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Monday, June 15, 2026
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📰 Cybersecurity News Headlines

Top stories from leading cybersecurity publications as of June 15, 2026.

  1. FBI disrupts massive AI-powered phishing service using a million URLs
    — Bleeping Computer

    In a coordinated effort, the FBI, working with Google and Black Lotus Labs, has dismantled a massive Chinese phishing-as-a-service operation…
  2. Ex-school district employee jailed for hacks on former employer
    — Bleeping Computer

    A former  IT employee at an Iowa school district was sentenced to 21 months in prison after conducting a prolonged cyberattack against the …
  3. Chinese hackers hijack auth flow, spy on isolated network for a decade
    — Bleeping Computer

    Chinese hackers took control of a target organization's authentication stack and maintained persistence for 10 years, with full visibility i…
  4. Critical Splunk Enterprise Flaw Lets Attackers Run Code Without Authentication
    — The Hacker News

    Splunk has released security updates to address a critical security flaw in Splunk Enterprise that could be exploited to conduct unauthentic…
  5. US Gov asks Anthropic to ban 'foreign national' access to Fable, Mythos
    — Bleeping Computer

    The US government has ordered Anthropic to block all foreign nationals from accessing Fable 5 and Mythos 5, forcing the company to suspend b…
  6. U.S. Orders Anthropic to Suspend Fable 5 and Mythos 5 Access for Foreign Nationals
    — The Hacker News

    Anthropic said on Friday it will "abruptly disable" its most advanced artificial intelligence (AI) models, Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5, for …
  7. ShinyHunters Uses Oracle Zero-Day to Rampage Higher Ed
    — Dark Reading

    A major bug in Oracle's ERP software disproportionately affected American universities, and hackers have capitalized by stealing gobs of dat…
  8. Over 400 Arch Linux AUR Packages Hijacked to Deploy Infostealer and eBPF Rootkit
    — The Hacker News

    Attackers took over more than 400 packages in the Arch User Repository (AUR) this week and rewrote their build scripts to install a credenti…
  9. Google Sues Chinese Smishing Network Accused of Using Gemini AI in Phishing
    — The Hacker News

    Google on Friday said it's pursuing legal action against a Chinese cybercrime network, accusing it of using its Gemini artificial intelligen…
  10. Claude Fable 5 Doesn't Change the Mythos Security Story
    — Dark Reading

    Stay cool: Mythos 5 is an upgrade over Mythos Preview while Fable 5 is Mythos "made safe for general use," Anthropic explained.
  11. ISC Stormcast For Friday, June 12th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9970, (Fri, Jun 12th)
    — SANS ISC

    (c) SANS Internet Storm Center. https://isc.sans.edu Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.
  12. Phishing Attack Volume Down 20%, But Risk Still Rising
    — Dark Reading

    Hackers are valuing quality over quantity, using AI to upgrade their phishing attacks rather than multiply them.

Generated by HiveNet.ai Threat Intelligence Platform · June 15, 2026 · Sources: The Hacker News, Bleeping Computer, Krebs on Security, Dark Reading, SANS ISC