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Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a malicious Go module that’s designed to harvest passwords, create persistent access via SSH, and deliver a Linux backdoor named Rekoobe. The Go module, github[.]com/xinfeisoft/crypto, impersonates the legitimate “golang.org/x/crypto” codebase, but injects malicious code that’s responsible for exfiltrating secrets entered via terminal password
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This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine
Sausalito, Calif. – Feb. 27, 2026Cybercrime Magazine’s latest YouTube Short video, produced by Taylor Fox, looks back at a riveting privacy and surveillance story that gripped students, parents, and educators across the U.S.
In 2009, a 15-year-old named Blake Robbins was called to the principal’s office and accused of taking drugs. The proof? A webcam photo… taken in his own bedroom.
Blake was just a normal teen at Harriton High, in Philadelphia. But that year, the school gave every student a brand-new MacBook. It was supposed to be a dream—homework, AIM chats, video games—all at your fingertips.
Except that dream came with a dark twist. The laptops had software called ‘Theft Track’ meant to locate lost or stolen computers. But instead, it secretly took thousands of photos of students at home. Without their knowledge. Without their consent.
When a photo surfaced of Blake holding what appeared to be drugs, the school freaked out. But Blake hadn’t touched drugs. That ‘proof’? It was just a misshapen Mike and Ike candy from a video he sent to a friend.
The case went viral. It was called WebcamGate. The FBI uncovered over 56,000 images taken on students’ laptops. 36 students were targeted at home. Many never had a missing laptop. And still… their privacy was stripped away.
Blake and his family sued. Settlements were reached, but most of the money went to lawyers. His sister Paige sued later, fearing the photos could ruin her future. Meanwhile, the school defended itself, claiming it never ‘spied’ on students.
What happened to Blake wasn’t an anomaly. It was a preview of how student surveillance could become normal. Is this just the beginning?
Blake left Pennsylvania at 18. The school? Still denying wrongdoing.
That laptop – that photo – changed how America thinks about privacy in schools today. (Here’s Blake’s current Instagram account)
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The post WebcamGate 2009: A High School’s Laptop Initiative Turned Into A National Spying Scandal appeared first on Cybercrime Magazine.
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For years, defenders have relied on a simple strategy to dismantle botnets find and seize their command-and-control (C2) servers. That weakness enabled global law enforcement operations to disrupt massive botnets such as Emotet, TrickBot, and QakBot. But a newly identified C2 framework, Aeternum, may render those tactics obsolete. Instead of using centralized servers or domains, Aeternum […]
The post Researchers Unveil Aeternum C2 Infrastructure with Advanced Evasion and Persistence Tactics appeared first on GBHackers Security | #1 Globally Trusted Cyber Security News Platform.
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A critical security flaw has been identified in the RustFS Console, exposing administrators to a high risk of account takeover. Tracked as CVE-2026-27822, this Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability carries a critical CVSS v3 score of 10.0 and affects versions of the Rust package before 1.0.0-alpha.82. The vulnerability allows an attacker to execute arbitrary JavaScript […]
The post Stored XSS Vulnerability in RustFS Console Puts S3 Admin Credentials at Risk appeared first on GBHackers Security | #1 Globally Trusted Cyber Security News Platform.
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The North Korean threat actor known as ScarCruft has been attributed to a fresh set of tools, including a backdoor that uses Zoho WorkDrive for command-and-control (C2) communications to fetch more payloads and an implant that uses removable media to relay commands and breach air-gapped networks. The campaign, codenamed Ruby Jumper by Zscaler ThreatLabz, involves the deployment of malware
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The 2026 State of DevSecOps report reveals a critical tension between development velocity and security. While organizations rapidly adopt AI-assisted coding, many fail to manage dependencies properly, leaving their software supply chains highly vulnerable to threat actors. Threat Intelligence Data Threat Vector Key Metric Security Impact Deployed Services 87% of organizations have known vulnerabilities . High […]
The post Study Finds 87% of Organizations Exposed to Attacks Due to Known Vulnerabilities appeared first on GBHackers Security | #1 Globally Trusted Cyber Security News Platform.
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A new backdoor dubbed Dohdoor is actively targeting schools and health care organizations in the United States through a stealthy multi-stage attack chain. UAT-10027 focuses on education and health care entities in the U.S., sectors that handle highly sensitive personal and medical data but often have limited security budgets and legacy systems. Cisco Talos assesses with low […]
The post Dohdoor Malware Targets U.S. Schools and Healthcare with Multi-Stage Attack appeared first on GBHackers Security | #1 Globally Trusted Cyber Security News Platform.
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Varonis Threat Labs reveals 1Campaign, a platform used to trick Google Ads and hide phishing pages. Learn how this cloaking tool targets real users while evading security.
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Threat actors are luring unsuspecting users into running trojanized gaming utilities that are distributed via browsers and chat platforms to distribute a remote access trojan (RAT). “A malicious downloader staged a portable Java runtime and executed a malicious Java archive (JAR) file named jd-gui.jar,” the Microsoft Threat Intelligence team said in a post on X. “This downloader used PowerShell
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