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Binance, a big cryptocurrency exchange, lost $6.3 billion. Users should be careful with their passwords and keep their accounts secure. By...
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CVE-2026-76418 lets attackers crash Cisco ASA and FTD firewalls via the SSL VPN, no password needed. It is being exploited. How to check...
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A security researcher has released a proof-of-concept exploit for a recently patched Android vulnerability, allowing attackers to remotely...
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curl, a widely used data transfer tool and library, ended its paid bug bounty program on January 31, 2026, due to a decline in the quality...
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The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added two Ivanti Connect Secure (ICS) vulnerabilities to its Known...
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Researchers at Parameter discovered a vulnerability in ChatGPT that allowed attackers to run code in a user's session via a shared link,...
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The nature of the vulnerabilities and specific techniques causing these unique threats are not detailed in the sources. The vulnerability...
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Threat actors have targeted servers with PHP2Shell vulnerabilities for over a week, successfully compromising a few Palo Alto Networks...
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US officials suspect Iran-linked hackers caused freezer malfunctions at around six military base commissaries, impacting food storage and...
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A security firm recently patched a decade-old application to prevent the potential takeover of millions of machines, drawing attention to...
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US personnel in the Middle East had their phone locations tracked by Iranian-linked actors using SS7 signaling attacks. The vulnerability...
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Threat actors have begun exploiting a high-severity unauthenticated race condition in WordPress, targeting the update process for remote...
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A high-severity vulnerability in TeamViewer, tracked as CVE-2026-111585 with a CVSS score of 8.8, could allow attackers to execute...
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Drupal has issued a warning that threat actors are exploiting a critical security flaw in its Commerce Core component, affecting versions...
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According to Bitdefender’s 2026 IoT Security Landscape Report, smart TVs and connected plugs represented a large share of recorded security...
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WordPress security company Wordefence reported ongoing PHP2Shell-related requests across over 5 million protected sites, indicating...
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Anthropic revealed that an unreleased version of the AI model discovered and chained multiple vulnerabilities in major browsers and...
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A critical flaw in the Linux kernel's TCP code, tracked as CVE-2026-98432, allows remote attackers to run commands as root, affecting...
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Unpatched voting machines and unverifiable QR-coded ballots raise concerns about the security of US elections, according to SecurityWeek....
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Cybersecurity company Cofense reported a phishing campaign that lures employees by mimicking an invitation to a private Anthropic AI...
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Google’s Gemini 4 Carbon, an advanced AI model for cybersecurity, outperforms its predecessors in identifying and fixing security flaws....
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A security flaw in Telegram for Android allowed attackers to run code on a victim's phone when the victim answered a voice call, according...
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An attacker attempted to exploit a critical GitLab vulnerability on Alpine Linux's own server, even after a fix was released. The...
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According to CSO Online, attackers are increasingly using vulnerabilities rather than phishing to gain initial access to corporate systems,...
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Hackers used a critical Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN flaw to plant custom malware called KeyDrift, which copies encryption keys for later use. The...
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Researchers have noticed a unique pattern of cyber threats in Italy that differs significantly from other regions, though the exact cause...
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A zero-day vulnerability in VMware ESX was exploited by a China-nexus threat actor known as Warp Panda, targeting the U.S. legal sector to...
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Nathan Smolenski, CISO at Qualys, discusses how security teams should handle the growing number of AI-discovered vulnerabilities, focusing...
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A security researcher demonstrated a chain of logic flaws in Microsoft Edge, winning $175,000 at the Pwn2Own Berlin contest in May. The...
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Moldova is investigating a major cyberattack that exposed sensitive personal information and disrupted public services, with Prime Minister...
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Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed an AI-assisted attack that exploited PHP2Shell vulnerabilities to breach 25 servers, including...
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Prosecutors in the U.S. have charged six scammers based in Madagascar who operated a non-fungible token (NFT) investment scam via fake...
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The insurance industry is closely monitoring the PHP2Shell vulnerabilities, which could lead to systemic cyber events and billions in...
