WP Maps Pro versions 6.1.0 and older contain CVE-2026-8732, an unauthenticated flaw that can create rogue administrator accounts and lead to full WordPress site takeover. Defiant observed active targeting and blocked more than 3,600 attempts in 24 hours. A fix is available in WP Maps Pro 6.1.1, and site owners should update immediately.

WP Maps Pro 6.1.1 was released to fix CVE-2026-8732, giving WordPress administrators a patch for a flaw that enabled unauthenticated administrator-account creation. The affected range was versions 6.1.0 and older, and the update was published on May 20. Administrators should install 6.1.1 as soon as possible because malicious activity has already been observed.

Dutch authorities disrupted a botnet that controlled at least 17 million infected devices and used more than 200 servers in the Netherlands. The network was used to route malicious traffic and support cyberattacks across computers, tablets, smartphones, and IoT devices. Local reporting linked the service to Asocks residential proxies, and the infrastructure provider reportedly took the botnet offline after the police seizure.

The Linux kernel CIFS subsystem has a newly disclosed CIFSwitch local privilege-escalation flaw that can let an unprivileged attacker reach root on vulnerable systems. The issue affects Linux distributions shipping vulnerable kernel CIFS and cifs-utils 6.14 and higher combinations, and it has an upstream patch that validates cifs.spnego request origins. A published PoC exploit raises urgency for validation and remediation.

PAN-OS and Prisma Access are affected by CVE-2026-0257, an authentication bypass in the GlobalProtect portal and gateway that can let attackers establish an unauthorized VPN connection. Palo Alto Networks said the flaw is under active exploitation in the wild, and Rapid7 reported successful exploitation against numerous customers starting May 17, 2026. The issue is especially risky for devices with authentication override cookies enabled and the relevant certificate configuration.

The LLMShare campaign is using Google ads and a legitimate chatgpt.com shared page to route people searching for ChatGPT into a fake OpenAI outage lure that pushes a malicious download. The operation abuses trust in the real domain to increase click-through and hide the handoff to a malware-delivery site. Similar abuse of Claude Artifacts suggests the same AI-sharing tactic is being reused across multiple platforms.

The openew[.]app portal is delivering macOS and Windows malware through a fake ChatGPT outage lure, putting searchers at risk of device compromise. Victims are redirected from a legitimate chatgpt.com/s/ shared page to a site that impersonates OpenAI's desktop app download flow. The portal also uses cloaking to hide malicious content from security review.

California Attorney General Rob Bonta filed a lawsuit against 23andMe over alleged failures to protect sensitive genetic and personal data, escalating state privacy enforcement tied to a 2023 breach that exposed nearly 7 million customers.

ChatGPT has a response-renderer vulnerability that turns summarized third-party pages into live phishing links and auto-fetched attacker-hosted images inside the trusted UI. The flaw abuses Markdown links and Markdown image URLs that survive from a page the assistant just summarized. It can expose users to phishing and tracking when ordinary web-page summarization is used.

BrowserOS patched WebPromptTrap in version 0.32.0, closing an indirect prompt-injection flaw that could trick users into approving an authorization step inside the agentic browser's AI summary flow. The update removes a browser-side weakness that let hidden instructions in summarized content influence trusted UI behavior. It reduces the chance that a legitimate-looking page can be turned into a deceptive prompt surface.

A Marimo notebook compromise led to credential theft, SSH access, and exfiltration of an internal PostgreSQL database, expanding a single initial intrusion into deeper post-compromise access. The intrusion used CVE-2026-39987 to reach a downstream SSH bastion server through harvested cloud credentials and AWS Secrets Manager. The attack chain was recorded on May 10, 2026 and included eight SSH sessions plus database theft completed in under two minutes at the bastion stage.

CVE-2026-39987 in Marimo is being exploited through the /terminal/ws endpoint to give unauthenticated attackers a shell on exposed notebook servers. The first observed abuse arrived about 9 hours and 41 minutes after disclosure and moved into manual reconnaissance and secret-harvesting against internet-facing instances. Marimo released 0.23.0 to fix the flaw, and CISA added CVE-2026-39987 to the KEV catalog with a 2026-05-07 remediation deadline. Available evidence does not quantify how many deployments were reached, but the observed behavior shows rapid weaponization against exposed systems.

French cybersecurity startup MokN raised $15 million in a Series A round led by Google Ventures, giving the company new capital to scale its identity-protection business. The financing will help expand the phish-back platform into the US and support new offices in the US and UK. MokN also plans to hire across sales, marketing, customer success, engineering, and R&D to widen its cybersecurity reach.

Underground DDoS sellers are shifting from scattered tools to packaged, resellable services, lowering the barrier for disruptive attacks and widening the buyer pool. Listings seen across 2023 to 2026 increasingly advertise panels, API access, monthly plans, customer support, and botnet-backed capacity instead of scripts or leaked tools. The market is now priced and marketed like a mature service business, with low-cost tests, premium tiers, and reseller options that make attacks easier to launch and redistribute.

Dutch police and the NCSC seized more than 200 servers and took offline a 17 million-device botnet, disrupting infrastructure used for cyberattacks. The action followed a joint investigation and targeted hosting at a local provider in the Netherlands. Authorities said the botnet controlled computers, tablets, and smartphones for criminal abuse.

