ZDNet

Malware gangs love open source offensive hacking tools

In the cyber-security field, the term OST refers to software apps, libraries, and exploits that possess offensive hacking capabilities and have been released as either free downloads or under an open ...
CNET

The Age of Promptware: How AI Hacking Is Threatening the Smart Home, and What to Do

Prompt injections have become one of the biggest emerging threats to the modern home as AI adoption grows. It's a new era of malware -- and one that requires new defenses. Tyler Lacoma Editor / Home ...
Bleeping Computer

Hackers use PHP exploit to backdoor Windows systems with new malware

Unknown attackers have deployed a newly discovered backdoor dubbed Msupedge on a university's Windows systems in Taiwan, likely by exploiting a recently patched PHP remote code execution vulnerability ...
Bleeping Computer

Discord modified to steal accounts by new NitroHack malware

New malware is being distributed that pretends to be a hack that gets you the premium Discord Nitro service for free but instead steals user tokens saved in the various browsers, credit card ...
CSOonline

Hacker group hides malware in images to target Ukrainian organizations

The UAC-0184 group targets Ukrainian military personnel, including those outside the country, and uses steganography to infect their devices with a remote access trojan. A group of attackers targeting ...
CSOonline

APT group hits IIS web servers with deserialization flaws and memory-resident malware

A sophisticated, likely government-sponsored threat actor has been compromising major public and private organizations over the past year by exploiting deserialization flaws in public-facing ASP.NET ...
GIGAZINE

The 'DarkSword' malware, an exploit capable of hacking hundreds of millions of iPhones, has been publicly leaked.

In March 2026, Google's threat intelligence group reported ' DarkSword,' an exploit that compromises iOS devices by taking advantage of multiple zero-day vulnerabilities. TechCrunch, an IT news site, ...