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You cannot out-patch a machine that writes a working exploit from a vulnerability description in twenty hours. Stop trying to optimize a game you cannot win. The post Is Patching Dead? Vulnerability Management in the Post-Mythos Era appeared first on SecurityWeek.
In the second quarter of 2026, the continuing effects of Microsoft’s disruption of the Tycoon2FA phishing platform contributed to sustained declines in several major phishing techniques, while threat actors expanded into Teams-based social engineering and employed increasingly...
Threat actors used credentials obtained from other companies to hack into Chick-fil-A One accounts. The post Chick-fil-A Accounts Get Fried in Credential Stuffing Attack appeared first on SecurityWeek.
You can't have failed to hear the news headlines about "rogue" OpenAI models hacking into another AI organisation, Hugging Face. But what has actually happened, who is to blame, and is it as serious as some of the reports suggest? Find out in my article on the Hot for Security...
Unit 42 details a Russian cyberespionage campaign targeting Zimbra webmail servers using JavaScript injection to steal credentials. The post Russian Global Webmail Espionage appeared first on Unit 42.
Iranian Hackers Broaden PLC Attacks on US Critical Infrastructure On July 22, 2026, seven US government agencies updated joint Cybersecurity Advisory AA26-097A , first published in April, warning that Iranian-affiliated
FedRAMP 20X replaces point-in-time assessments with continuous, machine-readable evidence that demonstrates security controls are working. Anecdotes explains what the transition from Rev5 to FedRAMP 20X means and how organizations can prepare for continuous, evidence-based ass...
The latest investment round brings the total raised by Abstract to nearly $50 million. The post Abstract Raises $25 Million to Expand Composable Security Operations Platform appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Two disclosures, five days apart, described the same intrusion from opposite ends — one from the victim, one from the party that turned out to be responsible — and together they make one of the more instructive incidents of the year for defenders.
Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a sandbox escape vulnerability in Anthropic's Claude Cowork that makes it possible to break out of the confines of a Linux virtual machine (VM) within which the agent runs to read or write files anywhere on the Mac. Accomplish AI, which...
Origin Energy said it was working to figure out how many Australians were affected by a recent data breach.
A threat actor abused Anthropic’s Claude Artifacts feature to funnel users toward malware, Huntress researchers have disclosed. Employees at at least 29 organizations were compromised over two days in July, after searching for the Claude desktop app and clicking a sponsored Bi...
The Chaos ransomware group ran its command-and-control through the victim's own browser. Cisco Talos on Thursday detailed msaRAT, the Rust implant behind it, found on a compromised Windows machine ahead of the encryptor. The implant never opens an outbound connection of its ow...
Cobalt has introduced Cobalt Autonomous Pentest, a new offering that enables continuous offensive security across an organization’s application portfolio by delivering actionable penetration testing results in as little as 24 hours. AI-assisted development enables organization...
SentinelOne’s new benchmark, built on the Fast16 case, shows which AI models can sustain a malware investigation and which cannot. The post Nuclear-Sabotage Malware Benchmark Trips Up Most Frontier AI Models appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Oracle July 2026 CPU: 1,449 Patches, 10 Score Max Oracle July 2026 Critical Patch Update ships 1,449 patches covering 1,434 CVEs across 334 products in 32 product families, making it the largest quarterly release Oracle
The European Commission fined Google €890 million ($1 billion) on Thursday after finding the company had violated the European Union's Digital Markets Act (DMA), which ensures fair online competition. [...]
An exposed Alibaba Cloud server has revealed a China-nexus operation that Group-IB tracks as JadeProx. The cluster has targeted government, healthcare, and education organizations across Asia and Latin America with a previously undocumented Windows loader called TriBack Loader...
Russian State-Supported Cyber Actors Conduct Phishing Campaign Targeting Users of Zimbra Collaboration Suite Executive summary A group of Russian state-supported cyber actors has been targeting and compromising various Western government and commercial organizations using the ...
