from unverified developers in an attempt to balance openness with safety. The new changes come against the backdrop of a developer verification mandate the tech giant announced last year that requires all Android apps to be registered by verified developers to
- The Importance of Behavioral Analytics in AI-Enabled Cyber Attacksby info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) (The Hacker News) on March 20, 2026 at 10:00 am
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is changing how individuals and organizations conduct many activities, including how cybercriminals carry out phishing attacks and iterate on malware. Now, cybercriminals are using AI to generate personalized phishing emails, deepfakes and malware that evade traditional detection by impersonating normal user activity and bypassing legacy security models. As a result,
- Magento PolyShell Flaw Enables Unauthenticated Uploads, RCE and Account Takeoverby info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) (The Hacker News) on March 20, 2026 at 9:30 am
Sansec is warning of a critical security flaw in Magento's REST API that could allow unauthenticated attackers to upload arbitrary executables and achieve code execution and account takeover. The vulnerability has been codenamed PolyShell by Sansec owing to the fact that the attack hinges on disguising malicious code as an image. There is no evidence that the shortcoming has been exploited in
- The FBI Buys Data to Track Movement, Location Historyby (Cybersecurity News) on March 20, 2026 at 8:00 am
Director Patel stated the FBI purchases data that can be leveraged to track a person’s movement and location history.
- DoJ Disrupts 3 Million-Device IoT Botnets Behind Record 31.4 Tbps Global DDoS Attacksby info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) (The Hacker News) on March 20, 2026 at 6:25 am
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Thursday announced the disruption of command-and-control (C2) infrastructure used by several Internet of Things (IoT) botnets like AISURU, Kimwolf, JackSkid, and Mossad as part of a court-authorized law enforcement operation. The effort also saw authorities from Canada and Germany targeting the operators behind these botnets, with a number of private
- Apple Warns Older iPhones Vulnerable to Coruna, DarkSword Exploit Kit Attacksby info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) (The Hacker News) on March 20, 2026 at 5:16 am
Apple is urging users who are still running an outdated version of iOS to update their iPhones to secure against web-based attacks carried out via powerful exploit kits like Coruna and DarkSword. These attacks employ malicious web content to target out-of-date versions of iOS, triggering an infection chain that leads to the theft of sensitive data. "For example, if you're using an older















