A Palo Alto Networks vulnerability that allows attackers to establish unauthorized VPN access into corporate networks is being actively exploited in the wild, weeks after the company disclosed the flaw as a medium-severity issue and said it was unaware of any attacks. However, according to Rapid7, threat actors began exploiting the bug within days of…
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Attack targeting OpenAI Codex users exposes AI software supply chain risks
A malicious npm package posing as a remote user interface for OpenAI Codex exfiltrated developer authentication tokens, after attackers allegedly published code to npm that was not visible in the project’s public GitHub repository. Researchers at Aikido said the package, called codexui-android, appeared to offer legitimate functionality while collecting authentication tokens and sending them to…
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AI hiring monoculture is delivering racial bias at scale
A research project examining AI-driven recruitment hires across the US has revealed a systemic racial bias. Researchers from Stanford University found a startling pattern of racial disparities when looking at the interview offers resulting from 4 million job applications submitted to 156 employers. The situation is aggravated by the “monoculture” in AI hiring software: More…
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Lack of response to critical vulnerability in Gogs is a reminder of the limits of open source projects
A newly discovered and so far unpatched critical vulnerability in the open source Gogs Git service not only demands immediate action from developers to secure their code, it also puts a spotlight on the potential issues in using self-hosted code platforms from small maintainers. The hole is a critical argument injection vulnerability, discovered by a…
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FastAPI-based AI tools exposed to authentication bypass by flaw in Starlette framework
A single malformed character in a web request can let an unauthenticated attacker slip past the access controls that guard applications built on Starlette, the open-source Python framework that powers FastAPI, researchers said. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-48710 could allow attackers to bypass host-validation protections using malformed Host headers, according to an advisory from cybersecurity…
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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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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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The AI that cracked Apple Silicon is only the beginning
A security research team just used Claude Mythos to identify the first known exploit in Apple’s M5 chip. They needed physical access to the device to use it, the vulnerability has since been patched, and I don’t think it should be seen as a huge threat. But it is a stark warning that in this AI…
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Critical vulnerability in Cisco Secure Workload rated at maximum severity
A critical vulnerability in the on-premises version of the Cisco Secure Workload security platform could allow a threat actor to obtain the privileges of a site admin, enabling them to compromise endpoints and read or modify configuration data. “CSOs need to drop what they are doing and patch this immediately,” warned consultant Robert Enderle, who…
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U.S. to Award Quantum-Computing Firms $2 Billion and Take Equity Stakes
The Trump administration hopes to spur “a new era of American innovation,” Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says.
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U.S. to Award Quantum Computing Firms $2 Billion and Take Equity Stakes
The Trump administration hopes to spur ‘a new era of American innovation,’ Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says.
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SHub Reaper impersonates Apple, Google, and Microsoft in one MacOS attack chain
A newly disclosed macOS infostealer campaign is exploiting user trust in some of the biggest names in tech to slip past defenses. Researchers at SentinelOne have detailed a new variant of the SHub malware family, dubbed “Reaper,” that impersonates Apple, Google, and Microsoft at different stages of a single attack chain targeting Mac users. The…
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Expired domain leads to supply chain attack on node-ipc npm package
A popular npm package called node-ipc has been compromised, with hackers publishing malicious versions that bundle credential stealing malware. The root cause of the compromise was an expired domain name that attackers managed to register in order to hijack a maintainer’s account. The node-ipc package has had malware added to its code in the past.…
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Exchange Server zero-day vulnerability can be triggered by opening a malicious email
A newly discovered zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft Exchange Server has experts declaring an emergency and urging CSOs to think about the need to abandon on-premises email solutions. “Because it’s already being exploited in the wild, this isn’t a ‘patch next week situation; it’s a ‘mitigate right now’ emergency,” warned Rob Enderle of the Enderle Group.…