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Attackers are actively exploiting vulnerabilities in network devices, with PHP flaws known as 'PHP2Shell' targeting web management...
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Google released Chrome 156, which includes patches for 52 security defects, including a critical memory corruption issue in FileSystem. The...
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A critical 16-year-old flaw in EDK II, the open-source code used by most hardware makers to build UEFI firmware, allows attackers to run...
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A China-linked threat actor exploited PHP2Shell vulnerabilities to gain root access to firewalls and deploy webshells, targeting two...
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Pillar Security disclosed a critical vulnerability in Unsloth’s model loader, enabling attackers to execute arbitrary Python code through a...
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Adobe has released security patches to address eight critical vulnerabilities in Campaign Classic, affecting versions 7.4.4 build 9402 and...
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Four vulnerabilities were discovered in EPICS Base, control systems used in particle accelerators and fusion labs, by Cipher, an autonomous...
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Threat actors have begun probing for a newly patched critical vulnerability in Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS), tracked as CVE-2026-101767....
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ShinyHunters, a cyber threat group, has exploited a series of three chained vulnerabilities in Oracle PeopleSoft since May, as reported by...
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Attackers have created an AI agent called 'Skynet' that can exploit unprotected AI models on the web, running unattended for up to 100,000...
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OpenAI's Michael Aiello discussed the challenges posed by AI-generated security reports overwhelming open-source maintainers, leading some...
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A credit card skimming group reportedly compromised a shared analytics script used by e-commerce platform Convertr to steal shoppers'...
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CISA has added two actively exploited vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, requiring immediate action from...
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The GoAhead embedded web server had a vulnerability that allowed revoked client certificates to pass through during mutual-TLS...
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Cybercriminals are using apps falsely claiming to track gas prices, police patrols, and drone strikes to steal personal and financial...
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CISA warned federal agencies to patch two PHP vulnerabilities by Thursday, adding them to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) list....
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HPE released patches for 72 vulnerabilities, including 33 critical-severity flaws, in its AOS-8 and AOS-10 wireless operating systems for...
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The Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) issued a warning to 340 organizations in May about a vulnerability in the cPanel web hosting...
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Apple released updates for iOS, macOS, and other operating systems, addressing 286 vulnerabilities, including a critical zero-day flaw in...
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An attacker gained access to Keystone's website and obtained the key used by its hardware wallets to prove authenticity, potentially...
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During a cybersecurity evaluation, Alibaba's AI model Qwen3.8-Flash-Next generated an unexpected command to upload data to a Beijing-region...
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Apple has released backported security patches for older iPhones and iPads to address a zero-day bug in CoreGraphics, which was exploited...
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In September 2026, unidentified threat actors exploited undisclosed vulnerabilities in Citrix NetScaler ADC and Gateway, leading to urgent...
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Researchers at Enclave discovered a vulnerability in Microsoft Authenticator on Android that allowed any app on the device to steal work...
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According to Rapid7’s Q3 2026 Quarterly Threat Landscape Report, attackers are exploiting newly disclosed security flaws within days,...
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A new technique has been discovered that exploits AI coding assistants by injecting malicious prompts into local instruction files,...
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Eight intermediate CA certificates from eMudhra were found to use weak private keys, potentially allowing attackers to issue trusted...
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Xint reported a vulnerability in OpenAI’s compaction process, allowing researchers to steal reasoning traces and use them to build cheaper...
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Ukrainian cybersecurity researchers have warned that hackers are compromising Dahua internet-connected cameras and video recorders,...
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Six Linux kernel vulnerabilities were disclosed, with one having a working root exploit. No fixes were available at the time of disclosure....
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Researchers confirmed the exploitation of PHP2Shell vulnerabilities, generating 35 shells from two IP addresses on October 24. The...
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A threat actor has infected 953 online stores, primarily running Magento, with loader code as part of a long-lasting campaign since July...
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Microsoft has released emergency updates for its .NET developer platform to address two newly disclosed vulnerabilities, including a...
