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thehackernews.com · · 4 fontes · 4 atualizações critical

Attackers abuse UpdraftCentral keys stolen in TeamUpdraft breach to backdoor WordPress sites via malicious plugins

Unknown threat actors breached the TeamUpdraft website on 17-18 October 2026 and likely accessed its customer database, which holds connection keys for UpdraftCentral, UpdraftVault and UpdraftClone. Patchstack observed an attacker holding valid UpdraftCentral dashboard keys issuing signed commands to install backdoor plugins on connected …

thehackernews.com · high

Fake Web3 'Apex Accelerator' (REF8801) uses malicious npm packages to deploy stealers, CloudSyncD backdoor and hijack AI agent traffic

Elastic Security Labs is tracking REF8801, a campaign in which a fake Web3 venture capital accelerator, Apex Accelerator (Apex Foundation), targets cryptocurrency startups and founders with malicious npm packages. The packages, @apexacc/cli and @apexacc/audit, pose as an AI advisor and an MCP-based security scanner, with offers of free Cl…

thehackernews.com · · 2 fontes · 2 atualizações high

Attackers hijack 300+ Tor exit relays to intercept SSH password logins and deploy Ebury 1.8.3 backdoor

Attackers took over more than 300 Tor exit relays in early October 2026 and changed their exit policies so SSH (TCP port 22) traffic was redirected to 12 attacker-controlled interception servers that harvested passwords and attempted to install the Ebury 1.8.3 backdoor. Researcher kaba found 333 redirecting exits (roughly 10% of about 3,0…

thehackernews.com · critical

Qilin and Settra exploit PAN-OS CVE-2026-0257; ThreatsDay roundup of new RATs, stealers, WordPress backdoor and Meta GitHub breach

Qilin and Settra ransomware groups are actively exploiting CVE-2026-0257, an authentication bypass in PAN-OS GlobalProtect and Prisma Access disclosed in May 2026, according to ReliaQuest. Because access arrives through the victim's own VPN, it can resemble legitimate remote work and go unnoticed until credential theft, lateral movement, …