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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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Several security issues were fixed in Bind.
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Another IoT cyberattack, this one in France:
Hackers gained control of the software that regulates the temperatures of the refrigeration units, forcing some to warm to 50C (120F) overnight, according to one supermarket chain affected.
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Normally, supermarket freezers go through a short period of d...
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