> TODAY'S SUMMARY (68 articles)
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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Along with a bunch of new services to make sure those same agents don't cause chaos Google Cloud chief operating officer Francis deSouza has summed up his company's security strategy du jour as follows: "You need to use AI to fight AI."…
SilentGlass, a plug-and-play device, actively blocks any unexpected or malicious HDMI and Display Port connections.
Every secure API draws a line between code and data. HTTP separates headers from bodies. SQL has prepared statements. Even email distinguishes the envelope from the message. The Model Context Protocol (MCP), the fast-growing standard for connecting AI agents to external services, inherits that gap f...
A security researcher claims Claude Desktop installed spyware on his Mac. We examine the findings.
As I have been preparing slides for my coming talk at foss-north on April 28, 2026 I figured I could take the opportunity and share a glimpse of the current reality here on my blog. The high quality chaos era, as I call it. No more AI slop I complained and I complained about the … Continue reading H...
The exploitation of the command injection vulnerability started one year after public disclosure and PoC exploit code publication.
The post Mirai Botnet Targets Flaw in Discontinued D-Link Routers appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Cyber crooks are abusing a trojanized Android payment application to steal near field communication (NFC) data and PINs, enabling cloning of payment cards and draining victim accounts.
According to ESET researchers, a new variant of the NGate malware has been infused into t...
Gov admits 'incident' as forum sellers boast of fresh haul covering up to a third of the population France's National Agency for "Secure" Documents is explaining a potential data spill just as crooks online claim they've nicked a third of the country's ID information.…
Researcher says the missing piece is a governance-driven intelligence layer that turns SBOM and VEX data into explainable security decisions.
The post Are SBOMs Failing? Supply Chain Attacks Rise as Security Teams Struggle With SBOM Data appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Progress Software has fixed a slew of high-severity vulnerabilities in MOVEit WAF and LoadMaster, including a flaw (CVE-2026-21876) that may allow attackers to bypass firewall detection. MOVEit WAF (web application firewall) is designed to protect Progress’s managed file transfer platform MOVEit Tra...
All the flaws could have also been found by an elite human researcher, according to Mozilla.
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Judges say cops face-slurping not a problem under current human rights laws London's Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) has survived a legal challenge that attempted to curb its rollout of live facial recognition (LFR) technology across the capital.…
Multiple security issues have been found in the Mozilla Firefox web browser, which could potentially result in the execution of arbitrary code, spoofing, information disclosure or privilege escalation. For the oldstable distribution (bookworm), these problems have been fixed in version 140.10.0esr-1...
ICE has admitted that it uses spyware from the Israeli company Graphite.
A former ransomware negotiator has pleaded guilty to abusing his position by working with noted cybercrime group BlackCat
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a previously undocumented data wiper that has been used in attacks targeting Venezuela at the end of last year and the start of 2026.
Dubbed Lotus Wiper, the novel file wiper has been used in a destructive campaign targeting the energy and utilities sector i...
The campaigns focus on financial organizations, including cryptocurrency, venture capital, and blockchain entities.
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HexDex interpellé en Vendée : enquête du parquet de Paris sur des fuites de données et zones d’ombre autour d’Angel Batista.
On January 31, 2026, researchers disclosed that Moltbook, a social network built for AI agents, had left its database wide open, exposing 35,000 email addresses and 1.5 million agent API tokens across 770,000 active agents.
The more worrying part sat inside the private messages. Some of those conver...
Tencent has opened an international beta of QClaw, an AI agent application aimed at consumers in Canada, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, and the United States. The first wave is capped at 20,000 users. Additional markets are scheduled to follow. QClaw runs on Windows and MacOS. Setup takes about thre...