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Fake OpenAI Privacy Filter Repo Hits #1 on Hugging Face, Draws 244K Downloads - The Hacker News

Technology May 12, 2026

A malicious Hugging Face repository managed to take a spot in the platform's trending list by impersonating OpenAI's Privacy Filter open-weight model to deliver a Rust-based information stealer to WiοΏ½...

Ollama Out-of-Bounds Read Vulnerability Allows Remote Process Memory Leak - The Hacker News

Technology May 11, 2026

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a critical security vulnerability in Ollama that, if successfully exploited, could allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to leak its entire process memory.οΏ½...

Palo Alto PAN-OS Flaw Under Active Exploitation Enables Remote Code Execution - The Hacker News

Technology May 7, 2026

Palo Alto Networks has released an advisory warning that a critical buffer overflow vulnerability in its PAN-OS software has been exploited in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-0300, οΏ½...

CISA Adds Actively Exploited Linux Root Access Bug CVE-2026-31431 to KEV - The Hacker News

Technology May 4, 2026

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added a recently disclosed security flaw impacting various Linux distributions to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) οΏ½...

30,000 Facebook Accounts Hacked via Google AppSheet Phishing Campaign - The Hacker News

Technology May 3, 2026

A newly discovered Vietnamese-linked operation has been observed using a Google AppSheet as a "phishing relay" to distribute phishing emails with an aim to compromise Facebook accounts. The activityοΏ½...

New Linux 'Copy Fail' Vulnerability Enables Root Access on Major Distributions - The Hacker News

Technology May 1, 2026

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a Linux local privilege escalation (LPE) flaw that could allow an unprivileged local user to obtain root. The high-severity vulnerability tracked οΏ½...

Researchers Discover Critical GitHub CVE-2026-3854 RCE Flaw Exploitable via Single Git Push - The Hacker News

Technology April 29, 2026

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a critical security vulnerability impacting GitHub.com and GitHub Enterprise Server that could allow an authenticated user to obtain remote code exοΏ½...

FIRESTARTER Backdoor Hit Federal Cisco Firepower Device, Survives Security Patches - The Hacker News

Business April 26, 2026

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has revealed that an unnamed federal civilian agency's Cisco Firepower device running Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) software was cοΏ½...

Apple Fixes iOS Flaw That Let FBI Recover Deleted Signal Messages - The Hacker News

Technology April 24, 2026

Apple has rolled out a software fix for iOS and iPadOS to address a Notification Services flaw that stored notifications marked for deletion on the device. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-289οΏ½...

Vercel Breach Tied to Context AI Hack Exposes Limited Customer Credentials - The Hacker News

Business April 21, 2026

Web infrastructure provider Vercel has disclosed a security breach that allows bad actors to gain unauthorized access to "certain" internal Vercel systems. The incident stemmed from the compromise oοΏ½...