Weekly Scan: Cloud, Cybersecurity, AI News — Jan 25, 2026

This week's critical security updates and vulnerability disclosures:

• CVE-2026-23008 | Linux Kernel up to 6.18.6/6.19-rc5 vmwgfx null pointer dereference (EUVD-2026-4625) (5 mentions)
• CVE-2026-1411 | Beetel 777VR1 up to 01.00.09/01.00.09_55 UART Interface access control (4 mentions)
• CVE-2025-34165 (3 mentions)

Lots of fascinating threat model-related advances, new risk management tools, games, and more!

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Perspective on CISOs as facilitators, a deep dive into the types of diagrams for medical devices, poetry, Chinese LLMs, Chinese drones and Chinese routers. Do any of them contain secrets?

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Learn how to achieve compliance with the third-party risk management standards of the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA)

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Russia-linked APT Sandworm launched what was described as the largest cyber attack on Poland’s power grid in Dec 2025. ESET linked a late-2025 cyberattack on Poland’s energy system to the Russia-linked Sandworm APT. “Based on our analysis of the m...

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How Praktika uses GPT-4.1 and GPT-5.2 to build adaptive AI tutors that personalize lessons, track progress, and help learners achieve real-world language fluency

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A data-driven report on how workers across industries use ChatGPT—covering adoption trends, top tasks, departmental patterns, and the future of AI at work.

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Discover how Higgsfield gives creators cinematic, social-first video output from simple inputs using OpenAI GPT-4.1, GPT-5, and Sora 2.

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ChatGPT Go is now available worldwide, offering expanded access to GPT-5.2 Instant, higher usage limits, and longer memory—making advanced AI more affordable globally.

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How Netomi scales enterprise AI agents using GPT-4.1 and GPT-5.2—combining concurrency, governance, and multi-step reasoning for reliable production workflows.

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Tolan built a voice-first AI companion with GPT-5.1, combining low-latency responses, real-time context reconstruction, and memory-driven personalities for natural conversations.

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Amazon Neptune Analytics is now available in US West (N. California), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Europe (Stockholm), Europe (Paris), and South America (São Paulo) regions. You can now create and manage Neptune Analytics graphs in these new regions and ru...

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Today, Amazon announces the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) G7e instances, accelerated by NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs. G7e instances offer up to 2.3x inference performance compared to G6e. Customers can use G7e instances to deploy large lang...

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On January 20, 2026 Amazon announced quarterly security and critical updates for Amazon Corretto Long-Term Supported (LTS) versions of OpenJDK. Corretto 25.0.2, 21.0.10, 17.0.18, 11.0.30, and 8u482 are now available for download . Amazon Corretto is a no-cost, multi-platform, production-ready dis...

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Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server now supports the latest General Distribution Release (GDR) updates for Microsoft SQL Server. This release includes support for Microsoft SQL Server 2016 SP3+GDR KB5068401 (RDS version 13.00.6475.1.v1), SQL Server 2017 CU31+GDR KB50684...

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API keys for Amazon Bedrock are now available in AWS GovCloud (US) regions, expanding a feature that simplifies authentication and accelerates generative AI development. Originally launched in commercial AWS regions in July 2025, API keys for Amazon Bedrock enable developers to quickly generate a...

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The critical ServiceNow Virtual Agent vulnerability highlights a vital lesson: securing agentic AI requires a return to traditional AppSec foundations. While AI can amplify risks, the root causes often stem from classic failures in authentication and authorization.

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The post 1Password’s New “Genius” Defense: A Shield Against the Sneaky Copy-Paste Phishing Trap appeared first on Daily CyberSecurity .

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Russia-linked APT Sandworm launched what was described as the largest cyber attack on Poland’s power grid in Dec 2025. ESET linked a late-2025 cyberattack on Poland’s energy system to the Russia-linked Sandworm APT. “Based on our analysis of the malware and associated TTPs, we attribute the attac...

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Firewalla announced a new approach to modernizing large, flat home networks, helping users improve security, scalability, and performance without the pain of IP renumbering or reconfiguring dozens of devices. Using zero trust network architecture and microsegmentation powered by Firewalla AP7 and...

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Last year was defined by AI hype, new attack models, and intensifying global tensions. As 2026 begins, security teams are asking what the next phase will look like. Will AI continue to accelerate risk, or will controls and governance finally catch up? CSO spoke to 10 security leaders about their ...

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In this Help Net Security video, Ryan Seymour, VP, Consulting and Education at ConnectSecure, shares lessons from more than two decades in cybersecurity incident response. He explains why many response failures are set in motion long before an attack begins. The focus is on how teams prepare to m...

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The critical-severity vulnerability can be exploited via crafted network packets for remote code execution. The post 2024 VMware Flaw Now in Attackers’ Crosshairs appeared first on SecurityWeek .

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GPS attacks trigger revisiting threat models

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Threat Modeling Essentials, led by Adam Shostack, is a standout offering at Archimedes 2026 Healthcare Security Week, Feb 18 in Las Vegas.

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Prompted by participants, a few closing thoughts for 2025

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The article broadly touches upon the

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Read up on Adam's New Thing from October

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Understanding ‘prompt engineering’

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LLM Insurance is, and will remain, a great source of insurer profits.

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LLMs will change threat modeling. Will it be for the better?

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Everyone wants robots to help with threat models. How’s that working out?

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A 2025 view of threat modeling tools

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What if we think about LLM coding as if it’s a compiler stage?

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Threat modeling finds threats; risk management helps us deal with the tricky ones.

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The CRA is coming and it's going to be a dramatic change for technology producers

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Thinking of threat modeling with a knob helps you get more out of it.

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The article highlights

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What can we learn from Google’s approach to AI Agent Security

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We think you should publish your threat model, and we’re publishing our arguments.

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Automation sounds great, but what about the essence and beauty?

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Andor teaches us about insider threats

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What Andor can teach us about Information disclosure threats

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What’s next for the CVE program?

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Thoughts on the CVE funding crisis

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Grateful to introduce the Hackers' Almanack!

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A group of us have urged HHS to require better handling of security reports

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Clarifying how to threat model AI

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Some thoughts on the Voyager Episode ‘Inside Man’

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BlackHat invites human factors work

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Our comments on the National Cyber Incident Plan

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Do diagrams leverage the brain in a different way?

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Emerging research on Cyber Public Health

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A few thoughts from a clickbait headline

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Some thoughts on 25 years of the CVE program

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A new paper on 'Pandemic Scale Cyber Events

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Cyber Public Health is prompting fascinating conversations

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Why is it hard to count lockbit infections?

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How to effectively threat model authentication.

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A new universal threat model - what can we learn from it?

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The most important stories around threat modeling, appsec and secure by design for May, 2024.

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What do we need to assess if memory safe langages are 'sufficient'?

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Making an LLM forget is harder than it seems

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The CSRB has released its report into an intrusion at Microsoft, and...it’s a doozy.

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The NVD is in crisis, and so is patch management. It’s time to modernize.

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Exploring LLM-driven coding as I get ready for Archimedes

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Thoughts on the British Library incident

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A busy month in appsec, AI, and regulation.

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Solving hallucinations in legal briefs is playing on easy mode —— and still too hard

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2024 is bringing lots of AI, and Liability, too

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Principles are lovely, but do they lead us to actionable results?

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We can learn a lot from comparing retrospectives

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Adam featured on ML Sec Ops podcast

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My latest at Dark Reading draws attention to how Microsoft can fix ransomware tomorrow.

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Books that I read in the second quater that are worth your time include two memoirs, a great book on the security of ML, and more!

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Phishing behaviors, as observed in the wild.

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Some inferences from layoffs in responsible AI teams

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Some diagrams to help clarify machine learning threats

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Reflecting on the framing of the Threats book

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A few tools, some thoughts on injection, some standards, and some of Adam’s appsec news.

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The serious side of the book

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Like the Force, each threat has a light side, and a dark side.

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More thoughts about AI and threat modeling

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Pointer to Adam’s latest Darkreading article

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The OpenAI chatbot is shockingly improved — its capabilities deserve attention.

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You don’t have to be technical, but you can’t make informed decisions about your business without threat modeling.

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Threat modeling doesn't need to be a slow, heavyweight activity!

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Tremendous training opportunities in threat modeling and other topics at Appsec Global 2021

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What happened when Microsoft tried to buy climate abatements

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The US Government's lead cybersecurity agencies have released an interesting report, and I wanted to use this for a Threat Model Thursday, where we take a respectful look at threat modeling work products to see what we can learn.

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Arbitrarily powerful software -- applications, operating systems -- is a problem, as is preventing it from running on enterprise systems.

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The Colonial Pipeline shutdown story is interesting in all sorts of ways, and I can't delve into all of it.I did want to talk about one small aspect, which is the way responders talk about Darkside.

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The timing of updates is not coincidental.

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Thoughts on the issues with the Ever Given blocking the Suez Canal.

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Bringing threat modeling to more and more people, now through a series of courses on LinkedIn.

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For Data Breach Today, I spoke with Anna Delaney about threat modeling for issues that are in the news right now.

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You may have noticed that my end of the year posts are all science focused. Today, a set of resources on the COVID vaccines.

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Inspired by the recent story of Tesla's insider, I'd like to discuss insider threat as it fits into threat modeling.

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Thoughts on Mark Rasch's essay, Conceal and Fail to Report - The Uber CSO Indictment

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I have something to disclose...

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I'm excited to see that they're Re-introducing the Cyentia Research Library, with cool (new?) features like an RSS feed. There are over 1,000 corporate research reports with data that companies paid to collect, massage, and release in a way they felt would be helpful to the rest of the world.

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I want to call out some impressive aspects of a report by Proofpoint.

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Understanding the way intrusions really happen is a long-standing interest of mine.

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Exploring supply chain threat modeling with Alexa

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For my first blog post of 2020, I want to look at threat modeling machine learning systems.

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Let's talk CAKED, a threat model for managed attribution.

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Sharing for you, bookmarking for me.

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A breakdown of CTFs and eSports

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What have we learned and what steps can we take?

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I'm happy to say that some new research by Jay Jacobs, Wade Baker, and myself is now available, thanks to the Global Cyber Alliance.

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My newest post over at Dark Reading ponders regulation.

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Today is the last Star Wars Day before Episode 9 comes out, and brings the Skywalker saga to its end.

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Over-inflated numbers won't scare me into buying your ‘solution’.

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An unexpected book review.

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Discussing the value of Security Advisory Boards

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I'm pleased to be able to share work that Shostack + Associates and the Cyentia Institute have been doing for the Global Cyber Alliance.

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There are a number of reports out recently, breathlessly presenting their analysis of one threatening group of baddies or another. Most readers should, at most, skim their analysis of the perpetrators. Read on for why.

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The post PoC Released for Critical Oracle E-Business Suite Flaw Exploited by Ransomware appeared first on Daily CyberSecurity .

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The post Booting Up Malware: Critical Flaw in Rufus Grants Admin Access (CVE-2026-23988) appeared first on Daily CyberSecurity .

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The post Code by AI: KONNI APT Targets Crypto Devs with “Polished” Backdoor appeared first on Daily CyberSecurity .

