Here’s five ways to implement a cyber resilience plan well before a medical facility experiences a crisis.
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CrowdStrike Disrupts Glassworm Supply Chain Botnet
CrowdStrike announced the coordinated takedown of the Glassworm botnet, a large-scale operation that targeted software developers through compromised open-source packages, malicious VSCode extensions, and poisoned GitHub repositories. The operation, conducted alongside Google and the Shadowserver Foundation, disrupted the botnet’s infrastructure and severed communication between the operators and infected systems. “In collaboration with Google and the…
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The Hidden Ransomware Economy Running on Exposed Databases
A 5-year study on the Ransomware Economy found that 30,515 exposed databases were hit by ransom attacks, causing massive damage despite victims never paying. Database extortion doesn’t look like the ransomware stories that usually grab headlines. There’s no slick branding, no leak-site countdown, no gang posting memes on Telegram. In most cases, there’s just a…
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Services Revenue Becomes the Channel’s Growth Engine
Halfway into 2026, managed services continue to emerge as one of the industry’s strongest growth engines. Gone are the days when infrastructure deals and one-time product sales dominated partner revenue. Increasingly, the real opportunity lies in the services surrounding technology, from AI advisory and deployment to cybersecurity management and implementation. In this article, we examine…
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ConnectWise Automate Vulnerability Could Allow Security Check Bypass and RCE
ConnectWise has disclosed a vulnerability in its Automate remote monitoring and management (RMM) platform that could allow attackers to bypass integrity verification mechanisms and execute malicious code in affected environments. The flaw impacts on-premises versions of ConnectWise Automate prior to version 2026.5 and carries a CVSS score of 8.8. “Under certain conditions, components obtained during…
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Dell CEO Says Agentic AI is Straining Supply Chains
The AI boom was already straining the supply chain, and agentic AI is apparently pushing it to a new level of dysfunction. Speaking at Dell Technologies World 2026 in Las Vegas, Dell Technologies CEO Michael Dell said the rise of autonomous AI systems is making it harder for supply and demand to settle into any…
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Well-architected best practices for software supply chain security
There have been multiple notable supply chain attacks using the npm Registry since September: Shai-Hulud, Chalk/Debug, one abusing tea.xyz tokens, and recently axios. Thanks to community efforts involving the Amazon Inspector team, the Open Source Security Foundation, and others, the affected packages were quickly flagged, which reduced the impact of these incidents. Supply chain attacks…
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Detectify launches MCP server to integrate security testing into AI coding workflows
The Detectify MCP Server utilizes the Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open standard adopted across the AI industry for agent-tool communication.
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CypherLoc scareware tricks millions into identity theft traps
The CypherLoc attack begins with a phishing email containing a malicious link or attachment.
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FBI warns of Kali365 phishing kit that breaks into Microsoft 365 accounts – no password required
So, you’ve enabled multi-factor authentication. You’ve taught your staff never to type their passwords into dodgy-looking login pages. Surely your Microsoft 365 accounts are safe now? Well, think again. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
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Critical vulnerability in Universal Robots’ PolyScope OS allows remote command execution
The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-8153 with a CVSS score of 9.8, affects all PolyScope software versions prior to 5.25.1.
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Zero-day vulnerability in Japanese LMS exploited to deploy Cobalt Strike
The vulnerability, CVE-2026-5426, stems from the use of hard-coded ASP.NET machine keys within the LMS.
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The Oncology Institute reports patient data potentially exposed in third-party vendor breach
The Oncology Institute disclosed on May 20, 2026, that Kroll, a third-party administrator for an unnamed vendor, detected unauthorized access to systems that may have affected patient data.
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CVE-2026-48095: 7-Zip Heap Buffer Overflow Can Lead to Code Execution
CVE-2026-48095 in 7-Zip has raised fresh concerns around malicious archive handling and user-driven exploitation. According to GitHub Security Lab, the flaw is a heap buffer write overflow in 7-Zip’s NTFS archive handler that affects version 26.00 and can potentially lead to arbitrary code execution or application crashes. The issue was fixed in 7-Zip 26.01, released…
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Zero-click attack hijacks WhatsApp accounts on iOS 16
The attack exploits vulnerabilities in iOS 16, specifically CVE-2025-43300 within the ImageIO framework and potentially CVE-2025-55177, to gain unauthorized access to WhatsApp sessions.
