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Updated: 3 June 2026, 11:30 BST
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Google June 2026 Android Update Patches 124 Flaws, One Actively Exploited

Google on Monday released patches for 124 security vulnerabilities impacting its Android operating system for the month of June 2026, including one high-severity flaw in the Framework component that has come under active exploitation. Tracked as CVE-2025-48595 (CVSS score: 8....

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Gamaredon Exploits WinRAR to Deliver GammaWorm and GammaSteel Against Ukraine

The Russian hacking group known as Gamaredon has been attributed to the continued exploitation of a WinRAR vulnerability to deliver multiple malware families aimed at data theft and propagation. Per Sekoia, the activity involves the weaponization of CVE-2025-8088, a path trav...

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Oracle WebLogic CVE-2024-21182 Added to KEV Catalog After Active Exploitation

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added a high-severity security flaw impacting Oracle WebLogic Server to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerability, CVE-2024-21182 (C...

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How Leading Organizations Are Turning EDR Into Operational Resilience

Most organizations now recognize that endpoint protection alone is no longer sufficient. That's why adoption of endpoint detection and response (EDR) has accelerated rapidly in recent years. Organizations understand that modern attacks move faster, evade traditional preventio...

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Pakistan-Linked SideCopy Targets Afghanistan Finance Ministry with Xeno RAT

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a spear-phishing campaign likely undertaken by the Pakistan-aligned SideCopy group targeting Afghanistan's Ministry of Finance with an open-source remote access trojan called Xeno RAT. "The campaign opens with a spear phishi...

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The Security Growth Platform: Why MSPs Are Moving Beyond vCISO Tools

Three years ago, the practical question for an MSP building a cybersecurity practice was which "vCISO platform" to buy. The term was good shorthand for the work at the time: assessments, advisory, reporting, maybe a compliance module bolted on the side. The work has since outg...

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Critical WP Maps Pro Flaw Actively Exploited to Create Admin Accounts

Threat actors are attempting to actively exploit a critical security flaw impacting WP Maps Pro, a WordPress plugin that has had over 15,000 sales on the Envato Market, to create malicious administrator accounts on susceptible sites. WP Maps Pro allows site owners to embed cu...

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Dutch Authorities Dismantle Botnet Linked to 17 Million Infected Devices

Dutch authorities have announced the takedown of a botnet that enslaved millions of infected devices, including computers, tablets, smartphones, and IoT devices, to carry out malicious attacks. The bot network, per the Dutch Politie and the National Cyber Security Center (NCS...

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ChatGPhish Vulnerability Turns ChatGPT Web Summaries Into a Phishing Surface

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a vulnerability in OpenAI ChatGPT that leverages the artificial intelligence (AI) assistant's implicit trust in Markdown links and images to trigger prompt injections and open the door to phishing attacks. The technique has ...

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Attackers Use LLM Agent for Post-Exploitation After Marimo CVE-2026-39987 Exploit

An unknown threat actor has been observed using a large language model (LLM) agent to conduct post-compromise actions after obtaining initial access following the exploitation of a publicly-accessible Marimo network using a recently disclosed vulnerability. "The attacker comp...

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New Russia-Linked GREYVIBE Targets Ukraine with AI-Powered Cyberattacks

A previously undocumented threat actor dubbed GREYVIBE has been attributed to ongoing and persistent attacks targeting Ukraine and Ukraine-related entities since at least August 2025. GREYVIBE, per WithSecure, is assessed to be a Russian-speaking group operating broadly in th...

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