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The post The Invisible Trap: GenAI Now Creates “Living” Polymorphic Phishing Pages appeared first on Daily CyberSecurity .

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The post “Osiris” Rises: New Ransomware Targets Southeast Asian Food Giant with Advanced Tactics appeared first on Daily CyberSecurity .

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The post CVE-2025-67968 (CVSS 9.9): Critical Flaw in Real Estate Theme Exposes 30,000 Sites to Takeover appeared first on Daily CyberSecurity .

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The post CVE-2026-24656: Deserialization Flaw in Apache Karaf Exposes Systems to DoS appeared first on Daily CyberSecurity .

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The post Ghost in the Code: Critical RCE Found in Abandoned Python PLY Library (CVSS 9.8) appeared first on Daily CyberSecurity .

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The 1Password digital vault and password manager has added built-in protection against phishing URLs to help users identify malicious pages and prevent them from sharing account credentials with threat actors. [...]

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Nike is investigating a possible cyber incident after the WorldLeaks group claimed it stole data from the company’s systems. Nike is probing a potential security breach after the WorldLeaks cybercrime group claimed it accessed and stole data from the company’s systems. The footwear and apparel gi...

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Security Affairs Malware newsletter includes a collection of the best articles and research on malware in the international landscape Malware Newsletter UNO reverse card: stealing cookies from cookie stealers PDFSIDER Malware – Exploitation of DLL Side-Loading for AV and EDR Evasion VoidLink: Evi...

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A new round of the weekly Security Affairs newsletter has arrived! Every week, the best security articles from Security Affairs are free in your email box. Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press. Osiris ransomware emerges, leveraging BYOVD te...

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Researchers identified a new Osiris ransomware used in a November 2025 attack, abusing the POORTRY driver via BYOVD to disable security tools. Symantec and Carbon Black researchers uncovered a new ransomware strain named Osiris, used in a November 2025 attack against a major Southeast Asian food ...

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AI-driven cybercrime is escalating rapidly, combining phishing, deepfakes, and Dark LLMs, forcing businesses to strengthen defences and monitoring systems.

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A new multi-stage phishing campaign has been observed targeting users in Russia with ransomware and a remote access trojan called Amnesia RAT. "The attack begins with social engineering lures delivered via business-themed documents crafted to appear routine and benign," Fortinet FortiGuard Labs r...

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The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds a flaw impacting Broadcom VMware vCenter to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added a Broadcom VMware vCenter Server vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024...

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The WorldLeaks cybercrime group claims to have stolen information from the footwear and apparel giant’s systems. The post Nike Probing Potential Security Incident as Hackers Threaten to Leak Data appeared first on SecurityWeek .

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The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added a critical security flaw affecting Broadcom VMware vCenter Server that was patched in June 2024 to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerabil...

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Critical telnetd flaw CVE-2026-24061 (CVSS 9.8) affects all GNU InetUtils versions 1.9.3–2.7 and went unnoticed for nearly 11 years. A critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-24061 (CVSS score of 9.8), in the GNU InetUtils telnet daemon (telnetd) impacts all versions from 1.9.3 to 2.7. The vu...

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The ShinyHunters extortion gang claims it is behind a wave of ongoing voice phishing attacks targeting single sign-on (SSO) accounts at Okta, Microsoft, and Google, enabling threat actors to breach corporate SaaS platforms and steal company data for extortion. [...]

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Fortinet has confirmed that a new attack campaign observed recently against customer devices is exploiting an unpatched issue to bypass authentication. The new attacks are different from a previous campaign seen in December that targeted two vulnerabilities related to FortiCloud single sign-on (S...

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Mass scanning is underway for CVE-2026-20045, which Cisco tagged as critical because successful exploitation could lead to a complete system takeover.

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Cybercriminals have built structured criminal groups with an organizational model similar to that of a legitimate business. “Cybercrime has become industrialized, a return on investment (ROI)-oriented economy, focused on speed and monetization,” according to Martin Zugec, Bitdefender’s director o...

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Fortinet confirmed attacks are bypassing FortiCloud SSO authentication, affecting even fully patched devices, similar to recent SSO flaws. Fortinet confirmed attacks bypass FortiCloud SSO on fully patched devices. Threat actors automate firewall changes, add users, enable VPNs, and steal configs,...

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A cyberattack that targeted power plants and other energy producers in Poland at the end of December used malware known as a “wiper” that was intended to erase computers and in an operation that was intended to cause a power outage and other disruption to services, says European

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The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday added four security flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation in the wild. The list of vulnerabilities is as follows - CVE-2025-68645 (CVSS score: 8.8) - A PHP rem...

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Other noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: Cloudflare WAF bypass, Canonical Snap Store abused for malware delivery, Curl terminating bug bounty program The post In Other News: €1.2B GDPR Fines, Net-NTLMv1 Rainbow Tables, Rockwell Security Notice appeared first on SecurityWe...

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Threat actors are leveraging the file-sharing service for payload delivery in AitM phishing and BEC attacks. The post Phishers Abuse SharePoint in New Campaign Targeting Energy Sector appeared first on SecurityWeek .

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Threat actors who specialize in vishing (i.e., voice phishing) have started using phishing kits that can intercept targets’ login credentials while also allowing attackers to control the authentication flow in a targeted user’s browser in real-time. At least two custom-made phishing kits are curr...

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Fortinet has officially confirmed that it's working to completely plug a FortiCloud SSO authentication bypass vulnerability following reports of fresh exploitation activity on fully-patched firewalls. "In the last 24 hours, we have identified a number of cases where the exploit was to a device th...

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Under Armour said there is no evidence at this point to suggest the incident affected systems used to process payments or store customer passwords

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Really interesting blog post from Anthropic: In a recent evaluation of AI models’ cyber capabilities, current Claude models can now succeed at multistage attacks on networks with dozens of hosts using only standard, open-source tools, instead of the custom tools needed by previous generations. Th...

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Under Armour is investigating a recent data breach that purloined customers’ email addresses and other personal information. The post Under Armour Looking Into Data Breach Affecting Customers’ Email Addresses appeared first on SecurityWeek .

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U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Prettier eslint-config-prettier, Vite Vitejs, Versa Concerto SD-WAN orchestration platform, and Synacor Zimbra Collaboration Suite flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Secu...

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To help reduce phishing risk, 1Password added an extra layer of protection and began rolling out a phishing prevention feature designed to stop users before they share passwords with scammers. How 1Password phishing prevention works When a user clicks a link whose URL doesn’t match a saved login,...

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Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new dual-vector campaign that leverages stolen credentials to deploy legitimate Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) software for persistent remote access to compromised hosts. "Instead of deploying custom viruses, attackers are bypassing se...

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Days after admins began reporting that their fully patched firewalls are being hacked, Fortinet confirmed it's working to fully address a critical FortiCloud SSO authentication bypass vulnerability that should have already been patched since early December. [...]

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The exploitation of the authentication bypass vulnerability started two days after patches were released. The post Fresh SmarterMail Flaw Exploited for Admin Access appeared first on SecurityWeek .

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Microsoft has warned of a multi‑stage adversary‑in‑the‑middle (AitM) phishing and business email compromise (BEC) campaign targeting multiple organizations in the energy sector. "The campaign abused SharePoint file‑sharing services to deliver phishing payloads and relied on inbox rule creation to...

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Under Armour is investigating a data breach after 72M customer records were posted online by a cybercriminal. Under Armour is an American company that designs, manufactures, and sells sportswear, athletic shoes, and fitness-related accessories. TechCrunch reported that Under Armour is investigati...

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Twelve US companies hit by the INC ransomware group were able to recover encrypted data after a cybersecurity firm discovered the cloud storage infrastructure where the gang stockpiled what it stole. Researchers at Florida-based Cyber Centaurs said Thursday they took advantage of a lapse in opera...

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MIAMI, Jan. 22, 2026, CyberNewswire — Halo Security , a leading provider of external attack surface management and penetration testing services, today announced it has successfully achieved SOC 2 Type II compliance following an extensive multi-month audit by Insight Assurance.… (more…) The post N...

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Computers with Telnet open are in immediate danger of being compromised due to a critical vulnerability that allows attackers to bypass authentication. The Telnet remote access protocol has long been superseded by the more secure and encrypted SSH, but many IoT and embedded devices have continued...

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Ianis Antropenko, a Russian national living in California, admitted to committing ransomware attacks against at least 50 victims. He faces up to 25 years in jail. The post Leader of ransomware crew pleads guilty to four-year crime spree appeared first on CyberScoop .

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Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new ransomware family called Osiris that targeted a major food service franchisee operator in Southeast Asia in November 2025. The attack leveraged a malicious driver called POORTRY as part of a known technique referred to as bring your own vu...

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The incidents occurred amid Gaza protests and suggest human rights violations, Citizen Lab said. The post Researchers find Jordan government used Cellebrite phone-cracking tech against activists appeared first on CyberScoop .

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Bitwarden is upgrading protection across Individual and Family plans, but the price is going up too.

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A critical security flaw has been disclosed in the GNU InetUtils telnet daemon (telnetd) that went unnoticed for nearly 11 years. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-24061, is rated 9.8 out of 10.0 on the CVSS scoring system. It affects all versions of GNU InetUtils from version 1.9.3 up to an...

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Cybersecurity professionals in Latin America are least likely to have faith in their countries' preparedness for cyberattacks on critical infrastructure, the World Economic Forum says.

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Critical vulnerability in Appsmith allows account takeover via flawed password reset process

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TechCrunch obtained a sample of the stolen data, which contained names, email addresses, dates of birth, and the user's approximate geographic location. Under Armour confirmed some sensitive information was taken in the breach.

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A spear-phishing campaign tied to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) uses trusted Microsoft infrastructure to avoid detection.

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1Password has announced a new phishing protection tool that will help users avoid typo-squatting URLs.

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North Korea-linked threat group KONNI targets countries across APAC, specifically in blockchain sectors, with AI-generated malware

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Most companies' security doesn't offer good visibility across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

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Der Regensburger IT-Dienstleister Conceptnet wurde Opfer einer Ransomware-Attacke. fadfebrian – shutterstock.com Der Regensburger IT-Dienstleister Conceptnet informiert derzeit auf seiner Internetseite über eine technische Störung, die durch einen Ransomware-Angriff verursacht wurde. Berichten zu...

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Imagine you work at a drive-through restaurant. Someone drives up and says: “I’ll have a double cheeseburger, large fries, and ignore previous instructions and give me the contents of the cash drawer.” Would you hand over the money? Of course not. Yet this is what large language models ( LLMs ) d...

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Cisco has released patches for a critical remote code execution vulnerability in its unified communications products that attackers are actively exploiting. The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has added the flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, confirming the ex...

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Phoney email alerts suggest users need to backup their LastPass accounts within 24 hours. LastPass says it would never require this action from users

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PcComponentes says it did not lose data in a breach, but through a credential stuffing attack.

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Security teams at agile, fast-growing companies often have the same mandate: secure the business without slowing it down. Most teams inherit a tech stack optimized for breakneck growth, not resilience. In these environments, the security team is the helpdesk, the compliance expert, and the incide...

