Breaking News – Cyber Threats (last 6h)
Generated: 2026-06-25 03:00 PDT
- New Mistic Backdoor Linked to KongTuke in ClickFix and ModeloRAT Campaigns
The Hacker News • 2026-06-25 01:54 • thehackernews.com
A new, stealthy backdoor named Mistic has been deployed as part of suspected financially motivated attacks aimed at multiple organizations spanning insurance, education, IT, and professional services sectors since April 2026.According to Symantec and Carbon Black’s Threat Hunter Team, the backdoor, also tracked as MLTBackdoor, is said to be linked to an initial access broker (IAB) named
https://thehackernews.com/2026/06/new-mistic-backdoor-linked-to-kongtuke.html - Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Zero-Day CVE-2026-20245 Exploited to Gain Root Access
The Hacker News • 2026-06-24 22:46 • thehackernews.com
An unknown threat actor exploited a recently disclosed high-severity security flaw impacting Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN as a zero-day at least two months before it was publicly disclosed, according to new findings from Google-owned Mandiant.The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-20245 (CVSS score: 7.8), allows an authenticated, local attacker to execute arbitrary commands with elevated privileges
https://thehackernews.com/2026/06/cisco-catalyst-sd-wan-zero-day-cve-2026.html
Sources: BleepingComputer, The Hacker News, KrebsOnSecurity, SANS ISC, CISA.
