Latest news as of 7/8/2026, 11:14:46 AM
The Hacker News
A high-severity security flaw in the TrueConf client video conferencing software has been exploited in the wild as a zero-day as part of a campaign targeting government entities in Southeast Asia dubbed TrueChaos. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-3502 (CVSS score: 7.8), a lack of integrity check when fetching application update code, allowing an attacker to distribute a tampered update,
Dark Reading
Iranian APTs are blurring the lines between state-sponsored and cybercriminal activities to target high-impact US organizations.
Dark Reading
Intruder's Chris Wallis argues mid-market teams should prioritize CVE remediation speed over vulnerability counts, while expanding defenses beyond CVEs to include attack surface management.
Dark Reading
In a conversation with Dark Reading’s Terry Sweeney, DigiCert CEO Amit Sinha explains how AI-driven identities and quantum threats are reshaping the foundations of digital trust.
Dark Reading
In a conversation with Dark Reading’s Terry Sweeney, Black Duck CEO Jason Schmitt explains how AI is reshaping application security and why it must evolve to keep pace.
Bleeping Computer
AI agent risk isn't equal, it scales with access to systems and level of autonomy. Token Security explains how CISOs should categorize agents and prioritize what to secure first. [...]
Bleeping Computer
Hackers hijacked the npm account of the Axios package, a JavaScript HTTP client with 100M+ weekly downloads, to deliver remote access trojans to Linux, Windows, and macOS systems. [...]
The Hacker News
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a security "blind spot" in Google Cloud's Vertex AI platform that could allow artificial intelligence (AI) agents to be weaponized by an attacker to gain unauthorized access to sensitive data and compromise an organization's cloud environment. According to Palo Alto Networks Unit 42, the issue relates to how the Vertex AI permission model can be misused
Check Point Research
Key Points Introduction At the beginning of 2026, Check Point Research observed a series of targeted attacks against government entities in Southeast Asia carried out via a legitimate TrueConf software installed in the targets’ environment. The investigation led to the discovery of a zero-day vulnerability in the TrueConf client, tracked as CVE-2026-3502 with a CVSS score of 7.8. […] The post appeared first on . Operation TrueChaos: 0-Day Exploitation Against Southeast Asian Government Targets Check Point Research
The Hacker News
The cybersecurity landscape is accelerating at an unprecedented rate. What is emerging is not simply a rise in the number of vulnerabilities or tools, but a dramatic increase in speed. Speed of attack, speed of exploitation, and speed of change across modern environments. This is the defining challenge of the new era of digital warfare: the weaponization of Artificial Intelligence. Threat actors