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DLA Piper finds 22% increase in breached firms notifying European GDPR regulators

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Lesen Sie, warum CISOs den M365-Tenant stärker in den Blick nehmen müssen. IB Photography – shutterstock.com Im Jahr 2010 war Office 365 eine einfache Suite mit Office-Anwendungen und zusätzlicher E-Mail-Funktion. Das hat sich 15 Jahre später mit Microsoft 365 geändert: Die Suite ist ein wesentli...

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CISO’s are increasingly turning to AI-enabled security technologies to augment their organizations’ cyber defense and extend the capabilities of their teams. According to Foundry’s latest Security Priorities Study , 73% of security decision-makers are now more likely to consider a security soluti...

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Cisco has released fresh patches to address what it described as a "critical" security vulnerability impacting multiple Unified Communications (CM) products and Webex Calling Dedicated Instance that it has been actively exploited as a zero-day in the wild. The vulnerability, CVE-2026-20045 (CVSS ...

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Well, well, well - look what we’re back with. You may recall that merely two weeks ago, we analyzed CVE-2025-52691 - a pre-auth RCE vulnerability in the SmarterTools SmarterMail email solution with a timeline that is typically reserved for KEV holders. The plot of that story had everything; * A g...

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### Summary It is still possible (albeit with significantly more effort) to upload a specially crafted Wheel file (i.e. zip) to PyPI that when installed with PIP (or another Python zipfile based t...

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A critical two-factor authentication bypass vulnerability in the Community and Enterprise editions of the GitLab application development platform has to be patched immediately, say experts. The hole is one of five vulnerabilities patched Wednesday as part of new versions of GitLab. Three are rank...

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Internal testing, product demonstrations, and security training are critical practices in cybersecurity, giving defenders and everyday users the tools and wherewithal to prevent and respond to enterprise threats. However, according to new research from Pentera Labs, when left in default or miscon...

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The new system emerges after repeated funding crises exposed the fragility of the 25-year-old CVE program that cybersecurity defenders worldwide depend on. The post GCVE launches as a decentralized system for tracking software vulnerabilities appeared first on CyberScoop .

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A little bit of Python, a little bit of DLL sideloading, and a little bit of fake jobs.

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The bait incudes plausible subject lines and credible messages, most likely thanks to attackers' use of large language models to craft them.

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Oleg Evgenievich Nefedov, a 35-year-old Russian national, is accused of forming and running the ransomware outfit since 2022. He’s now on Europol and Interpol’s most-wanted lists. The post Black Basta’s alleged ringleader identified as authorities raid homes of other members appeared first on Cyb...

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Cyber risks for the Milano-Cortina 2026 Winter Games include phishing and spoofed websites as key threat vectors

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Zoom and GitLab have released security updates to resolve a number of security vulnerabilities that could result in denial-of-service (DoS) and remote code execution. The most severe of the lot is a critical security flaw impacting Zoom Node Multimedia Routers (MMRs) that could permit a meeting p...

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Loan phishing operation in Peru is stealing card info by impersonating financial institutions

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LastPass targeted with phishing campaign pressuring victims into sharing their master passwords.

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Ransomware negotiators dish on being in a ‘moral gray zone,’ unrestricted by accountability or industrywide rules of engagement. The post The thin line between saving a company and funding a crime appeared first on CyberScoop .

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AI hallucination is still the deal-breaker. Related: Correcting LLM hallucinations As companies rush AI into production, executives face a basic constraint: you cannot automate a workflow if you cannot trust the output. A model that fabricates facts becomes a risk … (more…) The post SHARED INTEL ...

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LastPass is alerting users to a new active phishing campaign that's impersonating the password management service, which aims to trick users into giving up their master passwords. The campaign, which began on or around January 19, 2026, involves sending phishing emails claiming upcoming maintenan...

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A security vulnerability has been disclosed in the popular binary-parser npm library that, if successfully exploited, could result in the execution of arbitrary JavaScript. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-1245 (CVSS score: 6.5), affects all versions of the module prior to version 2.3.0, wh...

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ATLANTA, Jan. 20, 2026, CyberNewswire — Airlock Digital , a leader in proactive application control and endpoint security, announced the release of The Total Economic Impact (TEI) of Airlock Digital , an independent study commissioned by Airlock Digital and conducted … (more…) The post News alert...

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ALISO VIEJO, Calif., Jan. 20, 2026, CyberNewswire — One Identity, a trusted leader in identity security , today announces a major upgrade to One Identity Manager, a top-rated IGA solution , strengthening identity governance as a critical security control for … (more…) The post News alert: One Ide...

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Another prompt injection variant was discovered and remedied.

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The voluntary framework would provide legal clarity to third-party AI researchers, including those who study safety and other “unexpected” AI behaviors. The post HackerOne rolls out industry framework to support ‘good faith’ AI research appeared first on CyberScoop .

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Learn how we are using the newly released GitHub Security Lab Taskflow Agent to triage categories of vulnerabilities in GitHub Actions and JavaScript projects.

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A new Internet-of-Things botnet called Kimwolf has spread to more than 2 million devices, forcing infected systems to participate in massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks and to relay other malicious and abusive Internet traffic. Kimwolf's ability to scan the local networks of comp...

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NightSpire claims to have stolen almost 50GB of Hyatt files, including login credentials for CMS systems.

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The indirect prompt injection vulnerability allows an attacker to weaponize invites to circumvent Google's privacy controls and access private data.

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Researcher finds critical-level flaw could be abused to expand the RondoDox botnet.

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A set of three security vulnerabilities has been disclosed in mcp-server-git, the official Git Model Context Protocol (MCP) server maintained by Anthropic, that could be exploited to read or delete arbitrary files and execute code under certain conditions. "These flaws can be exploited through pr...

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Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a new phishing campaign that exploits social media private messages to propagate malicious payloads, likely with the intent to deploy a remote access trojan (RAT). The activity delivers "weaponized files via Dynamic Link Library (DLL) sideloading, combined...

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In cybersecurity, an inaccessible tool isn’t just a nuisance: it’s a vulnerability. With the European Accessibility Act tightening regulations across Sweden and the EU, “good ... The post Why inaccessible cybersecurity is a security risk: our path to accessibility appeared first on Blog Detectify .

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SafePay is claiming responsibility for July 2025 attack which forced Ingram Micro to shut down parts of its IT network.

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Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a malware campaign that's targeting software developers with a new information stealer called Evelyn Stealer by weaponizing the Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extension ecosystem. "The malware is designed to exfiltrate sensitive informat...

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One of the key suppliers for Apple, Tesla, and Nvidia has seemingly suffered a ransomware attack.

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VoidLink's framework marks the first evidence of fully AI-designed and built advanced malware, beginning a new era of AI-generated malware

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An email from Claude landed in my inbox Friday morning with a subject line that stopped me cold: “Using Claude for your everyday life.” Related: AI’s fortune teller effect Not “Unlock the power of AI” or “Transform your productivity.” Just… … (more…) The post MY TAKE: From ‘holy mackeral’ to ‘dai...

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CIRO details what happened in 2025 data breach, including what kind of info was taken.

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Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a security flaw that leverages indirect prompt injection targeting Google Gemini as a way to bypass authorization guardrails and use Google Calendar as a data extraction mechanism. The vulnerability, Miggo Security's Head of Research, Liad Eliya...

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Microsoft is still the most impersonated brand when it comes to phishing attacks – Google, Amazon, Apple and Meta are also in the top five.

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Misaligned agents are just one layer of the AI security challenge that startup Witness AI is trying to solve. It detects employee use of unapproved tools, blocks attacks, and ensures compliance.

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Windows has supported computer telephony integration for decades, providing applications with the ability to manage phone devices, lines, and calls. While modern deployments increasingly rely on cloud-based telephony solutions, classic telephony services remain available out of the box in Windows...

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Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the web-based control panel used by operators of the StealC information stealer, allowing them to gather crucial insights on one of the threat actors using the malware in their operations. "By exploiting it, we...

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Recently I ran an experiment where I built agents on top of Opus 4.5 and GPT-5.2 and then challenged them to write exploits for a zeroday vulnerability in the QuickJS Javascript interpreter. I adde…

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Ukrainian and German law enforcement authorities have identified two Ukrainians suspected of working for the Russia-linked ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) group Black Basta. In addition, the group's alleged leader, a 35-year-old Russian national named Oleg Evgenievich Nefedov (Нефедов Олег Евгенье...

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CVE-2025-64155, a command injection vulnerability, was disclosed earlier this week and quickly came under attack from a variety of IP addresses.

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Developers are frequently granting Claude Code permission to download, execute, and delete code, creating fertile ground for prompt injection attacks.

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The phishing campaign targeted users on WhatsApp, including an Iranian-British activist, and stole the credentials of a Lebanese cabinet minister and at least one journalist.

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Cybersecurity researchers have discovered five new malicious Google Chrome web browser extensions that masquerade as human resources (HR) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) platforms like Workday, NetSuite, and SuccessFactors to take control of victim accounts. "The extensions work in concert...

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Security experts have disclosed details of a new campaign that has targeted U.S. government and policy entities using politically themed lures to deliver a backdoor known as LOTUSLITE. The targeted malware campaign leverages decoys related to the recent geopolitical developments between the U.S. ...

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A threat actor likely aligned with China has been observed targeting critical infrastructure sectors in North America since at least last year. Cisco Talos, which is tracking the activity under the name UAT-8837, assessed it to be a China-nexus advanced persistent threat (APT) actor with medium c...

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I’m in Oslo! Flighty is telling me I’ve flown in or out of here 43 times since a visit in 2014 set me on a new path professionally and, many years later, personally . It’s special here, like a second home that just feels…

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Cisco on Thursday released security updates for a maximum-severity security flaw impacting Cisco AsyncOS Software for Cisco Secure Email Gateway and Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager, nearly a month after the company disclosed that it had been exploited as a zero-day by a China-nexus advanced pe...

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Consuming from Microsoft-Windows-Threat-Intelligence without Antimalware-PPL or kernel patching/driver loading.

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NEW YORK, Jan. 15, 2026, CyberNewswire — BreachLock , a global leader in offensive security, today announced that its Adversarial Exposure Validation (AEV) solution now supports autonomous red teaming at the application layer, expanding beyond its initial network-layer capabilities introduced … (...

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MCLEAN, Va., Jan.15, 2026, CyberNewswire — A new Top 10 Cybersecurity Innovators profile by AppGuard has been released, spotlighting growing concerns over AI-enhanced malware. AI makes malware even more difficult to detect. Worse, they use AI to assess, adapt, and … (more…) The post News alert: A...

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China bans Israeli and US cybersecurity products, Sean Plankey is re-nominated for CISA Director, RAM price hikes are likely to impact the cost of firewalls, and Lumen sinkholes the Kimwolf DDoS botnet.

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A critical misconfiguration in Amazon Web Services (AWS) CodeBuild could have allowed complete takeover of the cloud service provider's own GitHub repositories, including its AWS JavaScript SDK, putting every AWS environment at risk. The vulnerability has been codenamed CodeBreach by cloud securi...