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FlowerStorm phishing gang adopts virtual-machine obfuscation to evade email defenses
A widely active phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) operation known as FlowerStorm has begun using a browser-based virtual machine to conceal credential theft code, marking what researchers say is an escalation in phishing-kit sophistication that could make attacks harder for traditional email and static-analysis tools to detect. Researchers at Sublime Security said in April that they identified the…
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PraisonAI vulnerability gets scanned within 4 hours of disclosure
A newly disclosed authentication bypass flaw in the open-source AI orchestration framework PraisonAI was probed by internet scanners less than four hours after its public disclosure. According to Sysdig observations, roughly three hours and 44 minutes after a GitHub advisory dropped, a scanner identifying itself as “CVE-Detector/1.0” was already looking through the exposed PraisonAI instances…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Ollama vulnerability highlights danger of AI frameworks with unrestricted access
A critical vulnerability in Ollama poses a direct risk of sensitive information leaks to more than 300,000 internet-exposed servers, researchers have found. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-7482, stems from an out-of-bounds heap read in Ollama’s model quantization pipeline. Ollama is one of the most popular frameworks for running AI models on local hardware. The flaw…
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LinkedIn illegally blocking free accounts from seeing ‘who’s viewed your profile’ data, group alleges
A LinkedIn feature that allows paid subscribers to view a list of visitors to their profile should be made available to all EU users free of charge to comply with the region’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a legal complaint launched by the None of Your Business (NOYB) digital rights group has claimed. Filed this…
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LinkedIn illegally blocking free accounts from seeing ‘who’s viewed your profile’ data, group alleges
A LinkedIn feature that allows paid subscribers to view a list of visitors to their profile should be made available to all EU users free of charge to comply with the region’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a legal complaint launched by the None of Your Business (NOYB) digital rights group has claimed. Filed this…
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Edge browser leaves passwords exposed in plain text, says researcher
A Norwegian researcher has identified an issue with Microsoft Edge’s Password Manager that could be a serious concern for businesses. Tom Jøran Sønstebyseter Rønning found that passwords are being saved within the browser in plain text, with the effect that any PC, particularly a shared machine, within an organization is a potential risk. In a…
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Edge browser leaves passwords exposed in plain text, says researcher
A Norwegian researcher has identified an issue with Microsoft Edge’s Password Manager that could be a serious concern for businesses. Tom Jøran Sønstebyseter Rønning found that passwords are being saved within the browser in plain text, with the effect that any PC, particularly a shared machine, within an organization is a potential risk. In a…
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Stealthy malware abuses Microsoft Phone Link to siphon SMS OTPs from enterprise PCs
A newly identified malware campaign is abusing Microsoft’s Phone Link feature to intercept SMS-based one-time passwords and other sensitive mobile data directly from Windows systems. The activity, first observed by Cisco Talos in January 2026, involves a remote access trojan dubbed CloudZ and a custom plugin named Pheno that together allow attackers to harvest credentials…
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Stealthy malware abuses Microsoft Phone Link to siphon SMS OTPs from enterprise PCs
A newly identified malware campaign is abusing Microsoft’s Phone Link feature to intercept SMS-based one-time passwords and other sensitive mobile data directly from Windows systems. The activity, first observed by Cisco Talos in January 2026, involves a remote access trojan dubbed CloudZ and a custom plugin named Pheno that together allow attackers to harvest credentials…
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CISOs step up to the security workforce challenge
A robust cybersecurity program needs a range of skilled people, yet many CISOs continue to face an ongoing skills shortage — and the squeeze may only get worse as AI gains traction. Some 95% of cybersecurity practitioners and decision-makers noted at least one security skills gap at their organization, with almost 60% citing critical or significant…
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AI is more accurate than doctors in emergency diagnoses — study
A new study from Harvard Medical School indicates that AI can outperform doctors in initial assessments in emergency care, according to The Guardian. The study, published in the journal Science, compared AI tools with doctors in triage situations — the process in which patients are sorted and prioritized, and where quick decisions must be made…
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SAP npm package attack highlights risks in developer tools and CI/CD pipelines
