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Today’s cybersecurity landscape highlights several key developments and threats. Michael LoSapio has been nominated to lead the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), a move that may encounter political challenges. SonicWall has issued urgent patches for seven vulnerabilities in its firewalls, with five allowing unauthenticated remote access—an indication of increasing risks to network security. Meanwhile, Microsoft’s email security filters are mistakenly blocking legitimate business communications, raising concerns about the reliability of automated security measures. Lastly, Anthropic's advanced bug-finding tool, Mythos, will be integrated into Cisco and IBM products, enhancing enterprise security capabilities without exposing the underlying model. Overall, these updates reflect ongoing vulnerabilities and the need for robust cybersecurity measures in both enterprise and governmental contexts.
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CERT-In urges 12-hour patching of exposed flaws as AI compresses exploitation timelines
Multi-factor authentication (MFA) was supposed to close a critical gap in identity security. It meant that, even if an attacker possessed the account credentials, they couldn't log in without the second factor. While that logic was sound, attackers have now figured out that they don't need to steal...
Lithuanian authorities are on high alert after a massive data leak involving more than 600,000 entries from national data registers.
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Executive Summary During the March–April 2026 reporting period, AI use in offensive operations advanced from development and planning to real-time operational deployment. Multiple independent cases, involving individual criminal actors, mass exploitation platforms, ransomware groups, and state-spons...
Court documents reveal how tech support scammers relied on infrastructure supplied by a US business.
The two own Dutch companies that allegedly provided bulletproof hosting services to Russia-aligned threat actors.
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As Americans stew over the looming risk of job-stealing AI and data centers in their back yards, the feds are raising the alarm about a new category of threat, documents obtained by WIRED show.
At the Span Cyber Security Arena conference, I sat down with Eric Woodruff, Chief Identity Architect at Semperis, to talk about how organizations perceive identity and the challenges those perceptions create for security. He shared his perspective on where organizations struggle with identity, why i...
The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) has issued new guidelines requiring organizations to patch critical security vulnerabilities in internet-exposed systems within 12 hours of being flagged where "feasible" to safeguard against potential threats stemming from threat actors' abuse o...
Iran's Nimbus Manticore pushes AI-built MiniFast backdoor via phishing and SEO poisoning
Nimbus Manticore accelerated cyberattacks during wartime, using AI-assisted malware, fake Zoom installers, and SEO poisoning. When the United States launched Operation Epic Fury against Iran at the end of February 2026, most analysts expected the country’s cyber apparatus to hunker down and weather...
I’ve spent years building compliance into security products. FedRAMP and Department of War Impact Level authorizations, vulnerability management pipelines: They all follow the same pattern. Build the product, then prove it meets requirements. The compliance layer sits outside...
The malware pairs remote access capabilities with ready-made campaign tools, lowering the barrier for full device compromise
CISA has given U.S. government agencies until Wednesday evening to secure their servers against an SQL injection vulnerability in the Drupal content management system (CMS) that it flagged as actively exploited. [...]
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North Korea-linked Lazarus APT Group is using a stealthy memory-only RAT that leaves almost no forensic traces behind. North Korea-linked APT group Lazarus has never been shy about its ambitions, the threat actor has been tied to some of the most audacious financial heists in recent memory, draining...
Microsoft has confirmed a new known issue affecting Windows Server 2016 systems that causes domain controller lookups to fail after installing the KB5087537 May 2026 security update. [...]
The Iranian state-sponsored threat actor known as Nimbus Manticore (aka Screening Serpens and UNC1549) has been attributed to a fresh campaign using lures impersonating organizations in the aviation and software sectors across the U.S., Europe, and the Middle East following the joint U.S.-Israeli mi...
The ShinyHunters extortion gang stole the personal information of over 183,000 people after hacking the systems of convenience store chain giant 7-Eleven in April, according to data breach notification service Have I Been Pwned. [...]
Patching practices are coming under intense pressure of late, as time-to-exploit windows accelerate — a new reality likely to worsen as AI assistance in attack chains rises.
Now cyber defenders have another cause for flaw alarm: Vulnerability exploitation has significantly...