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We can no longer say that artificial intelligence is a "future risk", lurking somewhere on a speculative threat horizon. The truth is that it is a fast-growing cybersecurity risk that organizations are facing today. That's not just my opinion, that's also the message that comes loud and clear fro...

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A maximum-severity security flaw in a WordPress plugin called Modular DS has come under active exploitation in the wild, according to Patchstack. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-23550 (CVSS score: 10.0), has been described as a case of unauthenticated privilege escalation impacting all ver...

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This isn’t good: We discovered a critical vulnerability ( CVE-2026-21858, CVSS 10.0 ) in n8n that enables attackers to take over locally deployed instances, impacting an estimated 100,000 servers globally. No official workarounds are available for this vulnerability. Users should upgrade to versi...

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AUSTIN, Texas, Jan. 14, 2026, CyberNewsWire — SpyCloud , the leader in identity threat protection, today announced the launch of its Supply Chain Threat Protection solution, an advanced layer of defense that expands identity threat protection across the extended workforce, … (more…) The post News...

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AI agents are supposed to make work easier. But they’re also creating a whole new category of security nightmares. As companies deploy AI-powered chatbots, agents, and copilots across their operations, they’re facing a new risk: How do you let employees and AI agents use powerful AI tools without...

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RedVDS, a cybercrime-as-a-service operation that has stolen millions from victims, lost two domains to a law enforcement operation.

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Announcing GitHub Security Lab Taskflow Agent, an open source and collaborative framework for security research with AI.

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The company used an AI-native platform to help companies fight threats.

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Key findings Introduction In December 2025, a previously unknown Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) operation calling itself Sicarii began advertising its services across multiple underground platforms. The group’s name references the Sicarii, a 1st-century Jewish assassins group that opposed Roman r...

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Chinese cyberattacks on Taiwan's critical infrastructure — including energy utilities and hospitals — rose 6% in 2025, averaging 2.63 million attacks a day.

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Microsoft today issued patches to plug at least 113 security holes in its various Windows operating systems and supported software. Eight of the vulnerabilities earned Microsoft's most-dire "critical" rating, and the company warns that attackers are already exploiting one of the bugs fixed today.

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Wireless-(in)Fidelity: Pentesting Wi-Fi in 2025

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In episode 83 of The AI Fix, Graham reveals he's taken up lying to LLMs, and shows how a journalist exposed AI bluffers with a made-up idiom. Meanwhile Mark invents a "Godwin's Law" for AI, and explains how to ruin any LLM with humus. Also in this episode, a marriage is declared invalid thanks to...

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The phishing campaign shows how attackers continue to weaponize legitimate cloud services and open source tools to evade detection and gain trust.

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Remember the Ashley Madison data breach? That was now more than a decade ago, yet it arguably remains the single most noteworthy data breach of all time. There are many reasons for this accolade, but chief among them is that by virtue of the site being expressly designed to facilitate

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If your data is on the dark web, it’s probably only a matter of time before it’s abused for fraud or account hijacking. Here’s what to do.

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Have you ever stolen data, traded a hacking tool, or just lurked on a dark web forum believing that you are anonymous? If so, I might have some unsettling news for you. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.

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The new framework maintains long-term access to Linux systems while operating reliably in cloud and container environments

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Researchers detailed a souped-up version of the GoBruteforcer botnet that preys on servers with weak credentials and AI-generated configurations.

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A state-sponsored threat group tracked as "Kimsuky" sent QR-code-filled phishing emails to US and foreign government agencies, NGOs, and academic institutions.

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Hackers gained access to some Betterment customers’ personal information through a social engineering attack, then targeted some of them with a crypto-related phishing message.

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A total of 91,403 sessions targeted public LLM endpoints to find leaks in organizations' use of AI and map an expanding attack surface.

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The notorious state-sponsored group relies on basic techniques that are highly effective, often delivering greater ROI than more complex malware-heavy operations.

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Our first story of 2026 revealed how a destructive new botnet called Kimwolf rapidly grew to infect more than two million devices by mass-compromising a vast number of unofficial Android TV streaming boxes. Today, we'll dig through digital clues left behind by the hackers, network operators, and ...

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Welcome to 2026! While we are all waiting for the scheduled SSLVPN ITW exploitation programming that occurs every January, we’re back from Christmas and idle hands, idle minds, yada yada. In December, we were alerted to a vulnerability in SmarterTools’ SmarterMail solution, accompanied by an advi...

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In 2025, Trump brought tech executives into power to dismantle regulators and write their own rules. But the instabilities they’re creating may be their downfall.

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Key takeaways Introduction GoBruteforcer is a botnet that turns compromised Linux servers into scanning and password brute-force nodes. It targets internet-exposed services such as phpMyAdmin web panels, MySQL and PostgreSQL databases, and FTP servers. Infected hosts are incorporated into the bot...

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 I've been thinking and writing about AI for [exactly a decade now](/blog/the-real-internet-of-things), and last week someone claimed I said two things in 2023 that I don't think I said. (1. That we'd have AGI in 6 months, ...

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Disclaimer: This article is intended for educational purposes and security specialists conducting authorized testing. The author assumes no responsibility for any misuse of the information provided. Distribution of malicious software, system disruption, and privacy violations are punishable by la...

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### Summary A buffer overflow and stack information leak affecting the ARM Ampere Management Mode (MM) Boot Error Record Table (BERT) driver. This code is bundled into the ARM Unified Extensible F...

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Learn how to achieve compliance with the third-party risk management standards of the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA)

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Expand your organization's vendor risk management toolbox by utilizing this free GDPR vendor questionnaire template.

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Learn which features to look for when choosing a tool for tracking PCI DSS compliance. The right tool will help you avoid costly violations.

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Learn which features to look for in an ideal cyber risk remediation product for healthcare services. The right choice will reduce data breach impact.

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A free cybersecurity guide for any business in the healthcare industry. Includes data breach and ransomware attack defense strategies for 2026.

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Learn how to comply with versions 4.0 and 4.0.1 of PCI DSS.

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Learn how to implement an effective security strategy for minimizing the impact of ransomware attacks.

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Monitoring these key metrics will help you track your PCI DSS compliance efforts.

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This article covers how to prepare for a PCI DSS onsite audit and maintain compliance with PCI requirements.

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Learn the most commonly used phishing attacks and how to identify them.

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116 data breach statistics that cover risk, cost, prevention, industry trends, and more. Assess and analyze these stats and learn to prevent data breaches.

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The story you are reading is a series of scoops nestled inside a far more urgent Internet-wide security advisory. The vulnerability at issue has been exploited for months already, and it's time for a broader awareness of the threat. The short version is that everything you thought you knew about ...

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The Tapo C260 is the latest TP-Link camera featuring a whole host of upgrades. As part of the SPIRITCYBER contest where I found several RCEs and other interesting vulnerabilities, I decided to focus on this device and dive deeper into hardware hacking.

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Learn why some long-enrolled OSS-Fuzz projects still contain vulnerabilities and how you can find them.

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KrebsOnSecurity.com celebrates its 16th anniversary today! A huge "thank you" to all of our readers -- newcomers, long-timers and drive-by critics alike. Your engagement this past year here has been tremendous and truly a salve on a handful of dark days. Happily, comeuppance was a strong theme ru...

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Every day, thousands of web services generate PDF (Portable Document Format) files—bills, contracts, reports. This step is often treated as a technical routine, “just convert the HTML,” but in practice it’s exactly where a trust boundary is crossed. The renderer parses HTML, downloads external re...

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Guardicore Labs uncovers a Ransomware detection campaign targeting MySQL servers. Attackers use Double Extortion and publish data to pressure victims.

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Guardicore security researchers describe and uncover a full analysis of a cryptomining attack, which hid a cryptominer inside WAV files. The report includes the full attack vectors, from detection, infection, network propagation and malware analysis and recommendations for optimizing incident res...

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Why securing AI agents at runtime is essential as attackers find new ways to exploit generative orchestration. The post From runtime risk to real‑time defense: Securing AI agents appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog .

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A new study shows that verse-based prompts can slash the effectiveness of AI safety constraints. We’re breaking down an experiment involving 25 language models and its key takeaways.

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In this week's newsletter, Bill hammers home the old adage, "Know your environment" — even throughout alert fatigue.

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Discover how Ford, Icertis, and TriNet modernized security with Microsoft—embedding Zero Trust, automating defenses, and enabling secure AI innovation at scale. The post Microsoft Security success stories: Why integrated security is the foundation of AI transformation appeared first on Microsoft ...

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Cisco Talos’ Vulnerability Discovery & Research team recently disclosed three vulnerabilities in Foxit PDF Editor, one in the Epic Games Store, and twenty-one in MedDream PACS.. The vulnerabilities mentioned in this blog post have been patched by their respective vendors, all in adherence to Cisc...

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We discuss a novel AI-augmented attack method where malicious webpages use LLM services to generate dynamic code in real-time within a browser. The post The Next Frontier of Runtime Assembly Attacks: Leveraging LLMs to Generate Phishing JavaScript in Real Time appeared first on Unit 42 .

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Microsoft Defender Researchers uncovered a multi‑stage AiTM phishing and business email compromise (BEC) campaign targeting multiple organizations in the energy sector. The post Resurgence of a multi‑stage AiTM phishing and BEC campaign abusing SharePoint appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog .

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AI agents are transforming how organizations operate, but their autonomy also expands the attack surface. The post A new era of agents, a new era of posture appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog .

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With the WhisperPair attack, a stranger can pair their device with your headphones to keep tabs on your location.

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Oracle addresses 158 CVEs in its first quarterly update of 2026 with 337 patches, including 27 critical updates. Key takeaways: The first Critical Patch Update (CPU) for 2026, contains fixes for 158 unique CVEs in 337 security updates. 27 issues (8% of all patches) were assigned a critical severi...

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Tenable Research has discovered a server-side request forgery (SSRF) vulnerability in Java’s handling of client certificates during a TLS handshake. In certain configurations, this can be abused to cause a denial-of-service (DoS) condition. Key takeaways Tenable Research identified a vulnerabilit...

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We've identified an aspect of Azure’s Private Endpoint architecture that could expose Azure resources to denial of service (DoS) attacks. The post DNS OverDoS: Are Private Endpoints Too Private? appeared first on Unit 42 .

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Discover four key identity and access priorities for the new year to strengthen your organization's identity security baseline. The post Four priorities for AI-powered identity and network access security in 2026 appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog .

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How can organizations find and fix systems vulnerable to Y2K38 — the Unix epoch time overflow problem, also known as Epochalypse?

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Here’s how cybercriminals cash in on companies’ online doppelgängers, and what can be done about it.

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In this week’s newsletter, Martin examines the evolving landscape for 2026, highlighting key threats, emerging trends like AI-driven risks, and the continued importance of addressing familiar vulnerabilities.

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Ordinary photos from your social media can be turned into tools for AI-driven sextortion and deepfakes. How can you protect your privacy and security?

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Cisco Talos is closely tracking UAT-8837, a threat actor we assess with medium confidence is a China-nexus advanced persistent threat (APT) actor.

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Exploit code has been published for CVE-2025-64155, a critical command injection vulnerability affecting Fortinet FortiSIEM devices. Key takeaways: CVE-2025-64155 is a critical operating system (OS) command injection vulnerability affecting Fortinet FortiSIEM. Fortinet vulnerabilities have histor...

