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Fake OpenAI Privacy Filter Repo Hits #1 on Hugging Face, Draws 244K Downloads - The Hacker News

TechnologyMay 12, 2026

A malicious Hugging Face repository managed to take a spot in the platform's trending list by impersonating OpenAI's Privacy Filter open-weight model to deliver a Rust-based information stealer to Wiâ...

Ollama Out-of-Bounds Read Vulnerability Allows Remote Process Memory Leak - The Hacker News

TechnologyMay 11, 2026

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a critical security vulnerability in Ollama that, if successfully exploited, could allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to leak its entire process memory.â...

Claude Opus 4.6 Finds 500+ High-Severity Flaws Across Major Open-Source Libraries - The Hacker News

BusinessFebruary 7, 2026

Artificial intelligence (AI) company Anthropic revealed that its latest large language model (LLM), Claude Opus 4.6, has found more than 500 previously unknown high-severity security flaws in open-so…...

APT28 Uses Microsoft Office CVE-2026-21509 in Espionage-Focused Malware Attacks - The Hacker News

TechnologyFebruary 4, 2026

The Russia-linked state-sponsored threat actor known as APT28 (aka UAC-0001) has been attributed to attacks exploiting a newly disclosed security flaw in Microsoft Office as part of a campaign codena…...

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

TechnologyFebruary 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

BusinessFebruary 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

TechnologyJanuary 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

TechnologyJanuary 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

TechnologyJanuary 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…...

Critical Node.js Vulnerability Can Cause Server Crashes via async_hooks Stack Overflow - The Hacker News

TechnologyJanuary 15, 2026

Node.js has released updates to fix what it described as a critical security issue impacting "virtually every production Node.js app" that, if successfully exploited, could trigger a denial-of-servic…...

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