The Silent Ransom Group (SRG) is escalating a campaign against US-based law firms, using IT impersonation, remote access tricks, and in-person access attempts to reach corporate systems. The operation has been active since 2023 and had evolved further by spring 2026, raising the risk of stealthy compromise and data theft across the legal sector.

Google's Chrome Device Bound Session Credentials (DBSC) is now generally available and rolling out to all users, reducing the risk of account takeovers from stolen session cookies. The feature binds cookies to a specific device so attackers cannot reuse exfiltrated cookies to bypass MFA. The rollout reaches Google Workspace customers, Workspace Individual subscribers, and people using personal Google accounts.

A newly characterized GREYVIBE actor sits in a grey zone between Kremlin-aligned intelligence work and the Russian cybercrime ecosystem, complicating attribution for Ukraine-focused operations. The assessment links the group to Russian-speaking operators and suggests the blend of state tasking and criminal talent is shaping how the actor is organized and deployed. That hybrid profile matters because it weakens traditional clustering based on stable tooling and relationships.

Americans 60 and older filed over 200,000 fraud complaints in 2025, with complaint volume rising 37% from the prior year. The cohort also recorded nearly $7.8 billion in losses, a 59% year-over-year increase, and the average loss per complainant reached $38,500. The pattern signals sustained elder-fraud pressure across the country and a growing financial burden on older consumers.

Federal prosecutors sentenced Troy Murray to 121 months in prison in a wire fraud case tied to the sale of elderly Americans' personal information to scammers. The judgment also imposed three years of supervised release and a $5.2 million forfeiture.

Vibe-coded applications are leaking onto the public internet across organizations, creating a growing exposure trend for corporate, operational, and personal data. A May 2026 investigation found more than 380,000 publicly accessible web assets on leading AI development platforms, including more than 2,000 with sensitive data. The exposed apps were seen across six continents and every industry, with many reachable without basic access controls and some granting admin access by default. The pattern shows a broad governance gap in how employee-built AI apps are deployed and published.

A new vpmdhaj supply-chain campaign has surfaced in 14 malicious npm packages that use a preinstall credential harvester to steal AWS credentials, HashiCorp Vault tokens, npm tokens, and CI/CD secrets from developer hosts. The packages were published on May 28, 2026 and were built to look like legitimate developer tooling. That turns ordinary installs into a high-risk entry point for downstream compromise and secret theft.

China-aligned FamousSparrow escalated a maritime and energy espionage campaign across the Middle East, putting regional shipping and infrastructure intelligence at greater risk. The operation also reached a Venezuelan governmental entity tied to maritime affairs, showing the targeting extended beyond one country. The multi-month pattern during October 2025 to March 2026 points to a sustained effort to track oil shipments and regional political developments.

The public leak of Charter Communications data exposed 4.9 million accounts, putting names, email addresses, phone numbers, and physical addresses into circulation. The stolen records came from a Salesforce instance and were later posted on a dark web leak site after ransom demands were rejected. A smaller employee-directory subset also added job titles to the exposed set.

Charter Communications confirmed a data breach tied to ShinyHunters extortion, with the company saying it is alerting authorities and that no sensitive personal information or CPNI was exfiltrated in recent activity. ShinyHunters claims the compromise began on April 1 through vishing that hit an employee's Microsoft Entra account and led to exports from Salesforce. Have I Been Pwned later analyzed leaked data and said the incident affected 4.9 million accounts, with exposed records including names, email addresses, phone numbers, and physical addresses.

The mouse5212-super-formatter npm package is a malicious infostealer that can siphon files from /mnt/user-data, putting Anthropic Claude user data at risk of unauthorized exfiltration. It runs in the postinstall stage, uses a GitHub token or fallback credential, and uploads local files to a threat actor-controlled GitHub account. The package also disguises theft with fake diagnostics and was still downloadable from npm at the time of discovery.

Malware-Slop is distributing mouse5212-super-formatter, a malicious npm package that steals local files from Anthropic's Claude workspace directory /mnt/user-data. The package runs in the postinstall stage, authenticates to GitHub, and uploads files to a threat actor-controlled GitHub account while writing a fake diagnostic log to mask the theft. OX Security reported that the package was still live on npm at the time of analysis and had about 676 downloads before removal. The linked GitHub account was created on 2026-05-26, shortly before the first malicious upload, and the package exposed a hardcoded fallback token that let researchers observe the exfiltration flow.

The Kimsuky campaign ran through March and April 2026, using spoofed security-installation pages and a fake Webex lure against South Korean military and corporate entities, raising the risk of remote compromise and staged payload delivery.

GreyVibe is running an AI-assisted cyberespionage campaign against Ukrainian and Ukraine-related organizations, expanding the threat to military, government, civilian, and business targets. The operation has been active since at least August 2025 and uses multiple lure-and-delivery chains to push phishing, malware, and credential-theft workflows. Researchers linked the activity to a likely Russian-aligned operator set, though the group’s exact state affiliation remains unconfirmed.

GREYVIBE is a Russian-speaking malware activity targeting Ukraine and Ukraine-related entities since at least August 2025. The group uses spear-phishing e-mails, fake CAPTCHA/ClickFix pages, and fraudulent websites to deliver custom tooling including PhantomMail, PhantomRelay, PhantomRelayV1, LegionRelay, FallSpy, and WireGuard. The activity spans Windows remote access, browser and file theft, and Android spyware, broadening the operation from delivery into sustained compromise and surveillance.