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North Korea’s Lazarus Group uses new RemotePE malware against financial targets
RemotePE is deployed through a multi-stage attack chain involving two loaders, DPAPILoader and RemotePELoader.
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SpaceX’s AI Pursuits Have Yet to Take Off
Plus, California studies AI job losses, Anthropic’s revenue soars and Nvidia plays the role of $5 trillion underdog.
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Mainframe Security Gaps: Why Your IAM Strategy is Failing (And How to Fix It) – WC #1
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High-Quality Customer Outcomes Require Courageous Leadership
This article is written by Brett Diamond, CEO, 11:11 Systems, and provided to Channel Insider by 11:11 Systems. Every company claims to be customer-first. Many invest in support, success teams, and service management frameworks. But the uncomfortable truth is this: ensuring quality at every customer touch point often requires focused decision-making. And the decisions that…
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Claude Mythos AI Identified 10,000+ Software Vulnerabilities in One Month
Anthropic says its Claude Mythos AI identified more than 10,000 software vulnerabilities in one month, including critical flaws in open-source code.
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OnlyFans user data advertised on cybercrime forum, seller claims no direct breach
A user on a cybercrime forum is selling a database of 340 million records allegedly linked to OnlyFans users for approximately $76,000.
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Ghost CMS vulnerability exploited in large-scale campaign
The vulnerability, identified as CVE-2026-26980, affects Ghost versions 3.24.0 through 6.19.0, allowing unauthenticated attackers to steal admin API keys.
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MuddyWater Uses DLL Side-Loading in Espionage Campaign Targeting 9 Countries
The Iranian hacking group known as MuddyWater has been linked to a new campaign affecting at least nine organizations across nine countries on four continents in the first quarter of 2026. The activity targeted industrial and electronics manufacturing, education and public-sector bodies, financial services, and professional services, per the Threat Hunter Team from Symantec and…
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Apple opens its post-Quantum encryption vault
The tech world is rapidly waking up to the security threat posed by future quantum computers, which will be able to break the encryption we now use to protect our internet existences with ease. Against that backdrop, Apple’s decision to share iPhone and Mac post-quantum cryptography code on GitHub speaks volumes. Lost in the fog of reporting over the Memorial…
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Anthropic: Mythos finds more than 10,000 software flaws in first month
Anthropic said its month-old Project Glasswing initiative has uncovered more than 10,000 high- or critical-severity software vulnerabilities across systemically important code, a finding the company says has shifted the central problem in cybersecurity from discovering flaws to verifying and patching them. The findings, drawn from partner reports and independent evaluations, mark one of the first…
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RondoDox botnet exploits old ASUS router vulnerability
The RondoDox botnet has been exploiting this vulnerability since May 17, as discovered by VulnCheck’s Canary Network.
