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Six new dnsmasq vulnerabilities open the door to DNS cache poisoning, local root

Recent disclosures have revealed that open-source networking tool dnsmasq is grappling with a serious set of vulnerabilities. The problems span memory safety and input validation, with researchers identifying heap buffer overflows, heap corruption, and code execution bugs among the issues. Taken together, the security flaws open the door to various attacks: poisoning cached DNS entries,…

cPanel flaw exposes enterprises to hosting supply-chain risks

A newly disclosed cPanel vulnerability is being exploited at scale, giving attackers a route into web hosting environments that many enterprises may not monitor closely. Analysts say the risk highlights weak visibility into hosting supply chains. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-41940, has been used to deploy backdoors, plant SSH keys, steal credentials, and compromise hosting…

Škoda confirms unauthorized access to its online shop

Car manufacturer Škoda discovered that attackers had exploited a vulnerability in its online shop software and gained temporary unauthorized access to the system. What happened? After discovering the incident, the company took the shop offline as a precautionary measure, fixed the vulnerability, referred the incident to a specialized IT forensics team for technical analysis, and…

AI is separating the companies built to scale from the ones built to sell

If you had time to walk the expo floor at this year’s RSA Conference, it was impossible to miss the shift in our industry. Artificial intelligence has moved from an emerging layer to the foundation of what powers cybersecurity companies. But from our vantage point as investors who work closely with founders and operators, the bigger…

Developer workstations are the new beachhead

I spent the first week of April reading three separate threat intelligence reports that, on the surface, had nothing in common. One covered a North Korean campaign that had published over 1,700 malicious packages across five open-source ecosystems. Another detailed a malware operation using a Zig-compiled binary to silently infect every IDE on a developer’s…

WannaCry, the ransomware attack that changed the history of cybersecurity

WannaCry showed how unpatched flaws and leaked cyber tools can cripple global systems, reshaping cybersecurity defenses worldwide. In memory of the day the digital world was shaken, but learned to fight back. The WannaCry ransomware attack represents one of the most significant events in recent cybersecurity history, not only for its global scale but also…

Why patching SLAs should be the floor, not the strategy

I’ve been a CISO for two separate companies, know several CISOs personally, and interact with many others through various cybersecurity forums. We all have one thing in common. We can tell you our patching SLA numbers off the top of our heads. Ninety-five percent of criticals closed in 14 days. Eighty-something on highs. The board…

Mini Shai-Hulud Worm Compromises TanStack, Mistral AI, Guardrails AI & More Packages

TeamPCP, the threat actor behind the recent supply chain attack spree, has been linked to the compromise of the npm and PyPI packages from TanStack, UiPath, Mistral AI, OpenSearch, and Guardrails AI as part of a fresh Mini Shai-Hulud campaign. The affected npm packages have been modified to include an obfuscated JavaScript file (“router_init.js”) that’s designed…

OpenAI’s Daybreak uses Codex Security to identify risky attack paths

OpenAI Daybreak is the company’s cybersecurity initiative focused on building AI-assisted software defense into the development process from the start. It combines OpenAI models, Codex Security, and cyber-focused GPT-5.5 variants to help organizations identify, validate, and prioritize software vulnerabilities. How Daybreak identifies exploitable vulnerabilities Daybreak builds editable threat models from a company’s code repository, analyzes…

Instructure Reaches Ransom Agreement with ShinyHunters to Stop 3.65TB Canvas Leak

American educational technology company Instructure, the parent company of Canvas, said it reached an “agreement” with a decentralized cybercrime extortion group after it breached its network and threatened to leak stolen information from thousands of schools and universities. In an update shared on Monday, the Utah-based firm said it “reached an agreement with the unauthorized…

OpenAI Launches Daybreak for AI-Powered Vulnerability Detection and Patch Validation

OpenAI has launched Daybreak, a new cybersecurity initiative that brings together frontier artificial intelligence (AI) model capabilities and Codex Security to help organizations identify and patch vulnerabilities before attackers find a way in using the same issues. “Daybreak combines the intelligence of OpenAI models, the extensibility of Codex as an agentic harness, and our partners…

Android banking Trojan TrickMo evolves using TON network for C2

ThreatFabric found a new TrickMo Android trojan focused on stealth and persistence, moving its command-and-control traffic to the TON network. Security researchers at ThreatFabric have recently identified a new version of TrickMo, a dangerous Android banking trojan that shows how malware operators are focusing less on flashy new features and more on improving stealth, flexibility,…

