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Today's cybersecurity landscape highlights several critical developments. Canadian cybersecurity executive Edward Dubrovsky was arrested for alleged ties to extortion linked to the ShinyHunters hacking group. Meanwhile, the Silent Ransom Group reportedly extorted $207 million from law firms through social engineering tactics without encrypting files. Cyberattacks on South Korean banks were traced to a Chinese hacker utilizing ARTEX AI tools. Additionally, an insider extortion case involved a former engineer demanding ransom from an industrial firm after compromising server access. As AI continues to evolve, initiatives are leveraging it to counter cybercriminals, indicating a shift in anti-cybercrime strategies. Lastly, the sentencing of the Empire Market co-creator underscores ongoing efforts to dismantle dark web operations.
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Critical cPanel and WHM bug exploited as a zero-day, PoC now available cPanel says CVE-2026-41940 is an authentication bypass flaw affecting cPanel, WHM, and WP Squared, and BleepingComputer reports it has already been exploited in the wild, with one hosting provider seeing attempts as early as Febr...
London police officers have been warned by the Metropolitan Police Federation to watch their backs after the force deployed controversial AI software to investigate misconduct. The staff association, representing more than 30,000 officers in London, reported it had not been informed of plans to use...
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Security researchers at Theori have disclosed a high-severity local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability (CVE-2026-31431) in the Linux kernel. The flaw, nicknamed “Copy Fail”, has affected virtually every major Linux distribution shipped since 2017, and a working proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit i...
The critical CVE-2026-41940 authentication bypass vulnerability in cPanel, WHM, and WP Squared is being actively exploited in the wild and has been leveraged in attempts since late February. [...]
Turns out the real problem is not AI but staff still clicking on dodgy emails from 'IT support' Nearly half of UK businesses are still getting breached, and in many cases, the attacker's big breakthrough is an employee clicking "sure, why not" on a fake login page.…
Turns out the real problem is not AI but staff still clicking on dodgy emails from 'IT support'
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Security researchers are warning about a max severity vulnerability in Google Gemini CLI that could allow remote code execution (RCE) in environments where the tool processes untrusted inputs.
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Intro
A sophisticated, high-resilience malicious campaign was identified by Atos Threat Research Center (TRC) in March 2026. This operation specifically targets the high-privilege professional accounts of enterprise administrators, DevOps engineers, and security analysts by impersonating administrat...
A joint international operation involving U.S. and Chinese authorities arrested at least 276 suspects and shut down nine cryptocurrency investment fraud centers. [...]
The authentication bypass flaw allows attackers to gain administrative access to vulnerable servers.
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