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Chinese Threat Actors Ditch Static Phishing Pages for Live Credential Interception
Almost all organizations impersonated by Chinese phishing platforms are non-Chinese entities, suggesting operators deliberately avoid domestic targets
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Anthropic: Claude Mythos identified 10,000+ software flaws
Anthropic and its Project Glasswing partners have identified more than 10,000 high- or critical-severity vulnerabilities in critical software systems, the company announced in an update on the project’s progress. Mythos identifies thousands of high-severity vulnerabilities In April 2026, Anthropic introduced Claude Mythos Preview, a new large language model that can autonomously find zero-day vulnerabilities and…
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Chinese phishing gangs grow into a force to be reckoned with
Chinese-language phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) communities are expanding in an area historically dominated by Russian-speaking cybercriminal groups. The Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) analyzed a dozen active PhaaS offerings operating in Chinese-language underground communities and found mature services, with several likely linked to broader criminal activity in the region. Nearly all legitimate organizations mimicked by these phishing…
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GitHub Actions abused by Megalodon attack to slip malicious commits into 5,500 repos
A large-scale automated GitHub backdooring campaign was caught pushing thousands of malicious commits into public repositories while posing as routine CI/CD upkeep. Researchers at SafeDep observed the campaign, Megalodon, touching more than five thousand repositories over a six-hour window on May 18. The attack was in the form of a malicious commit, “acac5a9,” targeting GitHub…
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How Varonis Atlas integrates Claude Compliance API for AI governance
AI governance requires visibility into how AI tools interact with enterprise data. Varonis explains how its Atlas platform uses Claude Compliance API data to help monitor usage, investigate risk, and support compliance. […]
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BTMOB Android RAT Spreads Through No-Code Builder Tooling
BTMOB Android RAT sold as a service with a no-code builder for fast, regional phishing lures
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Detectify brings AppSec automation to AI agents with MCP Server and continuous testing
Detectify has unveiled the Detectify MCP (Model Context Protocol) Server, a new integration layer that brings Detectify’s security testing engines directly into AI-driven development workflows, helping coding agents find and validate exploitable vulnerabilities and interpret attack surface data with greater precision. As organizations increasingly rely on AI agents to write, refactor, and modernize code, software…
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Actively exploited Trend Micro Apex One flaw gets CISA warning (CVE-2026-34926)
A relative directory path traversal vulnerability (CVE-2026-34926) in Trend Micro’s Apex One platform has been exploited in zero-day attacks, the company confirmed. “TrendAI has observed at least one attempt to exploit this vulnerability in the wild,” Trend Micro noted, and credited the incident response team of its TrendAI enterprise cybersecurity business for reporting it. About…
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Conifers rolls out AI-powered SOC for unified security operations and automated response
Conifers has announced the launch of its agentic SOC, a unified AI platform designed to help security operations centers defend against cyber adversaries operating at machine speed. Built on the company’s CognitiveSOC platform, the new system connects threat intelligence, threat hunting, detection engineering, investigation, and remediation into a single operating framework grounded in each customer’s…
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Microsoft Defender can now automatically isolate hacked endpoints
Microsoft is testing a new Defender for Endpoint capability that will automatically isolate compromised endpoints to thwart attackers’ attempts to move laterally across the network. […]
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Webinar: Too many tools are slowing network incident response
IT teams often need to jump between monitoring dashboards, infrastructure tools, ticketing systems, and communication platforms during network incidents. This webinar explores how automation and AI-assisted workflows can help reduce manual coordination and improve incident response times. […]
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Remembering Tim Wilson, Whose Legacy Lives on at Dark Reading
The co-founder and former editor-in-chief passed away five years ago in November. As Dark Reading enters is third decade, we pause to celebrate and honor Wilson’s instrumental role in building and elevating the media site.
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Why Network Segmentation Projects Fail: Four Patterns
Cisco’s 2026 Segmentation Report analyzes 400 failed segmentation projects and identifies four distinct patterns of failure — and what teams can do about them
