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Solidity Pro VS Code Extensions Steal Crypto Wallets, API Keys, and Credentials

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a malicious Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extension named Solidity Pro (“solidity-pro”) that has been observed delivering a browser wallet and credential stealer.

The names of the extensions are below –

helper-beeps.solidity-pro
web3devtoolsx.solidity-pro

Although neither of the extensions is now available on Open VSX, the GitHub repository

  • August 10, 2026

N-able Issues N-central Hotfix 2 as Attackers Reach Managed Systems and Persist

N-able has released a fresh round of hotfixes for N‑central as part of its investigation into ongoing exploitation of a recently disclosed security flaw in the Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) product.

“We are proactively expanding protections in response to ongoing monitoring of threat actors as they evolve their attack techniques,” the company said.

“This is not a duplicate of our

  • August 8, 2026

Metabase Zero-Day Exploited in Wild Allows Admin Access Without Authentication

Metabase has warned that a maximum-severity security flaw impacting its business intelligence and data visualization software package has been exploited in the wild as a zero-day.

The vulnerability (CVSS score: 10.0), which does not carry a CVE identifier, allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to inject arbitrary SQL into the Metabase application database, enabling them to gain

  • August 8, 2026

New CSS Attacks Can Break Webmail Defenses to Steal Passwords and Tokens

New research shows content inside an email can escape its message boundary and interfere with the webmail interface.

Across attack chains spanning Outlook, Gmail, Fastmail, Proton Mail, Yahoo Mail, and AOL Mail, the techniques can capture passwords, take over third-party accounts, leak tokens, hijack trusted UI actions, and manipulate AI tools that read email.

PortSwigger researcher Gareth

  • August 8, 2026

Atlassian Rovo Can Be Tricked Into Sending Jira and Confluence Data to Attackers

Attacker-controlled instructions can make Atlassian’s Rovo assistant collect Jira or Confluence data that a signed-in user can access, then send it to an outside server. Two security firms found that behavior independently, by different routes. Only one of those routes is confirmed closed.

PromptArmor, an AI security firm, hid the instructions in content Rovo reads. It said an uploaded file was

  • August 8, 2026