Cyber Security Week in Review: June 19, 2026
In brief: Fortinet, Cisco and other vendors fix multiple exploited bugs, Arch Linux users targeted in a large-scale malware campaign, and more.
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Threat actor uses marketing-style campaign to spread cryptocurrency malware
The campaign promotes fake Solana and Pump.fun sniper bots and crash-game predictors via phishing websites, GitHub repositories, SourceForge projects, YouTube videos, and posts on legitimate news websites.
Over 140 Mastra npm packages compromised in supply chain attack
Attackers hijacked a legitimate npm account belonging to a former Mastra contributor and published 144 malicious package versions within 88 minutes.
Malicious JetBrains plugins stole AI API keys from developers
The plugins, published under seven different vendor accounts, were masked as AI coding assistants, code-review tools, and Git utilities.
DragonForce malware hides C&C traffic via Microsoft Teams infrastructure
Backdoor.Turn is believed to be the first known malware observed in real-world attacks abusing Microsoft Teams TURN relay servers for stealthy communications.
Conti ransomware affiliate pleads guilty in the US
Lytvynenko also admitted to helping develop a loader used to deploy malware.
China-linked FishMonger group expands SprySOCKS backdoor to Windows systems
ESET confirmed real-world activity between 2023 and 2024, targeting government organizations in Honduras, Taiwan, Thailand, and Pakistan.
Fortinet, LiteSpeed cPanel and Cisco vulnerabilities exploited in the wild
Cisco has released patches for CVE-2026-20262, a zero-day vulnerability affecting Catalyst SD-WAN Manager.
Belarus-affiliated GhostWriter targets Gmail accounts of Polish public figures
GhostWriter has increasingly focused on Gmail users since March of this year.
China-linked hackers use custom malware to spy on medical research orgs
GTIG believes the attackers first compromised the organization in September 2023 after probing outdated REDCap installations.
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