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Three Microsoft Defender Zero-Days Actively Exploited; Two Still Unpatched - The Hacker News

Technology April 18, 2026

Huntress is warning that threat actors are exploiting three recently disclosed security flaws in Microsoft Defender to gain elevated privileges in compromised systems. The activity involves the expl...

OpenAI Launches GPT-5.4-Cyber with Expanded Access for Security Teams - The Hacker News

Business April 16, 2026

OpenAI on Tuesday unveiled GPT-5.4-Cyber, a variant of its latest flagship model, GPT‑5.4, that's specifically optimized for defensive cybersecurity use cases, days after rival Anthropic unveiled ...

GlassWorm Campaign Uses Zig Dropper to Infect Multiple Developer IDEs - The Hacker News

Technology April 12, 2026

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged yet another evolution of the ongoing GlassWorm campaign, which employs a new Zig dropper that's designed to stealthily infect all integrated development environ...

Google Rolls Out DBSC in Chrome 146 to Block Session Theft on Windows - The Hacker News

Technology April 11, 2026

Google has made Device Bound Session Credentials (DBSC) generally available to all Windows users of its Chrome web browser, months after it began testing the security feature in open beta. The p...

Anthropic's Claude Mythos Finds Thousands of Zero-Day Flaws Across Major Systems - The Hacker News

Business April 9, 2026

Artificial Intelligence (AI) company Anthropic announced a new cybersecurity initiative called Project Glasswing that will use a preview version of its new frontier model, Claude Mythos, to find ...

âš¡ Weekly Recap: Proxy Botnet, Office Zero-Day, MongoDB Ransoms, AI Hijacks & New Threats - The Hacker News

Technology February 3, 2026

Every week brings new discoveries, attacks, and defenses that shape the state of cybersecurity. Some threats are stopped quickly, while others go unseen until they cause real damage. Sometimes a sin�...

CERT Polska Details Coordinated Cyber Attacks on 30+ Wind and Solar Farms - The Hacker News

Business February 2, 2026

CERT Polska, the Polish computer emergency response team, revealed that coordinated cyber attacks targeted more than 30 wind and photovoltaic farms, a private company from the manufacturing sector, a�...

Researchers Uncover Chrome Extensions Abusing Affiliate Links and Stealing ChatGPT Access - The Hacker News

Technology January 31, 2026

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered malicious Google Chrome extensions that come with capabilities to hijack affiliate links, steal data, and collect OpenAI ChatGPT authentication tokens. One �...

Fake Moltbot AI Coding Assistant on VS Code Marketplace Drops Malware - The Hacker News

Technology January 30, 2026

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new malicious Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extension for Moltbot (formerly Clawdbot) on the official Extension Marketplace that claims to be a free �...

Microsoft Office Zero-Day (CVE-2026-21509) - Emergency Patch Issued for Active Exploitation - The Hacker News

Technology January 28, 2026

Microsoft on Monday issued out-of-band security patches for a high-severity Microsoft Office zero-day vulnerability exploited in attacks. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-21509, carries a CVSS�...