Scytale has announced the launch of their latest AI-powered third-party risk management (TPRM) capabilities within its Vendors module. The release further extends vendor risk management from a periodic review exercise into a continuously updated vendor risk intelligence engine...
WordPress’ automated security review will now assess every plugin release before it is distributed through the WordPress.org update API. Releases considered a potential security risk will be blocked automatically. “A plugin can be secure today and introduce a vulnerability, or...
Cisco and CISA have flagged exploitation of CVE-2026-20079, a vulnerability disclosed in March 2026. The post Organizations Warned of Cisco Secure FMC Exploitation appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Learn how root access on a compromised K8s node allows attackers to utilize SPIFFE/SPIRE metadata to spoof and harvest co-located workload identities. The post The Machine With Many Faces: Post-Exploitation Identity Misuse in SPIFFE/SPIRE appeared first on Unit 42.
Grand Theft Auto VI (GTA 6) is still three months from release, but cybercriminals are not waiting for the launch date. Security firm Huntress found malware disguised as a leaked copy of the game, aimed at fans hoping to get their hands on it early. The sample Huntress pulled ...
Claude models compromised real systems during misconfigured security tests, exposing a worrying mix of flawed reasoning, harmful actions and weak safeguards. Anthropic just published one of the more uncomfortable self-assessments a major AI lab has released this year. The comp...
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has confirmed that ransomware gangs are also exploiting a critical WatchGuard Firebox firewall vulnerability, which it flagged as actively exploited in December. [...]
Apple has introduced Apple Reference Image, an opt-in feature designed to verify the authenticity of photos taken with iPhone 18 Pro models. Apple Reference Image provides users with an unalterable reference photo, visually confirming what the sensor saw at the moment of captu...
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Microsoft Windows, N-able N-central, and Adobe flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added the following vulnerabilities to its Kn...
Nearly one in ten of the internet-facing LiteLLM servers that Wiz Research scanned in February accepted sk-1234, the example admin key in LiteLLM's own setup guide. LiteLLM is an open-source AI gateway, the software a company puts between its applications and the model provide...
The exploit provides full System privileges on Windows machines running the September 2026 patches. The post New ‘ShieldCrash’ Zero-Day Exploit Targets Microsoft Defender appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Anthropic on Wednesday disclosed a fourth incident in which its artificial intelligence (AI) model broke into real third-party systems, marking the latest in a growing list of cases that have raised concerns about the security risks posed by autonomous AI agents. The AI compan...
Starting Friday, businesses operating in the EU will have just 24 hours to notify the government any time they discover serious product security incidents.
The high-severity, unauthenticated vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-25249 was patched in January 2026. The post Fortinet Code Execution Flaw Exploited in PivotC2 RAT Attacks appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Four espionage groups used the BlueMoon Chrome+Windows exploit kit within 12 days. Researchers suspect AI development. Proofpoint published a detailed analysis of a Chrome-and-Windows exploit kit it tracks as BlueMoon that four nation-state actors adopted within roughly two we...
Credential harvesting on developer machines has widened. Earlier infostealers worked from a short list of known targets, mostly browser stores and a few cloud credential paths. The families active now cast a much wider net. Shai-Hulud, for instance, ran a secret scanner across...
A phishing campaign routes victims through genuine Microsoft OAuth and Teams infrastructure before showing them a fake login page built entirely inside their own browser, according to researchers at Barracuda. “Instead of delivering a phishing page from a web server, the malic...
CISOs are taking on AI governance without a matching increase in resources or expertise, adding to an already broad remit spanning data protection, identity, resilience and compliance, according to Proofpoint’s 2026 Voice of the CISO report. The Al mandate expands faster than ...
OPAQUE, a confidential computing company that runs AI workloads inside hardware-isolated environments so operators cannot inspect them, released an open standard that lets AI model builders decide when and where their weights can be decrypted once those weights leave the build...
Amazon elected Kevin Mandia to its Board of Directors on September 8. Mandia founded Mandiant and served as its CEO before Google acquired the firm in September 2022, and he has worked against cyber threats in the public and private sectors for more than 30 years. Amazon calle...
When a chap called Matt noticed his Bluetooth headphones wouldn't switch to his phone, he was surprised to realise the reason was a single AliExpress webpage sitting open in his browser - playing nothing at all, at zero volume. And yet somehow his hardware could hear it. Audio...
The OpenSSL project released the first alpha of OpenSSL 4.1.0, giving developers an early look at a version built for encrypted communication over unreliable connections and faster post-quantum cryptography. This marks the opening test build for a version still months from gen...
Cisco has confirmed that a maximum-severity authentication bypass vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-20079 in its Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) software is being actively exploited in attacks. [...]
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Healthcare company AdaptHealth has confirmed that data of 4.1 million people was exposed in a cyberattack discovered in July that was attributed to the ShinyHunters threat group. [...]