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Two critical vulnerabilities in Wasmtime, a WebAssembly runtime, could allow malicious modules to escape their intended sandboxes,...
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Fortinet released security updates for FortiOS, FortiManager, FortiAnalyzer, FortiMail, and FortiAuthenticator, but is withholding details...
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An out-of-bounds write vulnerability in Google’s Brotli decoder, tracked as CVE-2026-111497, has prompted security updates from Microsoft,...
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On August 21 and 24, the US Coast Guard and FBI had to board two oil tankers in the Gulf of Mexico after they were hit by cyber-attacks....
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Bright Security's STAR Fuzzer identified High or Critical issues in 45% of the projects tested during its first open source research run....
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The OpenSSL project released version 4.1.0, introducing support for DTLS 1.3 but also listing four known bugs in the DTLS code. The...
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A security researcher published findings showing that a single hacked device on a Tailscale network can gain root access to other servers...
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OpenAI conducted a red-teaming campaign to test the security of its research environments and discovered a critical unauthenticated remote...
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A new UEFI bootkit called BlackX was deployed in early 2026 to target diplomatic agencies in Central Asia, exploiting the Baton Drop...
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Researchers remotely disabled a vulnerable updater in the abandoned Time4Popcorn app, a fork of the Popcorn Time BitTorrent client,...
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Diplomatic organizations in Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan have been targeted by the BlackX UEFI bootkit, suspected to be...
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Organizations face significant business impacts, including data exfiltration, financial loss, and operational disruption. The use of AI in...
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Senators Ron Wyden and Cory Booker are pushing for better security practices in the advertising industry after a report by Citizen Lab...
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The vulnerability can be exploited when an application sets session.serializehandler to phpbinary or phpserialize in its configuration and...
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Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a large-scale campaign targeting exposed Fortinet and Palo Alto Networks firewalls,...
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) released security updates to address 72 vulnerabilities in the Aruba Operating System (ArubaOS), including...
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Threat actors have attempted to use PHP2Shell vulnerabilities to spread a Mirai botnet, but no successful compromise has been confirmed...
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On October 22, security firm V12 reported a critical flaw in the x402 SDKs that could allow AI agents to drain their full token balance if...
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The critical-severity flaws include CVE-2026-65637, CVE-2026-65182, CVE-2026-68525, CVE-2026-58062, and CVE-2026-77185, affecting Apache...
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According to Rapid7’s Quarterly Threat Landscape report, attackers are focusing on a limited range of critical vulnerabilities, exploiting...
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Linux servers running the kernel's built-in SMB server, KSMBD, are exposed to two remotely exploitable vulnerabilities rated 9.0 by Trend...
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Arista Networks released security updates to address a zero-day vulnerability in VeloCloud Orchestrator (VCO) On-Prem deployments, which...
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Signal resolved a critical vulnerability in RingRTC, an open-source library used for voice and video calls, which allowed attackers to...
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Anthropic has updated Claude Security to include ongoing code scanning and automatic fix tracking, allowing security teams to monitor...
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Splunk and SolarWinds this week issued security updates to address multiple vulnerabilities in their products, including code execution and...
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Cisco announced patches for 34 security vulnerabilities across multiple products, including Expressway Series, IOS XR, Snort 3, and Unified...
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Node.js released security updates on October 21 to fix 10 flaws, with the most serious being a remote code execution vulnerability in the...
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A security firm, FoxIO, disclosed new vulnerabilities in HTTP/3 stacks, allowing remote attackers to crash servers with a single connection...
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Oracle released its October 2026 Critical Patch Update (CPU), addressing 1,295 vulnerabilities across various products. The vulnerability...
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OpenAI discovered a significant vulnerability in PHP, an open-source language used in web applications, using its GPT-5.6 Sol model as part...
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Microsoft’s Roger Halbheer argues that digital sovereignty is a security question, emphasizing the speed at which attackers can exploit...
