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
- Public PoC Released for Exploited Check Point...by info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) on July 29, 2026 at 8:58 am
Cybersecurity researchers have shared additional technical details about a recently patched critical security flaw impacting Check Point Security Management Server and Multi-Domain Security Management Server (MDS) that has come under active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as […]
- OpenAI Agent Used Exposed Credentials Across Four...by info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) on July 29, 2026 at 7:51 am
OpenAI on Tuesday revealed the rogue artificial intelligence (AI) agent that escaped its sealed evaluation environment and broke into Hugging Face's production environment also hacked multiple third-party accounts and services as part of the attack. The latest disclosure shows that the security […]
- New Gitea RCE Lets Repository Writers Plant a Git...by info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) on July 29, 2026 at 7:47 am
Gitea, the self-hosted Git platform, has patched a critical remote code execution vulnerability. A user with ordinary repository write access can turn attacker-controlled patch content into a live Git hook and run shell commands as the Gitea service account. Tracked as CVE-2026-60004 (CVSS score: […]
- Flying Eagle Android RAT Traces Found on 170...by info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) on July 29, 2026 at 7:07 am
Source code for the Flying Eagle Android remote access trojan (RAT) framework is circulating through criminal Telegram channels. Hunt.io and independent researcher NetAskari traced matching control panels and certificates to 170 internet servers. They linked the framework to a fake […]
- Two Compromised joyfill npm Packages Run RAT When...by info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) on July 29, 2026 at 4:20 am
Beta release versions of two npm packages in the @joyfill namespace have been compromised to deliver a remote access trojan (RAT) associated with the DEV#POPPER malware family. The list of affected packages is as follows - @joyfill/layouts@0.1.2-2773.beta.0 […]
- Claude AI Just Cracked a Post-Quantum Test Scheme...by info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) on July 28, 2026 at 6:59 pm
Anthropic says Claude Mythos Preview helped derive an end-to-end key-recovery attack against HAWK-256 and a 200- to 800-fold speedup for an attack on seven-round AES-128. The HAWK attack exploits a previously unused symmetry in the lattice behind the signature scheme. Anthropic's released […]
- Tengu Botnet Reboots Compromised Linux Devices...by info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) on July 28, 2026 at 3:01 pm
A new Mirai-derived botnet called Tengu can use a compromised Linux device's hardware watchdog to trigger a reboot when defenders kill its main process. If that happens, Tengu's other persistence mechanisms get another chance to relaunch it. Nozomi Networks Labs observed the dropper reaching its […]
- 24,650 Internet-Exposed BMCs Disclose IPMI...by info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) on July 28, 2026 at 2:41 pm
Cybersecurity researchers have sounded an alert after finding more than 36,000 Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) management interfaces exposing Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) protocol to the public internet. Of the 36,872 internet-exposed server-management interfaces running […]
- JFrog Confirms OpenAI Models Exploited...by info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) on July 28, 2026 at 1:33 pm
JFrog has confirmed that OpenAI models exploited a zero-day in self-hosted Artifactory while trying to reach the open internet from a sealed evaluation environment. Artifactory is JFrog's software repository manager. OpenAI says the models then escalated privileges and moved laterally until they […]
- Critical OpenWrt DHCPv6 Flaw Could Let...by info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) on July 28, 2026 at 12:56 pm
OpenWrt has shipped version 24.10.8 to close a critical DHCPv6 stack overflow and a wider set of remotely triggerable flaws in network services enabled by default. The critical issue, tracked as CVE-2026-53921 and rated 9.8 on CVSS 3.1 in OpenWrt's GitHub advisory, lets an unauthenticated attacker […]
WordPress News
- WordPress 7.1 Beta 3by Benjamin Zekavica on July 22, 2026 at 3:23 pm
WordPress 7.1 Beta 3 is ready for download and testing! This beta release is intended for testing and development only. Please do not install, run, or test this version of WordPress on production or mission-critical websites. Instead, use a test environment or local site to explore the new […]
- WordPress 7.0.2 Releaseby John Blackbourn on July 17, 2026 at 6:45 pm
WordPress 7.0.2 is now available. The 7.0.2 security release addresses one critical and one high severity security issue. Because this is a security release, it is recommended that you update your sites immediately. Due to the severity, the WordPress.org team have enabled forced updates via the […]
- WordPress 7.1 Beta 1by Krupa Nanda on July 15, 2026 at 3:53 pm
WordPress 7.1 Beta 1 is ready for download and testing! This beta release is intended for testing and development only. Please do not install, run, or test this version of WordPress on production or mission-critical websites. Instead, use a test environment or local site to explore the new […]
- Your Guide to WordCamp US 2026by Nicholas Garofalo on July 13, 2026 at 1:07 pm
WordCamp US 2026 returns for another year, this time in Phoenix, Arizona, for four days, August 16 to 19. It comes at a moment of real energy for WordPress, as artificial intelligence reshapes everyday workflows, the business of building and maintaining sites is shifting, and new people keep […]
- WordPress 7.0.1 Maintenance Releaseby Estela Rueda on July 9, 2026 at 5:33 pm
WordPress 7.0.1 is now available! This minor release includes fixes for 31 bugs throughout Core and the Block Editor, addressing issues affecting multiple areas of WordPress including the block editor, admin ui, and media. For a full list of bug fixes, please refer to the release candidate […]
- The First AI Leaders Graduatesby Mary Hubbard on June 29, 2026 at 8:29 pm
On June 23, around 40 students from the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC), Louisiana Tech University, and the University of Louisiana at Lafayette were celebrated in Chicago as the first cohort to receive the AI Leaders Micro-Credential through AI Leaders, the nation’s first workforce-focused […]
- Browse the New Mercantile Swag Storeby jillq on June 22, 2026 at 3:07 pm
Mercantile, the official swag store of the WordPress project, has a newly redesigned storefront with a catalog that now sits front and center, and a design tuned to hold up across a wide range of screen sizes. There are also small touches, like automatically selecting a variant when only one is in […]
- Kim Parsell Memorial Scholarship Opens for...by Brett McSherry on June 19, 2026 at 4:55 pm
Applications are now open for the 2026 Kim Parsell Memorial Scholarship, which supports one active WordPress contributor who identifies as a woman and has not previously attended WordCamp US. The scholarship helps make it possible for a community member with financial need to join WordCamp US 2026 […]
- Global Partners Across the First Half of the 2026...by Harmony Romo on June 18, 2026 at 5:01 pm
This post recaps how the WordPress project’s five Global Partners — Jetpack, WordPress.com, WooCommerce, Bluehost, and Hostinger — supported community events during the first half of 2026. Across more than a dozen regional the first WordPress Developers Day, and a growing network of WordPress […]
- 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.
