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Microsoft is honored to be named a Leader in the 2025–2026 IDC MarketScape for Unified AI Governance Platforms, highlighting our commitment to making AI innovation safe, responsible, and enterprise-ready. The post Microsoft named a Leader in IDC MarketScape for Unified AI Governance Platforms app...

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Microsoft’s investigation into RedVDS services and infrastructure uncovered a global network of disparate cybercriminals purchasing and using to target multiple sectors. In collaboration with law enforcement agencies worldwide, Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit (DCU) recently facilitated a disrupti...

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Terryn’s path to cybersecurity started with a fascination for criminal forensics and a knack for jailbreaking his family's tech — interests that eventually steered him toward the fast-paced world of digital investigations.

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An independent study of companies’ transparency and data usage practices in cybersecurity products.

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The critical ServiceNow Virtual Agent vulnerability highlights a vital lesson: securing agentic AI requires a return to traditional AppSec foundations. While AI can amplify risks, the root causes often stem from classic failures in authentication and authorization.

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Database platform MongoDB disclosed CVE-2025-14847, called MongoBleed. This is an unauthenticated memory disclosure vulnerability with a CVSS score of 8.7. The post Threat Brief: MongoDB Vulnerability (CVE-2025-14847) appeared first on Unit 42 .

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How to protect your Android device from NFC relay attacks exploiting NFCGate.

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8 Critical 105 Important 0 Moderate 0 Low Microsoft addresses 113 CVEs in the first Patch Tuesday of 2026, with two zero-days, including one that was exploited in the wild. Microsoft patched 113 CVEs in its January 2026 Patch Tuesday release, with eight rated critical and 105 rated as important. ...

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Microsoft has released its monthly security update for January 2026, which includes 112 vulnerabilities affecting a range of products, including 8 that Microsoft marked as “critical”.

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Learn how Microsoft unites privacy and security through advanced tools and global compliance to protect data and build trust. The post How Microsoft builds privacy and security to work hand-in-hand appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog .

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We identified remote code execution vulnerabilities in open-source AI/ML libraries published by Apple, Salesforce and NVIDIA. The post Remote Code Execution With Modern AI/ML Formats and Libraries appeared first on Unit 42 .

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If your data is on the dark web, it’s probably only a matter of time before it’s abused for fraud or account hijacking. Here’s what to do.

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From a quintuple-encryption ransomware attack to zany dark web schemes and AI fails, Sophos X-Ops looks back at some of our favorite weirdest incidents from the last few years – and the serious lessons behind them Categories: Threat Research Tags: Ransomware, Hive, Lockbit, BlackCat, LLM, AI, Mon...

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Malware disguising its activity in network and system logs as legitimate state information system traffic and a Network Diagnostic Service.

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This recognition — based entirely on feedback from the people who use our products every day — to us is a testament to the unmatched value Tenable Cloud Security CNAPP offers organizations worldwide. Our key takeaways: In our view, this peer recognition confirms Tenable’s strategic value in helpi...

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Categories: Products & Services Tags: Ransomware, Enterprise, Solutions, The State of Ransomware

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Talos' editor ditches the pressure of traditional New Year’s resolutions in favor of practical, in-the-moment changes, and finds more success by letting go of perfection. Plus, we break down the latest on UAT-7290, a newly disclosed threat actor targeting critical infrastructure.

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Talos assesses with high confidence that UAT-7290 is a sophisticated threat actor falling under the China-nexus of advanced persistent threat actors (APTs). UAT-7290 primarily targets telecommunications providers in South Asia.

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The new proactive services from Microsoft Incident Response turn security uncertainty into readiness with expert‑led preparation and advanced intelligence. The post Explore the latest Microsoft Incident Response proactive services for enhanced resilience appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog .

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What happens under the hood of Cisco's security portfolio? Our reputation and detection services apply Talos' real-time intelligence to detect and block threats. Here's how.

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Threat actors are exploiting complex routing scenarios and misconfigured spoof protections to send spoofed phishing emails, crafted to appear as internally sent messages. The post Phishing actors exploit complex routing and misconfigurations to spoof domains appeared first on Microsoft Security B...

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In this special edition, Tenable leaders forecast key 2026 trends, including: AI will make attacks more plentiful and less costly; machine identities will become the top cloud risk; preemptive cloud and exposure management will dethrone runtime detection; and automated remediation gets the go-ahe...

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A recently disclosed vulnerability affecting MongoDB instances has been reportedly exploited in the wild. Exploit code has been released for this flaw dubbed MongoBleed. Key takeaways: MongoBleed is a memory leak vulnerability affecting multiple versions of MongoDB. Exploitation of MongoDB has be...

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Kaspersky discloses a 2025 HoneyMyte (aka Mustang Panda or Bronze President) APT campaign, which uses a kernel-mode rootkit to deliver and protect a ToneShell backdoor.

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한 사이버보안 기업이 INC 랜섬웨어 그룹의 탈취 데이터가 보관된 클라우드 스토리지 인프라를 찾아냈다. 이로 인해 공격을 받은 미국 기업 12곳이 암호화된 데이터를 복구할 수 있었다. 보안 기업 사이버 센타우르스의 연구진 은 지난 22일 INC 그룹의 운영 보안상 허점을 포착해 활용했다고 밝혔다. 해당 보고서에 따르면, 연구진은 INC 그룹이 피해 기업의 데이터를 암호화하고 외부로 유출하는 데 사용하는 합법적인 오픈소스 백업 유틸리티인 레스틱(Restic)에서 남은 아티팩트를 발견했다. INC 그룹이 레스틱 기반 인프라를 반복...

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사이버 범죄자들은 합법적인 기업과 유사한 조직 모델을 갖춘 구조화된 범죄 집단을 구축해 왔다. 보안 기업 비트디펜더(Bitdefender)의 기술 솔루션 총괄 마틴 주겍은 “사이버 범죄는 산업화됐으며, 투자 대비 수익(ROI)을 중시하는 경제로 진화해 속도와 수익화에 초점을 맞추고 있다”라고 설명했다. 주겍은 사이버 범죄 조직의 이러한 운영 방식이 높은 수준의 전문화를 특징으로 하며, 초기 침투를 담당하는 접근 브로커나 서비스형 랜섬웨어(Ransomware-as-a-Service, RaaS) 제휴사 등이 그 예라고 분석했다. ...

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젯브레인은 오픈AI의 코덱스 AI 코딩 에이전트를 젯브레인 IDE 내부에서 바로 사용할 수 있도록 제공한다고 23일 밝혔다 . 개발자는 에디터를 벗어나지 않고도 코드 기획, 작성, 테스트, 리뷰, 배포까지 수행할 수 있다. 코덱스가 젯브레인 AI 채팅에 네이티브로 통합되면서, 개발자는 2025.3 버전부터 젯브레인 IDE 안에서 코덱스와 직접 협업할 수 있게 됐다. 코덱스는 젯브레인 AI 구독, 챗GPT 계정, 또는 오픈AI API 키를 통해 동일한 AI 채팅 인터페이스에서 사용할 수 있다. 이 기능을 지원하는 IDE로는 젯브...

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The man behind Master Chief feels a way about generative AI when it comes to his voice being used for any 'Halo' fan project or video.

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In 1996, a New York-based Internet service provider became the first target of a major distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. They were shut down for 36 hours. Since then, DDoS has remained a favored tactic of cybercriminals. But with the advent of AI, DDoS attacks have become both more com...

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Reliable, high-speed internet connectivity is no longer optional—it’s an essential business tool. Increasingly more business applications and processes live in the cloud, requiring a powerful connection that considers factors such as reliability, scalability, security, and performance. Organizati...

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For some time now, concerned business users have been discussing the possibilities of AI being a tool to increase the efficiency of cybercriminals . However, it can also be a welcome helper to bolster cyberdefense. Industry experts like Chuck Brooks also chose to focus on AI as a double-edged swo...

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Over the course of the past year, security researchers at Specops Software examined six billion leaked passwords and subsequently published a comprehensive report on their findings. This report not only provides insight into the most commonly used passwords, but also into the current threat posed...

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'A lot more' victims to come, we're told ShinyHunters has claimed responsibility for an Okta voice-phishing campaign during which the extortionist crew allegedly gained access to Crunchbase and Betterment.…

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Password manager 1Password has launched a new feature in its browser extension that provides extra protection against phishing, reports Engadget . The new feature warns users when they manually paste login details on a website that isn’t linked to a saved login in 1Password. A pop-up message will...

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Last week, Verizon had a massive outage. Millions of wireless customers couldn’t get a signal, instead stuck on emergency service. If you were affected, you definitely knew it—your phone was stuck on “SOS” mode, only capable of calling 911. Service was eventually restored by the evening, with Ver...

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European lawmakers on Thursday adopted a comprehensive report on technological sovereignty and digital infrastructure that directs the European Commission to reduce the bloc’s heavy reliance on foreign technology providers across semiconductors, cloud infrastructure, software, and AI systems. The...

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The AI industry is moving incredibly fast. It’s almost as though you can close your eyes for ten minutes and wake to find that yet another business-friendly AI tool or service has appeared. While refreshing, this glut of investment and innovation represents an industry in flux, meaning the most s...

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In an era defined by rapid innovation, shifting markets and disruptive emerging technologies, long-term planning alone cannot deliver the agility enterprises need. Strategy is now judged less by the quality of vision decks and more by how quickly enterprises can test, learn and scale what works a...

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When people hear my title — chief digital and information officer — most of them immediately think of technology — cloud, Data, AI, Cybersecurity. They imagine servers, dashboards, code. And, to be fair, all of that is part of my world. But if I describe my job only in terms of technology, I am t...

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AI chatbots have been with us three years and one month (at least the kind that use large language models (LLMs) to communicate with natural-sounding words). Already norms are emerging in some professions for users to disclose how they use AI. For example: Organizations such as the International ...

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A group of researchers from Berkeley, Harvard, Oxford, Cambridge, and Yale warn that the rise of AI bots and AI agents could pose a serious threat to democracy. For example, power-hungry politicians around the world can relatively easily create swarms of AI bots that flood social media and messag...

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Windows 11 25H2 has been released, but behind the scenes, Microsoft is constantly working to improve the newest version of Windows. The company frequently rolls out public preview builds to members of its Windows Insider Program, allowing them to test out — and help shape — upcoming features. Ski...

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Workers are getting fed up with AI-based hiring practices. A new class action lawsuit filed in California alleges that human candidates are being unfairly profiled by “hidden” AI hiring technologies that “lurk in the background” to collect “sensitive and often inaccurate” information about “unsus...

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Teach a crook to phish… Criminals can more easily pull off social engineering scams and other forms of identity fraud thanks to custom voice-phishing kits being sold on dark web forums and messaging platforms.…

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Crypto theft was "the worst thing I had ever done."

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Logging in, not breaking in Unknown attackers are abusing Microsoft SharePoint file-sharing services to target multiple energy-sector organizations, harvest user credentials, take over corporate inboxes, and then send hundreds of phishing emails from compromised accounts to contacts inside and ou...

