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
- Mythos Changed the Math on Vulnerability...by info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) on April 27, 2026 at 11:58 am
Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview has dominated security discussions since its April 7 announcement. Early reporting describes a powerful cybersecurity-focused AI system capable of identifying vulnerabilities at scale and raising serious questions about how quickly organizations can validate, […]
- PhantomCore Exploits TrueConf Vulnerabilities to...by info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) on April 27, 2026 at 11:54 am
A pro-Ukrainian hacktivist group called PhantomCore has been attributed to attacks actively targeting servers running TrueConf video conferencing software in Russia since September 2025. That's according to a report published by Positive Technologies, which found the threat actors to be leveraging […]
- Researchers Uncover 73 Fake VS Code Extensions...by info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) on April 27, 2026 at 11:23 am
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged dozens of Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extensions on the Open VSX repository that are linked to a persistent information-stealing campaign dubbed GlassWorm. The cluster of 73 extensions has been identified as cloned versions of their legitimate […]
- Fake CAPTCHA IRSF Scam and 120 Keitaro Campaigns...by info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) on April 27, 2026 at 6:33 am
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a telecommunications fraud campaign that uses fake CAPTCHA verification tricks to dupe unsuspecting users into sending international text messages that incur charges on their mobile bills, generating illicit revenue for the threat actors who lease […]
- Researchers Uncover Pre-Stuxnet ‘fast16’...by info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) on April 25, 2026 at 9:26 am
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new Lua-based malware created years before the notorious Stuxnet worm that aimed to sabotage Iran's nuclear program by destroying uranium enrichment centrifuges. According to a new report published by SentinelOne, the previously undocumented cyber […]
- CISA Adds 4 Exploited Flaws to KEV, Sets May 2026...by info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) on April 25, 2026 at 5:08 am
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added four vulnerabilities impacting SimpleHelp, Samsung MagicINFO 9 Server, and D-Link DIR-823X series routers to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The list of […]
- FIRESTARTER Backdoor Hit Federal Cisco Firepower...by info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) on April 24, 2026 at 5:06 pm
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has revealed that an unnamed federal civilian agency's Cisco Firepower device running Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) software was compromised in September 2025 with a new malware called FIRESTARTER. FIRESTARTER, per CISA and the […]
- NASA Employees Duped in Chinese Phishing Scheme...by info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) on April 24, 2026 at 2:13 pm
The Office of Inspector General (OIG) of the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has revealed how a Chinese national posed as a U.S. researcher as part of a spear-phishing campaign to obtain sensitive information from the space agency, as well as from government entities, […]
- Bridging the AI Agent Authority Gap: Continuous...by info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) on April 24, 2026 at 11:49 am
The AI Agent Authority Gap - From Ungoverned to Delegation As discussed in our previous article, AI agents are exposing a structural gap in enterprise security, but the problem is often framed too narrowly. The issue is not simply that agents are new actors. It is that agents are delegated actors. […]
- 26 FakeWallet Apps Found on Apple App Store...by info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) on April 24, 2026 at 11:48 am
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a set of malicious apps on the Apple App Store that impersonate popular cryptocurrency wallets in an attempt to steal recovery phrases and private keys since at least fall 2025. "Once launched, these apps redirect users to browser pages designed to look […]
WordPress News
- Celebrating Community at WordCamp Asia 2026by Brett McSherry on April 11, 2026 at 6:21 pm
WordCamp Asia 2026 brought the global WordPress community to Mumbai, India, from April 9–11, gathering contributors, organizers, sponsors, speakers, and attendees at the Jio World Convention Centre for three days of learning, collaboration, and community. With 2,627 attendees, the event reflected […]
- How to Watch WordCamp Asia 2026 Liveby Brett McSherry on April 7, 2026 at 1:57 pm
WordCamp Asia 2026 will be available to watch live across three days of streaming, making it easy for the global WordPress community to follow along from anywhere. This year’s live streamed programming begins with a special Contributor Day broadcast, followed by two full conference days of […]
- From AI to Open Source at WordCamp Asia 2026by Brett McSherry on April 2, 2026 at 4:10 pm
April 9-11, 2026 | Jio World Convention Centre, Mumbai, India WordCamp Asia 2026 brings the WordPress community to Mumbai, India, from April 9 to 11, with a schedule shaped around artificial intelligence, enterprise WordPress, developer workflows, product strategy, and open source collaboration. […]
- WordPress 7.0 Release Candidate 2by Mary Hubbard on March 26, 2026 at 6:37 pm
The second Release Candidate (“RC2”) 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 […]
- WP Packages is Working the Way Open Source Shouldby Jonathan Bossenger on March 25, 2026 at 3:27 pm
When WP Engine acquired WPackagist on March 12, the WordPress developer community faced a familiar question: what happens when critical open source infrastructure ends up under corporate control? The community already had an answer in progress. Four days later, WP Packages (formerly WP Composer) […]
- WordPress 7.0 Release Candidate 1by Amy Kamala on March 24, 2026 at 7:32 pm
The first Release Candidate (“RC1”) for WordPress 7.0 is ready for download and testing! This version of the WordPress software is still under development. Please do not install, run, or test this version of WordPress on production or mission-critical websites. Instead, it’s recommended to […]
- WordPress 7.0 Beta 5by Ahmed Kabir Chaion on March 12, 2026 at 3:49 pm
WordPress 7.0 Beta 5 is ready for download and testing! This version of the WordPress software is still under development. Please do not install, run, or test this version of WordPress on production or mission-critical websites. Instead, it’s recommended to test Beta 5 on a test server and […]
- WordPress 6.9.4 Releaseby John Blackbourn on March 11, 2026 at 3:34 pm
WordPress 6.9.4 is now available WordPress 6.9.2 and WordPress 6.9.3 were released yesterday, addressing 10 security issues and a bug that affected template file loading on a limited number of sites. The WordPress Security Team has discovered that not all of the security fixes were fully applied, […]
- Your Browser Becomes Your WordPressby Brandon Payton on March 11, 2026 at 1:00 pm
For nearly two decades, WordPress has been known for a simple, powerful idea: that anyone should be able to get online and start creating with minimal friction. The famous five-minute install captured that spirit for an earlier era of the web. Today, we’re introducing my.WordPress.net, a new take […]
- WordPress 6.9.3 and 7.0 beta 4by John Blackbourn on March 10, 2026 at 11:41 pm
WordPress 6.9.2 was released earlier today and addressed 10 security issues. A few users have subsequently reported an issue where the front end of their site was appearing blank after updating to 6.9.2. The issue has been narrowed down to some themes using an unusual approach to loading template […]














