Cybersecurity News and Updates

Cavern C2 Uses DNS and Google Apps Script to Blend Into Legitimate Traffic

Cybersecurity researchers have traced the continued evolution of the Cavern (aka Cav3rn) command-and-control (C2) framework used by Iranian nation-state hackers in attacks targeting entities in Israel.

Russian cybersecurity company Kaspersky said its ongoing monitoring of the threat activity cluster since December 2025 has led to the discovery of previously unreported components that expand the

  • August 18, 2026

Forminator WordPress Flaw Can Enable Unauthenticated RCE via Malicious PHP Uploads

A critical security flaw has been disclosed in Forminator Forms, a WordPress plugin with more than 600,000 active installations, that could be exploited to achieve arbitrary code execution on susceptible sites.

The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-15748, is rated 9.8 out of 10.0 on the CVSS scoring system. It was discovered and reported by a security researcher who goes by the online alias “

  • August 18, 2026

Snowflake GitHub Actions Flaw Lets Crafted Issues Trigger Command Injection

Cybersecurity researchers at Wiz have disclosed a new GitHub Actions workflow injection vulnerability in Snowflake’s public snowflakedb/snowflake-connector-net repository that it said could be exploited through a crafted GitHub issue to execute commands in a workflow containing internal Jira credentials.

The issue was present in .github/workflows/jira_issue.yml, which ran when a

  • August 18, 2026

Critical GitLab GraphQL Flaw Could Let Unauthenticated Attackers Delete Public Projects

GitLab has released security updates to address a critical vulnerability impacting its Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE) software that, under certain conditions, could allow an unauthenticated attacker to remotely modify or delete public projects and user data.

The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-19478, has been rated Critical by GitLab and assigned a CVSS score of 9.4.

Released on

  • August 18, 2026

Apple macOS Screen Sharing Flaw Exploited on Internet-Exposed Macs to Install Monero Miner

A recently patched security flaw in Apple macOS has come under active exploitation in the wild to deploy a cryptocurrency miner, the Netherlands National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has warned.

The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-65400 (CVSS score: 9.8), a critical authentication issue impacting the Screen Sharing component that could allow an attacker already on the network to

  • August 17, 2026

SAP Commerce Cloud CVE-2026-58231 Targeted in Exploitation Attempts Days After Patch

A maximum-severity security vulnerability impacting SAP Commerce Cloud is witnessing active exploitation efforts.

The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-58231, is rated 10.0 on the CVSS scoring system. It relates to an instance of insufficient authorization checks and input validation.

“SAP Commerce Cloud allows an unauthenticated attacker to abuse a default authentication client and submit

  • August 17, 2026

Suspected China-Nexus Actor Exploits VMware vCenter Flaw, Deploys Babuk-Derived Ransomware

Cybersecurity researchers have attributed the exploitation of a newly patched security flaw in Broadcom VMware vCenter to a suspected China-nexus advanced persistent threat (APT).

The attacks involve the exploitation of CVE-2026-59310 (CVSS score: 9.8), a severe directory-traversal vulnerability in the VMware vCenter server that could be weaponized by a malicious actor to execute arbitrary code

  • August 17, 2026