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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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A flaw in the Linux kernel present since 2017 allows a local user to gain root access on virtually every major Linux distribution. A public exploit is available and reported to work reliably.
Key Takeaways
CVE-2026-31431 is a high severity local privilege escalation vulnerability in the Linux kern...
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As if keeping track of machine identities wasn’t hard enough.
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zuluCrypt could be made to run programs as an administrator.
Deep#Door Python RAT uses tunneling and obfuscation to evade detection and steal credentials
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CrowdStrike says The Com-affiliated threat groups are using voice phishing and fake SSO pages to break into SaaS environments and steal data fast for extortion.
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The bugs could be exploited to bypass security controls, access restricted services, and crash firewalls.
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Top 5 Strategies for Post-Quantum AI Infrastructure Security in 2026
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The Mini Shai-Hulud attack introduced a preinstall hook to fetch and execute a Bun binary and bypass security monitoring.
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A Brazilian tech firm that specializes in protecting networks from distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks has been enabling a botnet responsible for an extended campaign of massive DDoS attacks against other network operators in Brazil, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. The firm's chief executive s...
When a new asset goes live, attackers start scanning within minutes. Sprocket Security shows how automated attacks move from discovery to compromise in under 24 hours. [...]
Cloudflare IPsec now has generally available support for post-quantum encryption via hybrid ML-KEM. We’ve confirmed interoperability with Cisco and Fortinet.
A new CISA‑led guide explains how zero‑trust security can be applied to operational technology, balancing cyber defence with safety and system availability