Microsoft introduces the Cloud Web Applications Threat Matrix, a MITRE ATT&CK-aligned framework that helps defenders understand, prioritize, and mitigate threats to cloud-hosted web apps and serverless platforms. The post Threat Matrix: Mapping threats across cloud web applica...
CISA's cybersecurity, infrastructure security and emergency communications divisions are among the priorities as the agency fills vacancies created at the beginning of the Trump administration, acting director Nick Andersen says.
Multiple China-aligned threat groups exploited the defects quickly to target various organizations. Proofpoint said the activity is ongoing and expects it to widen. The post Chinese espionage groups swarm to exploit triple-link chain of zero-days appeared first on CyberScoop.
The Carnegie Mellon University CERT Coordination Center (CERT/CC) is warning that Skullcandy Dime 3 wireless earbuds accept Bluetooth pairing requests from nearby unpaired devices without requiring user interaction. [...]
US agencies claim Chinese companies covertly extracted billions of tokens from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, and SpaceX's Grok to reduce development costs.
The policy, passed under the Biden administration, forced health apps to disclose when users’ personal health records were exposed in a breach or shared without authorization. The post FTC rescinds policy requiring health apps to notify customers after a breach appeared first ...
The groups have allegedly targeted American citizens and companies, including the wife of GOP Senate candidate Mike Rogers, a former representative running in a Michigan swing race. The post Lawmakers call on Treasury to sanction hackers-for-hire appeared first on CyberScoop.
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Wednesday announced coordinated actions aimed at an illicit online marketplace called Xinbi Guarantee that offered scam services, including seizing Telegram channels used to run the service, confiscating two cryptocurrency wallets, and d...
US agencies accuse six Chinese AI firms of extracting billions of tokens from US AI models to accelerate development and copy advanced capabilities. NSA, CISA, and the FBI jointly published an advisory accusing six Chinese AI companies, DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Alibaba, MiniMax,...
About a week ago, Proxmox published an advisory revealing a vulnerability in older versions of Proxmox VE, its flagship Virtual Environment product. The vulnerability only affects version 7, which has not been supported for a couple of years now.
Passkey-themed social engineering is being used to compromise identities and enable broader cloud attacks. Learn how threat actors establish MFA persistence, abuse Microsoft Graph for reconnaissance, and access SharePoint, OneDrive, and email data, along with key detection and...
The company will increase its US market presence and will expand its engineering and go-to-market teams. The post HelmGuard Raises $7.3 Million for Agentic GRC and Security appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Veradigm said access was limited to a specific interface, and did not impact the company’s broader environment such as its networks, servers or databases. The incident did not result in operational disruptions, the company added.
Criminal and state-sponsored adversaries are increasingly using AI to automate and scale their attacks, according to GTIG. The post AI Is Giving Lesser-Resourced Attackers Nation-State-Level Reach, Google Warns appeared first on SecurityWeek.
U.S. cybersecurity and intelligence agencies say that six Chinese AI companies conducted industrial-scale distillation attacks on American frontier AI models since at least late 2024. [...]
Multiple espionage-motivated threat activity clusters have been found deploying a previously undocumented exploit kit called BlueMoon that chains together multiple vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows and Google Chrome. The first in-the-wild use of BlueMoon has been attributed...
The security updates resolve critical flaws across Android’s Framework, System, and Kernel components. The post Android’s September 2026 Updates Patch 180 Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Major chipmakers announced patches for vulnerabilities recently discovered in their products. The post Chipmaker Patch Tuesday: Nvidia, AMD, Arm Issue Security Advisories appeared first on SecurityWeek.
The first public cybersecurity strategy issued by the FBI "directs our teams, our field offices, our global presence" to align their efforts on countering malicious hackers and cybercrime groups, senior official Brett Leatherman says.
Healthcare technology company Veradigm disclosed a data breach after a cybersecurity incident at one of its third-party vendors exposed patients' personal data. [...]
Brett Leatherman said that industry has the wrong idea about what the FBI does with the data it collects during incidents, which is used to help victims and investigations alike. The post FBI cyber chief worries private sector not sharing enough cyber threat information appear...
"Workflow identity hijacking" can bypass standard security controls and hijack an organization's data by sending a basic request through an unauthenticated entry point.
The critical, unauthenticated bugs allow attackers to bypass authentication and proxy a user’s browser traffic. The post Fortinet Patches Critical Vulnerabilities in FortiMonitorOnSight, Chrome Extension appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Cybercriminals are hijacking artificial intelligence (AI) user accounts via information stealer logs to create "stolen keys" that grant illicit access to tools from model providers like Google, Anthropic, and others. Information stealers like Lumma Stealer or Vidar are equippe...
MFA makes account takeover harder, but attackers are increasingly targeting the recovery processes used to reset passwords and authentication methods. Specops explains why stronger identity verification at the service desk is critical to preventing social engineering attacks f...