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A breach should not spread across the whole company.

That is the point of containment.

Even if attackers get in, the goal is to stop them from moving further.

The article explains how security teams and leading vendors are approaching that problem.

Read: https://awards.thehackernews.com/blog/assume-breach-containment-strategy/
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⚠️ A tiny npm package can hide a full malware chain.

Researchers found malicious npm packages posing as PostCSS/build tools that deploy a Windows RAT.

The malware uses JavaScript, PowerShell, VBS, and Python to steal Chrome credentials, run commands, and move files.

Read - https://thehackernews.com/2026/06/malicious-npm-packages-pose-as-postcss.html
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Running IT for a fast-growing 700-person company with a lean team sounds like a recipe for SaaS chaos. Not for the Drata team.

Nudge Security sat down with Gordon Nhieu, Senior IT Manager at Drata recently to dive into how their team got visibility into shadow SaaS, scaled governance, and kept up with a fast-moving org in the AI era.

No slides. No sales pitch. Just a candid look at how one lean IT team is making it work.

https://thn.news/saas-sprawl-nudge
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AI is moving from writing attacks to running parts of them.

Agentic AI can help automate recon, social engineering, exploit selection, and malware work with less human input.

The risk is not just speed. It is misplaced trust.

Read why it matters: https://thehackernews.com/2026/06/agentic-ai-weapon-that-no-longer-needs.html
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⚑ A risky #GitHub Actions pattern is getting blocked by default.

Starting June 18, 2026, actions/checkout v7 will refuse common fork PR checkout patterns in privileged workflows.

See how the new checkout guardrail works: https://thehackernews.com/2026/06/github-updates-actionscheckout-to-block.html

The aim: reduce β€œpwn request” attacks that can expose secrets or a privileged GITHUB_TOKEN.
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πŸ›‘ Washington is preparing for the quantum threat before it arrives.

A new Trump order gives federal agencies until 2030 to move key systems to post-quantum crypto.

Digital signatures are due by 2031.

Read - https://thehackernews.com/2026/06/trump-order-sets-2030-deadline-for.html
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πŸ”₯ A fake AI Agent skill reportedly reached 26,000 agents after passing security scans.

The payload was loaded later from an external link that scanners did not check, and that link could be changed after review.

Read how the blind spot worked πŸ – https://thehackernews.com/2026/06/fake-ai-agent-skill-passed-security.html
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🚨 FFortiBleed went beyond FortiGate firewalls.

Researchers say a Russian-speaking IAB targeted 430,000+ FortiGate firewalls, deployed credential sniffers, and identified over 110 million credentials.

Read: https://thehackernews.com/2026/06/fortibleed-targeted-fortigate-firewalls.html

The campaign also hit other internet-facing systems.
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πŸ›‘ Cisco Unified CM admins should check WebDialer now.

CVE-2026-20230 is being exploited, and vulnerable WebDialer-enabled systems can be abused by unauthenticated attackers to write files.

Cisco patched it in 14SU6 and 15SU5.

Read: https://thehackernews.com/2026/06/cisco-unified-cm-flaw-exploited-after.html
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⚑ The crackdown on HuiOne is now widening.

The DoJ seized a cloud account tied to HuiOne subsidiaries, while Treasury sanctioned 9 people and 26 entities linked to Prince Group.

The focus: crypto scam proceeds, laundering, and the networks behind Southeast Asia scam operations.

Read πŸ – https://thehackernews.com/2026/06/doj-seizes-huione-cloud-account-tied-to.html
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Cybersecurity is losing the time buffer it used to depend on.

Agentic AI could compress the gap between finding a weakness and weaponizing it. That puts hidden IT, IoT, and OT assets directly in the blast path.

Know what’s on your network before attacker automation does.

See why asset visibility matters now: https://thehackernews.com/2026/06/dawn-of-apex-agentic-adversary.html
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πŸ›‘ Cybercrime crews just lost part of their malware supply chain.

Operation Endgame disrupted infrastructure behind Amadey and StealC β€” malware used to steal data and deliver additional payloads.

Authorities say the operation led to:

- 326 servers dismantled
- 142 domains taken down
- 27M stolen credentials recovered
- $47 M+ in criminal crypto assets restricted

Read: https://thehackernews.com/2026/06/amadey-and-stealc-malware-network.html
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⚠️ Attackers exploited a #Cisco SD-WAN flaw before it was public.

Mandiant says CVE-2026-20245 was used as a zero-day to turn admin access into root control.

They also restored configs, deleted traces, and hid a rogue β€œtroot” account.

Read πŸ – https://thehackernews.com/2026/06/cisco-catalyst-sd-wan-zero-day-cve-2026.html
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A critical Lantronix flaw is now under active exploitation.

CISA says CVE-2025-67038 affects EDS5000 Series devices and can let attackers run commands with root privileges.

Federal civilian agencies have until June 26, 2026, to patch.

Learn more: https://thehackernews.com/2026/06/cisa-warns-critical-lantronix-eds5000.html
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πŸ›‘ A new backdoor is being used to keep access quiet.

Researchers say Mistic has targeted organizations in insurance, education, IT, and professional services since April 2026.

It runs payloads in memory, abuses Microsoft endpoint security tooling, and can delete itself.

Read: https://thehackernews.com/2026/06/new-mistic-backdoor-linked-to-kongtuke.html
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Attackers don’t need to break in when trusted access already opens the door.

In a new BeyondTrust piece, Len Noe argues identity is now enterprise infrastructure, and privilege is the real risk.

Credentials, tokens, service accounts, cloud roles, and machine identities are now core attack paths.

Learn more: https://thehackernews.com/expert-insights/2026/06/identity-security-in-2026-brutal-truth.html
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🚨 Malware is now trying to confuse the AI tools used to analyze it.

Experts found Gaslight, a Rust-based #macOS implant linked to North Korea-aligned actors.

It embeds fake system messages to push AI-assisted triage toward aborting or refusing analysis.

See how it works: https://thehackernews.com/2026/06/new-gaslight-macos-malware-uses-prompt.html
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⚑ Alerts don’t prove what happened. They only start the investigation.

Richard Bejtlich’s new NDR guide argues security teams need network evidence, hypothesis-led hunting, and governed AI to validate threats before attackers finish the job.

Read how NDR helps teams investigate with evidence: https://thehackernews.com/2026/06/surviving-mythos-era-richard-bejtlich.html
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> Your TV is not just a TV.
> Your browser is not just a browser.
> Your old creds are not dead.

This #ThreatsDay is packed smart TV proxyware, a curl bug from 2001, Hoppscotch takeover, macOS ClickFix, fake Teams IT, M365 phishing, AI crime forums, and more.

Read the full bulletin: https://thehackernews.com/2026/06/threatsday-bulletin-smart-tv-proxyware.html
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Your developers work across 20+ languages. Does your governance?

Developers routinely work across more than 20 programming languages, each mapping to at least one package ecosystem, per the IDC Analyst Brief sponsored by ActiveState. That is a software supply chain footprint too complex to govern reactively. See where the gaps form.

Download the Brief: https://thn.news/securing-open-source-idc
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