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Today's cybersecurity landscape highlights several critical threats and developments. The new Hirudo Android malware is particularly concerning, as it replaces legitimate banking apps to steal credentials while evading security measures. Additionally, Microsoft's October Patch Tuesday saw a record 1,413 vulnerabilities addressed, including a zero-day actively exploited in the wild. Researchers also demonstrated the potential dangers of AI, with one team creating a full-chain Chrome exploit in just six days using public AI models. Meanwhile, fake "Meta Careers" pages are being used to phish Facebook and Google logins, emphasizing the ongoing risk of credential theft. Lastly, a crackdown on North Korean IT farms highlights the geopolitical dimensions of cyber threats.
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Fraud operations now operate like call centers, complete with hiring, training, and performance tracking. Flare reveals how cybercriminals manage "Caller-as-a-Service" operations like a professional sales team. [...]
This year's Devner OWASP event showed why modern AppSec depends on secure defaults, stronger provenance, and security controls that appear where developers make decisions.
The post SnowFROC 2026: Secure Defaults, Real Trust, and a Better Layer on Top appeared first on Security Boulevard.
Microsoft fixed critical ASP.NET Core vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-40372 (CVSS score of 9.1), that lets attackers escalate privileges. Microsoft released out-of-band updates to address a serious ASP.NET Core vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-40372 (CVSS score of 9.1). Microsoft fixed the flaw...
Prove has launched the Prove Identity Platform, turning identity verification into an ongoing, real-time process for users, businesses, and AI agents. AI agents are already initiating real transactions on behalf of real people. OpenAI and Stripe launched the Agentic Commerce Protocol in September. V...
Passkeys are awesome and that's why we implemented them on Report URI! You can read about our implementation here and get the basics on how Passkeys work and why you want them. In this post, we're going to focus on what security considerations you should have
It was discovered that Slurm did not properly handle access control when
dealing with RPC traffic through PMI2 and PMIx, which could allow an
unprivileged user to send data to an arbitrary unix socket on the host.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code as
the root user.
Dutch intelligence says the threat from Beijing is now largely going unmet and is so sophisticated its operations are regularly missed by intelligence agencies and cybersecurity defenders.
22 BRIDGE:BREAK flaws hit Lantronix and Silex Technology converters, exposing approximately 20,000 devices to hijacking and data tampering. Researchers at Forescout Research Vedere Labs found 22 BRIDGE:BREAK flaws in serial-to-IP devices from Lantronix and Silex Technology. Serial-to-IP converters,...
Acronis has launced Acronis GenAI Protection, a monitoring and security solution that enables managed service providers (MSPs) to control generative AI usage across client environments, preventing sensitive data exposure and protecting against malicious prompt manipulation. Acronis GenAI Protection...
Hidden inside newly discovered botnet malware is an unusual message from its creator: “AI.NEEDS.TO.DIE”. Dubbed “tuxnokill” by researchers at Akamai, the malware is one of two fresh Mirai botnet variants documented this month by major cybersecurity firms and, judging by the aforementioned hard-coded...
Data engineering is no longer about building pipelines that follow instructions. It is about building systems that think, adapt, and fix themselves. The traditional model...Read More
The post Agentic Data Pipelines: The Shift to Autonomous Data Engineering appeared first on ISHIR | Custom AI Softwar...
Several security issues were fixed in strongSwan.
PackageKit could be made to install packages as the administrator.
Multiple security issues were discovered in cpp-httplib, a C++ cross platform HTTP/HTTPS library, which could result in denial of service. For the stable distribution (trixie), these problems have been fixed in version 0.18.7-1+deb13u1. We recommend that you upgrade your cpp-httplib packages.
When the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) was introduced into law in 2024, it represented one of the most significant regulatory shifts we've seen anywhere in the world with implications for how organizations build, ship, and maintain software. It establishes cybersecurity requirements for hardwa...
Panics in Rust Workers were historically fatal, poisoning the entire instance. By collaborating upstream on the wasm‑bindgen project, Rust Workers now support resilient critical error recovery, including panic unwinding using WebAssembly Exception Handling.
Null subject phishing campaigns bypass filters and target VIPs with QR code and RMM abuse
Multiple vulnerabilities were fixed in strongSwan, an IKE/IPsec suite. CVE-2026-35328 A vulnerability in libtls related to the processing of the supported_versions extension in TLS that can result in an infinite loop.
A new supply chain attack targeting the Node Package Manager (npm) ecosystem is stealing developer credentials and attempting to spread through packages published from compromised accounts. [...]
British businesses need to prepare themselves to defend against cyberattacks because the U.K. could be targeted “at scale,” if it became involved in an international conflict.
The post Most Serious Cyberattacks Against the UK Now From Russia, Iran and China, Cyber Chief Says appeared first on Securi...