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Sharing isn’t caring if it’s an admin password

23 April 2026 at 09:28

Keeping it simple for the developers can lead to very complex headaches later

PWNED Welcome back to PWNED, the column where we celebrate the people who’ve taught us how not to secure a server. If you’ve ever tied your own shoelaces together, then tripped over them, or attempted to dive into a swimming pool but hit your head on the diving board, we’ll be talking about your cyber equivalent.…

China-Linked GopherWhisper Infects 12 Mongolian Government Systems with Go Backdoors

23 April 2026 at 09:04
Mongolian governmental institutions have emerged as the target of a previously undocumented China-aligned advanced persistent threat (APT) group tracked as GopherWhisper. "The group wields a wide array of tools mostly written in Go, using injectors and loaders to deploy and execute various backdoors in its arsenal," Slovakian cybersecurity company ESET said in a report shared with The Hacker

Vercel Finds More Compromised Accounts in Context.ai-Linked Breach

23 April 2026 at 08:40
Vercel on Wednesday revealed that it has identified an additional set of customer accounts that were compromised as part of a security incident that enabled unauthorized access to its internal systems. The company said it made the discovery after expanding its investigation to include an extra set of compromise indicators, alongside a review of requests to the Vercel network and environment

Apple Fixes iOS Flaw That Let FBI Recover Deleted Signal Messages

23 April 2026 at 08:06
Apple has rolled out a software fix for iOS and iPadOS to address a Notification Services flaw that stored notifications marked for deletion on the device. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-28950 (CVSS score: N/A), has been described as a logging issue that has been addressed with improved data redaction. "Notifications marked for deletion could be unexpectedly retained on the device,"

Malicious KICS Docker Images and VS Code Extensions Hit Checkmarx Supply Chain

22 April 2026 at 17:55
Cybersecurity researchers have warned of malicious images pushed to the official "checkmarx/kics" Docker Hub repository. In an alert published today, software supply chain security company Socket revealed that unknown threat actors managed to have overwritten existing tags, including v2.1.20 and alpine, while also introducing a new v2.1.21 tag that does not correspond to an official release. The

Self-Propagating Supply Chain Worm Hijacks npm Packages to Steal Developer Tokens

22 April 2026 at 17:33
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a fresh set of packages that have been compromised by bad actors to deliver a self-propagating worm that spreads through stolen developer npm tokens. The supply chain worm has been detected by both Socket and StepSecurity, with the companies tracking the activity under the name CanisterSprawl owing to the use of an ICP canister to exfiltrate the stolen data

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