Below I’ve curated cyber security news from the world-wide-web – the lefthand column is from “The Hacker News” website and on the right is news from “Security Week”. Both are top cyber security news sites. In the very least this shows that threats are daily and they are very real.
Hacker News
- Meta Blocks NSO Group's New WhatsApp Phishing...by info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) on June 8, 2026 at 5:08 pm
Meta on Monday said it detected and blocked spear-phishing attempts linked to Israeli spyware vendor NSO Group. In addition, the tech giant said it's filing a federal court contempt order against the company for violating a permanent injunction that barred it from targeting WhatsApp and its […]
- Critical Check Point VPN Flaw Exploited to Bypass...by info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) on June 8, 2026 at 2:17 pm
Check Point has warned of active exploitation of a critical vulnerability impacting Remote Access VPN and Mobile Access deployments that are configured to use the deprecated IKEv1 key exchange protocol. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-50751 (CVSS score: 9.3), is a case of a logic flow […]
- AI Phishing Is Crushing SOCs with Alert Volume:...by info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) on June 8, 2026 at 1:19 pm
Phishing has always been a numbers game. AI has turned it into a volume machine. Attackers can now create convincing emails, fake login pages, and tailored lures in minutes. Every polished message adds another case for Tier 1 to review, another link to inspect, and another alert that cannot be […]
- ⚡ Weekly Recap: Instagram Account Hacks,...by info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) on June 8, 2026 at 1:18 pm
Monday again. The weekend was meant to be quiet. It wasn't. Last week had poisoned packages, a broken AI helper, and a worm tearing through repos. The ugly part: basic tricks still worked. A chatbot got fooled. A bot token got leaked inside the malware. The same old mistakes showed up again. And […]
- The Hardest Forkby info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) on June 8, 2026 at 11:53 am
Mythos is real. I know a big chunk of the industry thinks it's a marketing stunt, and I get why. I get it. But I've seen the findings, and they're bad. These aren't "whoops, this line right here is wrong, and that's RCE." They're novel combinations of a few dozen issues out of thousands of things […]
- VerdantBamboo Deploys BSD Variant of BRICKSTORM...by info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) on June 8, 2026 at 10:27 am
A China-nexus cyber espionage group has been observed deploying a BSD variant of a known backdoor called BRICKSTORM, as well as two other malware families codenamed PLENET (aka GRIMBOLT) and AGENTPSD to target Linux systems. The activity has been attributed by Volexity to a threat cluster it […]
- UNC3753 Used Vishing and Physical Intrusions in...by info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) on June 8, 2026 at 7:39 am
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a financially motivated data theft extortion campaign that has targeted dozens of organizations across professional, legal, and financial services in the U.S. between January and May 2026. The activity has been attributed by Google Mandiant and […]
- VS Code Adds 2-Hour Extension Auto-Update Delay...by info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) on June 8, 2026 at 6:08 am
Microsoft has announced that Visual Studio Code (VS Code) will apply a two-hour delay before extensions for the integrated development environment (IDE) are updated automatically to a newer version in an attempt to tackle software supply chain threats. "When automatic updates are enabled, new […]
- New ChatGPT Lockdown Mode Limits Tools That Could...by info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) on June 6, 2026 at 1:36 pm
OpenAI has begun rolling out a new Lockdown Mode to ChatGPT for eligible personal accounts to reduce the risk of data exfiltration arising from prompt injection attacks. The feature is primarily designed for people and organizations that handle sensitive data and require stricter protection […]
- Free Apps Are Quietly Turning Smart TVs Into...by info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) on June 6, 2026 at 8:29 am
A researcher has reverse-engineered the iOS SDK that Bright Data embeds in consumer apps and documented how it turns devices, including always-on smart TVs, into exit nodes that relay web-scraping traffic for a data business Bright Data markets heavily to the AI industry. The company, the […]
WordPress News
- What Happened at WordCamp Europe 2026by Nicholas Garofalo on June 6, 2026 at 5:44 pm
WordCamp Europe 2026 brought the WordPress community to Kraków for three days of contribution and conversation, from CERN going live on WordPress to WordPress 7.0, AI, and a closing fireside chat on where the project goes next. Read the full recap.
- Protect The Shireby Matt Mullenweg on June 5, 2026 at 6:51 pm
tl;dr: Temporary 24-hour cooldown period for plugin/theme releases before auto-updates. AI can give defenders an edge. We want to secure all 78K plugins and themes on WordPress.org. One of the things we’ve always striven to do as the developers of WordPress is to work harder so you don’t have […]
- WP23by Matt Mullenweg on May 27, 2026 at 5:40 pm
WordPress at 23 is simultaneously both the strongest and most precarious it’s ever been. Last week, we shipped WordPress 7 to the world. In seven days, 46% of all WordPresses, tens of millions across countless different hosting environments, are already on 7.0, auto-updated with no breakage. From […]
- Looking Ahead to WordCamp Europe 2026by Brett McSherry on May 26, 2026 at 12:52 pm
June 4-6, 2026 | ICE Kraków Congress Centre, Kraków, Poland WordCamp Europe 2026 will bring the WordPress community together in Kraków, Poland, from June 4–6 for Contributor Day, two conference days, and a program shaped by the ideas, tools, and people moving WordPress forward. This year’s […]
- WordPress 7.0 “Armstrong”by Matias Ventura on May 20, 2026 at 6:41 pm
Explore AI abilities directly in your website, all managed from a central hub. Slide seamlessly through the sleek, new admin theme implemented across the dashboard. Ignite creative flow with new blocks and design tools, and tap into an expansive developer toolbox that gives you more control than […]
- WordPress 7.0 Release Candidate 4by Amy Kamala on May 14, 2026 at 4:47 pm
The fourth Release Candidate (“RC4”) for WordPress 7.0 is ready for download and testing! This version of the WordPress software is under development. Please do not install, run, or test this version of WordPress on production or mission-critical websites. Instead, it’s recommended that you […]
- Get Your WordCamp US 2026 Ticketsby Brett McSherry on May 14, 2026 at 1:56 pm
August 16–19, 2026, Phoenix Convention Center – Phoenix, Arizona Tickets are now available for WordCamp US 2026, taking place August 16–19, 2026, at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Arizona. The flagship event brings together people from across the WordPress community to learn, […]
- WordPress 7.0 Release Candidate 3by Amy Kamala on May 8, 2026 at 6:18 pm
The third Release Candidate (“RC3”) for WordPress 7.0 is ready for download and testing! This version of the WordPress software is under development. Please do not install, run, or test this version of WordPress on production or mission-critical websites. Instead, it’s recommended that you […]
- Get Involved With WordCamp US 2026 in Phoenixby Brett McSherry on May 4, 2026 at 6:10 pm
WordCamp US 2026 will take place August 16–19 in Phoenix, Arizona, and applications are now open for sponsors, speakers, and volunteers. WordCamp US is the flagship gathering for the WordPress community in North America, where contributors, builders, and users come together to share ideas and […]
- WordPress Student Clubs Build Momentumby Brett McSherry on April 29, 2026 at 1:14 pm
WordPress Student Clubs are beginning to take shape as a new way to carry the momentum of WordPress Campus Connect beyond one-time workshops. What starts as an introduction to WordPress and open source is now continuing on campus through student-led groups that create space for learning, peer […]
