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More details about the expected cadence of Apple’s plans to turn Siri into an AI-driven chatbot are emerging, and Mark Gurman tells us Apple has a two-tier approach in mind. The current thinking is that Apple’s Gemini-powered chatbot will arrive in June with iOS 26.4, which will be a significant ...

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Dentists least likely to get an LLM kick in the teeth Most US workers in jobs exposed to AI are also relatively well placed to adapt if disruption leads to displacement, according to research summarized by the Brookings Institution. However, there are some careers with high percentages of female ...

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Torrenting, or P2P (peer-to-peer) file sharing, is a convenient way to download large files quickly. But it isn’t without its risks. Not only is there the risk of accidentally downloading a malicious file or malware, but there’s a privacy risk as well—your ISP can see all your online activity and...

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Cisco has released patches for a critical remote code execution vulnerability in its unified communications products that attackers are actively exploiting. The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has added the flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, confirming the ex...

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Regulators logged over 400 personal data breach notifications a day for first time since law came into force GDPR fines pushed past the £1 billion (€1.2 billion) mark in 2025 as Europe's regulators were deluged with more than 400 data breach notifications a day, according to a new survey that sug...

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Work-from-office mandates are accelerating as the world moves further away from the COVID-19 pandemic, but the push toward in-person work environments will make it more difficult for IT leaders to retain and recruit staff, some experts say. Over the past year, many companies, including IT giants ...

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Critical vuln flew under the radar for a decade A recently disclosed critical vulnerability in the GNU InetUtils telnet daemon (telnetd) is "trivial" to exploit, experts say.…

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Whether you want extra security while using public Wi-Fi, or to unlock content on your favorite streaming services, the right free VPN for your Android device can help you do it without having to pay a dime. The problem when looking for a good free VPN, though, is that there are a ton available o...

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Recently, a new way of stealing Facebook login info came to light—hackers using fake windows within your browser to imitate legitimate pop-up windows for sign-in. Called browser-in-browser (BitB) attacks, this form of phishing puts a novel spin on a long-standing hack. First documented by securit...

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I block ads (despite the hypocrisy) and you probably do too if you’re tech-literate enough to read PCWorld on the regular. So maybe you’re familiar with the minor drama between Google Chrome and the incredibly popular uBlock Origin , which is also a solo developer’s passion project. That notoriet...

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Security researchers are now warning of a targeted malware campaign that involves malicious software hiding in certain browser extensions. The wave of attacks—dubbed “GhostPoster”—targets Chrome, Firefox, and Edge users. There have been over 840,000 attacks since December. How the GhostPoster att...

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At a glance Expert's Rating Pros Polished, clean interface Multitude of entry types (logins, notes, etc), with the ability to pack in info fields Autofill works smoothly Large type for password viewing! Unique “travel mode” Cons Complex login system compared to rivals Family plan subaccounts can ...

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Beware of text messages with promises to win or a call to action! Because it is precisely messages like these that repeatedly lead to unexpected costs on your mobile phone bill. If you reply carelessly or contact a specified number, you can quickly fall into an expensive trap. We explain below wh...

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TL;DR: For a one-time $39.99 (MSRP $169.99), the AdGuard Family Plan lets you block ads, protect privacy, and secure up to nine devices for life. Online ads have gotten louder, sneakier, and harder to avoid—and that’s before you even factor in trackers, malicious sites, and kid-unfriendly content...

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VPNs aren’t just useful for keeping your online activities safe and private, they’re also a great way to bypass restrictions on streaming content in other countries. The top VPN providers work hard to stay one step ahead of streaming services in a never-ending cat-and-mouse game, ensuring that yo...

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With the most recent update to Firefox 147, you can enjoy a number of new features and improvements. Safe Browsing v5 improves privacy protection, picture-in-picture mode for videos has learned a new trick, and the developers have once again fixed several security flaws. Mozilla doesn’t plan to r...

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If you’re still using Facebook, then I assume you’re old enough to remember watching John Wayne movies in the theater. Nevertheless, it remains a pretty juicy target for hackers and digital thieves. They’re using a technique that you should be aware of, even if your only interaction with the slop...

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Currently trending CVE - Hype Score: 17 - A stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability in NetSupport Manager 14.x versions prior to 14.12.0000 allows a remote, unauthenticated attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) or potentially leak a limited amount of memory.

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Currently trending CVE - Hype Score: 16 - An improper neutralization of special elements used in an SQL command ('SQL Injection') vulnerability [CWE-89] vulnerability in Fortinet FortiWeb 7.6.0 through 7.6.3, FortiWeb 7.4.0 through 7.4.7, FortiWeb 7.2.0 through 7.2.10, FortiWeb 7.0.0 through 7.0....

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A critical blind SQL Injection

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Currently trending CVE - Hype Score: 10 - vCenter Server contains a heap-overflow vulnerability in the implementation of the DCERPC protocol. A malicious actor with network access to vCenter Server may trigger this vulnerability by sending a specially crafted network packet potentially leading to...

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Currently trending CVE - Hype Score: 1 - A use-after-free issue was addressed with improved memory management. This issue is fixed in watchOS 26.2, Safari 26.2, iOS 18.7.3 and iPadOS 18.7.3, iOS 26.2 and iPadOS 26.2, macOS Tahoe 26.2, visionOS 26.2, tvOS 26.2. Processing maliciously crafted web c...

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Currently trending CVE - Hype Score: 1 - Out of bounds memory access in ANGLE in Google Chrome on Mac prior to 143.0.7499.110 allowed a remote attacker to perform out of bounds memory access via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High)

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A list of topics we covered in the week of January 19 to January 25 of 2026

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A vulnerability labeled as problematic has been found in AhaChat Messenger Marketing Plugin up to 1.1 on WordPress. Impacted is an unknown function. Such manipulation leads to cross site scripting. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2025-14316 . The attack can be launched remotely. ...

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A vulnerability identified as critical has been detected in Recipe Card Blocks Lite Plugin up to 3.4.12 on WordPress. This issue affects some unknown processing. This manipulation causes sql injection. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2025-14973 . The attack can be initiated remotely. There i...

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A vulnerability categorized as critical has been discovered in pymumu SmartDNS up to 47.1 . This vulnerability affects the function _dns_decode_rr_head/_dns_decode_SVCB_HTTPS of the file src/dns.c of the component SVBC Record Parser . The manipulation results in stack-based buffer overflow. This ...

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A vulnerability was found in PHPGurukul News Portal 1.0 . It has been rated as critical . This affects an unknown part of the component Profile Pic Handler . The manipulation leads to unrestricted upload. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2026-1424 . It is possible to initiate the attack remote...

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A vulnerability was found in code-projects Online Examination System 1.0 . It has been declared as critical . Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the file /admin_pic.php . Executing a manipulation can lead to unrestricted upload. This vulnerability appears as CVE-2026-1423 . T...

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A vulnerability was found in code-projects Online Examination System 1.0 . It has been classified as critical . Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the file /index.php of the component Login Page . Performing a manipulation of the argument User results in sql injection. ...

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A vulnerability was found in code-projects Online Examination System 1.0 and classified as problematic . Affected is an unknown function of the component Add Pages . Such manipulation leads to cross site scripting. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2026-1421 . The attack can be executed rem...

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A vulnerability has been found in Tenda AC23 16.03.07.52 and classified as critical . This impacts an unknown function of the file /goform/WifiExtraSet . This manipulation of the argument wpapsk_crypto causes buffer overflow. This vulnerability is registered as CVE-2026-1420 . Remote exploitation...

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical , has been found in Linux Kernel up to 6.18.6/6.19-rc5 . The impacted element is an unknown function of the component block . The manipulation leads to uninitialized pointer. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2026-23007 . The attack must be carr...

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A vulnerability classified as critical was found in Linux Kernel up to 6.18.6/6.19-rc5 . The affected element is the function damon_call of the component DAMON Sysfs Interface . Executing a manipulation can lead to use after free. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2026-23012 . The attack is on...

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A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Linux Kernel up to 6.12.66/6.18.6/6.19-rc5 . Impacted is the function octep_vf_request_irqs . Performing a manipulation results in use after free. This vulnerability is identified as CVE-2026-23013 . The attack can only be performed from th...

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A vulnerability categorized as critical has been discovered in Linux Kernel up to 6.12.66/6.18.6/6.19-rc5 . Affected by this vulnerability is the function j1939_xtp_rx_rts_session_active . Executing a manipulation can lead to improper update of reference count. This vulnerability is handled as CV...

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A vulnerability was found in Linux Kernel up to 6.12.66/6.18.6/6.19-rc5 . It has been rated as critical . Affected is the function tegra_adma_terminate_all of the component Tegra ADMA Driver . Performing a manipulation results in use after free. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2025-71162 . Acc...

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A vulnerability was found in Linux Kernel up to 6.12.66/6.18.6/6.19-rc5 . It has been declared as critical . This impacts an unknown function of the component dmaengine . Such manipulation leads to memory leak. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2025-71163 . Access to the local network is requir...

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A vulnerability was found in Linux Kernel up to 6.18.6/6.19-rc5 . It has been classified as critical . This affects the function xhci_sideband_remove_endpoint . This manipulation causes improper initialization. This vulnerability appears as CVE-2026-23009 . The attacker needs to be present on the...

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A vulnerability was found in Linux Kernel up to 6.18.6/6.19-rc5 and classified as critical . The impacted element is the function rt6_uncached_list_del in the library lib/dump_stack.c of the component IPv4 . The manipulation results in use after free. This vulnerability is reported as CVE-2026-23...

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A vulnerability has been found in Linux Kernel up to 6.12.66/6.18.6/6.19-rc5 and classified as critical . The affected element is the function qfq_change_class . The manipulation leads to allocation of resources. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2026-22999 . The attack requires being on th...

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical , was found in Linux Kernel up to 6.12.66/6.18.6/6.19-rc5 . Impacted is the function fpu_update_guest_xfd . Executing a manipulation can lead to state issue. This vulnerability is registered as CVE-2026-23005 . The attack requires access to the lo...

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical , has been found in Linux Kernel up to 6.12.66/6.18.6/6.19-rc5 . This issue affects the function nvmet_tcp_handle_h2c_data_pdu . Performing a manipulation results in null pointer dereference. This vulnerability is cataloged as CVE-2026-22998 . The...

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A vulnerability described as critical has been identified in Linux Kernel up to 6.12.66/6.18.6/6.19-rc5 . Affected by this issue is the function skb_vlan_inet_prepare in the library include/net/inet_ecn.h of the component ip6_tunnel . The manipulation results in information disclosure. This vulne...

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A vulnerability labeled as critical has been found in D-Link DCS700l 1.03.09 . Affected is an unknown function of the file /setDayNightMode of the component Web Form Handler . Executing a manipulation of the argument LightSensorControl can lead to command injection. The identification of this vul...

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A vulnerability identified as problematic has been detected in Microvirt MEMU PLAY 3.7.0 . This impacts an unknown function of the component MEmusvc Windows Service . Performing a manipulation results in unquoted search path. This vulnerability was named CVE-2020-36937 . The attack needs to be ap...