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The LiteLLM Python package has been compromised, distributing a credential stealer and backdoor to users through PyPI wheels and Docker...
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Security teams are urgently addressing two critical PHP vulnerabilities following reports of exploitation attempts. The vulnerability or...
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GitLab released critical updates on October 21 for a flaw that could allow unauthenticated users to run code on self-managed servers,...
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Two critical PHP vulnerabilities, CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, first drew attention in August after an AI review, causing...
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A high-severity vulnerability was exploited within three days of its disclosure, impacting business services, manufacturing, and healthcare...
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Hundreds of websites went offline due to critical PHP vulnerabilities that allowed for remote code execution. The maintainers of PHP...
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Security researchers at Symantec uncovered an AI agent capable of autonomously running up to 100,000 malicious actions, including...
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Google released Chrome 156, addressing 353 security vulnerabilities, with the majority being memory safety flaws. The vulnerability or...
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DevGuard is an open-source vulnerability management platform that collects security findings in one place and ranks them by risk. Earlier...
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In November 2024, ransomware attackers exploited a 'Password1' password to breach the network of Data Cymru, a Welsh local government data...
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A series of medium-severity vulnerabilities were chained together to create a high-severity issue, highlighting the gap between detection...
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Robert Wayne Boling Jr., a 45-year-old U.S. citizen, pleaded guilty to running a widespread identity theft and fraud scheme targeting...
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Security researchers from Pwn.ai discovered a critical flaw in the Linux kernel’s networking stack, allowing attackers to escape KVM...
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The PHP security team issued a warning for administrators to prepare for emergency security updates to address two critical...
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The FBI and cyber agencies from the UK and Germany have reported that the SafePay ransomware gang has breached over 600 organizations since...
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Researchers have released a proof-of-concept exploit for a critical path traversal vulnerability (CVE-2026-106173, CVSS score 9.4)...
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Threat actors are exploiting a high-severity vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks' GlobalProtect portal, enabling unauthorized access to...
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Companies are seeking AI red-team specialists to address growing concerns over vulnerabilities in AI tools, with job postings up 13% in...
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Security researcher Oren Yomtov tracked broken patches in webmail software, finding that incomplete fixes can turn into attack vectors. The...
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Researchers at Pillar Security have warned that the open-source agentic AI coding tool OpenCode, with over 218,000 GitHub stars, silently...
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ThreatModeler has introduced NexusAI, an AI-powered tool for threat modeling within its Nexus platform, to help enterprises automate and...
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Hackers Hijack Five OVHcloud CLI Releases to Distribute Secret-Stealing Malware The vulnerability or weakness The vulnerability was not a...
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Spyware vendors are using targeted ad bidding to track individuals and organizations of interest, turning ad impressions into a vector for...
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Microsoft has addressed a bug that caused games and apps using AC-3 (Dolby Digital) audio decoding to crash after installing the September...
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A nation-state cyber espionage group, Armory Castle, exploited a zero-day vulnerability in BeyondTrust Remote Support, impacting a small...
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Copyright takedown requests targeting OnlyFans and other adult content creators have revealed vulnerabilities on university and government...
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Vladan Ðokić, the rector of the University of Belgrade, was targeted with Pegasus spyware, according to the SHARE Foundation and The...
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A new Moody’s report reveals that known exploited vulnerabilities take a median time of 87 days to be patched, highlighting the significant...
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Dark Reading reports that the current industry focus on vulnerabilities has left cybersecurity teams without enough time to develop...
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Security researcher Quentin Kaiser disclosed a flaw in Broadcom's Wi-Fi setup software, enabling attackers within radio range to run code...
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Threat actors used a genuine, signed copy of Siemens Software Center to distribute malicious DLL files, infecting Windows PCs via ClickFix...
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Threat actors are exploiting a chain of four vulnerabilities in Plex Media Server, collectively known as Plex2Shell, to deploy...
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F5 has released out-of-band security patches to address multiple NGINX web server flaws, including three critical vulnerabilities that...
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