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Monthly Archives: April 2026

Crime crew impersonates help desk, abuses Microsoft Teams to steal your data

Backport security patches from OpenSSL 3.5.6

CVE-2026-35385: Fix privilege escalation via scp legacy protocol when not in preserving file mode CVE-2026-35388: Add connection multiplexing confirmation for proxy-mode multiplexing sessions CVE-2026-35387: Fix incomplete application of PubkeyAcceptedAlgorithms and

Fix CVE-2026-35535

Security fixes for CVE-2026-1502, CVE-2026-4786, CVE-2026-5713, CVE-2026-6100

Fix CVE-2026-40192.

Update to 147.0.7727.101 Critical CVE-2026-6296: Heap buffer overflow in ANGLE Critical CVE-2026-6297: Use after free in Proxy Critical CVE-2026-6298: Heap buffer overflow in Skia Critical CVE-2026-6299: Use after free in Prerender

Meta’s compute grab continues with agreement to deploy tens of millions of AWS Graviton cores
Germany’s sovereign AI hope changes hands
Former OpenAI research scientist launches new AI model for Tencent
GopherWhisper: A burrow full of malware

ESET Research has discovered a new China-aligned APT group that we’ve named GopherWhisper, which targets Mongolian governmental institutions

US clarifies mobile hotspots part of foreign router ban despite rarity of American made consumer kit
ShinyHunters claim they have cruise giant Carnival’s booty as 7.5M emails surface
Governments on high alert after CISA snuffs out Firestarter backdoor on fed network
More ancient Linux device support faces the chop
Intel bets the farm on AI inference to drag CPU back to the top table
Microsoft beefs up Remote Desktop security with … hard-to-read messages
It’s a myth that you need Mythos to find bugs: Open source models can do it just as well
Integrating Red Hat Lightspeed with CrowdStrike for enhanced malware detection coverage

Several security issues were fixed in GStreamer Bad Plugins.

Greece relaxes Euro biometric border entry rules amid airport chaos
Why world models are AI’s next frontier
Where to begin a cloud career

An update that solves 10 vulnerabilities, contains one feature and has one security fix can now be installed.

An update that solves nine vulnerabilities, contains one feature and has one security fix can now be installed.

An update that solves one vulnerability can now be installed.

An update that solves two vulnerabilities can now be installed.

An update that solves two vulnerabilities can now be installed.

UK gov pays public £550 to discuss Digital ID – then bans journalists from the room
Researchers find cyber-sabotage malware that may predate Stuxnet by five years
Weak security means attackers could disable all of a city’s public EV chargers
The agentic AI frenzy increases as more vendors stake their claims

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DSA-6229-1

Dev targeted by sophisticated job scam: ‘I let my guard down, and ran the freaking code’
Chinese attackers are pwning your infrastructure to use in attacks, 10 countries warn
Google pitches Agentic Data Cloud to help enterprises turn data into context for AI agents
Age checks could turn internet into an ID checkpoint, complains Proton CEO
Why Linux Logging Fails: Detection Gaps in Real-World Systems

Several security issues were fixed in league/commonmark.

American farms have a new steward for their safety net, disaster programs… Palantir
Offer customers passkeys by default, UK’s NCSC tells enterprises
Medical data of 500k Biobank volunteers listed for sale on Alibaba, UK minister reveals

Slurm could be made to send data to an arbitrary unix socket on the host.

An update that solves one vulnerability can now be installed.

An update that solves one vulnerability can now be installed.

An update that solves six vulnerabilities and has one security fix can now be installed.

An update that solves six vulnerabilities and has one security fix can now be installed.

Hybrid clouds have two attack surfaces and you’re not paying enough attention to either
Beyond the Sandbox: Container Escape Techniques Observed in Recent Research
If malware via monitor cables is a matter of national security, this might be the gadget for you
Microsoft taps Anthropic’s Mythos to strengthen secure software development
Sharing isn’t caring if it’s an admin password
How open source ideals must expand for AI
Is your Node.js project really secure?
How I doubled my GPU efficiency without buying a single new card
Pass the key, passwords have passed their sell-by date
Claude Mythos signals a new era in AI-driven security, finding 271 flaws in Firefox
Malicious pgserve, automagik developer tools found in npm registry
Another npm supply chain worm is tearing through dev environments
Smashing Security podcast #464: Rockstar got hacked. The data was junk. The secrets it revealed were not
Anthropic’s super-scary bug hunting model Mythos is shaping up to be a nothingburger
Microsoft issues out-of-band patch for critical security flaw in update to ASP.NET Core
New NGate variant hides in a trojanized NFC payment app

ESET researchers discover another iteration of NGate malware, this time possibly developed with the assistance of AI

PackageKit could be made to install packages as the administrator.

Several security issues were fixed in strongSwan.

Multiple security issues were discovered in cpp-httplib, a C++ cross platform HTTP/HTTPS library, which could result in denial of service. For the stable distribution (trixie), these problems have been fixed in version 0.18.7-1+deb13u1. We recommend that you upgrade your cpp-httplib packages.

Maik Schaefer discovered that a TOCTOU race condition in PackageKit (a package management service over a DBus interface) could result in local privilege escalation. For Debian 11 bullseye, this problem has been fixed in version 1.2.2-2+deb11u1.

Multiple vulnerabilities were fixed in strongSwan, an IKE/IPsec suite. CVE-2026-35328 A vulnerability in libtls related to the processing of the supported_versions extension in TLS that can result in an infinite loop.

An update that solves one vulnerability can now be installed.

SpaceX secures option to acquire AI coding startup Cursor for $60B
Google unleashes even more AI security agents to fight the baddies
Lateral Movement Detection Strategies for Linux Systems
France’s ‘Secure’ ID agency probes breach as crooks claim 19M records
Scotland Yard can keep using live facial recognition on people in London, say judges
Google’s Gemma 4 shines on local systems – both big and small
AI is upending the SaaS game
Oil crisis? What oil crisis? IT spending de-coupled from wider war shock
Mythos found 271 Firefox flaws – but none a human couldn’t spot

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DSA-6228-1

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DSA-6227-1

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DSA-6226-1

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DSA-6225-1

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DSA-6224-1

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DSA-6223-1

Nation-states want to cause harm, not just steal cash – stop handing your cyber defenses to the cheapest contractor
Murder, she wrote: Ex-FBI chief wants some ransomware crims charged with homicide
More Cisco SD-WAN bugs battered in attacks
What the ransom note won’t say

An attack is what you see, but a business operation is what you’re up against

macOS ClickFix attacks deliver AppleScript stealers to snarf credentials, wallets
Yet another ex-ransomware negotiator admits turning rogue after payoff from crimelords
Snowflake offers help to users and builders of AI agents
AI-assisted intruders pwned Vercel via OAuth abuse and a pilfered employee account
Amazon’s $5B Anthropic bet is really about compute, not just cash
Crook claims to leak ‘video surveillance footage’ of companies
Met police trials snoop tech platform in push to cuff more London shoplifters

Andrew Nesbitt discovered that .install file directives were insufficiently restricted in OPAM, a package manager for OCaml. This could result in directory traversal out of the package area. For Debian 11 bullseye, this problem has been fixed in version 2.0.8-1+deb11u1.

Yarden Porat found a heap-based buffer overwrite in MuPDF, a lightweight PDF viewer, which may result in denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code if malformed documents are opened. For Debian 11 bullseye, this problem has been fixed in version 1.17.0+ds1-2+deb11u2.

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Addressing the challenges of unstructured data governance for AI
The cookbook for safe, powerful agents