Cybersecurity jobs available right now: May 12, 2026

Application Security Engineer Total Quality Logistics | USA | On-site – View job details As an Application Security Engineer, you will design, implement, and maintain security controls across the software development lifecycle. You will work closely with engineering and product teams to identify vulnerabilities early, support remediation efforts, and help ensure applications are secure by…

Linux kernel maintainers suggest a ‘kill switch’ to protect systems until a zero-day vulnerability is patched

Linux server admins may get the ability to turn off a vulnerable function in the OS kernel until a patch for a zero-day vulnerability is ready, if a proposal from a kernel developer and maintainer is accepted by the open source community. The idea of a kill switch for privileged operators has been suggested by…

Pressure mounts on Canvas as data leak extortion deadline looms

Pressure is mounting on Instructure, the company behind Canvas, as cybercriminals threaten to leak a trove of sensitive data they claim was stolen during a prolonged cyberattack on the widely used education tech platform. Widespread outages left schools, students and teachers temporarily unable to access critical data late last week after the company took Canvas…

Apple Patches Everything, (Mon, May 11th)

Apple today released its typical feature update across it’s operating systems (iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS, vision OS). With this update, Apple patched 84 different vulnerabilities. Updates are available for the “26” series of operating systems, as well as for the previous “18” version of iOS/iPadOS, and two versions back for macOS (version 14 and…

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IMF warns of the potential for AI attacks on global financial systems

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is warning that AI could become a growing threat to global financial stability by making cyberattacks faster and more sophisticated. In a new analysis, the organization describes how new AI tools can help attackers identify and exploit security vulnerabilities in banks, payment systems, and cloud services in record time. According…

Best RMM Software for MSPs in 2026: Features & Pricing

Remote monitoring and management (RMM) software is an IT management solution that allows MSPs to remotely monitor, manage, and maintain client IT environments. They provide visibility into device health and performance, help teams identify and proactively address issues, and streamline day-to-day IT operations. The best RMM software platforms typically include core features such as remote…

Claude Code MCP Attack Enables Persistent Token Theft

AI coding assistants are becoming deeply integrated with enterprise SaaS platforms, but new research shows those connections may introduce hard-to-detect credential theft risks.   Researchers demonstrated a MitM attack targeting Anthropic’s Claude Code that abuses MCP integrations to steal OAuth tokens and maintain persistent access to connected SaaS platforms and APIs.  “AI agents used for code…

AI Is Reshaping Software Supply Chain Risk

Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming how developers build software, but security controls are struggling to keep pace.  According to Willem Delbare, co-founder and CEO of Aikido Security, AI-assisted development is fundamentally changing the software supply chain threat model by increasing automation around code generation, dependency selection, and tool installation. “As of 2025, 84% of developers…

TeamPCP Compromises Checkmarx Jenkins AST Plugin Weeks After KICS Supply Chain Attack

Checkmarx has confirmed that a modified version of the Jenkins AST plugin was published to the Jenkins Marketplace. “If you are using Checkmarx Jenkins AST plugin, you need to ensure that you are using the version 2.0.13-829.vc72453fa_1c16 that was published on December 17, 2025 or previously,” the cybersecurity company said in a statement over the…

Identity security firm SailPoint discloses GitHub repository breach

SailPoint disclosed a GitHub repository breach on April 20. The company contained the incident and said no customer data was affected. SailPoint is a cybersecurity company that provides identity security and identity governance solutions for enterprises. Its products help organizations manage and control user access to systems, applications, and sensitive data. SailPoint revealed a cybersecurity…

CVE-2026-43500 and CVE-2026-43284: Dirty Frag Linux Privilege Escalation Flaw Raises Post-Compromise Risk

Linux local privilege escalation bugs remain especially dangerous when they turn a limited foothold into full root access. The CVE-2026-43500 vulnerability is the RxRPC half of the Dirty Frag exploit chain, which Microsoft says is already linked to limited in-the-wild post-compromise abuse, while Qualys describes it as a page-cache write issue that can let an…

Complimentary virtual training: Get hands-on with AWS Security Services

If you’re looking to strengthen your organization’s security posture on Amazon Web Services (AWS) but aren’t sure where to start, then we’re here to help. Security Activation Days are complimentary, virtual, hands-on workshops designed to help you get practical experience with AWS security services in a single session. What to expect Each Security Activation Day…

cPanel CVE-2026-41940 Under Active Exploitation to Deploy Filemanager Backdoor

A threat actor named Mr_Rot13 has been attributed to the exploitation of a recently disclosed critical cPanel flaw to deploy a backdoor codenamed Filemanager on compromised environments. The attack exploits CVE-2026-41940, a vulnerability impacting cPanel and WebHost Manager (WHM) that could result in an authentication bypass and allow remote attackers to gain elevated control of…

