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
- CrashStealer macOS Malware Uses Notarized Dropper...by info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) on July 13, 2026 at 5:36 pm
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new macOS information stealer called CrashStealer that's capable of harvesting sensitive data from compromised systems. Unlike other information stealers that are built on AppleScript droppers or Objective-C-based wrappers, CrashStealer is implemented in […]
- Google and Microsoft Pull ModHeader With 1.6...by info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) on July 13, 2026 at 5:17 pm
Google and Microsoft have pulled ModHeader, a popular header-editing extension with roughly 1.6 million installs across Chrome and Edge, after researchers found a hidden browsing-history collector built into its official store version. The collector was dormant. An empty allow-list kept it […]
- ⚡ Weekly Recap: ShareFile Threat, Citrix Bleed...by info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) on July 13, 2026 at 3:05 pm
Somewhere right now, a security tool is quietly finding bugs faster than any human can fix them. That's supposed to be the good news. The catch is that the attackers have the same tools, pointed the other way, and they don't file tickets. That's the shape of this week. Trusted code turns on the […]
- New MemGhost Attack Plants Persistent False...by info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) on July 13, 2026 at 1:49 pm
Give an AI assistant a memory and access to your inbox, and you hand an attacker a way to rewrite what it thinks it knows about you. A single email can trick that agent into saving a false "fact" about the user, hide the change, and quietly steer its answers in later sessions. When it works, the […]
- Forg365 PhaaS Targets Microsoft 365 with Device...by info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) on July 13, 2026 at 1:03 pm
A new phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) operation called Forg365 is using a combination of device code phishing, adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) tactics, antibot evasion, artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted lure creation, and post-compromise mailbox operations targeting Microsoft 365 accounts. […]
- Meta Files Patent for AI That Can Listen All Day...by info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) on July 13, 2026 at 11:54 am
Meta has filed a patent application for an AI that listens to your voice throughout the day, works out how it thinks you are feeling from the way you sound, and keeps a timestamped log of every read. Each read gets pinned to the moment it happened: the time, your location, what you were doing, […]
- Thinking Fast and Slow in the SOC: The Case for...by info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) on July 13, 2026 at 11:37 am
A few days ago, I was sitting with the CISO of a Fortune 50 company, walking through how his security team was thinking about AI agents in the SOC. Smart team. Serious program. They had already connected Claude to a few detection tools and were seeing real value in specific investigations. But as […]
- Attacker Uses Suspected AI-Generated PowerShell...by info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) on July 13, 2026 at 11:02 am
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged an intrusion in which an unknown threat actor leveraged a vibe-coded PowerShell script for Active Directory (AD) enumeration. "The script looked for the Domain Controller (DC) and mapped users, computers, and domains, before creating a directory and exporting […]
- Misconfigured Server Reveals Three Evilginx...by info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) on July 13, 2026 at 7:30 am
An attacker running a live Microsoft 365 phishing operation left a Python web server listening on a public port with directory listing switched on. The command that did it: python3 -m http.server 8080, was still sitting in the readable .bash_history. From that one lapse, French security […]
- iCagenda and Balbooa Forms Joomla Flaws...by info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) on July 13, 2026 at 5:36 am
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added two maximum-severity security flaws impacting iCagenda and Balbooa extensions for Joomla to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, following reports of zero-day exploitation in the wild. The vulnerabilities, […]
WordPress News
- 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.
- 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 […]

















