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This article introduces HackBrowserData, a cross‑platform tool that can export saved passwords, browsing history, cookies, and bookmarks from major browsers, explains how to install and run it, shows sample output, and provides security recommendations for safe password management.
Ghost APIs—deprecated endpoints that remain active in production—create invisible attack surfaces, allowing adversaries to bypass modern defenses, as illustrated by incidents like Optus and T‑Mobile; the article dissects their risks, how attackers locate them, and practical three‑step defenses to eliminate these hidden vulnerabilities.
Toronto police uncovered a massive SMS‑bomb rogue mobile tower that hijacked tens of thousands of phones, revealing 13 million network interruptions, highlighting 2G/3G protocol flaws, and prompting expert recommendations for carrier, device, and user‑level defenses.
In April 2026, the People's Bank of China Xinjiang branch fined Hami City Commercial Bank 3.836 million yuan for multiple regulatory breaches, including cybersecurity and data‑security violations, and also fined two of its technology staff members, illustrating a growing trend of dual penalties for banks and their tech personnel in China.
A new CVE‑2026‑33829 vulnerability in Windows' Snipping Tool lets attackers steal Net‑NTLM hash credentials via a malicious deep‑link URI, and a low‑skill PoC demonstrates the exploit while Microsoft’s April 14 2026 patch and mitigation steps are detailed.
In April 2026, the DeFi liquid staking protocol KelpDAO lost roughly $290 million worth of rsETH after a sophisticated attack by the Lazarus Group that combined RPC node poisoning with a DDoS on the LayerZero Decentralized Verifier Network, prompting emergency measures across major lending platforms.
Anthropic’s flagship AI model Claude Mythos was accessed by unauthorized Discord users through contractor credentials and URL guessing, prompting an official response, disputed claims by ShinyHunters, alarming AISI test results, and a ripple of concern across the AI and financial sectors.
An IDOR access‑control flaw allowed a hacker to infiltrate France’s ANTS portal, which issues IDs, passports and driver’s licences, exposing up to 19 million citizens’ personal data—including names, addresses, birth details and authentication credentials—as the attacker claimed the breach was merely to demonstrate governmental vulnerability.
ActiveMQ-EXPtools is a security utility that detects and exploits multiple Apache ActiveMQ CVEs, provides Perl reverse‑shell payloads for CVE‑2015‑5254, notes authentication requirements for CVE‑2022‑41678, and offers download links and references for further analysis.
This article presents a hybrid script‑plus‑LLM Skill that automates decompilation, interface extraction, sensitive data discovery, encryption analysis, and vulnerability assessment for WeChat mini‑programs, showing a step‑by‑step workflow, agent architecture, example results, and a GitHub implementation that reduces analysis time to about 20‑30 minutes.