News Alert: Lyrie.ai joins Anthropic verification program, unveils protocol for securing AI agents

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, May 11, 2026, CyberNewswire—Dubai-founded OTT Cybersecurity LLC today announced acceptance into Anthropic’s Cyber Verification Program and unveiled the Agent Trust Protocol (ATP), an open cryptographic standard for AI agent identity, scope and action verification slated for IETF submission. OTT Cybersecurity LLC, the company behind Lyrie.ai, today announced two milestones that together…

How Can SMBs Keep Up With AI Governance? 

As artificial intelligence (AI) adoption accelerates across organizations, security leaders are struggling to keep governance frameworks aligned with how quickly employees are integrating AI into daily workflows.  According to Matt Warner, CEO and co-founder of Blumira, small and mid-sized business (SMB) organizations are facing growing pressure to enable AI innovation while simultaneously maintaining governance, compliance,…

Zimperium Mobile App Response Agent helps security teams counter mobile attacks

Zimperium launched Mobile App Response Agent, enabling security teams to respond faster than ever before to fraud and security threats. Leveraging Zimperium’s expertise in mobile security, Mobile App Response Agent is part of Zimperium’s Mobile App Protection Suite (MAPS), empowering SOC and fraud teams to assess attacks on their mobile app before they result in…

Entries now open for the 2026 CSO30 Australia Awards

Nominations are now open for the 2026 CSO30 Australia Awards, celebrating the country’s most effective and influential cybersecurity leaders. The CSO30 Awards will once again be held alongside the CIO50 Awards, bringing together Australia’s leading technology and security executives for a flagship industry event on 22 September in Sydney. Part of Foundry’s prestigious global awards…

Red Hat extends open source technology into space

Red Hat and Voyager Technologies announced the successful deployment of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.1 and Red Hat Universal Base Image (UBI) to Voyager’s LEOcloud Space Edge IaaS Micro Datacenter aboard the International Space Station (ISS). This collaboration extends a container-optimized, enterprise Linux platform into orbit, providing a more consistent and hardened operating foundation for…

Breach Secure Now Helps MSPs Secure SMB AI Use

Breach Secure Now is launching its AI Risk to Adoption Program, a new channel-focused offering designed to help managed service providers guide small and midsize businesses from unmanaged AI use toward secure, structured adoption. Art Gross, founder and CEO of Breach Secure Now (BSN), said MSPs are well-positioned to lead those conversations because AI risk…

TD SYNNEX Adds BCM One Voice and UCaaS Services

TD SYNNEX is adding more communications firepower to its partner ecosystem through a new partnership with BCM One, bringing voice, network services, and white-label UCaaS into the mix. Through the agreement, partners can now offer Pure IP’s global voice and network services alongside SkySwitch’s white-label UCaaS platform. It makes it much easier to integrate communications…

Poor security left hackers inside water company network for nearly two years

The UK’s data protection regulator, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), fined South Staffordshire Water’s parent company £963,900 over security failures linked to a cyberattack that exposed the personal data of 633,887 people. According to the ICO, the South Staffordshire breach began in September 2020 with a phishing email that tricked an employee into opening a…

SAS Execs: AI Adoption is a Human and Organizational Challenge

AI adoption is more than a technical transformation, and organizations have been underestimating the human side of AI implementation, including employee fears, organizational culture, communication breakdowns, and trust. The human angle of AI adoption for organizations was a major talking point during SAS Innovate 2026. At the conference, Channel Insider sat down with both Kristi…

Google warns artificial intelligence is accelerating cyberattacks and zero-day exploits

Google says hackers now use AI to create exploits, automate attacks, evade defenses, and target AI supply chains at scale. Artificial intelligence is rapidly changing the cyber threat landscape, and a new report from the Google Cloud Threat Intelligence team highlights how attackers already use AI to improve vulnerability exploitation and gain initial access to…