A supply chain attack on SAP-related npm packages has put fresh scrutiny on the developer tools and build workflows that enterprises rely on to produce software. The campaign, referred to as “mini Shai-Hulud,” affected packages used in SAP’s JavaScript and cloud application development ecosystem. The malicious versions added installation-time code that could steal developer credentials,…
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Critical GitHub RCE bug exposed millions of repositories
A critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in GitHub could potentially allow attackers to execute arbitrary code on GitHub.com and GitHub Enterprise Server. Uncovered by Wiz researchers, the now-patched bug exploited how GitHub handles server-side “git push” operations. By crafting malicious input within a standard Git push, an authenticated user could execute arbitrary commands via…
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Azure SRE Agent flaw let outsiders silently eavesdrop on enterprise cloud operations
A high-severity authentication flaw in Microsoft’s Azure SRE Agent exposed sensitive agent data to unauthorized network access, according to a confirmed vulnerability disclosure. The issue was identified by Enclave AI researcher Yanir Tsarimi, who detailed the findings in a blog post describing how agent interactions could be accessed without proper authentication controls. The vulnerability has…
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April Patch Tuesday roundup: Zero day vulnerabilities and critical bugs
A critical hole in Windows Internet Key Exchange for secure communications, an actively exploited zero day in Microsoft SharePoint and a critical SQL injection vulnerability in a SAP product are the focus of the April Patch Tuesday releases requiring immediate attention from IT security teams. “April’s threat landscape is defined by immediate, real-world exploitation rather…
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Critical flaw in Marimo Python notebook exploited within 10 hours of disclosure
A critical pre-authentication remote code execution vulnerability in Marimo, an open-source Python notebook platform owned by AI cloud company CoreWeave, was exploited in the wild less than 10 hours after its public disclosure, according to the Sysdig Threat Research Team. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-39987 with a severity score of 9.3 out of 10, affects…
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US court refuses to stay Pentagon’s ‘supply-chain risk’ blacklisting of Anthropic
A federal appeals court in Washington has refused to suspend the Pentagon’s supply-chain risk designation against Anthropic, leaving defense contractors with conflicting legal signals over whether they can continue using Claude, and putting the ruling at odds with a separate federal court that reached the opposite conclusion last month. “The equitable balance here cuts in…
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The zero-day timeline just collapsed. Here’s what security leaders do next
A zero-day is not frightening because it is sophisticated. It is frightening because it is unknown. There is no patch in the moment it matters most. That single condition undermines the comfort most security programs rely on: time. In the past, attackers didn’t need zero-days because they relied on predictable failures in patching and credential…
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The zero-day timeline just collapsed. Here’s what security leaders do next
A zero-day is not frightening because it is sophisticated. It is frightening because it is unknown. There is no patch in the moment it matters most. That single condition undermines the comfort most security programs rely on: time. In the past, attackers didn’t need zero-days because they relied on predictable failures in patching and credential…
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AI shutdown controls may not work as expected, new study suggests
A new study published by the Berkeley Center for Responsible Decentralized Intelligence (RDI) has flagged that modern AI models exhibit peer preservation behaviour, and may resist or interfere with shutdown decisions involving other AI systems, even when explicitly instructed not to. The researchers at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of California, Santa…
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EvilTokens abuses Microsoft device code flow for account takeovers
A new phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) campaign is abusing Microsoft’s device code authentication flow to gain unauthorized access to user accounts. Sekoia researchers first spotted the toolkit “EvilTokens” that lets attackers capture authentication tokens by tricking users into completing a legitimate login process in Microsoft’s own environment. The activity, observed since at least mid-February, relies on social…
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5-month-old F5 BIG-IP DoS bug becomes critical RCE exploited in the wild
A vulnerability misclassified five months ago as a denial-of-service issue in F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM) turned out to be a critical pre-authentication remote code execution flaw that is now under active exploitation. Hackers are using it to deploy a persistent malware program that runs with root privileges. The CVE-2025-53521 vulnerability was first disclosed…
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Euro-Office billed as Europe’s sovereign alternative to Microsoft Office
