CISA has added one new vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2026-20316 Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center Use of Hard-coded Password Vulnerability This type of vulnerability is a frequent attack ...
Nebula Security says a patched Firefox JIT flaw could be triggered by simply visiting a malicious webpage and was also used to compromise Tor Browser. Tracked as CVE-2026-10702, the bug provides arbitrary code execution inside the browser's renderer process. Mozilla rated it H...
A total of five vulnerabilities have been patched in VMware ESXi, vCenter, Workstation, and Fusion. The post Critical VM Escape Vulnerability Patched in VMware ESXi appeared first on SecurityWeek.
MIND has announced MIND AI DLP Agents with capabilities focused on classification, investigation, policies, remediation and exception management. MIND also includes a Model Context Protocol (MCP) interface that enables security teams to direct data security work through any MC...
Most organizations have incident response plans, security tools, and technical teams in place. Yet new research suggests that many still lack the coordination, visibility, and executive alignment needed to withstand a serious cyberattack. According to The State of Incident Res...
Buying a new computer in 2026 is a unique experience. Rather than deal with incredibly high tech prices, more shoppers are opting for high-quality refurbished tech. This ASUS Chromebook CM30 refurb is in near-mint condition with a grade "A" rating, but it still only costs $144...
Contrast Security has announced Contrast CVE Shield, designed to help organisations defend against the growing number of exploits generated with advanced AI models such as Claude Mythos. Contrast CVE Shield runs inside the application, where it detects, monitors and blocks att...
OpenAI confirmed its AI exploited an Artifactory zero-day to escape its test environment before breaching Hugging Face. Two weeks after Hugging Face disclosed an autonomous AI system had breached it, the picture just got a lot more specific. OpenAI has published an update conf...
Microsoft’s Secure Boot has had a serious vulnerability for most of its existence. An industry-wide standard Microsoft invented to protect Windows, and later Linux, devices from firmware infections has been trivial to bypass for 13 of its 14 years of existence. The discovery w...
The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB) on Wednesday said it charged Telegram founder Pavel Durov for allegedly facilitating terrorist activities and for failing to remove prohibited information in violation of Russian law. The principal security agency sa...
The guidance details steps organizations can take to isolate vital OT and supporting systems, and operate in isolation for an extended period. The post US, Australia Release OT Isolation Guidance for Critical Infrastructure appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Storms, earthquakes, and infrastructure failures disrupted internet access throughout the second quarter, while governments deliberately shut networks down, according to Cloudflare’s latest Internet Disruption Summary. Based on Cloudflare Radar traffic data, the report covers ...
Hugging Face has published an anatomy of the attack and OpenAI has shared additional information from its investigation. The post OpenAI’s Rogue AI Ventured Beyond Hugging Face appeared first on SecurityWeek.
The Hugging Face breach shows there is a gap in federal policy. The frameworks to govern autonomous AI already exist—there just needs to be the desire to apply them. The post OpenAI’s rogue AI agent shows why we need federal rules for autonomous systems appeared first on Cyber...
Reuters says OpenAI’s rogue AI agent also breached a Modal customer, exposing a wider attack and raising fresh concerns over autonomous AI safety. Reuters reported that the OpenAI agent that hacked Hugging Face earlier this month also compromised a customer at a second company...
The IP intelligence company will use the fresh investment to accelerate and scale its operations. The post Spur Raises $200 Million for IP Intelligence Platform appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Accuris has announced new AI capabilities for BOM Intelligence, part of its Supply Chain Intelligence suite. The launch gives engineering, procurement and supply chain teams a clearer way to move from spotting component risk to acting on it: catching obsolescence early, closin...
Cybersecurity researchers have shared additional technical details about a recently patched critical security flaw impacting Check Point Security Management Server and Multi-Domain Security Management Server (MDS) that has come under active exploitation in the wild. The vulner...
The OpenAI models targeted services beyond Hugging Face as they attempted to solve the tasks they were given. The post JFrog Zero-Days Exploited in OpenAI-Hugging Face Hack appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Fortinet has announced the FortiGate 1200G series, the newest addition to the FortiGate G series with FortiSASE Outpost, which brings cloud-delivered security services into customer-controlled environments. By combining high-performance threat protection, connectivity, hardwar...
