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Today's cybersecurity news highlights significant threats involving GitHub and AI. Attackers compromised 42 GitHub repositories by utilizing payloads too large for standard search mechanisms, indicating a trend in exploiting file size limitations to evade detection. Additionally, a new offensive AI agent dubbed 'Skynet' has emerged, capable of hijacking exposed AI models online to facilitate cyberattacks. This development underscores the growing intersection of AI and cybercrime, raising concerns about the security of machine learning systems. Organizations must enhance their defenses against such evolving threats.
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Interlock's post-exploit toolkit exposed Ransomware criminals exploited CVE-2026-20131, a maximum-severity bug in Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center software, as a zero-day vulnerability more than a month before Cisco patched the hole, according to Amazon security boss CJ Moses.…
ESET Direct Endpoint Management plugin for ConnectWise Automate Service Release 2.0 has been released and is available to download.
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The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has sanctioned six individuals and two entities for their involvement in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) information technology (IT) worker scheme with an aim to defraud U.S. businesses and generate illici...
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The Interlock ransomware gang has been exploiting a maximum severity remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in Cisco's Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) software in zero-day attacks since late January. [...]
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Several security issues were fixed in the Linux kernel.
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Several security issues were fixed in the Linux kernel.
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Amazon Threat Intelligence is warning of an active Interlock ransomware campaign that's exploiting a recently disclosed critical security flaw in Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) Software.
The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-20131 (CVSS score: 10.0), a case of insecure deserializa...
As AI systems grow more autonomous, observability becomes essential. Learn how visibility into AI behavior helps detect risk and strengthen secure development.
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Phil Venables, former CISO of Google Cloud and now a venture partner at Ballistic Ventures, has joined Native’s board of directors.
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Amazon threat intelligence has identified an active Interlock ransomware campaign exploiting CVE-2026-20131, a critical vulnerability in Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) Software that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary Java code as root on an affected d...
One constant I hear from CISOs I speak with is that AI agents are not coming. They are already inside organizations, reasoning through goals, selecting tools, and taking action through the same APIs that connect your most sensitive systems.
And most security teams have no idea what those agents are...