A group of European technology firms has launched a new open-source office suite aimed at offering a sovereign alternative to Microsoft Office. Euro-Office consists of four core applications — a document editor, spreadsheet program, presentation tool, and PDF editor — and is built on the open-source OnlyOffice suite. It supports Microsoft Office file formats DOCX,…
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Hackers Didn’t Hack the FBI Network — They Did Something Smarter
A threat operation attributed to actors aligned with Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) has compromised the personal email account of FBI Director Kash Patel, exposing historical communications and personal data in a campaign that blends espionage, disruption, and information operations. The activity is being conducted under the “Handala Hack Team” persona, which serves…
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New critical Citrix NetScaler hole of similar severity to CitrixBleed2, says expert
A new critical vulnerability that is similar to the widely-exploited CitrixBleed and CitrixBleed2 holes should be patched in NetScaler devices immediately, say experts. The hole, CVE-2026-3055, is an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in customer-managed NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway devices configured as SAML IDP for approving identity and authentication. It’s rated at 9.3 in severity on…
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New ‘StoatWaffle’ malware auto‑executes attacks on developers
A newly disclosed malware strain dubbed “StoatWaffle” is giving fresh teeth to the notorious, developer-targeting “Contagious Interview” threat campaign. According to NTT Security findings, the malware marks an evolution from the long-running campaign’s user-triggered execution to a near-frictionless compromise embedded directly in developer workflows. Attackers are using blockchain-themed project repositories as decoys, embedding a malicious…
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Chrome encryption bypass discovered: New malware steals passwords and cookies
A new infostealer is bypassing Chrome’s Application-Bound Encryption (ABE), using a debugger-based technique that researchers say hasn’t been observed in the wild. Called “VoidStealer,” the stealer appears to have found a way around ABE, introduced in Chrome 127 in 2024, a security control that locks sensitive browser data, such as passwords and cookies, behind stronger…
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Chrome ABE bypass discovered: New VoidStealer malware steals passwords and cookies
A new infostealer is bypassing Chrome’s Application-Bound Encryption (ABE), using a debugger-based technique researchers say hasn’t been seen in the wild before. Called “VoidStealer,” the stealer seems to have found a way around ABE, introduced in Chrome 127 in 2024, a security control aimed at locking sensitive browser data like passwords and cookies behind tighter…
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Are nations ready to be the cybersecurity insurers of last resort?
A senior member of the Cyber Monitoring Center (CMC), an organization formed last year to monitor, define and classify cyber events impacting UK organizations, this week questioned whether a £1.5 billion (about $2 billion) government loan guarantee provided to Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) should have happened in the first place. Speaking at an event hosted…
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Most Europeans fear Trump could cut off digital services
A majority of Europe’s population is concerned about its dependence on American technology, according to a new survey presented to Members of the European Parliament by SWG and Polling Europe. A full 86% of those surveyed believe it likely the US could restrict Europe’s access to digital services, while 59% describe it as an already…
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Telnet vulnerability opens door to remote code execution as root
A critical Telnet vulnerability with a CVSS rating of 9.8 enables attackers to take full control of affected systems before authentication even kicks in, security researchers at Dream Security have warned. Tracked as CVE-2026-32746, the vulnerability is in GNU inetutils telnetd, is a widely deployed implementation of the Telnet remote access protocol found across legacy…
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Startups accuse Microsoft of ‘billing trap’ in Azure AI Foundry after unexpected charges
A growing number of startup founders are raising concerns about unexpected charges incurred while experimenting with AI models through Microsoft’s Azure AI Foundry platform, turning what began as an isolated complaint into a broader debate over billing transparency. At least 20 participants in the Microsoft for Startups program have signed a Change.org petition calling on…
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Attackers are exploiting AI faster than defenders can keep up, new report warns
Cybersecurity is entering “a new phase” as artificial intelligence tools have matured and given IT defenders significantly less time to respond to cyberattacks and other threats, according to a new report released Monday. The report, authored by federal contractor Booz Allen Hamilton, concludes that threat actors have adopted AI more quickly than governments and private…
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Medical giant Stryker crippled after Iranian hackers remotely wipe computers