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New AI DDoS Attacks Are Smarter. Learn How to Fight Back in This Webinar
Every single day, hackers are finding new ways to crash websites and steal data. But right now, something has changed. Hackers are no longer working alone. They are now using powerful Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools to make their attacks faster, stronger, and much harder to stop. According to recent updates from The Hacker News, bad…
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Major Cyber Attacks in May 2026: Fake Invitations, Agent Tesla, BlobPhish, and More
May 2026 showed how fast routine business activity can turn into real security exposure. ANY.RUN observed phishing campaigns, fileless malware delivery, credential theft, OTP interception, and remote access abuse targeting organizations across industries. From fake invitations and banking portals to compromised B2B websites and Word Online lures, the month’s attacks had one thing in common: they were built…
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Microsoft Patches SharePoint RCE Flaw CVE-2026-45659 Across Server Versions
Microsoft has rolled out updates to fix a remote code execution vulnerability impacting SharePoint that could be exploited by bad actors in attacks without requiring any specialized conditions to be met. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-45659, carries a CVSS score of 8.8. It has been assigned an important severity. “Deserialization of untrusted data in Microsoft…
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Personal information of 185,000 people exposed after cyberattack on 7-Eleven
Data belonging to about 185,000 people was exposed following a cyberattack on convenience store chain 7-Eleven that was later claimed by the ShinyHunters extortion gang, according to Have I Been Pwned. The exposed information includes email addresses, names, physical addresses, dates of birth, and phone numbers, while a small number of records also contained additional…
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TrapDoor malware campaign puts developer workstations in CISO spotlight
A malicious package campaign across npm, PyPI, and Crates.io has put developer workstations back under scrutiny, after researchers said it targeted developer workflows and AI coding assistant files. Researchers at Socket said the campaign, which they are tracking as TrapDoor, “spans more than 34 malicious packages and 384+ related versions and artifacts” across the three…
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Tamnoon introduces skill-based AI orchestration for autonomous cloud defense
Tamnoon has expanded its AI engine, Tami, into a skill-based orchestrator that generates customer-specific remediation skills tailored to each enterprise environment. Trained on more than 6 million real cloud fixes across 800+ accounts, Tami coordinates specialized AI skills to safely and autonomously address every class of cloud risk. Two new skills are available, Remediation Confidence…
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Malware Found in Laravel-Lang Composer Packages After Git Tag Poisoning Attack
Attackers have poisoned four Laravel-Lang Composer packages by rewriting hundreds of Git tags, putting many Laravel apps at risk. Hackers compromised four popular Laravel-Lang Composer packages and injected malware by rewriting more than 700 Git tags tied to historical versions. Laravel-Lang is a community-driven project that provides translation and localization files for Laravel applications. The…
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What Readers Found When They Asked Their Chatbots About China
Plus, a Hollywood screenwriter says historical disputes sank a U.S.—China film project.
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High-severity SharePoint RCE bug patched by Microsoft (CVE-2026-45659)
Microsoft has released patches for a high-severity remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2026-45659) in SharePoint that may be exploited in low-complexity attacks. It affects the SharePoint Server Subscription Edition, SharePoint Server 2019, and SharePoint Enterprise Server 2016. About CVE-2026-45659 CVE-2026-45659 stems from Shareoint deserializing untrusted data, and may be exploited by an authenticated attacker to execute…
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India’s CERT-In Sets 12-Hour Patch Deadline for Exposed Flaws
CERT-In urges 12-hour patching of exposed flaws as AI compresses exploitation timelines
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MFA Prompt Bombing: Why Your Second Factor Isn’t Saving You
Multi-factor authentication (MFA) was supposed to close a critical gap in identity security. It meant that, even if an attacker possessed the account credentials, they couldn’t log in without the second factor. While that logic was sound, attackers have now figured out that they don’t need to steal the second factor: they just need the…
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FAQ: What you need to know about expiring Windows Secure Boot certificates
Microsoft is preparing to make a significant change to the Secure Boot system in Windows that will impact operations for both clients and servers. In a nutshell: The Secure Boot certificates that Microsoft issued 15 years ago are being replaced by newer ones, with the older certificates set to expire beginning in June. To continue…