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow a non-privileged user to escalate privileges or view the credentials of other users. The following versions of Weintek cMT3092X are affected: cMT3092X firmware <20210218 EasyWeb <v2.1.20 CVSS Vendor...
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could result in an attacker obtaining confidential information from the device. The following versions of Johnson Controls XAAP Android are affected: XAAP Android <1.53 CVSS Vendor Equipment Vulnerabilities v3 3.3...
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an unauthenticated network-adjacent attacker to crash critical IEC 61850 services or execute arbitrary code, disrupting or compromising protection, visibility, and control functions. The following v...
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could cause the parsing process to crash, which will cause a denial of service. The following versions of MZ Automation lib60870 are affected: lib60870 <=2.4.0 CVSS Vendor Equipment Vulnerabilities v3 8.2 MZ Autom...
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker with network access to achieve remote code execution. The following versions of Johnson Controls C-CURE 9000 and Victor application server are affected: C-CURE 9000 and victor <=v2.90_v3...
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker with access to the IT network to manipulate industrial control devices without requiring physical access, specialized insider knowledge, or advanced tooling. The following versions of Pa...
Most people understand identity theft as an attacker stealing a real person's sensitive information and impersonating them. Synthetic identity fraud is much harder to catch. Instead of stealing a real identity, the attacker manufactures a new one, frankensteining together seve...
Google DeepMind unveiled Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber, an AI model for vulnerability discovery and patching, available only to governments and trusted partners. Google DeepMind announced Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber on Tuesday, a security-focused AI model built on top of the existing 3.5 ...
A nine-year-old race condition vulnerability in the Linux kernel's XFS filesystem, tracked as CVE-2026-64600, allows local attackers to overwrite protected files and gain root privileges. [...]
Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a large-scale campaign that has turned compromised GitHub repositories into distributed attack infrastructure designed to target cPanel and WebHost Manager (WHM) instances. The activity involves malicious Packagist development versi...
Core issues that slowed down adoption of secure data vaults are being resolved by technology, but artificial intelligence poses new ones. Experts have some answers.
South Korea’s Foreign Ministry has disclosed that attackers breached the Korea National Diplomatic Academy’s online education system, compromising personal data belonging to current and former ministry staff and diplomats stationed abroad. The Korea National Diplomatic Academy...
New paper: “Encryption and Globalization 15 Years Later: End-to-End Encryption and the Third Round of the ‘Going Dark’ Debate“: Abstract: This Article updates and expands on 2012 research on encryption and globalization, analyzing what the authors call “Round 3” of the Going D...
Hackers recently obtained non-sensitive customer information and other documents from the company. The post Upbound Group Says Data Breach Led to $13 Million in Fraudulent Contract Losses appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Attackers are exploiting a critical authentication bypass vulnerability (CVE-2026-16232) that affects Check Point Security Management and Multi-Domain Security Management, the management servers that push policy to Check Point security gateways (i.e., firewalls). “An unauthent...
Cisco Talos has identified a Rust-based remote access trojan it attributes to the Chaos ransomware group, named msaRAT after four of the binding names left in the binary. The tool starts its own instance of Chrome or Edge on the victim machine and controls it through Chrome De...
Adobe Acrobat WhatsApp Flaw “HermeticReader” Adobe and WhatsApp have rolled out a new way to handle PDF files without ever leaving a chat, and the timing puts a spotlight on a vulnerability that Adobe patched only weeks
The Chaos ransomware group uses new malware "msaRAT" that hijacks browsers. The malware doesn't communicate directly with C2 but connects through the browser. It enables arbitrary command execution while hiding the attacker's IP from victims via WebRTC over TURN.
Here’s some of the ways Talos is showing up at Black Hat, alongside our friends at Cisco and Splunk.
The Chaos ransomware gang is using a new backdoor dubbed msaRAT that hides command-and-control (C2) communication by routing it through the Chrome or Edge browsers. [...]
The government spent the past two decades learning what private sector partners have always known: cyber resilience requires everyone in the room. ANCHOR-CI is proof that the lessons may finally stick. The post ANCHOR-CI could fix 20 years of broken government-industry collabo...