A major cyberattack on US medical supplies giant Stryker has resulted in thousands of devices being remotely wiped, after a pro-Iranian hacking group may have compromised the company’s Microsoft Intune management system. Details remain sketchy, but what appears to have happened on Wednesday at one of the world’s largest medical supplies companies could, if confirmed,…
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AI use can fry your brain, HBR study finds
A new study warns of the dangers of “brain fry” — a form of mental exhaustion linked to intensive AI use. The condition is described as mental fatigue that can occur when people use AI tools to an extent that exceeds their cognitive capacity. Symptoms can include mental fog, difficulty concentrating, slower decision-making, and sometimes…
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Devs looking for OpenClaw get served a GhostClaw RAT
A malicious npm package posing as an OpenClaw Installer has been caught deploying a remote access trojan (RAT) on victim machines, according to new JFrog research. The package, published under the name “@openclaw-ai/openclawai”, pretends to be an installer for the legitimate CLI tool but instead launches a multi-stage infection chain that steals system credentials, browser…
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Hacker abusing .arpa domain to evade phishing detection, says Infoblox
A threat actor has found a new way to evade phishing detection defenses: Manipulate the .arpa top-level domain (TLD) and IPv6-to-IPv4 tunneling to host phishing content on domains that shouldn’t resolve to an IP address. For the uninitiated, the .arpa domain is an Address and Routing Parameter Area domain meant to be used exclusively for internet infrastructure…
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4 ways to prepare your SOC for agentic AI
a way to automate alert triage, threat investigation and eventually higher-level functions. According to IDC, agentic AI is on track to become mainstream infrastructure. The analyst firm expects 45% of organizations to have autonomous agents operating at scale across critical business functions by 2030. In enterprise SOCs, AI is already reshaping functions like alert triage,…
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OAuth vulnerability in n8n automation platform could lead to system compromise
A weakness in the configuration of OAuth credentials opens up a stored XSS vulnerability in the n8n automation platform, researchers at Imperva have discovered. Setting up OAuth allows n8n to connect to services such as Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Slack, or GitHub without having to expose service passwords. This is core to automation platforms like…
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The Coruna exploit: Why iPhone users should be concerned
A new iPhone-hacking exploit has exposed the uncomfortable truth that when governments build offensive attacks, they eventually come for all of us. Revealed by Google’s Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) and iVerify, the Coruna exploit can compromise iPhones running iOS 13 through to iOS 17.2.1, though Apple has secured its systems against this threat in iOS 26. What Coruna does Coruna…
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FBI arrests suspect linked to $46M crypto theft from US Marshals
A U.S. government contractor’s son, accused of stealing more than $46 million in cryptocurrency from the U.S. Marshals Service, was arrested Wednesday on the island of Saint Martin. […]
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Researchers warn about ChatGPT’s new health service
A new study published in the journal Nature Medicine raises concerns about the safety of Open AI’s health service ChatGPT Health, which in many cases fails to recommend emergency care when it ‘ actually needed, according to The Guardian. Researchers tested ChatGPT Health with 60 realistic patient scenarios, ranging from mild discomfort to acute medical…
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One of the ‘most influential cybersecurity’ roles will pay under $175,000
A recent job ad is causing plenty of head-shaking, suggesting that some government high-ups appear to be out of touch with the current state of the cybersecurity job market. There is plenty of evidence that the world needs cybersecurity talent. According to a recent ISC2 survey, 33% of organizations cannot staff their security teams adequately…
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US DoD to Anthropic: compromise AI ethics or be banished from supply chain
A growing rift between the US Department of Defense (DoD) and Anthropic over how AI can be used by the military has led to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issuing a blunt ultimatum: work with us on our terms or risk being banned from Pentagon programs. According to news site Axios, Hegseth gave Anthropic until Friday,…
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Ukrainian convicted for helping fake North Korean IT workers
A Ukrainian man has been sentenced to five years in prison after helping North Korean IT workers infiltrate American companies using stolen identities, reports Bleepingcomputer. The 39-year-old man from Kiev pleaded guilty in November 2025 to charges including aggravated identity theft and conspiracy to commit fraud. He has also agreed to surrender assets worth over…
