Breaking News – Cyber Threats (last 6h)
Generated: 2026-04-30 03:00 PDT
- New Linux 'Copy Fail' Vulnerability Enables Root Access on Major Distributions
The Hacker News • 2026-04-30 02:24 • thehackernews.com
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a Linux local privilege escalation (LPE) flaw that could allow an unprivileged local user to obtain root.
The high-severity vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-31431 (CVSS score: 7.8) has been codenamed Copy Fail by Xint.io and Theori.
“An unprivileged local user can write four controlled bytes into the page cache of any readable file on a Linux
https://thehackernews.com/2026/04/new-linux-copy-fail-vulnerability.html - Iran-linked Handala hackers leak US Marines data, send chilling WhatsApp threats
Graham Cluley • 2026-04-30 01:13 • www.bitdefender.com
US Marines stationed around the Persian Gulf have been receiving WhatsApp messages from strangers suggesting they call home and make their final goodbyes.Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
https://www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hotforsecurity/iran-handala-hackers-leak-us-marines-data-chilling-whatsapp-threats - Google Fixes CVSS 10 Gemini CLI CI RCE and Cursor Flaws Enable Code Execution
The Hacker News • 2026-04-30 00:07 • thehackernews.com
Google has addressed a maximum severity security flaw in Gemini CLI — the “@google/gemini-cli” npm package and the “google-github-actions/run-gemini-cli” GitHub Actions workflow — that could have allowed attackers to execute arbitrary commands on host systems.
“The vulnerability allowed an unprivileged external attacker to force their own malicious content to load as Gemini configuration,”
https://thehackernews.com/2026/04/google-fixes-cvss-10-gemini-cli-ci-rce.html - Silver Fox uses the new ABCDoor backdoor to target organizations in Russia and India
Securelist • 2026-04-30 00:00 • securelist.com
The Silver Fox group is targeting companies in Russia and India by impersonating tax authorities to distribute ValleyRAT and the new ABCDoor backdoor.
https://securelist.com/silver-fox-tax-notification-campaign/119575/
Sources: BleepingComputer, The Hacker News, KrebsOnSecurity, SANS ISC, CISA.
