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Today's cyber news highlights several significant threats and trends. The Brenner Base Tunnel SE has confirmed a data breach involving 812 GB of stolen data, while Iris Ohyama reported a breach affecting 7.7 million customers. The emergence of the "sshole" vulnerability (CVE-2026-123158) is leading to increased exploitation attempts. Additionally, hackers breached French Bank Crédit Mutuel Arkéa through a third-party provider, resulting in a theft of up to $133 million. On a positive note, Brava Security has secured $15 million in funding to enhance enterprise defenses using AI. The landscape is increasingly influenced by AI, prompting predictions for identity security by 2027. Meanwhile, cyber readiness remains a critical focus for organizations as they prepare for potential incidents.
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Customers' info potentially handed to anyone who could send an HTTP request
Kore.ai has launched the new-generation Kore.ai Agent Platform Artemis edition, the AI-programmable, AI-native foundation that builds, governs, and optimizes the agents, systems, and workflows running across the enterprise. The platform launches initially on Microsoft Azure, with broader cloud avail...
U.S. and Canadian authorities arrested and charged a Canadian man accused of operating the KimWolf DDoS botnet, a service linked to attacks that infected more than one million devices worldwide. Jacob Butler, 23, of Ottawa, Canada, also known online as “Dort,” was arrested in Canada under an extradi...
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GitLab released GitLab 19.0 with expanded secrets management, agentic merge request workflows, improved CI pipeline visibility, support for self-hosted open-source models, and supply chain visibility enhancements. Engineering organizations shipping more code than ever are confronting the AI Paradox...
Open-source framework ROADtools is being misused by threat actors for cloud intrusions. Learn how to identify its malicious use.
The post Paved With Intent: ROADtools and Nation-State Tactics in the Cloud appeared first on Unit 42.
Proton Pass, a secure, end-to-end encrypted password manager, added credential sharing through AI access tokens, allowing users to give AI agents access to selected items and monitor activity. To gain access, an agent must provide a reason for the request so users can see what actions are being perf...
Keepnet, an Extended Human Risk Management (xHRM) platform, today announced that its voice and SMS phishing simulation data contributed to the 2026 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR). The 2026 edition is the first to include voice and SMS phishing simulation data at this scale. The DBI...
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The FBI says First VPN has been used by dozens of ransomware groups for network reconnaissance and intrusions.
The post ‘First VPN’ Cybercrime Service Disrupted, Administrator Arrested appeared first on SecurityWeek.
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Trend Micro Apex One and Langflow flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added Windows Shell and ConnectWise ScreenConnect flaws to its Known Exploited Vu...
Microsoft 365 access tokens are being targeted by an emerging Phishing-as-a-Service (PhaaS) platform called Kali365, the FBI is warning. First observed in April 2026, Kali365 has been distributed through Telegram, allowing cybercriminals to obtain Microsoft 365 access tokens and bypass MFA without s...
Probing how a CPU isolates user code from kernel code is messy work. Researchers patch kernels, write drivers, or boot stripped-down bare-metal programs, and any of those choices change variables they were trying to hold still. Fractal, a new operating system from MIT CSAIL, was built to take that m...
U.S. and Canadian authorities arrested and charged a Canadian man with operating the KimWolf distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) botnet, which infected nearly two million devices worldwide. [...]
The “retro” way
“The thing about the old days is… they are the old days” – Slim Charles, The Wire
Protecting a specified network perimeter was the main focus of enterprise security strategy for several decades. Businesses made significant investments in firewalls, intrus...
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Thursday announced the arrest of a Canadian man in connection with allegedly operating a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) botnet known as Kimwolf.
In tandem, Jacob Butler (aka Dort), 23, Ottawa, Canada, has been charged with offenses related to the develo...
Watch out for bogus World Cup websites that mimic official ticket and merchandise flows to steal money and personal data
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