Cybersecurity News

⚡ Weekly Recap: Linux Rootkit, macOS Crypto Stealer, WebSocket Skimmers and More

Mon, 11 May 2026 18:06:00 +0530
The Hacker News

Rough Monday. Somebody poisoned a trusted download again, somebody else turned cloud servers into public housing, and a few crews are still getting into boxes with bugs that should’ve died years ago — the same old holes, same lazy access paths, same “how the hell is this still open” feeling. One report this week basically reads like a guy tripped over root access by accident and decided to stay

Your Purple Team Isn't Purple — It's Just Red and Blue in the Same Room

Mon, 11 May 2026 17:00:00 +0530
The Hacker News

Defending a network at 2 am looks a lot like this: an analyst copy-pasting a hash from a PDF into a SIEM query. A red team script is being rewritten by hand so the blue team can use it. A patch waiting on a change-approval window that's longer than the exploitation window itself. Nobody in that chain is incompetent. Every human is doing their job correctly. The problem is the system, its