Lyrie.ai Joins First Batch of Anthropic’s Cyber Verification Program

Dubai-founded OTT Cybersecurity LLC also unveils the Agent Trust Protocol (ATP), the first open cryptographic standard for AI agent identity, scope, and action verification — slated for IETF submission. OTT Cybersecurity LLC, the company behind Lyrie.ai, today announced two milestones that together position the company as foundational infrastructure for the agentic AI era: acceptance into…

Google researchers uncover criminal zero-day exploit likely built with AI

Google’s threat intelligence researchers have linked a zero-day exploit to AI-assisted development by a criminal group. The exploit targeted a popular open-source web-based system administration tool. It allowed attackers to bypass two-factor authentication once they had valid user credentials. The flaw stemmed from a semantic logic error, a case where a developer hardcoded a trust…

Virtuozzo Targets AI Infrastructure Costs With New Platform

As companies race to build AI services without drowning in infrastructure costs, Virtuozzo says it wants to make the process leaner, faster, and far less complicated. The infrastructure software company on Monday unveiled its new vision for AI infrastructure, introducing what it calls a fully integrated system designed to help businesses run AI workloads more…

Google discovers weaponized zero-day exploits created with AI

The Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) today released evidence of a zero-day exploit developed by a cybercriminal group with the help of AI. It marks the first time the security research group has identified what it believes to be an AI-crafted zero-day exploit in the wild. While evidence of threat actors using AI models for…

Google spotted an AI-developed zero-day before attackers could use it

Google researchers found a zero-day exploit developed by artificial intelligence and alerted the susceptible vendor to the imminent threat before a well-known cybercrime group initiated a mass-exploitation campaign, the company said in a report released Monday. The averted disaster probably isn’t the first time attackers used AI to build a zero-day, but it is the…

Linux developers weigh emergency “killswitch” for vulnerable kernel functions

Linux kernel developers are reviewing a proposal for an emergency risk mitigation mechanism (“Killswitch”) that would allow administrators to disable vulnerable kernel functions at runtime. The proposal, submitted by Linux kernel developer/maintainer Sasha Levin, arrives in the wake of the public disclosure of two privilege escalation vulnerabilities affecting the Linux kernel. What prompted the proposal…

SailPoint Agentic Fabric expands identity governance to autonomous AI agents

SailPoint has introduced SailPoint Agentic Fabric, a new platform designed to help enterprises secure AI agents and other non-human identities at scale. As organizations deploy autonomous AI agents across cloud environments, applications, and endpoints, they face a growing governance gap. Unlike traditional users, AI agents can act at machine speed, often without clear ownership, oversight,…

Police take down relaunched criminal marketplace with 22,000 users, €3.6 million in revenue

German authorities shut down a relaunched version of the criminal marketplace Crimenetwork and arrested its suspected operator. The domain seizure notice (Source: BKA) A special unit of the Spanish National Police arrested the suspected 35-year-old German operator at his residence in Mallorca under a European Arrest Warrant. The suspect is accused of operating criminal trading…

Malicious Hugging Face model masquerading as OpenAI release hits 244K downloads

A malicious Hugging Face repository posing as an OpenAI release delivered infostealer malware to Windows systems and logged 244,000 downloads before being removed, raising fresh concerns about how enterprises source and validate AI models from public repositories. The repository, named Open-OSS/privacy-filter, impersonated OpenAI’s legitimate Privacy Filter release, copied its model card almost word-for-word, and included…

Lyrie.ai Deploys Real-Time Zero-Day Tracking Across Global Enterprise Infrastructure

OTT Cybersecurity LLC, the company behind Lyrie.ai, today announced several milestones that together position the company as foundational security infrastructure for the agentic AI era: the deployment of a real-time zero-day tracking and disclosure system designed to notify affected organizations of active exploit activity; acceptance into Anthropic’s Cyber Verification Program (CVP); and the public release…

New ‘Dirty Frag’ exploit targets Linux kernel for root access

A newly disclosed Linux privilege escalation issue dubbed “Dirty Frag” is giving attackers a cleaner path to post-compromise escalation to root privileges. According to Microsoft, a couple of vulnerabilities constituting the issue, affecting Linux kernel networking and memory-fragment handling components, are already seeing active exploitation in the wild. The exploitation attempts look indistinguishable from the…

Crimenetwork returns after takedown, dismantled again by German authorities

German police shut down a revived Crimenetwork marketplace with 22,000 users and 100+ sellers months after the original takedown. German police dismantled a resurrected version of the German-language cybercrime marketplace Crimenetwork, just months after the original platform was taken down. The second iteration of the site had already attracted more than 22,000 users and over…