Ad account theft, the systematic hijacking of Meta Business Manager and Google Ads accounts, has grown into a commodity-driven cybercrime economy complete with tiered pricing, escrow services, and money-back warranties for stolen accounts. Public reporting on this topic tends ...
A breached “no-logs” VPN exposed 58 million connection logs and millions of user, device, and payment records, contradicting its privacy claims. A threat actor on the Altenen cybercrime forum is distributing a 17 GB SQL database claimed to have been stolen from SplitVPN, forme...
1Password has launched 1Password Privileged Access, extending the 1Password Unified Access platform with privileged access management (PAM). It enables just-in-time, least-privilege access to critical infrastructure and is accompanied by the public preview of 1Password Credent...
WhatsApp has launched support for voice and video calls on the web, allowing users to make and receive calls directly from their browser without installing the desktop app. Web Calling (Source: WhatsApp) The new Web Calling feature is designed for people using shared or restri...
Torq has introduced Torq SOC Brain, a new layer of the Torq AI SOC Platform that continuously learns from historical investigations, analyst decisions, and organization-specific security operations to create a unified, self-learning AI SOC. While most autonomous investigation ...
Root Evidence has launched the Evidence Platform, a vulnerability management platform that prioritizes vulnerabilities based on evidence of real-world exploitation and financial impact rather than severity scores alone. The platform is designed to help security teams focus on ...
Abnormal AI has announced the expansion of its Behavioral Security Platform across the enterprise, introducing three new products: Identity Threat Protection, AI Governance, and Infiltration Prevention. Together, the launch extends the behavioral AI that already secures over 4...
State and federal agencies respond after intrusions disrupt automated controls at municipal water and wastewater utilities. The post Dozens of Minnesota Water Utilities Targeted in Coordinated OT Attacks appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Mend.io has announced new capabilities across Mend AI and Mend AppSec to help organizations respond faster to both application risk and the expanding attack surface created by AI. Mend.io’s latest enhancements help teams identify meaningful risk, reduce manual investigation, a...
Gitea, the self-hosted Git platform, has patched a critical remote code execution vulnerability. A user with ordinary repository write access can turn attacker-controlled patch content into a live Git hook and run shell commands as the Gitea service account. Tracked as CVE-202...
Realm Security has announced two new capabilities. Detection Integrity proves that reducing SIEM log volume never breaks a threat detection. New search inside Realm Data Haven, the platform’s searchable retention layer, makes the data you keep out of the SIEM directly queryabl...
Tines has launched Tines 3B, an AI-native platform for building, running and governing enterprise workflows, applications and agents securely at scale. AI has made it possible for every employee to build software in minutes. The result is an explosion of vibe-coded software sp...
I am a bit late with this summary, but this week Apple released updates to all its operating systems and Safari. The Safari update, as usual, targets macOS prior to macOS 26. macOS updates covered the two older versions (14 and 15), while other operating system patches only co...
ZeroFox has launched HNTR, a new AI-first platform that brings digital risk protection and threat intelligence together to discover, validate, and disrupt threats, alongside the new platform’s first application, HNTR Executive Protection. HNTR is built on more than a decade of...
Reco has announced an expansion of AI Runtime, a core component of the Reco Platform. This update adds browser-based enforcement, real-time prompt analysis and blocking, and automated remediation to the Reco Platform. Every agent an enterprise runs carries a blast radius: the ...
Infoblox has announced its entry into the external attack surface management (EASM) market. Together, with the introduction of Supply Chain Intelligence, the launch expands the Infoblox Exposure Management portfolio, helping organizations identify, prioritize and reduce exposu...
Source code for the Flying Eagle Android remote access trojan (RAT) framework is circulating through criminal Telegram channels. Hunt.io and independent researcher NetAskari traced matching control panels and certificates to 170 internet servers. They linked the framework to a...
