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New Octopus Scanner malware spreads via GitHub supply chain attack

Security researchers have found a new malware that finds and backdoors open-source NetBeans projects hosted on the GitHub web-based code hosting platform to spread to Windows, Linux, and macOS systems and deploy a Remote Administration Tool (RAT). [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-octopus-scanner-malware-spreads-via-github-supply-chain-attack/
NSA: Russian govt hackers exploiting critical Exim flaw since 2019

The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) says that Russian military threat actors tracked as Sandworm Team have been exploiting a critical flaw in the Exim mail transfer agent (MTA) software since at least August 2019. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/nsa-russian-govt-hackers-exploiting-critical-exim-flaw-since-2019/
200K sites with buggy WordPress plugin exposed to wipe attacks

Two high severity security vulnerabilities found in the PageLayer plugin can let attackers to potentially wipe the contents or take over WordPress sites using vulnerable plugin versions. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/200k-sites-with-buggy-wordpress-plugin-exposed-to-wipe-attacks/