Google on Thursday announced a new way for users to sign-in to their accounts by letting them take a selfie video. The selfie for sign-in, per the tech giant, is another option on top of existing recovery methods to log in to an account, including an email address or a phone n...
He replaces Guy Rosen, who announced his retirement from the company after 13 years. The post Assaf Keren Appointed New CISO of Meta appeared first on SecurityWeek.
The Python Package Index (PyPI) now rejects uploads of new files to releases older than 14 days to prevent attackers from poisoning long-stable releases if a project’s publishing tokens or release workflows are compromised. “This change will protect Python users and reduce the...
Microsoft is working to resolve an ongoing Exchange Online issue that has been mistakenly quarantining customers' mailboxes since Sunday. [...]
The vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-16232 has been exploited against customers with certain configurations. The post New Check Point Zero-Day Vulnerability Exploited in the Wild appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Cybercriminal group Everest is demanding 10 million Swiss francs ($12.3 million) from Swiss rail vehicle manufacturer Stadler after breaching a data exchange platform shared with one of its suppliers through compromised credentials. Stadler operates 16 production and component...
GitHub is changing its bug bounty program to reward higher-quality vulnerability reports and reduce low-effort submissions, including AI-generated reports. The changes will take effect on July 27, 2026. Reports submitted before that date will be honored under the previous boun...
Check Point addressed a critical authentication bypass flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-16232, in SmartConsole that is being actively exploited. Check Point has released security updates to fix multiple vulnerabilities, including CVE-2026-16232 (CVSS score of 9.3), a critical authent...
WhatsApp Usernames Explained: Privacy Gains and Scam Risks How WhatsApp's shift from phone numbers to usernames changes privacy for users, and the brand and executive impersonation surface it opens for security teams. Ke
Israeli cybersecurity firm Check Point Software has addressed an actively exploited zero-day flaw in the company's SmartConsole graphical user interface (GUI) admin panel. [...]
RefluXFS, a new Linux kernel flaw disclosed on July 22 and tracked as CVE-2026-64600, lets an unprivileged local user overwrite root-owned files on an XFS filesystem and gain persistent root access. Qualys said default installations of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and its derivati...
Axonius has announced new capabilities across the Axonius Asset Cloud to better address asset intelligence and exposure management use cases. The enhancements make it easier than ever to address CMDB visibility gaps and respond to vulnerabilities, while extending asset intelli...
Portuguese businesses operate in the same native language as Brazilian hackers, making those businesses easy targets.
Check Point has released security updates to address multiple vulnerabilities impacting Security Management and Multi-Domain Management (MDSM) products, including a critical flaw that has come under active exploitation in the wild. The security flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-16232 ...
Artificial intelligence has moved from experimentation to everyday business operations with remarkable speed. Employees are using it to summarize documents, draft communications, analyze spreadsheets, write code, build automations, and create AI-powered workflows across nearly...
AI is multiplying enterprise identities as quantum computing reshapes the cryptographic trust that secures them, and enterprises need to solve both together. Traditional identity security was built for people with predictable, auditable access, not autonomous, short-lived agen...
An updated advisory from federal agencies provides information on the techniques used to hack programmable logic controllers. The post US Warns of Iranian Hackers Targeting Siemens, Schneider, and Rockwell ICS Devices appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Vulnerability management runs on a shorthand. A CVE shows a linked patch, someone applies it, and the ticket moves to closed. That shorthand covers most open source fixes. A share work in a different way, arriving as a run of two or more commits where the first one leaves the ...
Theori built 28 apps with AI coding agents and scanned each one through its pentesting platform. Five models did the building, split between Anthropic and OpenAI, across apps written from a spec, thrown together from a casual prompt, and rewritten from an aging PHP codebase. T...
In this Help Net Security video, Venkata Pavan Kumar Gummadi, Professional Software Engineer at Broadridge, explains how to build a defense in depth strategy for protecting sensitive data. He argues that a single control, like encrypting a disk or turning on DLP, leaves gaps t...