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Today's cybersecurity news highlights several critical threats and trends. Microsoft has issued a significant Patch Tuesday update, addressing 1,094 vulnerabilities, including a zero-day flaw in Outlook that could expose hashed NTLM credentials. Additionally, hackers are actively exploiting high-severity vulnerabilities in Cisco BroadWorks and Openwave systems, emphasizing the urgency for organizations to patch these flaws. New AI-related threats are emerging, with Microsoft researchers demonstrating how hidden backdoors can be implanted in AI models. Meanwhile, a new tool advertised by hackers claims to maintain Gmail access post-password resets, raising concerns over credential security. Lastly, the SANS Institute reports that incidents in operational technology (OT) environments are on the rise, with one-third of industrial organizations affected.
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Microsoft has released a new report about the Storm-1175 group and its connection to Medusa ransomware
For many years, supply chain security was viewed purely as a technical concern. However, with high-profile vulnerabilities and regulations, it is now a board-level issue that requires organizations to rethink how to build resiliency and insulate their operations.The changing r...
Cisco Talos has recently observed an increase in activity that is leveraging notification pipelines in popular collaboration platforms to deliver spam and phishing emails.Â
The year was characterized by an unending beat-down on infrastructure that relied on older enmeshed dependencies (e.g., Log4j and PHPUnit), while React2Shell rocketed to the highest percentage of attacks for the entire year within the last three weeks of 2025.Â
Organizations collect and store huge amounts of sensitive data, customer details, financial records, login credentials, and more. Protecting this data is not just important; it’s critical for business survival. One of the most commonly used techniques to protect sensitive data is data masking. At fi...
According to a new law, the Hong Kong police can demand that you reveal the encryption keys protecting your computer, phone, hard drives, etc.—even if you are just transiting the airport.
In a security alert dated March 26, the U.S. Consulate General said that, on March 23, 2026, Hong Kong authoriti...
Coding agents make decisions in sequence: a plan is drafted, implemented, then tested. Any error introduced early compounds as subsequent steps build on the same flawed assumption. Self-reflection is a recognized mitigation technique, and one GitHub Copilot already supports, but a model reviewing it...
Fortinet has updated its FortiClient EMS product after zero-day attacks surfaced
Shchukin is accused of extorting more than $2 million as the head of the GandCrab and REvil ransomware operations.
The post German Police Unmask REvil Ransomware Leader appeared first on SecurityWeek.
For more than two decades, cybersecurity has been built on a reactive model: detect intrusions, patch vulnerabilities, respond to incidents, and repeat. That model is now under sustained pressure from a threat environment that is faster, more coordinated, and increasingly auto...
Security has shifted—but many strategies haven’t For decades, cybersecurity strategies have focused on protecting infrastructure: Firewalls Endpoints Networks But attackers have evolved. Today, they don’t need to break in. They log in. And that shift has made identity the most critical—and most over...
I recently had the opportunity to review five popular SIEM solutions as part of a judging panel for a Security award. While each platform had its own unique flair, their core promises were remarkably consistent:
24/7/365 SOC monitoring: Round-the-clock coverage backed by g...
Threat actors are using AI to supercharge tried-and-tested TTPs. When attacks move this fast, cyber-defenders need to rethink their own strategy.
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds a flaw in Fortinet FortiClient EMS to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added a flaw in Fortinet FortiClient EMS, tracked as CVE-2026-35616 (CVSS score of...
Cambodia has taken a dramatic step in its fight against scam compounds that have imprisoned innocent people, and forced them to work as virtual slaves defrauding victims via the internet around the world with romance scams and dodgy investment schemes.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Secur...
Getting a startup through a SOC 2 audit has long meant months of manual evidence collection, policy writing, and repeated back-and-forth with auditors. A growing number of compliance platforms have moved to automate parts of that process, and Comp AI is now doing it with an open-source codebase that...
OpenRSAT est une alternative aux outils d'administration Ă distance de Microsoft (RSAT), compatible Windows, Linux et Mac, pour administrer l'AD, le DNS, etc.
Le post OpenRSAT : l’alternative multi-OS et open source pour administrer votre Active Directory a été publié sur IT-Connect.
OpenAI is accepting applications for a paid fellowship program that will fund external researchers to work on safety and alignment questions related to advanced AI systems. The program, called the OpenAI Safety Fellowship, runs from September 14, 2026 through February 5, 2027. Applications close May...
New academic research has identified multiple RowHammer attacks against high-performance graphics processing units (GPUs) that could be exploited to escalate privileges and, in some cases, even take full control of a host.
The efforts have been codenamed GPUBreach, GDDRHammer, and GeForge.
GPUBreach...
The Trump administration says the FY2027 budget refocuses CISA on its core mission: protecting federal agencies and critical infrastructure.
The post White House Seeks to Slash CISA Funding by $707 Million appeared first on SecurityWeek.