Breaking News – Cyber Threats (last 6h)
Generated: 2026-06-06 03:00 PDT
- Free Apps Are Quietly Turning Smart TVs Into Web-Scraping Proxies for AI
The Hacker News • 2026-06-06 01:29 • thehackernews.com
A researcher has reverse-engineered the iOS SDK that Bright Data embeds in consumer apps and documented how it turns devices, including always-on smart TVs, into exit nodes that relay web-scraping traffic for a data business Bright Data markets heavily to the AI industry.The company, the successor to Luminati, operates what it calls the largest residential proxy network in the world,
https://thehackernews.com/2026/06/free-apps-are-quietly-turning-smart-tvs.html - CISA Adds Actively Exploited SolarWinds Serv-U DoS Flaw to KEV Catalog
The Hacker News • 2026-06-06 01:14 • thehackernews.com
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a high-severity security flaw impacting SolarWinds Serv-U multi-protocol file server software to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation.The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-28318 (CVSS score: 7.5), is a denial-of-service (DoS) bug that causes the service to crash
https://thehackernews.com/2026/06/cisa-adds-actively-exploited-solarwinds.html - AI Agent Uncovers 21 Zero-Days in FFmpeg; Chrome Patches Record 429 Bugs
The Hacker News • 2026-06-06 00:28 • thehackernews.com
Two things landed within days of each other this week. A security startup reported 21 previously unknown vulnerabilities in FFmpeg, the media library inside almost everything that touches video, all of them found by an autonomous AI agent.The same week, Google shipped Chrome 149 with patches for 429 security bugs, the most ever in a single release.
Only the FFmpeg bugs were found by AI.
https://thehackernews.com/2026/06/ai-agent-uncovers-21-zero-days-in.html - Miasma Worm Hits 73 Microsoft GitHub Repositories in Major Supply Chain Attack
The Hacker News • 2026-06-05 23:58 • thehackernews.com
Microsoft’s GitHub repositories have become the latest to fall victim to the ongoing Miasma self-replicating supply chain attack campaign.The incident impacted 73 Microsoft repositories across four of its GitHub organizations, including Azure, Azure-Samples, Microsoft, and MicrosoftDocs, per OpenSourceMalware. The development has GitHub to disable access to those repositories.
“Access to this
https://thehackernews.com/2026/06/miasma-worm-hits-73-microsoft-github.html - Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager CVE-2026-20245 Flaw Actively Exploited – No Patch Available
The Hacker News • 2026-06-05 21:19 • thehackernews.com
Cisco has warned that a high-severity security flaw impacting Catalyst SD-WAN Manager has come under active exploitation.The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-20245, carries a CVSS score of 7.8 out of a maximum of 10.0. It affects the following deployment types –
On-Prem Deployment
Cisco SD-WAN Cloud-Pro
Cisco SD-WAN Cloud (Cisco Managed)
Cisco SD-WAN for Government (FedRAMP)“A
https://thehackernews.com/2026/06/cisco-catalyst-sd-wan-manager-cve-2026.html
Sources: BleepingComputer, The Hacker News, KrebsOnSecurity, SANS ISC, CISA.
