Breaking News – Cyber Threats (last 6h)
Generated: 2026-07-27 03:00 PDT
- TELESHIM Abuses Telegram for C2 in Attacks Against Middle East Governments
The Hacker News • 2026-07-27 01:48 • thehackernews.com
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged fresh malicious cyber activity by a threat actor with ties to East Asia targeting government entities in the Middle East.The intrusions have resulted in the deployment of previously unreported malware families dubbed TELESHIM, MIXEDKEY, and BINDCLOAK, according to Zscaler ThreatLabz. The cybersecurity firm said it detected the campaign earlier this month.
https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/teleshim-abuses-telegram-for-c2-in.html - GitHub Adds 3-Day Dependabot Cooldown to Limit Poisoned Package Adoption
The Hacker News • 2026-07-27 01:01 • thehackernews.com
GitHub has announced a new cooldown mechanism in Dependabot, allowing the tool to wait at least three days after a release is published before opening a pull request.“The cooldown configuration option in the dependabot.yml still controls the behavior, though, so you can choose a different cooldown parameter that fits your project,” the Microsoft-owned subsidiary said.
According to GitHub, the
https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/github-adds-3-day-dependabot-cooldown.html
Sources: BleepingComputer, The Hacker News, KrebsOnSecurity, SANS ISC, CISA.
