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Today's cybersecurity landscape reveals significant threats and trends. Bitdefender has identified preinstalled Android malware, "Midnight Mimosa," affecting cheap MediaTek devices in 150 countries, which engages in click fraud and botnet activities. Additionally, a malware incident at Nippon Columbia has compromised 8.7 million records of karaoke enthusiasts, showcasing the ongoing risks of data breaches. In infrastructure security, AI systems are increasingly being recognized for their potential to execute sophisticated attacks, raising alarms about preparedness. U.S. CISA has updated its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog with critical flaws in several applications, emphasizing the need for timely patching. Meanwhile, new insights into facial recognition vulnerabilities reveal risks even when individuals are partially obscured.
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A new Kyber ransomware operation is targeting Windows systems and VMware ESXi endpoints in recent attacks, with one variant implementing Kyber1024 post-quantum encryption. [...]
Mastodon suffered a major DDoS attack shortly after a similar incident hit Bluesky. The outage was significant but resolved within a few hours. Mastodon was hit by a major DDoS attack just days after a similar disruption affected Bluesky. Mastodon is a free and open-source software platform for dece...
Last week, researchers at OX Security published findings that should stop every security leader in their tracks. They discovered a critical vulnerability baked directly into Anthropic's Model Context Protocol SDK, affecting every supported language: Python, TypeScript, Java, and Rust. The result: re...
Developers are advised to check their applications after Microsoft revealed that last week’s ASP.NET Core update inadvertently introduced a serious security flaw into the web framework’s Data Protection Library.
Microsoft describes the issue as a “regression,” coding jargon...
When we use the internet, we're entrusting tech companies with some of our most private information. These companies have promised they'll keep our data safe. But what happens when the government comes knocking at their doors? In our latest EFFector newsletter, we hear from an EFF client whose data...
Several security issues were discovered in the Linux kernel.
An attacker could possibly use these to compromise the system.
This update corrects flaws in the following subsystems:
- ARM64 architecture;
- Cryptographic API;
- GPU drivers;
- I2C subsystem;
- Network traffic control;
(CVE-202...
Several security issues were discovered in the Linux kernel.
An attacker could possibly use these to compromise the system.
This update corrects flaws in the following subsystems:
- ARM64 architecture;
- Cryptographic API;
- GPU drivers;
- I2C subsystem;
- Network traffic control;
(CVE-202...
Cybersecurity researchers have warned of malicious images pushed to the official "checkmarx/kics" Docker Hub repository.
In an alert published today, software supply chain security company Socket revealed that unknown threat actors managed to have overwritten existing tags, including v2.1.20 and alp...
Martin Kaesberger discovered that OpenStack Glance's image processing could
return the contents of arbitrary files. An attacker could possibly use this
issue to exfiltrate sensitive data. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04
LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2024-32498)
Hyeongeun Ji and Abhishek Keka...
It was discovered that Tornado incorrectly handled parsing of large
multipart request bodies. An attacker could possibly use this issue to
cause a denial of service. (CVE-2026-31958)
It was discovered that Tornado did not properly validate characters in
cookie values. An attacker could possibly use...
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a fresh set of packages that have been compromised by bad actors to deliver a self-propagating worm that spreads through stolen developer npm tokens.
The supply chain worm has been detected by both Socket and StepSecurity, with the companies tracking the activi...
Mirai botnet is targeting old D-Link routers using CVE-2025-29635, a command injection flaw exploitable via crafted POST requests after public PoC disclosure. A Mirai botnet is actively exploiting a command injection vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-29635, in discontinued D-Link routers, Akamai re...
Three poisoned xinference releases on PyPI target AI infrastructure credentials.
The post A Poisoned Xinference Package Targets AI Inference Servers appeared first on Security Boulevard.
Several security issues were fixed in the Linux kernel.
Several security issues were fixed in the Linux kernel.
8 min readLLMs are quickly becoming teams’ preferred UI for many tasks, and MCP servers are the secret sauce that connects AIs to real applications. They give agents the ability to access tools, query data, and take action. For example, an LLM with access to a code repository can assist a develope...
Several security issues were fixed in the Linux kernel.
Stop zero-hour threats with the Menlo HEAT Shield Agent. A browser-native AI solution using Gemini to block malicious sites and automate SOC policy in real-time
The post AI-Powered Agentic Browser Defense – Blog | Menlo Security appeared first on Security Boulevard.
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Read how Microsoft is partnering with Anthropic and broader industry to use leading models, paired with our platforms and expertise, to turn AI-driven discovery into protection at scale.
The post AI-powered defense for an AI-accelerated threat landscape appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog.