📡 Tech & Security Digest — 2026-07-10
Curated from Hacker News, security blogs, and tech publications.
BleepingComputer
- Microsoft patches RoguePlanet Defender zero-day vulnerability — Microsoft has released a security patch to address a Defender zero-day vulnerability known as “RoguePlanet,” disclosed after the June 2026 Patch Tuesd…
- Hackers exploit Roundcube flaw to spy on academic researchers — A China-linked threat cluster has been exploiting vulnerable Roundcube servers at U.S. and Canadian universities to steal credentials and deploy backd…
- Former ransomware negotiator gets 4 years for BlackCat attacks — A former employee of cybersecurity incident response company DigitalMint was sentenced to 70 months in prison for targeting U.S. companies in BlackCat…
- Mount Royal University confirms breach as hackers claim attack — Mount Royal University in Calgary says hackers stole and then deleted data from its file storage systems after breaching the university’s network. […..
Hacker News
- Build your own vulnerability harness (43 pts)
- Train sim created by just one person is being called the best ever made (570 pts)
- Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests (640 pts)
- Building a real-time AI tutor for 5-year-olds (88 pts)
- Girls just wanna have fast MPMC queues with bounded waiting (168 pts)
- John Deere owners will get the right to repair equipment under FTC settlement (1320 pts)
Krebs on Security
- Felons, Fraudsters Flog Offensive Cybersecurity Startup — A cybersecurity startup dangling millions of dollars to acquire zero-day security vulnerabilities in popular software is run by a pair of far-right co…
- Who Runs the Ransomware Group ‘The Gentlemen?’ — A cybercrime group known as The Gentlemen has emerged as the second most active ransomware gang by victim count, rapidly attracting a talented pool of…
The Hacker News
- Threat Actors Probe Gitea Docker Flaw CVE-2026-20896 13 Days After Disclosure — Threat actors have been observed attempting to exploit a recently patched critical security flaw in Gitea Docker images, according to Sysdig.
The vul…
- Microsoft Patches RoguePlanet Defender Flaw That Can Grant SYSTEM Privileges — Microsoft has released security updates for a Defender vulnerability known as RoguePlanet, nearly a month after details of the flaw became public.
Th…
- Suspected China-Aligned Hackers Exploit Roundcube Flaws Against Universities — A suspected China-aligned threat activity cluster has been observed exploiting Roundcube webmail software belonging to physics and engineering departm…
- New Avalon Malware Framework Packs CrownX Ransomware Capabilities — Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a previously undocumented modular malware framework codenamed Avalon that’s distributed by means of a multi-…
- 15-Year-Old GhostLock Flaw Enables Root and Container Escape on Most Linux Distros — Researchers at Nebula Security have disclosed GhostLock (CVE-2026-43499), a 15-year-old Linux kernel flaw that lets any logged-in user take …
- BeyondTrust Patches Critical Auth Bypass Flaws in Remote Support and PRA — BeyondTrust has released updates to address two critical security flaws affecting Remote Support (RS) and Privileged Remote Access (PRA) products that…
- Attackers Exploit ‘Ill Bloom’ Vulnerability to Drain $3.1 Million From Cryptocurrency Wallets — Security firm Coinspect has disclosed a crypto wallet flaw it calls Ill Bloom, and attackers are already using it. The flaw is in how s…
- Ubiquiti Patches Critical UniFi Flaws Across Connect, Talk, Access, Protect, and OS — Ubiquiti has shipped updates to address multiple critical security flaws impacting UniFi Connect, UniFi Talk, UniFi Access, UniFi Protect, and UniFi O…
- CISA Adds 4 Actively Exploited Adobe, Joomla, and Langflow Flaws to KEV — The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added four security flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) cat…
- Writer AI Flaw Could Let Agent Previews Leak Session Tokens Across Tenants — Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a now-patched critical session isolation vulnerability in Writer, an enterprise generative artific…
The Verge
- Microsoft’s patch Tuesdays are about to get bigger — Windows 11 updates could soon include fixes for more security issues at once. Microsoft said in a blog post on Thursday that it’s now using AI to “ide…