Thursday · July 9, 2026 Vol. I · No. 189
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Why isn’t Ismael Saibari playing for Morocco against France at the 2026 World Cup? Lionel Messi continues to shatter age barriers after breaking record that Cristiano Ronaldo and Luk… France v Morocco: World Cup 2026 quarter-final – live Match-fixing spreading to sports such as chess and darts, select committee told Billions flowing out of bitcoin ETFs and private credit funds suggest rising market risks Lamine Yamal praises Lionel Messi’s 2026 World Cup performances: ‘Nobody expected him to be perform… Erling Haaland shows he has no weakness after completing rare 2026 World Cup scoring record set Daphne Caruana Galizia screamed in panic before explosion that killed her, court hears Why isn’t Ismael Saibari playing for Morocco against France at the 2026 World Cup? Lionel Messi continues to shatter age barriers after breaking record that Cristiano Ronaldo and Luk… France v Morocco: World Cup 2026 quarter-final – live Match-fixing spreading to sports such as chess and darts, select committee told Billions flowing out of bitcoin ETFs and private credit funds suggest rising market risks Lamine Yamal praises Lionel Messi’s 2026 World Cup performances: ‘Nobody expected him to be perform… Erling Haaland shows he has no weakness after completing rare 2026 World Cup scoring record set Daphne Caruana Galizia screamed in panic before explosion that killed her, court hears

Cybersecurity

Technology · Cybersecurity

Azure CLI Password Spray Hits at Least 78 Microsoft Accounts in 81M+ Attempts

Cybersecurity researchers have warned of a "massive, ongoing, automated password spray attack" aimed at Microsoft's Azure command-line interface (CLI), compromising dozens of acco…

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Researcher Analyzes 3,000 Live ClickFix Payloads, Exposing API-Driven Malware Delivery

ClickFix, the trick that fools people into running malware by hand, has quietly grown a back office. New research shows the malicious commands behind its fake "prove you're human"…

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Citrix Patches Six NetScaler Flaws Allowing File Read and Denial-of-Service

Citrix on Tuesday released security updates to address multiple flaws in NetScaler ADC (formerly Citrix ADC) and NetScaler Gateway (formerly Citrix Gateway) that could be exploite…

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Microsoft Warns Poisoned MCP Tool Descriptions Can Make AI Agents Leak Data

New Microsoft research shows how attackers can hijack AI agents that act on a user's behalf, using nothing more than a poisoned tool description to make the agent quietly hand ove…

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RustDuck Botnet Rebuilds in Rust to Hijack Routers and Servers for DDoS

A new two-stage malware family called RustDuck is hijacking home routers, IP cameras, Android boxes, and poorly secured servers, then stitching them into a network built to knock …

Technology · Cybersecurity

Langflow RCE Exploited to Deploy Monero Miner on Exposed AI App Endpoints

Threat actors are continuing to exploit a critical Langflow vulnerability as part of fresh attacks designed to deliver a Monero cryptocurrency miner. The activity has been found t…

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Silent Swap Crypto Clipper Uses Fake Google Notes Extension to Replace Wallet Addresses

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged an active browser extension campaign that is designed to steal cryptocurrency by stealthily replacing wallet addresses when unsuspecting use…

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GuardFall Exposes Open-Source AI Coding Agents to Decades-Old Shell Injection Risks

The safety check that is supposed to stop an AI coding agent from running a dangerous command can be walked straight past using a shell trick that has been public for decades. New…

Technology · Cybersecurity

282 iOS AI Apps Leak API Keys and Open AI Proxy Access in Network Traffic Study

Researchers tested 444 AI chatbot apps for iPhone and found that 282 of them, nearly two-thirds, exposed paid AI access through their network traffic. In many cases, the path in w…

Technology · Cybersecurity

What the Numbers Say About FIFA 2026 Cyber Risk

The FIFA World Cup 2026 opened on June 11. By that date, according to Check Point Research, the fraud infrastructure targeting it had already been built, staged, and partially dep…

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Attackers Exploit SimpleHelp CVE-2026-48558 to Deploy TaskWeaver and Djinn Stealer

An unknown threat actor has been observed exploiting a recently disclosed maximum-severity security flaw in SimpleHelp to deliver two previously unreported malware families, TaskW…

Technology · Cybersecurity

AirDrop and Quick Share Flaws Let Nearby Attackers Trigger Crashes and Bypass Checks

Two researchers have found six security flaws in AirDrop and Quick Share, the wireless features that beam files between nearby devices with no cables or shared network. An attacke…

Technology · Cybersecurity

New BioShocking Attack Tricks AI Browsers Into Leaking User Credentials

Convince an AI browser that it is playing a game, and it can hand over your login details. That is the finding behind BioShocking, a technique from security firm LayerX that trick…

Technology · Cybersecurity

Progress Kemp LoadMaster Flaw Could Let Attackers Run Root Commands Pre-Auth

A critical vulnerability in Progress Kemp LoadMaster can let an unauthenticated attacker execute arbitrary commands as root on the appliance by sending a crafted request to its AP…

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Apple Patches 30+ iOS, macOS, Safari Flaws, Including AI-Discovered WebKit Bugs

Apple on Monday released security updates for iOS, macOS, and the Safari web browser to address over three dozen flaws, including four vulnerabilities in WebKit that were discover…

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Oracle E-Business Suite Flaw CVE-2026-46817 Actively Exploited in the Wild

A critical security flaw impacting Oracle E-Business Suite has come under active exploitation in the wild, according to Defused Cyber. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-46817…

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Malicious Perplexity Chrome Extension Intercepted Searches and Address Bar Input

Microsoft has found a malicious Chrome extension that posed as the AI search engine Perplexity and quietly logged what people searched for. It routed every query and every charact…

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WhatsApp is Finally Getting Usernames to Help Keep Phone Numbers Private

WhatsApp on Monday officially announced the start of global reservations of usernames with an aim to protect the privacy of more than three billion users on the messaging platform…

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Mustang Panda Uses Zoho WorkDrive as Command Channel in Indian Government Attacks

The China-aligned espionage group Mustang Panda is running two campaigns against the Indian government and hydropower targets, deploying new malware and turning a legitimate cloud…

Technology · Cybersecurity

⚡ Weekly Recap: Linux Kernel Flaws, AI Malware Tricks, Turla Backdoor, Infostealers and More

This week was a reminder that attackers do not always need big tricks. One small mistake, one old access path, one missed patch, and suddenly the door is open. The noise is not al…

Technology · Cybersecurity

236,000 DCloud Uni-App Sites Used in Crypto Scams, Phishing, and Wallet Drainers

New findings unearthed by Infoblox show that more than 236,000 websites are using investment scam templates built using a legitimate Chinese open-source, cross-platform applicatio…

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Why Post-Quantum Cryptography Starts With Credentials

Today’s encrypted data, such as credentials, may no longer remain confidential in the future because the public-key cryptography protecting it will soon be broken by quantum compu…

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Gamaredon Expands Ukraine Attacks with New Malware and Cloud Service Abuse

A Russian advanced persistent threat (APT) group has continued to evolve and expand its malware arsenal as part of its ongoing cyber onslaught against Ukraine throughout 2025. Slo…

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Microsoft Removes 119 Edge Extensions That Hid Malware in Images and Fonts

Microsoft has shut down a long-running malicious extension operation on the Edge Add-ons store that hid its payloads inside ordinary image and font files, then woke up days after …