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Today's cybersecurity news highlights several critical threats and trends:
1. Google is rolling out AI defenses for Android to combat messaging scams and fraudulent calls, aiming to enhance user security.
2. A new election influence campaign is leveraging hyperlocal content to manipulate AI chatbots, suggesting a future trend in political disinformation.
3. Zero-click spyware is being disseminated through targeted online ads, posing significant risks as it can infect devices without user interaction.
4. Cisco has issued a warning regarding an actively exploited vulnerability in its Secure Email Gateway, allowing remote attackers to execute commands with root privileges.
5. The Legal Aid Agency in the UK experienced a severe data breach, with records dating back to 1978 compromised, highlighting the long-term implications of such attacks.
6. Researchers also discovered fake CAPTCHA systems used to facilitate malware downloads, further illustrating the evolving tactics of cybercriminals.
7. Major vulnerabilities were reported in various platforms, including critical flaws in Palo Alto Networks' PAN-OS and Drupal, underscoring the urgent need for patches and updates.
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OpenAI says its safeguards âsufficiently reduce cyber riskâ for now, while GPT-5.4-Cyber is a new cybersecurity-focused model.
The acting CISO said that AI is reshaping how the service measures and tracks cyber compliance, moving it from a box-checking exercise to something nimbler and more substantive.
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rustc could be made to modify permissions on arbitrary directories.
The researchers said the ransomware operation has been ongoing since 2020 and is associated with a strain of malware that enforces execution constraints based on system locale and external IP geolocation.
New model is the first AI system to complete a difficult multi-step infiltration challenge.
Author, Creator & Presenter: Mika Ayenson, Threat Research & Detection Engineer At Elastic
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The UK designated Xinbi Guarantee as an enabler of crypto scammers and human trafficking weeks ago. Telegram is still hosting it in plain sight.
Dozens of WordPress plug-ins were allegedly hijacked to push malware after they were sold to a new corporate owner.
Experts say this is the second-largest Microsoft Patch Tuesday ever based on CVE count.
The post Microsoft Patches Exploited SharePoint Zero-Day and 160 Other Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek.
A breach at Basic-Fit exposed data of 1M members, including names, birth dates and bank details after unauthorized access. Basic-Fit, Europeâs largest gym chain, has disclosed a data breach affecting around 1 million members. Hackers gained unauthorized access to the company systems and stole person...
Microsoft has released the Windows 10 KB5082200 extended security update to fix the April 2026 Patch Tuesday vulnerabilities, including 2 zero-days. [...]
In an interview at the Semafor World Economy summit this week, Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark explained why the company was still engaged with the U.S. government while simultaneously suing them.
Education company McGraw-Hill has confirmed in a statement to BleepingComputer that hackers exploited a Salesforce misconfiguration and accessed its internal data. [...]
USN-8168-1 fixed a vulnerability in Rust. This update provides the
corresponding update to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04
LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.
Original advisory details:
It was discovered that tar-rs embedded in rustc incorrectly handled
symlinks when unpacking a tar archi...
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Microsoft addresses 163 CVEs in the April 2026 Patch Tuesday release, including two zero-day vulnerabilities, one of which was exploited in the wild.
Microsoft patched 163 CVEs in its April 2026 Patch Tuesday release, with eight rated critical, 154 rated as im...
Microsoft has released Windows 11 KB5083769 and KB5082052 cumulative updates for versions 25H2/24H2 and 23H2 to fix security vulnerabilities, bugs, and add new features. [...]
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GDDRHammer, GeForge, and GPUBreach: three new research papers on Rowhammer attacks with major security implications.
The recent buzz around Anthropicâs Mythos model has been intense, and for good reason. Early reports suggest a model that significantly advances automated reasoning over large codebases, vulnerability discovery, and exploit generation. Some are already calling it a âgame changerâ for offensive secur...
Today is Microsoft's April 2026Â Patch Tuesday with security updates for 167 flaws, including 2 zero-day vulnerabilities. [...]