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What happens when security teams inherit identity
At the Span Cyber Security Arena conference, I sat down with Eric Woodruff, Chief Identity Architect at Semperis, to talk about how organizations perceive identity and the challenges those perceptions create for security. He shared his perspective on where organizations struggle with identity, why identity platforms can become difficult to manage, how phishing-resistant authentication is…
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CERT-In Mandates 12-Hour Patching for Internet-Facing Flaws Amid AI-Assisted Attacks
The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) has issued new guidelines requiring organizations to patch critical security vulnerabilities in internet-exposed systems within 12 hours of being flagged where “feasible” to safeguard against potential threats stemming from threat actors’ abuse of artificial intelligence (AI) tools and large language models (LLMs) to automate vulnerability
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Iran-Linked Hackers Target US Aviation with Phishing and SEO Poisoning Campaign
Iran’s Nimbus Manticore pushes AI-built MiniFast backdoor via phishing and SEO poisoning
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Nimbus Manticore Expanded Attacks With AI-Assisted Malware and Fake Zoom Installers
Nimbus Manticore accelerated cyberattacks during wartime, using AI-assisted malware, fake Zoom installers, and SEO poisoning. When the United States launched Operation Epic Fury against Iran at the end of February 2026, most analysts expected the country’s cyber apparatus to hunker down and weather the storm. That’s not what happened. Instead, researchers at Check Point have…
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Stop treating AI governance as a review layer. Make it release infrastructure
I’ve spent years building compliance into security products. FedRAMP and Department of War Impact Level authorizations, vulnerability management pipelines: They all follow the same pattern. Build the product, then prove it meets requirements. The compliance layer sits outside the engineering workflow. It reviews what already exists. That model worked when the product stayed static between…
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AppSec Conversations on Agents, LLMs, and OWASP from RSAC – Scott Clinton, Janet Worthington, Merritt Maxim – ASW #384
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BTMOB: A stealthy RAT burrowing deep into Android devices
The malware pairs remote access capabilities with ready-made campaign tools, lowering the barrier for full device compromise
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CISA orders feds to patch actively exploited Drupal vulnerability
CISA has given U.S. government agencies until Wednesday evening to secure their servers against an SQL injection vulnerability in the Drupal content management system (CMS) that it flagged as actively exploited. […]
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Lazarus APT unveils fileless remote access Trojan designed to evade detection
North Korea-linked Lazarus APT Group is using a stealthy memory-only RAT that leaves almost no forensic traces behind. North Korea-linked APT group Lazarus has never been shy about its ambitions, the threat actor has been tied to some of the most audacious financial heists in recent memory, draining hundreds of millions from cryptocurrency exchanges and…
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Microsoft: Domain Controller lookup may fail on Windows Server 2016
Microsoft has confirmed a new known issue affecting Windows Server 2016 systems that causes domain controller lookups to fail after installing the KB5087537 May 2026 security update. […]
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Iranian Hackers Deploy MiniFast and MiniJunk V2 via Phishing and SEO Poisoning
The Iranian state-sponsored threat actor known as Nimbus Manticore (aka Screening Serpens and UNC1549) has been attributed to a fresh campaign using lures impersonating organizations in the aviation and software sectors across the U.S., Europe, and the Middle East following the joint U.S.-Israeli military campaign against the country in late February 2026. The activity, besides…
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7-Eleven data breach exposes personal information of 185,000 people
The ShinyHunters extortion gang stole the personal information of over 183,000 people after hacking the systems of convenience store chain giant 7-Eleven in April, according to data breach notification service Have I Been Pwned. […]
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Vulnerabilities have become cyber attackers’ No. 1 door to the enterprise
Patching practices are coming under intense pressure of late, as time-to-exploit windows accelerate — a new reality likely to worsen as AI assistance in attack chains rises. Now cyber defenders have another cause for flaw alarm: Vulnerability exploitation has significantly pulled away from stolen credentials as the most common entry point in security breaches, according…
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Third-Party Cyberattack Impacts Patient Information at The Oncology Institute
