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Today's cybersecurity landscape reveals several significant threats and trends. The newly identified "sshole" vulnerability (CVE-2026-123158) is leading to an uptick in exploitation attempts, particularly observed through honeypot data. Additionally, a major data breach at Japanese manufacturer Iris Ohyama has compromised the personal information of approximately 7.7 million customers. On the malware front, an unknown advanced persistent threat (APT) is utilizing NetamLoader to target Windows 10 systems. In a notable incident, attackers exploited a third-party service provider to steal up to $133 million from French Bank Crédit Mutuel Arkéa. Meanwhile, law enforcement has arrested three suspects linked to the DataSuckers hacking group, which previously targeted Dodo Pizza. The evolving role of AI in cybersecurity continues to be highlighted as companies seek to bolster defenses against these increasing threats.
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proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit code has been released for the CIFSwitch flaw, which allows low-privileged users to escalate to root on vulnerable Linux systems.
The post 19-Year-Old Linux Kernel Vulnerability Exposes Systems to Root Access appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Une faille de sécurité découverte dans le service VPN GlobalProtect de Palo Alto Networks est actuellement exploitée par les cybercriminels : CVE-2026-0257.
Le post Palo Alto – CVE-2026-0257 : cette faille dans le VPN est activement exploitée ! a été publié sur IT-Connect.
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Microsoft has resolved a known issue causing installation failures and 0x800f0922 errors when deploying the May 2026 Windows 11 security update (KB5089549). [...]
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Hackers began exploiting CVE-2026-0257, an authentication bypass in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS, four days after public disclosure.
The post Recent Palo Alto Networks Vulnerability Exploited for Weeks appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Belkasoft X 2.11 introduces smarter AI-assisted analysis, expanded iOS and cloud acquisition, and deeper artifact extraction to help DFIR teams process more evidence with greater speed and context.
Dragos has acquired Phosphorus, extending the Dragos Platform to protect billions of connected devices embedded across critical infrastructure and other operational networks. Operational environments have outgrown traditional OT boundaries. Power grids, pipelines, manufacturing facilities, and data...
Check Point said actors are shifting toward campaign systems and AI-generated content, outpacing the public's ability to understand and respond to the risks.
The post Election threats are focused on campaign systems, not voting machines appeared first on CyberScoop.
CIFSwitch is a 19-year-old Linux logic bug turning forged CIFS auth keys into root. Affects Mint, CentOS, Rocky, Kali, SLES. CIFSwitch stands apart from typical privilege escalation vulnerabilities because of how it was discovered. Asim Manizada, a security engineer at SpaceX, didn’t find it by audi...
Authentication bypass vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-0257) in Palo Alto Networks’ firewalls that the company disclosed on May 13 have been targeted in “limited exploit attempts”. “Across multiple customers, Rapid7 observed successful exploitation via authentication probes using forged cookies, but the ap...
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new malicious supply chain campaign that's targeting developers using OpenAI Codex through a legitimate-looking remote web UI.
The tool, named codexui-android, is advertised on GitHub and npm as a remote web UI for OpenAI Codex, attracting over...
Thanks to the newly detailed FROST technique, telltale SSD activity can be measured in the browser using simple JavaScript.
Push Security says threat actors are delivering malware hosted on chatgpt.com/s/ domain
Calum Hutton discovered that rsync contained a heap-based out-of-bounds
read when handling file transfers. A remote attacker with read access
to an rsync server could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of
service. (CVE-2025-10158)
Batuhan Sancak, Damien Neil, and Michael Stapelberg discovere...
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been
resolved: KVM: arm64: Tear down vGIC on failed vCPU creation If
kvm_arch_vcpu_create() fails to share the vCPU page with the hypervisor, we
propagate the error back to the ioctl but leave the vGIC vCPU data
initialised.
In the Linux kernel,...
Threat actors are attempting to actively exploit a critical security flaw impacting WP Maps Pro, a WordPress plugin that has had over 15,000 sales on the Envato Market, to create malicious administrator accounts on susceptible sites.
WP Maps Pro allows site owners to embed customizable Google Maps...
NVIDIA just dropped a big batch of open-source “physical AI” skills and tools, and they’re designed to make a roboticist’s life a whole lot easier. The idea? Take the messy, complicated work behind robots, self-driving cars, vision AI, and industrial digital twins, and break it into bite-sized tasks...