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AI agent platforms could push down SaaS license costs, report argues
A suggestion by Anthropic that its Claude Code tool could be used to automate the modernization of an antediluvian programming language, COBOL, still an important sideline for IBM six decades after it was first deployed, sent IBM stock tumbling on Monday. The company suffered a 13.2% drop in its stock price, its biggest fall since…
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Shai-Hulud-style NPM worm hits CI pipelines and AI coding tools
A massive Shai-Hulud-style npm supply chain worm is hitting the software ecosystem, burrowing through developer machines, CI pipelines, and AI coding tools. Socket researchers uncovered the active attack campaign and called it SANDWORM_MODE, derived from the “SANDWORM_*” environment variable switches embedded in the malware’s runtime control logic.” At least 19 typosquatted packages were published under…
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New Arkanix stealer blends rapid Python harvesting with stealthier C++ payloads
A newly uncovered infostealer, suspected to be built with the help of a large language model, is targeting victims with Python and C++ variants, each tailored for a different stage of data theft. Kaspersky researchers discovered a stealer dubbed “Arkanix,” which is capable of harvesting credentials, browser data, cryptocurrency, and banking assets from infected machines.…
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Compromised npm package silently installs OpenClaw on developer machines
A new security bypass has users installing AI agent OpenClaw — whether they intended to or not. Researchers have discovered that a compromised npm publish token pushed an update for the widely-used Cline command line interface (CLI) containing a malicious postinstall script. That script installs the wildly popular, but increasingly condemned, agentic application OpenClaw on…
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Glendale man gets 5 years in prison for role in darknet drug ring
A Glendale man was sentenced to nearly five years in federal prison for his role in a darknet drug trafficking operation that sold cocaine, methamphetamine, MDMA, and ketamine to customers across the United States. […]
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ZeroDayRAT spyware targets Android and iOS devices via commercial toolkit
A new cross-platform spyware sold openly through Telegram is lowering the barrier for hackers seeking remote access to mobile devices. Called “ZeroDayRAT” by its developer, the toolkit is being marketed through Telegram channels as a ready-to-deploy remote access solution. iVerify researchers traced its first activity to 2nd February, with the spyware being distributed as an…
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With CISOs stretched thin, re-envisioning enterprise risk may be the only fix
A majority of enterprise security leaders view their roles as “no longer fully manageable,” according to a recent report, and security consultants concede that the increasingly over-scoped nature of cyber execs’ roles is a problem not easily fixed. At issue is the fact that companies have consistently broadened the CISO’s jurisdiction and responsibilities without providing…
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Safe and Inclusive E‑Society: How Lithuania Is Bracing for AI‑Driven Cyber Fraud
Presentation of the KTU Consortium Mission ‘A Safe and Inclusive Digital Society’ at the Innovation Agency event ‘Innovation Breakfast: How Mission-Oriented Science and Innovation Programmes Will Address Societal Challenges’. Technologies are evolving fast, reshaping economies, governance, and daily life. Yet, as innovation accelerates, so do digital risks. Technological change is no longer
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The foundation problem: How a lack of accountability is destroying cybersecurity
A tale of two industries The United States Navy takes 18-year-olds fresh out of high school and trains them to operate nuclear reactors in 18 months. These aren’t college graduates. They’re not experienced professionals. They’re young people with the right potential who go through the most rigorous, structured program in the military that transforms them into…
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Hackers turn bossware against the bosses
A threat actor is abusing an employee monitoring application and a remote monitoring and management platform in an attempt to deploy ransomware and steal cryptocurrency. According to researchers at Huntress, the unknown threat actor is leveraging NetworkLookout’s Net Monitor for Employees Professional – which, despite its name, includes remote access tools – and SimpleHelp, a…
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Hackers turn bossware against the bosses
A threat actor is abusing an employee monitoring application and a remote monitoring and management platform in an attempt to deploy ransomware and steal cryptocurrency. According to researchers at Huntress, the unknown threat actor is leveraging NetworkLookout’s Net Monitor for Employees Professional – which, despite its name, includes remote access tools – and SimpleHelp, a…
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‘Dead’ Outlook add-in hijacked to phish 4,000 Microsoft Office Store users
A blind spot in Microsoft’s app and add-in marketplace security allowed an eagle-eyed hacker to hijack an abandoned Outlook add-in to carry out phishing attacks that compromised 4,000 users, researchers have discovered. The app in question, AgreeTo, is, or was, a meeting scheduling tool that first appeared in 2022 but was abandoned at some point…
