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Cybersecurity

Technology · Cybersecurity

Ubuntu snap-confine Flaw Could Give Local Users Root on Default Desktop Installs

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability in snap-confine that an unprivileged user can trigger to obtain root acces…

Technology · Cybersecurity

Adobe Acrobat Extension Flaw Let Malicious Sites Read WhatsApp Web Data

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a now-patched vulnerability chain in the Adobe Acrobat Chrome extension that has over 314 million users, which, if exploited, c…

Technology · Cybersecurity

Hackers Exploit Windmill Flaw to Read Arbitrary Server Files Without Authentication

A high-severity security flaw impacting open-source developer platform Windmill has come under active exploitation in the wild, per VulnCheck. The vulnerability in question is CVE…

Technology · Cybersecurity

The Fastest Path to AI Adoption Runs Through Security

Security leaders who build fast, visible paths to AI adoption are becoming the most valued partners in their organizations. AI governance done right gives security teams the visib…

Technology · Cybersecurity

Why Modern SOCs Need Multi-Layered Detections

The cycle is over. For years, cybersecurity followed a familiar pattern: defenses improved, attackers adapted, and the back-and-forth continued. Today, AI-equipped attackers are s…

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Police Dismantle Kratos Phishing Kit Built to Steal Microsoft 365 Sessions and Bypass MFA

German and US law enforcement have taken down the core infrastructure of Kratos, described by German investigators as one of the world's most widely used criminal phishing kits, a…

Technology · Cybersecurity

Trojanized Newtonsoft.Json Fork Hides Game-Rigging Code in a Working Library

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a NuGet typosquat that's unlike the typical information-stealing malware distributed via package registries: usual info-stealers: it's de…

Technology · Cybersecurity

Microsoft Azure DevOps MCP Flaw Lets Hidden PR Comments Hijack AI Review Agents

A single invisible comment in an Azure DevOps pull request can turn a reviewer's own AI coding agent against them, driving it into projects the attacker has no rights to reach and…

Technology · Cybersecurity

OpenAI Says Its AI Models Escaped Sandbox, Targeted Hugging Face to Cheat Benchmark

OpenAI on Tuesday said a combination of its artificial intelligence (AI) models, including GPT-5.6 Sol and an "even more capable pre-release model," was behind the security incide…

Technology · Cybersecurity

LG to Ban Residential Proxies from Smart TV Apps

The home appliance giant LG Electronics USA said this week it plans to suspend any apps built for its smart TVs that turn one's television into an always-on residential proxy node…

Technology · Cybersecurity

Apple Fixes Hide My Email Bug That Exposed Real Addresses in Mail Logs

Apple has moved to address a security flaw in its Hide My Email service that enabled users' real email addresses to be unmasked, effectively undermining the feature's privacy guar…

Technology · Cybersecurity

AWS Kiro Flaw Let a Poisoned Web Page Rewrite Its Config and Run Code

Hidden text on a web page was enough to make Kiro, AWS's agentic coding IDE, rewrite its own configuration file and run an attacker's code on a developer's machine, with no approv…

Technology · Cybersecurity

Google Launches Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber AI to Find and Fix Software Vulnerabilities

Google's DeepMind on Tuesday announced the release of Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber, a specialized artificial intelligence (AI) model built atop 3.5 Flash that's designed to discover, va…

Technology · Cybersecurity

Critical SharePoint RCE CVE-2026-50522 Under Active Exploitation After Public PoC

A third SharePoint Server flaw patched by Microsoft as part of its Patch Tuesday update for July 2026 has come under active exploitation, per watchTowr. The vulnerability in quest…

Technology · Cybersecurity

Qilin Ransomware Attackers Exploit PAN-OS Authentication Bypass for Initial Access

Threat actors have been observed exploiting a now-patched high-severity Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS vulnerability as an entry point to deploy Qilin (aka Agenda) ransomware on victim…

Technology · Cybersecurity

Zimbra Patches Critical SNMP Command Injection and Four XSS Vulnerabilities

Zimbra has rolled out fixes to address multiple critical security issues, including a command injection flaw in the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) monitoring component.…

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Open-Source Android AI Agents Could Let Invisible Screen Text Run Code on Host PCs

An Android app that can draw over other windows and write to shared storage can slip instructions to the AI agent driving that phone, in text no human eye will ever see. Two more …

Technology · Cybersecurity

N-day is Becoming N-Hour. Patching Faster Won't Save You.

Every patch is a confession. The moment a vendor ships a security fix, the diff between the old code and the new code tells anyone watching exactly what was broken and where. Turn…

Technology · Cybersecurity

New Bit2Watt Attack Could Let Cloud Tenants Disrupt Power Grids Without an Exploit

A cloud tenant using nothing but ordinary GPU access can push a data center's power draw up and down fast enough to threaten the grid it runs on, with no exploit and no break-in. …

Technology · Cybersecurity

WordPress wp2shell Exploitation Grows as Public Exploit Fuels Mass Scanning

Attackers have begun to exploit two critical vulnerabilities in WordPress that, when combined together, enable unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) and complete compromise …

Technology · Cybersecurity

New ENCFORGE Ransomware Targets AI Model Files in Langflow RCE Attack

Researchers at Sysdig have linked a second attack on the same Langflow server to JADEPUFFER, the AI-agent-driven operator it first documented earlier this month. The same operator…

Technology · Cybersecurity

Critical ServiceNow AI Platform Flaw Exploited for Unauthenticated Code Execution

Threat actors are now exploiting a recently disclosed critical security flaw impacting ServiceNow AI Platform, according to Defused Cyber. In a post shared on X, the threat intell…

Technology · Cybersecurity

FakeGit Campaign Uses 7,600 GitHub Repositories to Spread SmartLoader Malware

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered nearly 7,600 malicious GitHub repositories, out of which more than 800 pose as artificial intelligence (AI) skills or Model Context Proto…

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Exposed Server Reveals AI-Assisted Phishing Toolkit Behind WebDAV Malware Campaign

A malware operator left its delivery server wide open, and Rapid7 pulled down the whole toolkit: 1,048 files spanning lure templates, filename-spoofing tests, execution experiment…