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📰 Cybersecurity News Headlines

Top stories from leading cybersecurity publications as of June 8, 2026.

  1. Hands on with Intelligent Terminal, an AI-powered Windows Terminal
    — Bleeping Computer

    Microsoft has created an open-source fork of Windows Terminal called "Intelligent Terminal," and it allows you to use AI directly inside Ter…
  2. C0XMO botnet spreads via DD-WRT router flaw, kills rival malware
    — Bleeping Computer

    A new variant of the Gafgyt botnet called C0XMO is targeting DD-WRT router firmware and can move to other device types with various CPU arch…
  3. Silent Ransom Group targets law firms with fake IT support calls
    — Bleeping Computer

    The Silent Ransom Group extortion gang is actively targeting U.S. law firms and professional services organizations in social engineering at…
  4. Critical Everest Forms Pro flaw exploited to take over WordPress sites
    — Bleeping Computer

    Hackers are actively exploiting a critical vulnerability (CVE-2026-3300) in the Everest Forms Pro plugin, which lets them take complete cont…
  5. New ChatGPT Lockdown Mode Limits Tools That Could Enable Data Exfiltration
    — The Hacker News

    OpenAI has begun rolling out a new Lockdown Mode to ChatGPT for eligible personal accounts to reduce the risk of data exfiltration arising f…
  6. Free Apps Are Quietly Turning Smart TVs Into Web-Scraping Proxies for AI
    — The Hacker News

    A researcher has reverse-engineered the iOS SDK that Bright Data embeds in consumer apps and documented how it turns devices, including alwa…
  7. CISA Adds Actively Exploited SolarWinds Serv-U DoS Flaw to KEV Catalog
    — The Hacker News

    The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a high-severity security flaw impacting SolarWinds Serv-U multi-p…
  8. AI Agent Uncovers 21 Zero-Days in FFmpeg; Chrome Patches Record 429 Bugs
    — The Hacker News

    Two things landed within days of each other this week. A security startup reported 21 previously unknown vulnerabilities in FFmpeg, the medi…
  9. Exposed Fuel Tank Gauges Under Attack in the US
    — Dark Reading

    Threat actors are taking advantage of Internet-exposed tank gauges by breaching gas stations, opening the door to disruption.
  10. Adaptive, Agentic AI Worms Loom as Next Enterprise Threat
    — Dark Reading

    AI worms, or "viruses with wings and brains," adapt to new environments, seek out vulnerabilities, and will likely strike within a year, res…
  11. Trump AI Order Seeks Voluntary Frontier Model Testing
    — Dark Reading

    The White House's executive order establishes voluntary framework for early government access to frontier models while investing in federal …
  12. The Evil MSI Background is Back!, (Fri, Jun 5th)
    — SANS ISC

    A few months ago, I wrote a diary about a payload that was embedded into a JPEG picture. It was a MSI-branded background[1]. Yesterday, I sp…

Generated by HiveNet.ai Threat Intelligence Platform · June 8, 2026 · Sources: The Hacker News, Bleeping Computer, Krebs on Security, Dark Reading, SANS ISC