The Oncology Institute disclosed a data breach tied to a third-party vendor, potentially exposing patient information after a 2025 cyberattack. The Oncology Institute has confirmed that patient information was impacted in a cybersecurity incident involving a third-party software provider. The healthcare network first disclosed the security breach in November 2025 while the vendor’s investigation was…
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KnowledgeDeliver LMS Flaw Exploited to Deploy Godzilla and Cobalt Strike
A now-patched high-severity security flaw affecting Digital Knowledge KnowledgeDeliver, a Learning Management System (LMS) popular in Japan, was exploited as a zero-day to deliver the Godzilla web shell and ultimately facilitate the deployment of Cobalt Strike Beacon. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-5426 (CVSS score: 7.5), stems from the use of hard-coded ASP.NET machine keys, leading…
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Product showcase: F-Secure Internet Security blocks phishing sites, fake stores, and SMS scams
F-Secure Internet Security protects against viruses, ransomware, spyware, infected email attachments, and other cyber threats. It focuses on securing devices and online activity through malware protection, scam prevention, safe browsing, and banking safeguards. The platform supports Windows, macOS, Android, and iOS devices under a single subscription. After downloading the Android app from the Play Store,…
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Manage machine identities: The hidden privileged access layer you need to manage
Why are machine identities becoming the majority of “things with access”? Every automation, integration, and workload needs a way to authenticate and the right permissions to act. That quiet requirement has created a massive population of machine identities, also called non-human identities (NHIs): service accounts, service principals, workload roles, OAuth apps, AI agents, and IAM…
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Cybersecurity jobs available right now: May 26, 2026
Application Security Engineer IG Group | India | Hybrid – View job details As an Application Security Engineer, you will assess the security of web, mobile, and cloud applications through penetration testing, secure code reviews, threat modeling, and architecture reviews. Responsibilities also include integrating security into CI/CD pipelines, managing vulnerability remediation, supporting purple team activities,…
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Security experts caution MFA alone can no longer stop threat actors
Cybersecurity experts are warning enterprise admins about an increasing number of phishing campaigns aimed at stealing Microsoft 365 (M365) access tokens to bypass multifactor authentication login protection. Phishing kits aimed at capturing M365 tokens aren’t new; some reports say these kits have been around since 2021. One of the latest is EvilTokens, which researchers at…
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ISC Stormcast For Tuesday, May 26th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9944, (Tue, May 26th)
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Project Glasswing has uncovered 10,000 vulnerabilities: Anthropic
Anthropic says it and upwards of 50 partners involved in Project Glasswing have uncovered an estimated 10,000 critical or high-severity vulnerabilities in their software offerings. The company launched the cybersecurity initiative, which is built around Claude Mythos Preview, in April, stating that its launch partners would use it as part of their defensive security work.…
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Possible ACR Stealer From Page Impersonating Claude, (Tue, May 26th)
Introduction In recent weeks, I’ve searched for pages impersonating Claude that distribute malware. In recent weeks, I’ve reliably found these sites through malicious ads in Google searches that lead to these pages, often concealed in URLs for sites.google[.]com, such as this example from 2026-05-11. These fake Claude pages generally show instructions for macOS malware when…
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The First Class of AI Natives Is Graduating. Offices Are Getting Ready.
They face cuts to entry-level jobs. They’re also highly sought after for their AI skills.
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Smart Contracts for C&C: How ClearFake Hid in Plain Sight on BSC Testnet
TrendAI™ Research analyzed an intrusion where threat actors used the EtherHiding technique to route ClearFake payload delivery through smart contracts on the BNB Smart Chain testnet. The attack chain ended with two simultaneously deployed stealers, SectopRAT and ACRStealer alongside an on-chain execution tracker that confirmed each victim compromise in real time.
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Welcoming the Bhutanese Government to Have I Been Pwned
Today, we welcome the 45th government onboarded to Have I Been Pwned’s free gov service: Bhutan. The Bhutan Computer Incident Response Team, BtCIRT, now has access to monitor Bhutanese government domains against the data in HIBP. As Bhutan’s national CIRT, BtCIRT is responsible for consuming threat intelligence and sharing relevant insights with its constituents, helping…
