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Today's cybersecurity landscape highlights several significant threats and trends. Microsoft reported an alarming 7.3 billion phishing emails detected in Q3 2026, indicating a surge in phishing tactics. U.S. agencies warned of attacks on industrial refrigeration systems, potentially causing severe disruptions and hazards. The CISA flagged a critical vulnerability in SonicWall SonicOS, emphasizing the urgency for organizations to address this flaw amid reports of exploitation. Additionally, hackers are logging in using stolen credentials within an average of just eight minutes post-infection. On a more positive note, open-source solutions like Wirken are emerging to mitigate risks associated with AI agents. Finally, a notable incident involves a major data breach of 22 million French motorists' data, underscoring ongoing data security challenges.
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The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has asked owners and operators of operational technology to stop assuming their networks are safe, and has released joint guidance to adapt zero trust principles for industrial systems that support US power, water,...
Ransomware attacks are increasingly threatening to K–12 schools, with districts of all sizes becoming prime targets for cybercriminals. These school ransomware attacks don’t just impact IT systems. They can shut down classrooms, disrupt learning for days or even weeks, and expose sensitive student a...
AI-driven SaaS security risks grow fast. Here’s what to watch out for and how to prevent breaches.
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Claroty researchers discovered two vulnerabilities that can be exploited for security bypass and remote code execution.
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Security researchers at Theori have disclosed a high-severity local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability (CVE-2026-31431) in the Linux kernel. The flaw, nicknamed “Copy Fail”, has affected virtually every major Linux distribution shipped since 2017, and a working proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit i...
The critical CVE-2026-41940 authentication bypass vulnerability in cPanel, WHM, and WP Squared is being actively exploited in the wild and has been leveraged in attempts since late February. [...]
Turns out the real problem is not AI but staff still clicking on dodgy emails from 'IT support' Nearly half of UK businesses are still getting breached, and in many cases, the attacker's big breakthrough is an employee clicking "sure, why not" on a fake login page.…
Turns out the real problem is not AI but staff still clicking on dodgy emails from 'IT support'
We benchmarked 4 AI pentesting tools: Escape, Shannon, Strix, PentAGI, and Claude against a modern vulnerable application. Learn more about their detection rates, false positive rates, and scanning speed.
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Security researchers are warning about a max severity vulnerability in Google Gemini CLI that could allow remote code execution (RCE) in environments where the tool processes untrusted inputs.
The issue was disclosed by Novee Security researchers and affects the @google/gem...
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A sophisticated, high-resilience malicious campaign was identified by Atos Threat Research Center (TRC) in March 2026. This operation specifically targets the high-privilege professional accounts of enterprise administrators, DevOps engineers, and security analysts by impersonating administrat...
A joint international operation involving U.S. and Chinese authorities arrested at least 276 suspects and shut down nine cryptocurrency investment fraud centers. [...]
The authentication bypass flaw allows attackers to gain administrative access to vulnerable servers.
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Introduction IP spoofing is one of the strategies that can be employed in the culmination of diverse types of cyber attacks. The knowledge of what IP spoofing means, how it is done, and how to avoid being a victim of such attacks is essential for one to be secure on the internet and to preventRead M...
Threat modelling using STRIDE for system architects Threat modelling is one of the most useful habits a system architect can build. Done well, it helps you spot design weaknesses before they become expensive problems to fix. Done badly, it turns into a long list of theoretical threats that nobody us...
Detego Global’s Ballistic Imager has been recognised at the UK Security & Policing Innovation Awards, underscoring the growing importance of ultra-fast, forensically sound digital evidence acquisition in modern investigations.
Just in time for the Trump-Xi summit Exclusive A novel China-linked threat group infiltrated more than a dozen critical networks in Poland, Asian countries, and possibly beyond, beginning in December 2024 and with activity uncovered as recently as this month.…
Just in time for the Trump-Xi summit
A data classification policy template gives you a repeatable way to define how your organization labels and protects data, so teams always know what’s sensitive, what’s not, and how to handle each type. Using a guided template (plus this article) removes the guesswork and lets you create a usable, a...
Researchers have reverse-engineered a piece of malware named Fast16. It’s almost certainly state-sponsored, probably US in origin, and was deployed against Iran years before Stuxnet:
“…the Fast16 malware was designed to carry out the most subtle form of sabotage ever seen in an in-the-wild malware t...