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Tuesday, June 2, 2026 · 20 stories
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China-Aligned Groups Ramp Up Attacks: Dragon Weave Hits Czech Republic & Taiwan (1 minute read)

A new cyber espionage campaign codenamed Operation Dragon Weave has been observed targeting officials and citizens in the Czech Republic and Taiwan...

The Hacker News · 20h ago · Read full article →

Vulnerability Disclosure in the Age of AI (3 minute read)

New article: “ Responsible Disclosure in the Age of AI: A Call for Urgent Action ,” by Melissa Hathaway. Abstract: Artificial intelligence is funda...

Schneier on Security · 15h ago · Read full article →

The Toll Booth at the Throat of World Trade (3 minute read)

In late February 2026, Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz to foreign shipping. What began as a chaotic wartime closure has, in the past few days, har...

War on the Rocks · 1h ago · Read full article →

A Trump Deal With Iran Could Spell Trouble for Netanyahu (1 minute read)

The Israeli leader needs a win ahead of a key election.

Foreign Policy · 12h ago · Read full article →

OpenAI Codex Authentication Tokens Stolen in codexui-android npm Supply Chain At (1 minute read)

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new malicious supply chain campaign that's targeting developers using OpenAI Codex through a ...

The Hacker News · 23h ago · Read full article →

CISA Adds One Known Exploited Vulnerability to Catalog (3 minute read)

CISA has added one new vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog , based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2024-2118...

CISA Alerts · 20h ago · Read full article →

NSA selects new leads for key cybersecurity posts (1 minute read)

David Imbordino, an NSA senior executive who most recently led its cybersecurity directorate in an acting capacity, has been named as its new chief...

The Record · 14h ago · Read full article →

Patch Now: Another Palo Alto Auth Bypass Bug Under Active Exploit (1 minute read)

Exploiting the PAN-OS GlobalProtect VPN vulnerability requires certain conditions, but adversaries have done so in two attack waves that started in...

Dark Reading · 18h ago · Read full article →

Miasma Supply Chain Attack Compromises Red Hat npm Packages with Credential-Stea (1 minute read)

A new Mini Shai-Hulud supply chain attack campaign, codenamed Miasma, has compromised @redhat-cloud-services packages to steal credentials and secr...

The Hacker News · 14h ago · Read full article →

Hackers Used Meta’s AI Support Bot to Seize Instagram Accounts (1 minute read)

The Instagram accounts for the Obama White House and the Chief Master Sergeant of the U.S. Space Force were briefly defaced with pro-Iranian images...

Krebs on Security · 15h ago · Read full article →

Hackers hijack thousands of sites for ClickFix and FakeUpdate attacks (1 minute read)

A threat actor tracked as DriveSurge has been operating large-scale malware distribution campaigns using ClickFix and FakeUpdates techniques on com...

BleepingComputer · 10h ago · Read full article →

Trump Says Israel, Hezbollah to Halt Attacks as Iran Talks Continue (1 minute read)

Tehran had said it would suspend negotiations over Israeli strikes in Lebanon.

Foreign Policy · 10h ago · Read full article →

The Energy Crisis Will Long Outlast the Iran War (1 minute read)

The baked-in damage to oil and gas production will take months to undo.

Foreign Policy · 23h ago · Read full article →

Early Edition: June 1, 2026 (2 minute read)

Signup to receive the Early Edition in your inbox here. A curated guide to major news and developments over the weekend.

Just Security · 20h ago · Read full article →

⚡ Weekly Recap: New Linux Flaw, PAN-OS Exploit, AI-Powered Attacks, OAuth Phishi (2 minute read)

Monday hit like a cron job with anger issues. A busted auth path here, a repo-side faceplant there, some "patched-ish" thing already getting chewed...

The Hacker News · 18h ago · Read full article →

Critical Windows Netlogon Vulnerability in Attackers’ Crosshairs (1 minute read)

Organizations are advised to patch CVE-2026-41089 as soon as possible, given its severity, the potential ongoing exploitation. The post Critical Wi...

SecurityWeek · 17h ago · Read full article →

19-Year-Old Linux Kernel Vulnerability Exposes Systems to Root Access (1 minute read)

Proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit code has been released for the CIFSwitch flaw, which allows low-privileged users to escalate to root on vulnerable L...

SecurityWeek · 21h ago · Read full article →

The EU’s New Economic Security Tools and China’s Countermeasure Calculus (1 minute read)

The central issue in China-EU economic relations is no longer only trade imbalance, but the growing political anxiety in Europe over the speed of C...

The Diplomat · 19h ago · Read full article →

Why China Needs High GDP Growth Rates to Avoid a Crisis (1 minute read)

While Western nations might view a 2 percent or 4 percent growth rate as a spectacular success, China faces a shock even with a slight dip in its m...

The Diplomat · 19h ago · Read full article →

Election interlopers register 5K+ domains, hope to catch some voting phish (1 minute read)

Hacking voting machines is so 2017. Phishing, impersonation pose the real election risks

The Register Security · 12h ago · Read full article →

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