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The Underground Malware-Signing-as-a-Service That Makes Ransomware Look “Verified” on Windows
The Core Technical Concept: Code Signing At the center of Microsoft’s disruption of the Fox Tempest cybercrime operation is a foundational trust mechanism that modern operating systems rely on heavily: code signing. Code signing is a cryptographic trust framework used by operating systems such as Windows to verify both the integrity and origin of executable…
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Google adds open source Agent Executor to support AI agents in production
Google has introduced Agent Executor, an open source runtime aimed at helping enterprises run AI agents more reliably at scale, as attention shifts from building agent prototypes to managing the operational challenges of putting them into production. To address those production-related challenges, the runtime, according to the company, comes with capabilities that are geared towards…
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Ghost CMS flaw abused to push ClickFix attacks on hundreds of sites
Attackers are exploiting the patched Ghost CMS flaw CVE-2026-26980, compromising over 700 unpatched sites, including universities. Threat actors are actively exploiting a security flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-26980, in Ghost CMS that was fixed months ago in real attacks against unpatched websites. According to Qianxin, the campaign has already affected more than 700 sites, including well-known organizations and…
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340 Million OnlyFans Profiles Allegedly Rebuilt from Leaks
A hacker is selling a 340M-strong OnlyFans-linked dataset built by correlating old breaches and public data, not by hacking OnlyFans directly. A threat actor is adverertising a purported database containing data of 340 million OnlyFans users, but the available evidence points to something less dramatic than a direct breach. According to HackRead, which reported the…
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Anthropic’s restricted Claude Mythos model may be coming to Claude Code
Anthropic appears to be preparing for the public rollout of the Mythos model, which was announced in April as a restricted model that poses major security risks to private and public software. […]
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UAC-0057 Attack Detection: OYSTERFRESH, OYSTERSHUCK, and OYSTERBLUES Fuel Phishing Campaigns Against Ukrainian State Organizations
Phishing remains one of the most effective tools in the cybercriminal arsenal, especially when threat actors abuse trusted identities, compromised legitimate accounts, and familiar online services to increase victim interaction. Europol notes that phishing techniques remain a main distribution vector for data-stealing malware, while CERT-UA’s latest advisory shows that the same social engineering logic continues…
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FBI Chief Kash Patel’s Clothing Store Hacked in ClickFix Infostealer Attack
Hackers compromised FBI Chief Kash Patel’s clothing store in a ClickFix attack that tricked macOS users into installing infostealer malware.
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Anthropic adds 28 security and compliance integrations for Claude
AI tools are becoming part of everyday work in organizations, creating new security and oversight requirements as usage grows. To address that, Anthropic introduced 28 integrations with security and compliance tools that allow IT and security teams to manage Claude in the same way they manage other applications in their environments. The integrations are powered…
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Cisco refines its risk-based vulnerability disclosure for the AI era
Security teams already struggle with long lists of vulnerabilities and limited time to patch them. Cisco believes AI could increase that pressure by accelerating vulnerability discovery and increasing the number of findings security teams need to review. The company said it is moving further toward a risk-based disclosure approach, placing greater attention on issues under…
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Microsoft Access VBA, (Mon, May 25th)
Microsoft Access files (Microsoft Office’s Database) can contain VBA code. But they are not ole or OOXML files. You can’t analyze them with oledump.py: Neither do they contain an embedded OLE file: Microsoft does not publish official documentation for the Microsoft Access file format, like it does for CFB (ole) and OOXML. That inspired me…
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⚡ Weekly Recap: Linux Flaws, Defender 0-Days, Router Botnets, and Supply Chain Chaos
Monday recap. Same mess, new week. A sketchy dev tool got people pwned, old bugs came back from the dead, and security products somehow needed protecting from themselves. A bunch of companies spent the week checking old boxes and forgotten servers they should’ve patched years ago. Good times. Phishing crews are getting smarter too –…
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Your Chatbot Has a Long Memory. That Isn’t Always a Good Thing.
It may keep offering you advice based on information that may be dated—or wasn’t even about you in the first place.
