WordPress has patched a high-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-64638 and nicknamed XSS2Shell, that begins as an unauthenticated cross-site scripting bug on the login screen and can be chained into full remote code execution. Researchers at pw…

SCTPhantom, tracked as CVE-2026-64564, is a high-severity Linux kernel use-after-free vulnerability in the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) Dynamic Address Reconfiguration implementation. Researchers at Tencent Zhuque Lab’s Corvus AI project…

A cross-platform malware campaign that disguises itself as a legitimate Zoom installer to deploy Overlord, an open-source remote access trojan (RAT), on both macOS and Windows machines. Documented by Jamf, unlike most macOS malware, which typically rel…

Apple has shipped emergency macOS updates to close a critical vulnerability in Screen Sharing, tracked as CVE-2026-65400, which allows unauthenticated remote attackers to execute arbitrary code and access files with root-level privileges. The flaw is e…

A large-scale supply chain attack has hit the npm registry, with a suspected Russian threat actor publishing more than 700 malicious packages in just 48 hours. Researcher Paul McCarty documented the campaign, tracked as WEL1DROPPER, and the package cou…

Microsoft Threat Intelligence has identified a new ransomware campaign attributed to the financially motivated threat actor Storm-1175 that began deploying a previously undocumented ransomware strain, StormEncryptor, on August 2, 2026. The activity rep…

A newly disclosed attack class, NatJack, reveals significant weaknesses in the implementation of Network Address Translation (NAT) across modern network infrastructures. This vulnerability allows attackers to hijack TCP connections, tamper with DNS res…