OpenAI on Tuesday revealed the rogue artificial intelligence (AI) agent that escaped its sealed evaluation environment and broke into Hugging Face's production environment, and also hacked multiple third-party accounts and services as part of the attack. The latest disclosure ...
Ernst & Young previously confirmed that personal and financial information was stolen from a third-party management platform. The post ShinyHunters Claims Ernst & Young Hack appeared first on SecurityWeek.
A pull request lands with a tidy bug report in the description. A bot reads it before any person does, pulls a few shell commands out of it, gets them approved, and posts the output back on the thread. The maintainer reads the whole exchange the next morning. Elad Meged, a fou...
A ransomware hit lands a chemical plant in a safe state. Nobody is hurt, the site holds steady, and the operators begin the restart. The systems stay down. Every attempt to bring them online meets encrypted processes and altered configurations. The outage runs into weeks, and ...
Specter is a Flipper Zero app that finds powered NFC readers by listening for the radio field they give off. The readers it hunts work at 13.56 MHz. The Flipper’s own chip does the sensing The onboard ST25R3916 carries a hardware external-field detector, the same circuit that ...
A credential expired. An AI agent kept using it anyway, and a mid-sized company’s systems went down for a quarter’s worth of trouble before anyone traced the failure back to a non-human account no one had been logging. That agent could reach customer records, source code, and ...
Beta release versions of two npm packages in the @joyfill namespace have been compromised to deliver a remote access trojan (RAT) associated with the DEV#POPPER malware family. The list of affected packages is as follows - @joyfill/layouts@0.1.2-2773.beta.0 @joyfill/components...
A phone backup app asks for storage, contacts, SMS, and call logs. A device-management tool asks for more than that. Run either one past a machine learning malware scanner and it comes back flagged. Six Android detectors in wide research use, including Drebin, MalScan, and Mas...
Popular telehealth provider Hims & Hers "shared consumers’ sensitive health information with third-party advertising platforms such as Meta and Snap despite promising to protect patient privacy," the federal government alleges.
There’s new benchmark measuring AI’s ability to perform mathematical cryptanalysis. Anthropic’s frontier model actually found new attacks. The benchmark: “CryptanalysisBench: Can LLMs do Cryptanalysis?” The idea is to benchmark the ability of LLMs to discover new mathematical ...
A party-line vote in the Senate installed Jay Clayton as director of national intelligence, a job that has drawn increasing scrutiny during Donald Trump's second term as president.
Security researcher Aleksandr Krasnov reveals dormant non-human identities can create security blind spots and releases NHI Hound, an open source tool to sniff out trust paths.
CubePilot, an Australian firm that designs flight controllers for drones (UAVs), announced a severe operational disruption caused by a DNS hijacking attack. [...]
Claude Mythos exposed mathematical weaknesses in a post-quantum candidate and a simplified version of AES, marking a major breakthrough for AI-driven cryptanalysis. The post Here’s what Anthropic found when it turned Mythos loose on encryption algorithms appeared first on Cybe...
JFrog has confirmed that OpenAI models exploited zero-day vulnerabilities in self-hosted Artifactory servers to help escape an isolated testing environment and gain access to the internet before attacking Hugging Face. [...]
Researchers uncovered the 200,000-device Dysphoria botnet, which uses Ethereum and Solana domains to hide its command servers. QiAnXin XLab, jointly with China’s CNCERT, disclosed Dysphoria, a botnet that has compromised roughly 200,000 devices worldwide and uses Ethereum and ...
A cyberattack of undetermined origin disrupted water treatment plants in at least 30 communities in Minnesota, according to the state's technology bureau. The post Coordinated cyberattack disrupts water utilities in 30+ Minnesota communities appeared first on CyberScoop.
Anthropic says Claude Mythos Preview helped derive an end-to-end key-recovery attack against HAWK-256 and a 200- to 800-fold speedup for an attack on seven-round AES-128. The HAWK attack exploits a previously unused symmetry in the lattice behind the signature scheme. Anthropi...
The U.S. and Australian governments have released new guidance urging critical infrastructure organizations to prepare to isolate vital operational technology systems in the event of a cyberattack or other major disruptions. [...]