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TeamPCP Supply Chain Campaign: Activity Through 2026-05-24, (Mon, May 25th)
TeamPCP now operates across three package ecosystems in parallel, it reached GitHub’s own internal codebase, it trojanized an officially Microsoft-published Python SDK, and it appears to have open-sourced its own framework on GitHub. Bottom line up front Three escalations stacked inside a single week. First, GitHub’s CISO Alexis Wales publicly named a malicious Nx Console…
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TeamPCP Supply Chain Campaign: Activity Through 2026-05-24, (Mon, May 25th)
TeamPCP now operates across three package ecosystems in parallel, it reached GitHub’s own internal codebase, it trojanized an officially Microsoft-published Python SDK, and it appears to have open-sourced its own framework on GitHub. Bottom line up front Three escalations stacked inside a single week. First, GitHub’s CISO Alexis Wales publicly named a malicious Nx Console…
AI, Europe, Global Security News, Government & Policy, Network Security, Russia
Netherlands Seizes 800 Servers, Arrests 2 for Aiding Cyberattacks
Authorities in the Netherlands have arrested the co-owners of two related Internet hosting companies for operating IT infrastructure used by Russia to carry out cyberattacks, influence operations and disinformation campaigns inside the European Union. The two men were the focus of a 2025 KrebsOnSecurity story about how their hosting companies had assumed control over the…
AI, Global Security News, Russia
Authorities seize 800 servers used for cyberattacks and disinformation
Dutch authorities arrested two men and seized 800 servers linked to a hosting provider that investigators say supported Russian activities aimed at undermining democracy and security through cyberattacks, disinformation, and disruption of public and economic systems. Servers seized by Dutch authorities (Source: FIOD) The Dutch Fiscal Information and Investigation Service (FIOD) arrested a 57-year-old man…
Global Security News
FBI warns of Kali365 phishing service targeting Microsoft 365 accounts
The FBI is warning about the Kali365 phishing-as-a-service platform (PhaaS) that is used to hijack Microsoft 365 accounts by abusing OAuth device code authentication to steal session tokens and bypass multi-factor authentication (MFA). […]
AI, Apps, Endpoint, Global Security News, Risk Management
AI security needs a shift from models to systems, researchers argue
Enterprises cannot secure AI agents by making the underlying models more robust and must instead enforce security controls at the system level around them, researchers behind a paper published this month argued, warning that traditional AI-security approaches are increasingly misaligned with how autonomous agents actually operate inside enterprise environments. The paper argues that enterprises should…
AI, china, Compliance, Europe, Global Security News, Network Security, Risk Management
DeepSeek’s steep V4-Pro price cut escalates AI pricing war
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has announced a steep price cut for its recently launched flagship AI model, V4-Pro. The company has reduced pricing for the model by 75%, just a month after unveiling the V4 generation, which includes V4 Pro and V4 Flash. Earlier, usage costs ranged from $0.0145 for one million tokens (cache hit)…
AI, Exploits, Global Security News
Ghost CMS CVE-2026-26980 Exploited to Hijack 700+ Sites for ClickFix Attacks
Threat actors are exploiting a recently disclosed critical security flaw in Ghost CMS to inject malicious JavaScript code with an aim to fuel ClickFix attacks. According to QiAnXin XLab, the activity involves the exploitation of CVE-2026-26980 (CVSS score: 9.4), an SQL injection vulnerability in Ghost’s Content API that could allow an unauthenticated attacker to read…
AI, Apps, Global Security News, Risk Management
As AI speeds coding, CVE Lite CLI keeps security deliberately AI-free
As AI coding assistants accelerate software development, one OWASP-backed open-source project is arguing that dependency security tooling still arrives too late to be truly useful. CVE Lite CLI, a JavaScript and TypeScript dependency vulnerability scanner focused on local lockfile analysis, is positioning itself around a simple idea. Developers should see dependency risks while they are…
Cybersecurity, Global Security News, Government & Policy, Risk Management
US states step up cyber defenses to protect local communities
U.S. state governments are taking on a larger role in cybersecurity to help protect local communities and essential services. Many states are building state-led cyber defense programs, including cybersecurity clinics, regional security operations centers (RSOCs), and state cyber corps programs to reduce costs, strengthen the local workforce, and improve cyber resilience. Cyber defense programs in…
AI, Global Security News
Q&A: How video helps build robot brains for physical AI
Robots could well be the next trillion-dollar tech opportunity, in no small part thanks to AI. Not surprisingly, that’s led to race by a variety of robotics companies to build industrial and humanoid robots to help (or replace) humans. And to help orient those devices visually in the real world, robot brains are being fed Youtube…
AI, Cybersecurity, Global Security News, Network Security
The Alert Firehose Finally Meets Its Match
Ask a cybersecurity pro about Network Detection and Response (NDR) and you might still hear “Noisy,” “Too much data.” But ask the teams running NDR that includes agentic AI capabilities and you’ll hear they’re actually using it to catch threats earlier, triage faster, and chase fewer false positives. The old complaint lingers in part because…