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Today's cybersecurity news highlights several significant threats and trends. Notably, a former engineer was sentenced for an insider cyber extortion plot, demanding 20 Bitcoin after compromising a company's infrastructure. Additionally, the rise of typosquatting exploits using rare Cyrillic and Latin characters poses new risks for users of Chromium browsers. Anthropic has halted live internet access for its AI tests following injection flaw exploits, underscoring ongoing vulnerabilities in AI systems. Furthermore, the co-creator of the Empire Market dark web platform received a 40-year prison sentence for facilitating over $430 million in illegal trades. Lastly, the FBI arrested the founder of a ransomware negotiation firm linked to the ShinyHunters group, marking a significant move against cybercriminal operations.
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OpenAI will begin rolling out its cybersecurity testing tool, GPT-5.5 Cyber only "to critical cyber defenders" at first.
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A new phishing kit named Bluekit offers more than 40 templates targeting popular services and includes basic AI features for generating campaign drafts. [...]
With Mythos signaling a new era of near-instant exploitation, Anthropic positions Claude Security to help defenders keep pace.
The post Anthropic Unveils Claude Security to Counter AI-Powered Exploit Surge appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Industrialized cybercrime delivers attacks with greater scale, speed and success. Defenders must match this with use of AI and automation.
The post AI Fuels ‘Industrial’ Cybercrime as Time-to-Exploit Shrinks to Hours appeared first on SecurityWeek.
New Linux 'copy_fail' LPE gives root on all major distros. Mitigate before patching.
The post CVE-2026-31431 (Copy Fail): Linux Kernel LPE appeared first on Security Boulevard.
Linux flaw CVE‑2026‑31431, ‘Copy Fail,’ lets any local user write four bytes into page cache files, enabling easy escalation to root on major distros. Xint Code researchers warn of a serious Linux flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-31431 (CVSS score of 7.8), dubbed Copy Fail. It lets any local, unprivileged...
In this week’s newsletter, Hazel uses International Superhero Day as a springboard to explore why empathy — rather than just technical prowess — is the most essential, underrated superpower for navigating the human side of cybersecurity.
L'autorité roumaine de protection des données (ANSPDCP) a publié une décision de sanction à l'encontre de BLUE PROJECTS INDUSTRIES S.R.L., comprenant le prononcé d'une amende de 12 737 lei (l'équivalent de 2 500 €), pour des manquements en lien avec la sécurité du traitement des données. Cette affai...
A Romanian national who led an online swatting ring that targeted more than 75 public officials, multiple journalists, and four religious institutions was sentenced to 4 years in federal prison. [...]
What is CVE-2026-41940? CVE-2026-41940 is a critical authentication bypass vulnerability affecting cPanel & WHM, including DNSOnly, in versions after 11.40. The flaw, discovered by WatchTowr Labs, exists in the login flow and allows unauthenticated remote attackers to gain unauthorized access to...
OpenAI is rolling out Advanced Account Security for people concerned that their ChatGPT or Codex accounts could be potential targets of phishing attacks.
The release of agentic AI is compressing the nature of patch management and
how defenders must prepare for the future of cyber attacks. This is
increasing pressure on patch velocity, compensating controls, and
dependency visibility.
The post Patch management goes from hard, to ludicrous in the agent...
Le Conseil d’État a jugé le mécanisme de surveillance de la Haute Autorité pour la diffusion des œuvres et la protection des droits sur internet (Hadopi), désormais opéré par l’Autorité de régulation de la communication audiovisuelle et numérique (Arcom), incompatible avec le droit de l’Union europé...
L'Agence Espagnole de Protection des Données (AEPD) a publié une décision de sanction à l'encontre de GATIGOS, S.L. comprenant le prononcé d'une amende de 6 000 € pour des manquements en lien avec son obligation de coopération. Cette affaire débute par une plainte, suite à laquelle l'entreprise n'a...
This CVSS 10.0 RCE vuln has been patched, automatically for some, so better check those workflows
L'Autorité de protection des données (APD) a publié une décision prononçant une réprimande à l'encontre d'une banque belge pour des manquements en lien avec le fichage d'un client en tant que mauvais payeur. Cette affaire débute par la plainte d'un client concernant son double fichage auprès de la B...
This CVSS 10.0 RCE vuln has been patched, automatically for some, so better check those workflows If you use Gemini CLI, watch out: Google has patched a CVSS 10.0 vulnerability in its command-line AI tool and is warning anyone running it in headless mode, or through GitHub Actions, to review their w...
L'Autorité norvégienne de protection des données s'est exprimée sur la nouvelle pratique du groupe Schibsted consistant à faire payer les lecteurs qui refusent l'utilisation de leurs données pour la publicité personnalisée.Suite à de nombreuses plaintes, l'Autorité a réagi à la nouvelle politique de...
L'Agence Espagnole de Protection des Données (AEPD) a lancé un nouvel outil interactif pour la consultation des notifications de violations de données personnelles.Ce nouvel outil offre un accès visuel et dynamique aux informations relatives aux notifications de violations de données personnelles. I...