Chinese-speaking threat actors are continuing to rely on Noodle RAT, a cross-platform remote access trojan designed to maintain covert access to compromised Windows workstations and Linux servers. Also tracked as ANGRYREBEL and Nood RAT, the malware has been active since at least mid-2016 but was long mistaken for variants of Gh0st RAT, Rekoobe, and other […]

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Acronis has released an urgent security update for a high-severity local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting its Backup plugin for cPanel & WHM on Linux. The company confirmed that attackers have already exploited this flaw in limited, targeted attacks against vulnerable deployments. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2026-87886 and is described as an insecure file permissions […]

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Security researchers have disclosed a local privilege escalation vulnerability in the Linux kernel related to the Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS) zero-copy send path. This vulnerability could let an unprivileged local attacker gain root privileges. It is tracked as CVE-2026-43502 and is referred to as “ZcopyReaper.” NebuSec researcher Yuan Tan reported the issue in a disclosure […]

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A large-scale Redis cryptojacking operation targets thousands of exposed Linux servers by abusing unauthenticated Redis deployments to install XMRig cryptocurrency miners and establish durable, cron-based persistence. The campaign scans IPv4 address ranges for Redis services exposed to the internet, typically on TCP port 6379, then attempts to interact with instances that allow connections without authentication. […]

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A newly identified ransomware-as-a-service operation, Panzer, has surfaced with advertised payload support for Windows, Linux, VMware ESXi and FreeBSD, positioning it as a cross-platform threat to enterprise and virtualized environments. The group’s rapid victim posting cadence, affiliate-focused infrastructure, and double-extortion model make it a ransomware operation security teams should begin tracking despite the current absence […]

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A newly analyzed Linux malware sample, dubbed Tengu, combines Mirai-style botnet tradecraft with broad persistence, DDoS, SSH probing, and proxy capabilities. The stripped 32-bit ELF masquerades as a Linux kernel worker process while targeting servers, embedded devices, and IoT-adjacent systems. It has no symbols, uses NX protection and partial RELRO, and carries a SHA-256 hash […]

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A Chinese-speaking cybercrime cluster linked to the Earth Berberoka threat actor has compromised Brazilian government and educational web servers to conduct large-scale SEO poisoning and online-gambling fraud. The operation has been active since mid-2025 and represents a notable shift in Brazil’s threat landscape. Rather than deploying the country’s more familiar banking malware, the attackers are […]

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