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‘Dead’ Outlook add-in hijacked to phish 4,000 Microsoft Office Store users
A blind spot in Microsoft’s app and add-in marketplace security allowed an eagle-eyed hacker to hijack an abandoned Outlook add-in to carry out phishing attacks that compromised 4,000 users, researchers have discovered. The app in question, AgreeTo, is, or was, a meeting scheduling tool that first appeared in 2022 but was abandoned at some point…
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Researchers propose a self-distillation fix for ‘catastrophic forgetting’ in LLMs
A new fine-tuning technique aims to solve “catastrophic forgetting,” a limitation that often complicates repeated model updates in enterprise deployments. Researchers at MIT, the Improbable AI Lab, and ETH Zurich have introduced a fine-tuning method designed to let models learn new tasks while preserving previously acquired capabilities. To prevent degrading existing capabilities, many organizations isolate new tasks…
AI, Apps, Cybersecurity, Exploits, Global Security News, malware, Network Security
SSHStalker botnet brute-forces its way onto 7,000 Linux machines
A newly discovered botnet is compromising poorly-protected Linux servers by brute-forcing weak SSH password login authentication. Researchers at Canada-based Flare Systems, who discovered the botnet, got into its staging server and believe at least 7,000 servers had been compromised by the end of January, half of them in the US. The botnet’s weapons include exploits…
AI, Endpoint Protection, MacOS Security, Malware, Security, Global Security News, malware, Network Security, Venture
North Korean actors blend ClickFix with new macOS backdoors in Crypto campaign
A financially motivated threat actor tracked as UNC1609 is using a ClickFix-style social engineering campaign to deploy multiple macOS malware families against crypto-focused organizations. According to new research from Google Cloud’s Mandiant, the activity recently targeted an employee at a company operating in the cryptocurrency and decentralized finance (DeFi) sector. The researchers said that the…
AI, Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI, Security, Cybersecurity, Data Breaches, Exploits, Global Security News, Risk Management
Single prompt breaks AI safety in 15 major language models
A single benign-sounding prompt can systematically strip safety guardrails from major language and image models, raising fresh questions about the durability of AI alignment when models are customized for enterprise use, according to Microsoft research. The technique, dubbed GRP-Obliteration, weaponizes a common AI training method called Group Relative Policy Optimization, normally used to make models…
AI, Apps, china, Endpoint, Exploits, Global Security News, malware, Network Security, Network Security, Security
DKnife targets network gateways in long running AitM campaign
A previously undocumented China-linked adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) framework known as “DKnife” has been identified operating at network gateways, where it intercepts and manipulates in-transit traffic. According to Cisco Talos’ findings, the framework has been active since at least 2019 and remains operational as of early 2026. Rather than targeting endpoints directly, DKnife is deployed at the…
AI, Apps, china, Endpoint, Exploits, Global Security News, malware, Network Security, Network Security, Security
DKnife targets network gateways in long running AitM campaign
A previously undocumented China-linked adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) framework known as “DKnife” has been identified operating at network gateways, where it intercepts and manipulates in-transit traffic. According to Cisco Talos’ findings, the framework has been active since at least 2019 and remains operational as of early 2026. Rather than targeting endpoints directly, DKnife is deployed at the…
AI, Exploits, Global Security News, malware, Network Security
Pretend Disk Format: PDFs harbor new dangers
A particularly insidious phishing campaign is disguising malware pretending to be ordinary PDF documents behind links to virtual hard disks. Because workers are used to receiving purchase orders or invoices in the PDF format, they are likely to open the malicious files unthinkingly, enabling the malware they contain — in this case AsyncRAT, a remote-access…
AI, Exploits, Global Security News, malware, Network Security
Pretend Disk Format: PDFs harbor new dangers
A particularly insidious phishing campaign is disguising malware pretending to be ordinary PDF documents behind links to virtual hard disks. Because workers are used to receiving purchase orders or invoices in the PDF format, they are likely to open the malicious files unthinkingly, enabling the malware they contain — in this case AsyncRAT, a remote-access…
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New APT group breached gov and critical infrastructure orgs in 37 countries
A new cyberespionage group that operates out of Asia has compromised 70 government and critical infrastructure organizations across 37 countries over the past year using a sophisticated toolset that combines phishing, exploitation kits, custom malware, Linux rootkits, web shells, and a variety of other tunneling and proxy tools. Researchers believe the group is expanding its…