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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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USN-8136-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Dovecot. The update caused a regression
on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. This update fixes the problem.
We apologize for the inconvenience.
Original advisory details:
It was discovered that Dovecot incorrectly handled invalid base64 SASL data.
An att...
LLMs leave statistical fingerprints in the passwords they generate. We built a 100-year-old model to find them and detected 28,000 in the wild.
The post The Bot Left a Fingerprint: Detecting and Attributing LLM-Generated Passwords appeared first on Security Boulevard.
Apr 28, 2026 - Timo RĂĽppell - Most security teams have accepted a hard truth in recent months. AI has already arrived in your organization. It resides in your codebase, runs in your cloud infrastructure, and is likely open in a nearby browser tab right now.The question is no longer whether to let AI...
Threat actors are now publishing structured OPSEC playbooks to stay undetected. Flare reveals how these guides outline layered infrastructure, identity separation, and long-term evasion strategies. [...]
Over 70 cloned Open VSX extensions are likely sleeper extensions designed to distribute malware.
The post Dozens of Open VSX Extension Clones Linked to GlassWorm Malware appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Extradition links alleged MSS-directed hacker to Silk Typhoon and COVID-19 espionage
Techno Security & Digital Forensics Conference East 2026 returns to Myrtle Beach this June with 120+ sessions spanning AI, ransomware, IoT, crypto investigations, eDiscovery, and hands-on DFIR training.
For decades, the cybersecurity budgethas been treated as part of Operational Expenditure (OpEx), a necessary "tax" on doing business, much like insurance or electricity. Security leaders have traditionally fought for budgets based on fear, uncertainty, and doubt, often struggling to justify th...
AI is everywhere in boardroom conversations, strategy decks, and product roadmaps. Yet behind the buzz, a quieter reality is unfolding. Many enterprises are investing heavily...Read More
The post Enterprise AI Adoption in 2026: Common Pitfalls, Risks, and Proven Strategies for Success appeared first...
Security operations centres risk being rendered entirely ineffective if organizations measure them using the wrong performance indicators, according to Dave Chismon, CTO for Architecture at UK’s National Cyber Security Centre. Ticket-based metrics miss the point Evaluating ones’ SOC using the same t...
State privacy regulators across the United States collected $3.425 billion in privacy-related fines from companies in 2025. Gartner said the upward trend is expected to accelerate through 2028. Annual cumulative fines stood at $1.827 billion in 2024, putting the 2025 result at nearly double the prev...
Key Takeaways A DDoS test is only as useful as the preparation behind it – a simulation run against a poorly understood environment will confirm very little Red Button begins every engagement with a structured pre-test interview covering architecture, protection tools, traffic flows, and risk tolera...
How we reverse-engineered the structure of Facebook IDs to improve credit card classification.
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The concept behind data loss prevention (DLP) platforms is simple and powerful: Discover and classify sensitive da...
Agentic AI can be expensive to use, causing further and unpredictable pressure on tight budgets.
The post Sevii Launches Cyber Swarm Defense to Make Agentic AI Security Costs Predictable appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Every security program is betting on the same assumption: once a system is connected, the problem is solved. Open a ticket, stand up a gateway, push the data through. Done.
That assumption is wrong. It is also a major reason Zero Trust programs stall.
New research my team just published puts numbers...
Vulnerabilities in Zero Motorcycles electric motorcycles and Yadea electric scooters can pose physical security and safety risks.
The post Electric Motorcycles and Scooters Face Hacking Risks to Security and Rider Safety appeared first on SecurityWeek.
A fake RPC server can be used to listen for RPC requests and impersonate the target service to elevate privileges to System.
The post No Patch for New PhantomRPC Privilege Escalation Technique in Windows appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Medtronic Hack Confirmed After ShinyHunters Threatens Data Leak Medtronic confirmed a cyber incident after the ShinyHunters group claimed to have stolen 9 million records and terabytes of corporate data. The company said it has not identified impacts to products, patient safety, manufacturing, distr...
Microsoft fixed a Microsoft Entra ID flaw where the Agent ID Administrator role could enable privilege escalation and account takeover. Microsoft addressed a flaw in Microsoft Entra ID that could let attackers take over service accounts. The issue involved the Agent ID Administrator role, which mana...
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a critical security flaw impacting LeRobot, Hugging Face's open-source robotics platform with nearly 24,000 GitHub stars, that could be exploited to achieve remote code execution.
The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-25874 (CVSS score: 9.3), w...