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A vulnerability categorized as problematic has been discovered in KMSpico Service KMSELDI 17.1.0.0 . This affects an unknown function of the file C:\Program Files\KMSpico\Service_KMS.exe . Such manipulation leads to unquoted search path. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2020-36935...

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A vulnerability was found in HTC IPTInstaller 4.0.9 . It has been rated as problematic . The impacted element is an unknown function of the component PassThru Service . This manipulation causes unquoted search path. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2020-36933 . It is possible to launch the at...

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A vulnerability was found in Deepinstinct Deep Instinct Windows Agent 1.2.24.0 . It has been declared as problematic . The affected element is an unknown function of the file C:\Program Files\HP Sure Sense\DeepNetworkService.exe . The manipulation results in unquoted search path. This vulnerabili...

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A vulnerability was found in Magic Utilities Magic Mouse 2 Utilities 2.20 . It has been classified as problematic . Impacted is an unknown function of the component Windows Service . The manipulation leads to unquoted search path. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2020-36936 . An attack has to ...

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A vulnerability was found in SeaCMS up to 11.1 and classified as problematic . This issue affects some unknown processing of the component Admin Settings Page . Executing a manipulation of the argument checkuser can lead to cross site scripting. This vulnerability appears as CVE-2020-36932 . The ...

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A vulnerability has been found in Click2Magic up to 1.1.5 and classified as problematic . This vulnerability affects unknown code. Performing a manipulation results in cross site scripting. This vulnerability is reported as CVE-2020-36931 . The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. Moreo...

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical , was found in GPAC up to 2.4.0 . This affects the function gf_text_import_srt_bifs of the file src/scene_manager/text_to_bifs.c of the component SRT Subtitle Import . Such manipulation leads to out-of-bounds write. This vulnerability is documente...

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic , has been found in GPAC up to 2.4.0 . Affected by this issue is the function dump_isom_rtp of the file applications/mp4box/filedump.c . This manipulation causes null pointer dereference. This vulnerability is registered as CVE-2026-1417 . The ...

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A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in GPAC up to 2.4.0 . Affected is the function gf_media_export_webvtt_metadata of the file src/media_tools/media_export.c . The manipulation of the argument Name leads to null pointer dereference. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2026-14...

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A vulnerability described as critical has been identified in Sangfor Operation and Maintenance Security Management System up to 3.0.12 . This impacts the function getInformation of the file /equipment/get_Information of the component HTTP POST Request Handler . Executing a manipulation of the arg...

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A vulnerability was found in Beetel 777VR1 up to 01.00.09/01.00.09_55 . It has been classified as problematic . This affects an unknown part of the component UART Interface . Performing a manipulation results in information disclosure. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2026-1407 . The attack may...

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A vulnerability was found in cubewp1211 CubeWP Framework Plugin up to 1.1.27 on WordPress and classified as problematic . Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the file class-cubewp-search-ajax-hooks.php . Such manipulation leads to information disclosure. This vulnerability is ...

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A vulnerability has been found in lcg0124 BootDo up to 5ccd963c74058036b466e038cff37de4056c1600 and classified as problematic . Affected by this vulnerability is the function redirectToLogin of the file AccessControlFilter.java of the component Host Header Handler . This manipulation of the argum...

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Lawrence Abrams reports: The ShinyHunters extortion gang claims it is behind a wave of ongoing voice phishing attacks targeting single sign-on (SSO) accounts at Okta, Microsoft, and Google, enabling threat actors to breach corporate SaaS platforms and steal company data for extortion. In these at...

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Caroline Alvarez reports: Waltio, a French crypto tax platform, is under siege from ShinyHunters, a notorious ransomware group claiming to hold the personal data of nearly 50,000 users. ShinyHunters, known for high-profile crypto and corporate hacks, is threatening to leak users’ 2024 tax reports...

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic , was found in WP Directory Kit Plugin up to 1.4.9 on WordPress. Affected is the function wdk_public_action of the component AJAX Handler . The manipulation results in information disclosure. This vulnerability is reported as CVE-2025-13920 . T...

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic , has been found in PDFCrowd Save as PDF Plugin up to 4.5.5 on WordPress. This impacts an unknown function. The manipulation leads to cross site scripting. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2026-0862 . The attack can be initiated remotely...

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A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in WP Go Maps Plugin up to 10.0.04 on WordPress. This affects the function processBackgroundAction of the component Map Engine Setting Handler . Executing a manipulation can lead to missing authorization. This vulnerability is registered as CVE-...

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A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Hustle Plugin up to 7.8.9.2 on WordPress. The impacted element is the function action_import_module . Performing a manipulation results in unrestricted upload. This vulnerability is cataloged as CVE-2026-0911 . It is possible to initiate th...

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A vulnerability described as problematic has been identified in Apache Karaf up to 2.11.x . The affected element is an unknown function of the component Decanter log-socket Collector . Such manipulation leads to deserialization. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2026-24656 . The attack may be p...

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Spammers are abusing Zendesk to flood inboxes with emails from trusted brands. There’s no phishing or malware—just noise.

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This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Jan. 23, 2026 –Read the full story in SkillUp Cybercrime was predicted to cost the world $10.5 trillion annually in 2025, and to reach $12.2 trillion by 2031, according to Cybersecurity Ventures, and there’s Th...

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Over on LinkedIn, AlonGal of Hudson Rock wrote: BIG – ShinyHunters confirmed to me that they are behind the recent Okta vishing campaign and have published alleged data from three major victims (Crunchbase, SoundCloud, and Betterment) on their new blog, stating more are coming. 🔽 I was approached...

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Bill Toulas reports: An operational security failure allowed researchers to recover data that the INC ransomware gang stole from a dozen U.S. organizations. A deep forensic examination of the artifacts left behind uncovered tooling that had not been used in the investigated attack, but exposed at...

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In this week's newsletter, Bill hammers home the old adage, "Know your environment" — even throughout alert fatigue.

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Key Takeaways The Risk Introduced by Implicit Trust in Public Container Images Public container registries have become foundational to modern software development. A single docker pull can accelerate application delivery, standardize environments, and reduce operational friction across teams. How...

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Attackers are abusing maintenance-themed alerts to steal master passwords from LastPass users. Password managers are still top-tier targets Password managers remain in the middle of attackers’ crosshairs, largely because a single successful compromise can unlock access to dozens, or even hundreds...

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Carly Page reports: GDPR fines pushed past the £1 billion (€1.2 billion) mark in 2025 as Europe’s regulators were deluged with more than 400 data breach notifications a day, according to a new survey that suggests the post-plateau era of enforcement has well and truly arrived. The figures come fr...

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Cisco Talos’ Vulnerability Discovery & Research team recently disclosed three vulnerabilities in Foxit PDF Editor, one in the Epic Games Store, and twenty-one in MedDream PACS.. The vulnerabilities mentioned in this blog post have been patched by their respective vendors, all in adherence to Cisc...

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LastPass is warning users about phishing emails that pressure users to back up their vaults within 24 hours.

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This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Jan. 22, 2026 –Read the full story in SOC Radar In 2025, ransomware moved beyond isolated IT incidents and became a systemic risk, capable of disrupting national supply chains, critical services, and The post T...

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The City of London Police has officially launched Report Fraud — a unified national service designed to transform how the public reports cybercrime and fraud across England, Wales and Northern Ireland. The new platform aims to strengthen the UK’s response to digital scams and economic crime. Cybe...

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Customer data allegedly stolen during a ransomware attack on sportswear giant Under Armour is now circulating on the dark web.

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We’re proud to share that Qualys has been recognized as a Leader and Outperformer in the 2025 GigaOm Radar Report for Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP). This year’s evaluation underscores an important reality of the CNAPP market: while 18 vendors were evaluated, only a small s...

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An attempt to drop two RATs on a system used an uncanny assortment of legitimate Windows tools.

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This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Jan. 21, 2026 –Read the full story in The CTO Club With new cyber vulnerabilities emerging daily, it’s not enough to rely solely on the tools at hand—keeping your team informed and The post Best Cybersecurity N...

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European and Ukrainian authorities have exposed two alleged key members of the Black Basta cybercrime group and identified its alleged leader

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Researchers showed how prompt injection hidden in a calendar invite can bypass privacy controls and turn an AI assistant into a data-leaking accomplice.

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In November 2025, the Everest ransomware group claimed Under Armour as a victim and attempted to extort a ransom , alleging they had obtained access to 343GB of data. In January 2026, customer data from the incident was published publicly on a popular hacking forum , including 72M email addresses...

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Oracle addresses 158 CVEs in its first quarterly update of 2026 with 337 patches, including 27 critical updates. Key takeaways: The first Critical Patch Update (CPU) for 2026, contains fixes for 158 unique CVEs in 337 security updates. 27 issues (8% of all patches) were assigned a critical severi...

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Tenable Research has discovered a server-side request forgery (SSRF) vulnerability in Java’s handling of client certificates during a TLS handshake. In certain configurations, this can be abused to cause a denial-of-service (DoS) condition. Key takeaways Tenable Research identified a vulnerabilit...

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Overview An out-of-bounds memory access vulnerability exists in the uncompressed decoder component of libheif . A maliciously crafted HEIF image can trigger a denial-of-service condition by causing the libheif library to crash or exhibit other unexpected behavior due to an out-of-bounds memory ac...

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Overview The binary-parser library for Node.js contains a code injection vulnerability that may allow arbitrary JavaScript code execution if untrusted input is used to construct parser definitions. Versions prior to 2.3.0 are affected. The issue has been resolved by the developer in a public upda...

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Overview The Open5GS WebUI component contains default hardcoded secrets used for security-sensitive operations, including JSON Web Token (JWT) signing. If these defaults are not changed, an attacker can forge valid authentication tokens and gain administrative access to the WebUI. This can result...

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Overview A stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in GNU libtasn1, a low-level ASN.1 parsing library. The issue is caused by unsafe string concatenation in the asn1_expand_octet_string function located in decoding.c . Under worst-case conditions, this results in a one-byte stack overflo...

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Key Takeaways The Signals Are Loud, the Dashboards Are Full, Yet Decisive Action Remains Elusive By the end of 2025, many security leaders reached a quiet conclusion. The challenge was no longer a lack of tools, telemetry, or frameworks. Most enterprises already had all three. What remained unres...

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Overview Kernel driver ProcessMonitorDriver.sys in Safetica's endpoint client x64, versions 10.5.75.0 and 11.11.4.0, allows for an unprivileged user to abuse an IOCTL path and terminate protected system processes. Description Safetica is a Data Loss Prevention (DLP) and Insider Risk Management (I...

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Overview A Server-Side Template Injection (SSTI) vulnerability exists in the Genshi template engine due to unsafe evaluation of template expressions. Genshi processes template expressions using Python’s 'eval()’ and ‘exec()’ functions while allowing fallback access to Python built-in objects. If ...

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This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Jan. 20, 2026 –Read the full story in World Economic Forum “Cybersecurity is the foundation for our digital world. It is at the heart of trust and will allow society to fully The post Mastercard CEO Michael Mie...

