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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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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.
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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...
Emergency patches out now for those managing the millions of domains assumed to be affected Emergency patches are available for a critical vulnerability in cPanel and WHM that allows attackers to bypass authentication and gain root access to servers managed using it.…
Emergency patches out now for those managing the millions of domains assumed to be affected
Affecting the kernel’s authencesn cryptographic template, the vulnerability was introduced in 2017 and impacts all distributions.
The post ‘Copy Fail’ Logic Flaw in Linux Kernel Enables System Takeover appeared first on SecurityWeek.
European police arrested 10 suspects after dismantling Albanian scam call centers linked to a €50m ($58m) online investment fraud operation
Anthropic recently announced that it would not release Mythos, its most powerful AI model, to the public. The model discovered thousands of previously unknown software vulnerabilities — flaws that had sat undetected in major operating systems and web browsers for as long as nearly three decades. Ant...
Extremely sensitive personal data from a European celebrity that appears to have been compiled using spyware was publicly accessible until a researcher flagged the exposure.
A supply chain attack on SAP-related npm packages has put fresh scrutiny on the developer tools and build workflows that enterprises rely on to produce software.
The campaign, referred to as “mini Shai-Hulud,” affected packages used in SAP’s JavaScript and cloud application...
The Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has developed a portable detector that identifies GPS spoofing in real time, including during motion, to help protect transportation systems. Spoofing involves transmitting counterfeit signals that imitate authentic GPS transmissions and produce false informa...
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a Linux local privilege escalation (LPE) flaw that could allow an unprivileged local user to obtain root.
The high-severity vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-31431 (CVSS score: 7.8) has been codenamed Copy Fail by Xint.io and Theori.
"An unprivileg...
Proxmox Backup Server 4.2 is a maintenance and feature update built on Debian 13.4 “Trixie” that adds S3-compatible object storage as a supported backend and introduces parallel processing for sync jobs. The server ships the new version with Linux kernel 7.0 as the stable default and ZFS 2.4 for sto...
Ukrainian police detained three suspects accused of hacking into Roblox accounts and reselling the data on Russian websites, with payments made in cryptocurrency. Police raid (Source: The Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine) “Prosecutors of the Lviv region, together with the cyber police and the...
The European Commission accuses Meta of failing to protect children, allowing users under 13 on Instagram and Facebook, in breach of the DSA rules. The European Commission has accused Meta of violating child safety rules. Instagram and Facebook allegedly failed to prevent children under 13 from acce...
Marsh’s 2026 People Risks survey finds cyber‑related challenges dominate, as cyber‑threat literacy tops risks and cyber and AI skills shortages rise
Shadow AI is spreading across enterprises as employees use AI tools without oversight, creating new data security and compliance risks.
The post What We Do in the Shadows: How CISOs Can Crack Down on Shadow AI appeared first on Security Boulevard.
In their infancy, LLM models were not difficult to contain. You gave a prompt; they responded, and if something was wrong it was usually “just text.” This could take the form of a summary that missed the best bits, a tone-deaf line or a wordy sentence.
But then, agents were...
Every year, CISOs, CSOs, and chief risk officers pore over the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI)’s Annual Threat Assessment (ATA) for insights on emerging threats they may soon face. This year, however, structural changes to the report itself underscore a...