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Today's cybersecurity landscape highlights a significant threat from a malicious Claude Code-branded browser extension, which has been identified to deploy a persistent SSH backdoor. Microsoft has released analysis and remediation guidance for affected users. Additionally, organizations are advised to carefully evaluate Web Application and API Protection (WAAP) solutions as they approach renewal decisions, considering integration of various tools for comprehensive security against multiple threats. Overall, the focus remains on enhancing defenses against sophisticated attacks while navigating complex security tool ecosystems.
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SANTA CLARA, Calif., Apr 15, 2026 – Recently, Forrester, an international authoritative research firm, officially released The Operational Technology Security Solutions Landscape, Q1 2026[1]. NSFOCUS was successfully selected for the OT/industrial security field with its technical strength, product...
In this Help Net Security interview, Nuno Rodrigues Carvalho, Head of Sector for Incident and Vulnerability Services at ENISA, discusses the recent CVE funding scare and what it exposed about the fragility of global vulnerability disclosure infrastructure. He outlines how EU regulations, including t...
Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for April 2026 fixed 165 vulnerabilities, including an actively exploited SharePoint zero-day. Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates addressed 165 vulnerabilities, making it one of the largest updates by CVE count. One of the most interesting flaws fixed b...
Misconfigured source code management platforms remain a common entry point in software supply chain attacks, and organizations often lack visibility into which settings put them at risk. Legitify, an open-source tool from Legit Security, addresses that gap by scanning GitHub and GitLab environments...
This vulnerability allows remote attackers to delete arbitrary files on affected installations of Adobe ColdFusion. Although authentication is required to exploit this vulnerability, the existing authentication mechanism can be bypassed. The ZDI has assigned a CVSS rating of 5.4. The following CVEs...
This vulnerability allows remote attackers to bypass authentication on affected installations of Adobe ColdFusion. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability. The ZDI has assigned a CVSS rating of 6.5. The following CVEs are assigned: CVE-2026-27282.
AI coding assistants are quickly becoming part of everyday development. Tools like Cursor, Claude Code, and GitHub Copilot can now do more than suggest code. They can read files, run shell commands, and call external tools during a session. That makes them useful, but it also creates a new risk: sec...
This vulnerability allows remote attackers to disclose sensitive information on affected installations of Adobe ColdFusion. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability. The ZDI has assigned a CVSS rating of 7.5. The following CVEs are assigned: CVE-2026-27305.
This vulnerability allows remote attackers to create a denial-of-service condition on affected installations of Fortinet FortiWeb. Authentication is required to exploit this vulnerability. The ZDI has assigned a CVSS rating of 6.5. The following CVEs are assigned: CVE-2026-39811.
OpenAI on Tuesday unveiled GPT-5.4-Cyber, a variant of its latest flagship model, GPT‑5.4, that's specifically optimized for defensive cybersecurity use cases, days after rival Anthropic unveiled its own frontier model, Mythos.
"The progressive use of AI accelerates defenders – those responsible for...
This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of Fortinet FortiWeb. Authentication is required to exploit this vulnerability. The ZDI has assigned a CVSS rating of 8.8. The following CVEs are assigned: CVE-2026-40688.
This vulnerability allows local attackers to escalate privileges on affected installations of Malwarebytes Anti-Malware. 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.
Most enterprise networks have segmentation on the roadmap. Many have had it there for years. A survey of 400 U.S.-based network security practitioners who lived through failed segmentation projects finds that failure clusters into four distinct patterns, and the type of failure a team experiences de...
This vulnerability allows local attackers to escalate privileges on affected installations of Samsung MagicINFO 9 Server. 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. T...
This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of Trend Micro Apex One. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability. The ZDI has assigned a CVSS rating of 9.8. The following CVEs are assigned: CVE-2025-54948.
In 2026, enterprise developers are building and deploying the first generation of powerful, increasingly autonomous AI agents at incredible speed. Now comes the hard part: working out how to secure them.
Vendors in the space are facing multiple challenges. To begin with, tr...
This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of Trend Micro Apex One. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability. The ZDI has assigned a CVSS rating of 9.8. The following CVEs are assigned: CVE-2025-54987.
This vulnerability allows local attackers to escalate privileges on affected installations of Avast Premium Security. 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 f...
It was discovered that FRR did not correctly handle certain network
requests. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to gain
unauthorized access to resources.
This vulnerability allows remote attackers to create a denial-of-service condition on affected installations of ATEN Unizon. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability. The ZDI has assigned a CVSS rating of 7.5. The following CVEs are assigned: CVE-2026-5057.