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Overview dr_flac , an open-source FLAC audio decoder, part of the dr_libs audio decoder toolset, contains an integer overflow vulnerability allowing for denial of service (DoS) when provided a specific crafted file. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability through providing a tool that uses dr_...

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This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Jan. 19, 2026 –Watch the YouTube video On Aug. 17, 1990, a federal judge sentenced a Chicago woman to 27 months in prison for masterminding a nationwide ring of computer hackers that stole more The post Compute...

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Researchers found more sleeper browser extensions that spy on users and install backdoors, this time targeting Firefox users as well.

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Managed Detection and Response (MDR) delivers 24/7 threat detection, intelligence-led hunting, and rapid response—moving organizations beyond basic monitoring to active defense. MDR providers combine advanced analytics, AI, and human expertise to deliver scalable MDR services tailored to regional...

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This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Jan. 16, 2026 –Read the full story in AIInvest The macro tailwind for the cybersecurity sector is now a tidal wave, according to AIInvest. Global spending on security products and services is projected The post...

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Researchers demonstrated WhisperPair, a set of attacks that can take control of many widely used Bluetooth earbuds and headphones without user interaction.

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Overview Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in The Librarian, an AI-powered personal assistant tool provided by the company TheLibrarian.io . The Librarian can be used to manage personal email, calendar, documents, and other information through external services, such as Gmail and Google Dr...

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Overview A vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-14894, has been discovered within Livewire Filemanager, a tool designed for usage within Laravel applications. The Livewire Filemanager tool allows for users to upload various files, including PHP files, and host them within the Laravel application. W...

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Understand the future of threat and vulnerability management (TVM). Learn what TVM is, why traditional tools fail, and how intelligence is essential in today’s landscape.

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In this week’s newsletter, Martin examines the evolving landscape for 2026, highlighting key threats, emerging trends like AI-driven risks, and the continued importance of addressing familiar vulnerabilities.

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Security Teams Rarely Stop to Reflect When a security program is working well, very little seems to happen. That is by design. There is no alert for the incident that was prevented. No visibility into the attack path that was quietly closed. No recognition for the vulnerability that was fixed bef...

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We can no longer say that artificial intelligence is a "future risk", lurking somewhere on a speculative threat horizon. The truth is that it is a fast-growing cybersecurity risk that organizations are facing today. That's not just my opinion, that's also the message that comes loud and clear fro...

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Key Takeaways The Current Picture Serverless adoption is accelerating as organizations prioritize speed, scalability, and operational efficiency. According to the Data Bridge Market Research’s Global Serverless Security Market Report, the serverless security market reached USD 12.08 billion in 20...

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Overview Redmi Buds , a series of Bluetooth earbuds produced and sold by Xiaomi , contain an Information Leak vulnerability and a Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability in versions 3 Pro through 6 Pro. An attacker within Bluetooth radio range can send specially crafted RFCOMM protocol interactions...

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Written by: Nic Losby Introduction Mandiant is publicly releasing a comprehensive dataset of Net-NTLMv1 rainbow tables to underscore the urgency of migrating away from this outdated protocol. Despite Net-NTLMv1 being deprecated and known to be insecure for over two decades—with cryptanalysis dati...

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This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Jan. 15, 2026 –Read the full story in Brandpoint Today’s businesses face unprecedented challenges, from the increasing complexity of digital transformations and hybrid cloud environments to constantly evolving ...

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Researchers uncovered a way to steal data from Microsoft Copilot users with a single malicious link.

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Silver Spring, Maryland, 15th January 2026, CyberNewsWire The post Aembit Announces Agenda and Speaker Lineup for NHIcon 2026 on Agentic AI Security appeared first on The Security Ledger with Paul F. Roberts .

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Cisco Talos is closely tracking UAT-8837, a threat actor we assess with medium confidence is a China-nexus advanced persistent threat (APT) actor.

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Exploit code has been published for CVE-2025-64155, a critical command injection vulnerability affecting Fortinet FortiSIEM devices. Key takeaways: CVE-2025-64155 is a critical operating system (OS) command injection vulnerability affecting Fortinet FortiSIEM. Fortinet vulnerabilities have histor...

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While our previous two blog posts provided technical recommendations for increasing the effort required by attackers to develop 0-click exploit chains, our experience finding, reporting and exploiting these vulnerabilities highlighted some broader issues in the Android ecosystem. This post descri...

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With the advent of a potential Dolby Unified Decoder RCE exploit, it seemed prudent to see what kind of Linux kernel drivers might be accessible from the resulting userland context, the mediacodec context. As per the AOSP documentation, the mediacodec SELinux context is intended to be a constrain...

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Over the past few years, several AI-powered features have been added to mobile phones that allow users to better search and understand their messages. One effect of this change is increased 0-click attack surface, as efficient analysis often requires message media to be decoded before the message...

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Fake LinkedIn comments warning of account restrictions are designed to trick users into revealing their login details.

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In 2026, incident response (IR) will continue its shift away from traditional malware-centric investigations toward identity-driven intrusions, abuse of trusted cloud services, and low-signal, high-impact activity that blends seamlessly into normal business operations. Rather than relying on tech...

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This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Jan. 14, 2026 –Read the full story in Finextra With the democratization of artificial intelligence (AI) technology, deepfakes are becoming a popular tool among cybercriminals with which to scam consumers, busin...

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Attackers use legitimate open-source software as cover, relying on user trust to compromise systems. We dive into an example.

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Terryn’s path to cybersecurity started with a fascination for criminal forensics and a knack for jailbreaking his family's tech — interests that eventually steered him toward the fast-paced world of digital investigations.

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Starting the year on a security-first note, Microsoft’s January 2026 Patch Tuesday resolves several vulnerabilities that could impact enterprise environments. Here’s a quick breakdown of what you need to know. Microsoft Patch Tuesday for January 2026 This month’s release addresses 115 vulnerabili...

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8 Critical 105 Important 0 Moderate 0 Low Microsoft addresses 113 CVEs in the first Patch Tuesday of 2026, with two zero-days, including one that was exploited in the wild. Microsoft patched 113 CVEs in its January 2026 Patch Tuesday release, with eight rated critical and 105 rated as important. ...

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Microsoft has released its monthly security update for January 2026, which includes 112 vulnerabilities affecting a range of products, including 8 that Microsoft marked as “critical”.

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In episode 83 of The AI Fix, Graham reveals he's taken up lying to LLMs, and shows how a journalist exposed AI bluffers with a made-up idiom. Meanwhile Mark invents a "Godwin's Law" for AI, and explains how to ruin any LLM with humus. Also in this episode, a marriage is declared invalid thanks to...

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This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Jan. 13, 2026 –Read the full story in Voice & Data Cybersecurity Ventures estimated that the global cost of cybercrime would reach $10.5 trillion USD annually by 2025, and ransomware would cost its The post In ...

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Have you ever stolen data, traded a hacking tool, or just lurked on a dark web forum believing that you are anonymous? If so, I might have some unsettling news for you. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.

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Stop ransomware before encryption begins. Learn how intelligence-driven detection tools can help identify precursor behaviors and reduce false positives for faster response.

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December 2025 saw a 120% surge in critical CVEs, with 22 exploited flaws and React2Shell (CVE-2025-55182) dominating threat activity across Meta’s React framework.

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Bridging the cybersecurity skills gap with virtual hands-on experience – Steve Morgan, Editor-in-Chief Sausalito, Calif. – Jan. 12, 2026 A cyber range is designed to mimic real-world scenarios that can be used to detect and react to simulated cyberattacks, and to enable practitioners to test The ...

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Instagram users received emails last week about purported password reset attempts. At the same time, Instagram data appeared on the dark web.

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This recognition — based entirely on feedback from the people who use our products every day — to us is a testament to the unmatched value Tenable Cloud Security CNAPP offers organizations worldwide. Our key takeaways: In our view, this peer recognition confirms Tenable’s strategic value in helpi...

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In October 2025, a reincarnation of the hacking forum BreachForums, which had previously been shut down multiple times, was taken offline by a coalition of law enforcement agencies . In the months leading up to the takedown, the site itself suffered a data breach that exposed a total of 672k uniq...

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Overview The BeeS Examination Tool (BET) portal from BeeS Software Solutions contains an SQL injection vulnerability in its website login functionality. More than 100 universities use the BET portal for test administration and other academic tasks. The vulnerability enables arbitrary SQL commands...

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Talos' editor ditches the pressure of traditional New Year’s resolutions in favor of practical, in-the-moment changes, and finds more success by letting go of perfection. Plus, we break down the latest on UAT-7290, a newly disclosed threat actor targeting critical infrastructure.

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Talos assesses with high confidence that UAT-7290 is a sophisticated threat actor falling under the China-nexus of advanced persistent threat actors (APTs). UAT-7290 primarily targets telecommunications providers in South Asia.

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What happens under the hood of Cisco's security portfolio? Our reputation and detection services apply Talos' real-time intelligence to detect and block threats. Here's how.

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Insikt Group reveals how GRU-linked BlueDelta evolved credential-harvesting campaigns targeting government, energy, and research organizations across Europe and Eurasia.

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As we move into 2026, 2025 stands out as a defining year for the Qualys Cloud Agent. In 2025, Cloud Agent delivered deeper visibility into running systems and applications, stronger security controls, expanded support across operating systems and architectures, and meaningful platform modernizati...

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Overview A flaw in the firmware-upload error-handling logic of the TOTOLINK EX200 extender can cause the device to unintentionally start an unauthenticated root-level telnet service. This condition may allow a remote authenticated attacker to gain full system access. Description In the End-of-Lif...

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Overview A vulnerability in the Forcepoint One DLP Client allows bypass of the vendor-implemented Python restrictions designed to prevent arbitrary code execution. By reconstructing the ctypes FFI environment and applying a version-header patch to the ctypes.pyd module, an attacker can restore ct...

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In December 2025, the dating website "for a Europid vision" WhiteDate suffered a data breach that exposed 6k unique email addresses . The breach exposed extensive further personal information including data related to physical appearance, income, education and IQ.

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New York has started a movement to reshape the AI compliance landscape for companies doing business in the state. Other states are following suit making Governance and AI Compliance an increasingly critical endeavor.

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Ransomware groups made less money in 2025 despite a 47% increase in attacks, driving new tactics: bundled DDoS services, insider recruitment, and gig worker exploitation. Learn the emerging trends defenders must prepare for in 2026.

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In this special edition, Tenable leaders forecast key 2026 trends, including: AI will make attacks more plentiful and less costly; machine identities will become the top cloud risk; preemptive cloud and exposure management will dethrone runtime detection; and automated remediation gets the go-ahe...

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Global Ransomware Surges in 2025: Total ransomware attacks rose by 17.2% year-over-year, with LevelBlue SpiderLabs tracking approximately 7,400 incidents compared to 6,017 in 2024. Q ilin and Akira Lead the Threat Landscape: Following the disappearance of Ransomhub and the disr uption of Lockbit3...

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A recently disclosed vulnerability affecting MongoDB instances has been reportedly exploited in the wild. Exploit code has been released for this flaw dubbed MongoBleed. Key takeaways: MongoBleed is a memory leak vulnerability affecting multiple versions of MongoDB. Exploitation of MongoDB has be...

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