> TODAY'S SUMMARY (41 articles)
Today's cyber news highlights significant threats, particularly targeting industrial refrigeration systems. The FBI and CISA have issued warnings about attacks that can manipulate temperatures in supermarket refrigeration, posing risks to food safety and supply chains. In the realm of vulnerabilities, a memory safety flaw in CPython could allow AI inference servers to be compromised. Additionally, a critical exploit in OpenSSH may enable unauthorized access to password-disabled accounts on certain Linux systems. Meanwhile, phishing schemes leveraging fake OpenAI events are being reported, aimed at stealing Microsoft and Google accounts. The ongoing escalation of AI-driven attacks is also notable, with incidents targeting fintech firms during off-hours.
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Google’s new scam protections cover Google Messages and third-party messaging apps, with an enhanced protection mode, expanded scam alerts and safeguards against call-forwarding and screen-sharing scams. “With scams growing harder to spot, it’s nearly impossible for users to catch every red flag the...
Two vulnerabilities were discovered in cifs-utils, the Common Internet File System utilities, which could result in privilege escalation. For the stable distribution (trixie), these problems have been fixed in version 2:7.4-1+deb13u1. We recommend that you upgrade your cifs-utils packages.
Microsoft says some users may have trouble turning on Smart App Control after installing this month's KB5127648 Windows 11 security update. [...]
Current security procedures for training AI models are inadequate, hundreds of AI researchers have warned governments and the AI community. They are calling for tougher rules and the establishment of a new international body overseeing best practice for AI development.
In a...
Fresh research suggests recent panic over AI-generated malware may be overblown.
Last month Anthropic detailed how Russia-linked cyberespionage group Midnight Blizzard used Claude to rebuild malware each time security tools flagged its backdoor as malign.
“We observed GT...
In addition to RCE flaws, Microsoft fixed multiple information disclosure bugs and a security bypass issue in Office.
The post Microsoft Patches Two Dozen RCE Flaws in Office appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Vous testez la charge de SQL Server avec ostress ? Microsoft dévoile sqlsimtools, une suite open source qui repense cet outil historique en intégrant l'IA.
Le post sqlsimtools : une suite open source signée Microsoft pour tester la charge de SQL Server a été publié sur IT-Connect.
The Administrative Office of the US Courts says a cyberattack on government contractor BAE Systems has taken down the notice system used by federal bankruptcy courts. [...]
The regulated utility company CenterPoint Energy says a data breach exposed the personal information of more than 1 million people in Texas. CenterPoint Energy is a regulated utility company used to deliver natural gas and electricity infrastructure, maintain power grids and pipelines, and restore s...
School staff seemed to be trying to get ransomware – for a second time
The Thoma Bravo-owned Proofpoint will acquire Varonis in an all-cash transaction and Varonis will become a private company.
The post Proofpoint Inks $6.3 Billion All-Cash Deal to Acquire Varonis appeared first on SecurityWeek.
The China-nexus cyber espionage group tracked as Armory Castle (previously UNC5221 or Warp Panda) exploited a newly disclosed security flaw in BeyondTrust Remote Support (formerly Bomgar) as a zero-day in late August 2026.
The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-102764 (CVSS score: 9.3), is a case o...
AI agents being tested online reached the live systems of Indian organizations and read business records, including personal data and confidential material, CERT-In said in an advisory on October 15.
The agents went beyond their assigned tasks, and none of the organizations detected the unauthorize...
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BeyondTrust warned customers on Thursday to patch a critical flaw in its Remote Support (RS) that has been exploited in zero-day attacks since late August. [...]
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in Expat, an XML parsing C library, which could result in denial of service or potentially the execution of arbitrary code, if a malformed XML file is processed. For the stable distribution (trixie), these problems have been fixed in version 2.9.0-1~deb13...
David Fuhr, CTO at intcube, talks about a security cohort for public administration, where 27 municipalities hardened Windows Server and Active Directory together over 12 weeks. This Help Net Security interview covers how a cohort works, with weekly sessions, homework and measurements at the start a...
US employers posted 235,786 cybersecurity jobs from January through September 2026. That is the lowest total for those months in the four years that staffing and workforce intelligence firm CyberSN has tracked. They pulled the listings from job data provider JobSpikr, removed duplicates and sorted e...
This vulnerability allows local attackers to escalate privileges on affected installations of FreeBSD Kernel. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability. The ZDI has assigned a CVSS rating of 8.8. The following...
This vulnerability allows local attackers to escalate privileges on affected installations of FreeBSD Kernel. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability. The ZDI has assigned a CVSS rating of 7.8. The following...