The Hacker News

Microsoft says attackers are poisoning search results to spread fake VPN clients that steal credentials. The campaign redirects software searches to trojanized installers on GitHub that show fake VPN prompts while Hyrax steals credentials. 🔗 Read → https://thehackernews.com/2026/03/storm-2561-spreads-trojan-vpn-clients.html

Russian hackers are targeting #Signal and #WhatsApp accounts of officials, journalists, and military personnel using phishing — not breaking encryption. Attackers pose as Signal support bots or abuse linked-device features to steal verification codes and take over accounts. 🔗Read → https://thehackernews.com/2026/03/threatsday-bulletin-oauth-trap-edr.html#messaging-account-takeover

⚠️ WARNING: Google fixed 2 exploited Chrome bugs (CVSS 8.8) in Skia and the V8 engine. Crafted HTML pages can trigger memory corruption or sandbox code execution.Update to Chrome v146 now. Edge, Brave, Opera, and Vivaldi patches will follow. 🔗 Read → https://thehackernews.com/2026/03/google-fixes-two-chrome-zero-days.html

🛑 Linux AppArmor hit by 9 “CrackArmor” flaws letting unprivileged users manipulate security profiles and escalate to root. The bugs date back to 2017 and affect kernels 4.11+ across major distros including Ubuntu, Debian, and SUSE. 🔗 Read → https://thehackernews.com/2026/03/nine-crackarmor-flaws-in-linux-apparmor.html

🚔 Global police dismantled SocksEscort, a proxy botnet built from hacked home routers. AVrecon malware turned SOHO devices into anonymous gateways for fraud, ransomware, and DDoS. Operation Lightning seized 34 domains, 23 servers, froze $3.5M. 369K IPs across 163 countries. 🔗 Read → https://thehackernews.com/2026/03/authorities-disrupt-socksescort-proxy.html

⚠️ Veeam fixed multiple flaws in Backup & Replication, including 9.9-severity RCE bugs that let authenticated domain users run code on backup servers. Affected: all v12 builds before 12.3.2.4465. 🔗 CVEs and patch details → https://thehackernews.com/2026/03/veeam-patches-7-critical-backup.html

⚠️ Rust-based banking trojan VENON is targeting 33 financial institutions in Brazil. It monitors banking windows, triggers credential-stealing overlays, and hijacks Itaú app shortcuts to redirect victims to attacker-controlled pages. 🔗 Read → https://thehackernews.com/2026/03/rust-based-venon-malware-targets-33.html

🤖 IBM X-Force found AI-generated #malware Slopoly used by Hive0163. The PowerShell backdoor persists for days, beacons every 30s, and runs commands from a remote C2. AI didn’t make it advanced — it made malware faster to build. 🔗 Read here → https://thehackernews.com/2026/03/hive0163-uses-ai-assisted-slopoly.html

Modern phishing now hides behind HTTPS and trusted services, so attacks look like normal logins. Sandbox analysis executes suspicious links safely and exposes credential-stealing flows in under 60 seconds. 🔗 How SOC teams uncover phishing before account takeover → https://thehackernews.com/2026/03/how-to-scale-phishing-detection-in-your.html

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New week. Same internet chaos. ⚠️ OAuth token theft 📱 Signal/WhatsApp hijacks ☁️ Cloud flaw breaches 🧟 Zombie ZIP evasion 💼 HR malware kills EDR 🤖 AI agent platform hack 💬 Teams impersonation attacks 🌐 174-exploit botnet scans 🔗 ThreatsDay is out — quick hits from this week’s cyber chaos → https://thehackernews.com/2026/03/threatsday-bulletin-oauth-trap-edr.html

Attackers now weaponize phishing volume. Research shows 66% of SOC teams can’t keep up with alerts, letting attackers hide targeted spear-phish inside thousands of decoys. The flood isn’t random. It’s meant to exhaust analysts and slow investigation. 🔗 How phishing campaigns exploit SOC workload → https://thehackernews.com/2026/03/attackers-dont-just-send-phishing.html