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Today's cybersecurity landscape sees several critical threats emerging. Northstar Security has launched with $7 million in funding to enhance vulnerability mapping and risk remediation using AI. A significant exploit involving a CVSS score of 10.0 was discovered in Canonical's LXD and MicroCloud, allowing attackers to impersonate trusted clients without a private key. In the crypto space, hackers hijacked a script on Polymarket, stealing approximately $2.7 million from traders. Additionally, the FBI has linked North Korea's TraderTraitor group to the record $6.43 billion theft from Binance. Meanwhile, a sophisticated malware known as NetamLoader is targeting government Windows 10 systems in Asia, raising alarms about its operational capabilities.
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The Thoma Bravo-owned Proofpoint will acquire Varonis in an all-cash transaction and Varonis will become a private company.
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The China-nexus cyber espionage group tracked as Armory Castle (previously UNC5221 or Warp Panda) exploited a newly disclosed security flaw in BeyondTrust Remote Support (formerly Bomgar) as a zero-day in late August 2026.
The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-102764 (CVSS score: 9.3), is a case o...
AI agents being tested online reached the live systems of Indian organizations and read business records, including personal data and confidential material, CERT-In said in an advisory on October 15.
The agents went beyond their assigned tasks, and none of the organizations detected the unauthorize...
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BeyondTrust warned customers on Thursday to patch a critical flaw in its Remote Support (RS) that has been exploited in zero-day attacks since late August. [...]
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in Expat, an XML parsing C library, which could result in denial of service or potentially the execution of arbitrary code, if a malformed XML file is processed. For the stable distribution (trixie), these problems have been fixed in version 2.9.0-1~deb13...
David Fuhr, CTO at intcube, talks about a security cohort for public administration, where 27 municipalities hardened Windows Server and Active Directory together over 12 weeks. This Help Net Security interview covers how a cohort works, with weekly sessions, homework and measurements at the start a...
US employers posted 235,786 cybersecurity jobs from January through September 2026. That is the lowest total for those months in the four years that staffing and workforce intelligence firm CyberSN has tracked. They pulled the listings from job data provider JobSpikr, removed duplicates and sorted e...
This vulnerability allows local attackers to escalate privileges on affected installations of FreeBSD Kernel. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability. The ZDI has assigned a CVSS rating of 8.8. The following...
This vulnerability allows local attackers to escalate privileges on affected installations of FreeBSD Kernel. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability. The ZDI has assigned a CVSS rating of 7.8. The following...
A seller on a restricted criminal forum is marketing an autonomous hacking tool that runs on stolen OpenAI, Anthropic and Google API keys, so the key’s owner pays for the scans. Bitsight’s threat intelligence team tracked the shift across thousands of posts on 16 underground forums from February thr...
This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of LibreOffice. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The ZDI has assigned a CVSS rating of 7.8. The following...
This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of LibreOffice. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The ZDI has assigned a CVSS rating of 7.8. The following...
A suspected advanced threat actor has been observed exploiting a security flaw in Fortinet FortiOS to deliver a previously unreported memory-resident ARM64 malware known as PEERSTITCH.
The attack involves the exploitation of CVE-2025-61624 (CVSS score: 5.4), a path traversal flaw in the command lin...
This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of LibreOffice. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The ZDI has assigned a CVSS rating of 7.8. The following...
This vulnerability allows remote attackers to disclose sensitive information on affected installations of Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The ZDI has assigned a CVS...
Depuis le 13 octobre 2026, Office LTSC 2021 et Office 2021 ne reçoivent plus de correctifs de sécurité. Microsoft 365 ou Office LTSC 2024 : que choisir ?
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This vulnerability allows local attackers to disclose sensitive information on affected installations of X.Org Server. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability. The ZDI has assigned a CVSS rating of 4.4. The...
Fastfetch is a system information tool written mainly in C that runs on Linux, macOS, Windows 8.1 and later, Android and several BSDs. The fastfetch project removed QuickJS scripting and changed what its Disk, Command and Shell modules report in version 2.70.0, released October 14. Configs written f...
A vulnerability was discovered in SPIP, a website engine for publishing, which could result in unauthenticated remote code execution. For the stable distribution (trixie), this problem has been fixed in version 4.4.28+dfsg-0+deb13u1. We recommend that you upgrade your spip packages.