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Today's cybersecurity landscape highlights several significant threats and trends. U.S. agencies, including CISA and the FBI, have issued warnings about attacks targeting industrial refrigeration controllers, emphasizing the need for improved security measures. Meanwhile, a data breach at Amplifon Americas has compromised the personal information of 1.3 million individuals, underscoring ongoing vulnerabilities in health data security. In the automotive sector, researchers exploited default credentials in mobile apps to gain unauthorized access to vehicles, raising concerns about IoT device security. Additionally, phishing attacks are on the rise, with Microsoft reporting 7.3 billion threats in Q3 2026. Finally, an exploited vulnerability in SonicWall's SSL-VPN could allow attackers to bypass multi-factor authentication, highlighting the critical need for timely patching and security awareness.
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Most phishing advice is written for the person staring at a suspicious email. This guide is for the other kind of victim: The website owner whose legitimate site has been quietly turned into the attacker’s weapon.
You didn’t send the message or build the fake login page. You just woke up to a browse...
Security issues were discovered in Chromium which could result in the execution of arbitrary code, denial of service, or information disclosure. For the oldstable distribution (bookworm), these problems have been fixed in version 147.0.7727.116-1~deb12u1.
CISA said a federal Cisco Firepower ASA device was infected with the FIRESTARTER backdoor in Sept 2025, and it survived security patches. CISA revealed that a U.S. federal civilian agency’s Cisco Firepower device running ASA software was compromised in September 2025 by the FIRESTARTER backdoor. The...
California lawmakers are fast-tracking A.B. 1709—a sweeping bill that would ban anyone under 16 from using social media and force every user, regardless of age, to verify their identity before accessing social platforms.
That means that under this bill, all Californians would be required to submit h...
Clinic students Emily Ko and Zoe Lee at the Technology Law and Policy Clinic at the NYU School of Law were the principal authors of this post.
Courts are not private forums for business disputes. They are public institutions, and their records belong to the public. But too often, courts forget that...
Home security giant ADT has confirmed a data breach after the ShinyHunters extortion group threatened to leak stolen data unless a ransom is paid. [...]
Unit 42 analyzes npm supply chain evolution post-Shai Hulud. Discover wormable malware, CI/CD persistence, multi-stage attacks and more.
The post The npm Threat Landscape: Attack Surface and Mitigations appeared first on Unit 42.
Science news:
Scientists have finally cracked a long-standing mystery about squid and cuttlefish evolution by analyzing newly sequenced genomes alongside global datasets. The research reveals that these bizarre, intelligent creatures likely originated deep in the ocean over 100 million years ago, su...
An April 30 deadline is looming to extend expiring Section 702 powers, and the newest legislation to re-up it is drawing fire from the left and right.
The post Latest spy power reauthorization bill leaves critics unimpressed appeared first on CyberScoop.
A side-channel attack that allows a fiber-optic cable to be used as a microphone.
Cybersecurity agencies in the U.S. and U.K. are warning about a custom malware called Firestarter persisting on Cisco Firepower and Secure Firewall devices running Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) or Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) software. [...]
Unit 42 research reports that TGR-STA-1030 remains an active threat, particularly in Central and South America.
The post TGR-STA-1030: New Activity in Central and South America appeared first on Unit 42.
Microsoft is rolling out Windows Update improvements that give users more control over how updates are installed while reducing disruption from frequent or poorly timed restarts. [...]
US House Republicans have introduced two major privacy proposals that would reshape how US companies collect, process, and retain consumer data: the SECURE Data Act for general consumer privacy and the GUARD Financial Data Act for financial institutions.
The bills would cre...
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is seeking permission from the California city of San Clemente to install an Anduril Industries surveillance tower on a cliff that would allow for constant monitoring of entire coastal neighborhoods.Â
The proposed tower is Anduril's Sentry, part of the Autonomous...
‘Pack2TheRoot’ flaw lets local Linux users gain root via PackageKit. CVE-2026-41651 (8.8) has existed for nearly 12 years. The Pack2TheRoot flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-41651, lets unprivileged users install or remove system packages without authorization, potentially gaining full root access. The vuln...
TL;DR In a massive coordinated interagency effort, the Department of Justice (DOJ), the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign…
The post U.S. Government Unveils Sweeping Enforcement Actions Against Southeast Asian Scam Centers and Crypto Fraud Networks appeared first on Chainalysis.
Officials and experts believe the most likely threat from Iranian hackers is not a digital shock-and-awe campaign, but something quieter: opportunistic intrusions, dressed up to look bigger than they are.
Author, Creator & Presenter: Mudita Khurana, Staff Security Engineer At Airbnb
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As outlined in the AWS post-quantum cryptography (PQC) migration plan, addressing the risk of harvest now, decrypt later (HNDL) attack is an important part of your post-quantum plan. Upgrading the client-side of your workloads to support quantum-resistant confidentiality is an important aspect of yo...