New Bluekit phishing service includes an AI assistant, 40 templates
2026-05-01T07:23:32Z•7edf5a83f76983e7b7a7f62ce52faf20ae12f10ae641cf5f2b9885c3b160c0ca
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What happened
Multiple high-impact threats reported: a new Bluekit phishing-as-a-service offers >40 templates and an AI assistant to speed campaign creation; a critical authentication-bypass in cPanel/WHM (CVE-2026-41940) is being actively exploited with PoC available and emergency updates issued; a widespread Linux local privilege escalation (‘Copy Fail’) allows unprivileged users to gain root on kernels since 2017 (exploit published); Qinglong task scheduler authentication-bypass/RCE is being abused to deploy cryptominers; official SAP npm packages were trojanized (TeamPCP supply-chain credential theft);
Why it matters
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Evidence and limitations
- Source ID
- bleepingcomputer
- Record identifier
- 7edf5a83f76983e7b7a7f62ce52faf20ae12f10ae641cf5f2b9885c3b160c0ca
- Enrichment time
- 2026-05-01T07:23:32Z
- AI-assisted enrichment
- Yes
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