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Breaking News – Cyber Threats – 2026-06-08 13:00 PDT

Breaking News – Cyber Threats (last 6h)

Generated: 2026-06-08 13:00 PDT

  • WhatsApp says it disrupted new NSO spyware phishing attacks
    BleepingComputer • 2026-06-08 11:40 • www.bleepingcomputer.com
    WhatsApp has detected and stopped spear-phishing campaigns allegedly conducted by the NSO Group after investigating user reports of social engineering attacks. […]
    https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/whatsapp-says-it-disrupted-new-nso-spyware-phishing-attacks/
  • Meta Blocks NSO Group's New WhatsApp Phishing Attack, Files Contempt Order
    The Hacker News • 2026-06-08 10:08 • thehackernews.com
    Meta on Monday said it detected and blocked spear-phishing attempts linked to Israeli spyware vendor NSO Group.

    In addition, the tech giant said it’s filing a federal court contempt order against the company for violating a permanent injunction that barred it from targeting WhatsApp and its users.

    “They tried to trick people into clicking on malicious links to drive them to external websites
    https://thehackernews.com/2026/06/meta-blocks-nso-groups-new-whatsapp.html

  • TeamPCP Supply Chain Campaign: Activity Through 2026-06-07, (Mon, Jun 8th)
    SANS ISC Diary (full) • 2026-06-08 10:07 • isc.sans.edu

    This diary continues the Internet Storm Center's tracking of the TeamPCP supply chain campaign, first documented in the SANS white paper When the Security Scanner Became the Weapon and most recently in the handler diary Activity Through 2026-05-24. Since that update, the story moved into two new places: the United States government, which formally caught up to the campaign, and the wider population of attackers now wield…
    https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/33060

  • Critical Zcash Vulnerability Found and Fixed
    Schneier on Security • 2026-06-08 10:06 • www.schneier.com

    If you’re a user—owner?—of this cryptocurrency, this is important:

    On May 29, the security researcher Taylor Hornby found a critical vulnerability in Zcash Orchard privacy pool using Claude Opus 4.8. The Zcash team hired Hornby specifically to look for this kind of issue. He found one fast enough to be embarrassing.

    The Orchard pool is the newest and most advanced shielded transacti…
    https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/06/critical-zcash-vulnerability-found-and-fixed.html

  • Gogs patches critical zero-day enabling remote code execution
    BleepingComputer • 2026-06-08 09:18 • www.bleepingcomputer.com
    Gogs has patched a critical security zero-day flaw that can allow attackers to compromise Internet-facing instances and access any repositories (including private ones). […]
    https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/gogs-patches-critical-zero-day-enabling-remote-code-execution/
  • Critical UniFi OS bug lets hackers gain root without authentication
    BleepingComputer • 2026-06-08 08:51 • www.bleepingcomputer.com
    Attackers can chain three already fixed vulnerabilities in the Ubiquiti UniFi OS server to execute remote code with root privileges and without authentication. […]
    https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/critical-unifi-os-bug-lets-hackers-gain-root-without-authentication/
  • Critical Check Point VPN Flaw Exploited to Bypass Passwords in IKEv1 Setups
    The Hacker News • 2026-06-08 07:17 • thehackernews.com
    Check Point has warned of active exploitation of a critical vulnerability impacting Remote Access VPN and Mobile Access deployments that are configured to use the deprecated IKEv1 key exchange protocol.

    The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-50751 (CVSS score: 9.3), is a case of a logic flow weakness in certificate validation that allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to bypass user
    https://thehackernews.com/2026/06/critical-check-point-vpn-flaw-exploited.html

  • Reducing security operations complexity with Wazuh Cloud
    BleepingComputer • 2026-06-08 07:01 • www.bleepingcomputer.com
    Security teams are increasingly overwhelmed by alert fatigue, infrastructure maintenance, and complex hybrid environments. This article explores how Wazuh Cloud helps simplify SIEM/XDR operations through managed infrastructure, automated scaling, and AI-driven security analysis. […]
    https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/reducing-security-operations-complexity-with-wazuh-cloud/

Sources: BleepingComputer, The Hacker News, KrebsOnSecurity, SANS ISC, CISA.

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