Breaking News – Cyber Threats – 2026-08-01 03:00 PDT

Breaking News – Cyber Threats (last 6h)

Generated: 2026-08-01 03:00 PDT

• Hackers Poison Adform Script to Swap Crypto Wallet Addresses Across Customer Sites
  The Hacker News • 2026-08-01 02:03 • thehackernews.com
  Attackers modified a JavaScript file served by advertising technology company Adform, turning it into a browser-side tool that rewrites cryptocurrency wallet addresses.

  Adform detected the incident on July 27, 2026, removed the malicious code, notified affected clients, and reported it to authorities.

  Anyone who visited a site carrying the affected script on July 27 and copied a Bitcoin,
  https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/hackers-poison-adform-script-to-swap.html

• Phishing Campaigns Targeting AI Solutions Providers, (Sat, Aug 1st)
  SANS ISC Diary (full) • 2026-08-01 00:22 • isc.sans.edu

  Most phishing campaigns rely on the fact that the victim is afraid to loose “something”: money, access to information, … Many brands have been impersonated by campaigns but I spotted some phishing emails that focus on AI services like ChatGPT.

  
  https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/33206

• Adobe Campaign Classic CVSS 10.0 Flaw Could Run Code Without User Interaction
  The Hacker News • 2026-08-01 00:12 • thehackernews.com
  Adobe has released security updates to address a maximum-severity security flaw in Campaign Classic (ACC), its enterprise-focused marketing automation platform, that could result in arbitrary code execution.

  The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-48449, carries a severity score of 10.0 on the CVSS scoring system.

  It has been described as a case of incorrect authorization that could result in
  https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/adobe-campaign-classic-cvss-100-flaw.html

• Hijacked Hotel Wi-Fi Pushes Fake Updates to Deliver Surveillance Malware
  The Hacker News • 2026-07-31 23:29 • thehackernews.com
  A fake browser update served over hijacked hotel Wi-Fi has been used to deliver CornFlake, a remote access trojan (RAT) that can capture webcam images, microphone audio, and keystrokes, Microsoft said in its latest report.

  Researchers track the operation as CaptiveCrunch and attribute it to Storm-2945. It assesses Storm-2945 to be an operational sub-cluster of Midnight Blizzard, also known as
  https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/hijacked-hotel-wi-fi-pushes-fake.html

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