Cybersecurity News

New NadMesh Botnet Hunts Exposed AI Services for Cloud Keys and Kubernetes Tokens

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 22:42:23 +0530
The Hacker News

A Go botnet called NadMesh turned up in early July hunting exposed AI services, and the operator's own dashboard claims 3,811 unique AWS keys. A Shodan harvester keeps the scan queue stocked with ComfyUI, Ollama, n8n, Open WebUI, Langflow, and Gradio: the image generators, local model runners, and workflow builders that teams stand up fast and firewall late. The intel feed behind that counter

GoldenEyeDog Subgroup Linked to DigiCert Breach and Code-Signing Certificate Theft

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 22:09:16 +0530
The Hacker News

Cybersecurity researchers have attributed the April 2026 DigiCert security incident to a threat activity cluster dubbed CylindricalCanine. Expel, which shared technical details of the event, described the threat actor as a sub-group of GoldenEyeDog (aka APT-Q-27, Dragon Breath, and Miuuti Group), a Chinese cybercrime group known for its targeting of the gambling and gaming sectors using

Fake Coding Tests Deliver OtterCookie-Aligned Malware Hidden in SVG Flag Images

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 19:18:56 +0530
The Hacker News

North Korean threat actors linked to the Contagious Interview campaign have been observed employing steganography in SVG image files to conceal malicious payloads as part of a campaign using fake job postings and coding challenges. "Any user who ran the project ended up with a four-stage payload aligned with OtterCookie: a browser credential and crypto wallet stealer, a file stealer, a

E.U. Orders Google to Open Android Mic, Camera and Screen to Rival AI Assistants

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 17:14:41 +0530
The Hacker News

The European Commission on Thursday ordered Google to give rival AI assistants the same reach into Android that Gemini already has: the camera, the microphone, whatever is on screen, a wake word that fires with the display off, and the ability to drive other apps in the background by imitating taps and typing. Google has to ship it in the next major release, Android 18, and by 1 August 2027 at

The Race to Field Military Autonomy Is On, Can Trusted Information Infrastructure Keep Pace?

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 17:00:00 +0530
The Hacker News

Military forces are under increasing pressure to field autonomous capabilities faster than ever before. Across the U.S., UK, and NATO, new investment, evolving defense strategies, and accelerated acquisition pathways are transforming how capability is delivered, rewarding programs that can move from concept to operational deployment at commercial speed. Now the focus shifts to the trusted

Armenia Detains Russian Tourist on U.S. Warrant for REvil Hacker, Lawyers Say Wrong Man

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 16:23:31 +0530
The Hacker News

Armenia has held a Russian tourist named Aleksandr Ermakov in a detention center since June 28, on a U.S. extradition request for a REvil ransomware suspect named Aleksandr Ermakov. His wife, Maria Yurova, told REN TV that border officers pulled him out of the departure hall at Yerevan's Zvartnots airport, held up a phone with a photo of him off his VKontakte page, and walked him into a side

ACR Stealer Uses ClickFix Lures to Steal Browser Tokens and Microsoft 365 Files

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 14:26:39 +0530
The Hacker News

ACR Stealer, an infostealer in circulation since 2024, is walking out of enterprise networks with saved browser passwords, live session tokens, PDFs, Microsoft 365 documents, and files from synced OneDrive and SharePoint folders. It gets in because someone pasted a command into a Run box and pressed Enter. Microsoft laid out two of the delivery chains on Thursday. Its Defender Experts team, the

New GoSerpent Malware Targets Southeast Asian Governments and Diplomats for Espionage

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 14:16:45 +0530
The Hacker News

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a previously undocumented malware called GoSerpent that has been put to use in cyber attacks targeting entities in Southeast Asia since late 2025 with a focus on long-term access and intelligence gathering. Russian cybersecurity company Kaspersky, which uncovered the activity in February 2026, said it was aimed at government and diplomatic entities in