> TODAY'S SUMMARY (7 articles)
Today's cyber news highlights several key threats and trends. Hackers are increasingly targeting AI systems, as demonstrated by a recent incident where credentials were stolen, leading to $740,000 in unauthorized compute usage for a cloud provider. Microsoft researchers revealed vulnerabilities in AI models, showing that attackers can create backdoors by manipulating just a few neurons. Additionally, recent updates for Slackware address critical security issues, including remote code execution and memory errors in their httpd and Git packages. The ongoing risk of vehicle hacking is underscored by a podcast discussing how attackers can gain control over car systems. As cyber threats evolve, organizations must prioritize robust security measures against these emerging vulnerabilities.
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Signal, the encrypted messaging app trusted by security-savvy users around the world, has confirmed that hackers have managed to takeover accounts - with government officials and journalists among those being targeted.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Summary of Google’s H1 2026 Cloud Threat Horizons findings arguing identity failures, weaponized local AI tooling, and collapsing exploitation windows require AI-native security architectures and automated identity governance.
The post 83% of Cloud Breaches Start with Identity, AI Agents Are About...
Critical- and high-severity flaws could be exploited to execute arbitrary shell commands or elevate privileges.
The post Splunk, Zoom Patch Severe Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek.
I'm a firm believer that if you want to understand how secure an application really is, you have to test how it behaves, not just how it was written. Automation has become essential to that. No AppSec
CYBERUK will be delivered by the NCSC and sponsors across four distinct tracks of activity: Resilience, Technology, Threat, and Ecosystem.
Your board wants AI. Your developers are building with it. Your budget committee is asking for an ROI timeline. But as CISO, you're the one who has to answer when the inevitable question comes up: "How do we know this is secure?" If you're like most security leaders, you're caught between two imposs...
Analysis of the Trump administration’s concise 2024 cybersecurity strategy arguing for policy-led government, private-sector implementation, deregulation to spur innovation, and elevation of AI security as a national priority.
The post The White House Got the Cyber Strategy Right — By Knowing What...
Last year’s “PhantomRaven” supply-chain campaign is back, with security researchers uncovering 88 new malicious packages in what they describe as the second, third, and fourth waves of the operation.
According to Endor Labs findings, the newly discovered packages were publi...
The U.S. Department of Justice charged another former DigitalMint employee for his involvement in an insider scheme in which ransomware negotiators secretly partnered with the BlackCat (ALPHV) ransomware operation. [...]
The most dangerous phishing campaigns aren’t just designed to fool employees. Many are designed to exhaust the analysts investigating them. When a phishing investigation takes 12 hours instead of five minutes, the outcome can shift from a contained incident to a breach.
For years, the cybersecurity...
Missing event logs can mean missing evidence — here’s why proactive archiving is essential for reliable timeline reconstruction in digital investigations.
An Iran-linked hacking group has claimed responsibility for a cyberattack on U.S. medical device giant Stryker, marking a potential escalation of cyber activity tied to the ongoing conflict in the Middle East. Stryker confirmed in a Form 8-K filing with the SEC that a cyberattack caused a global dis...
The ICO has fined Police Scotland after it shared the entire contents of a victim’s phone with her alleged attacker
The security defects could lead to denial-of-service (DoS) conditions, command execution, or device takeover.
The post Cisco Patches High-Severity IOS XR Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek.
A bug in Microsoft Authenticator on Android and iOS could allow malicious apps on the same device to intercept authentication codes or sign-in links.
Apple on Wednesday backported fixes for a security flaw in iOS, iPadOS, and macOS Sonoma to older versions after it was found to be used as part of the Coruna exploit kit.
The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-43010, relates to an unspecified vulnerability in WebKit that could result in memory corr...
New AI-powered protections aim to detect impersonation attempts, suspicious friend requests, and scam messages.
The bugs allowed unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code, steal credentials, and take over servers.
The post Critical N8n Vulnerabilities Allowed Server Takeover appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Learn what AI governance is, core principles, and how to build an AI governance framework that manages risk, identity, SaaS access, and continuous oversight.
The post AI Governance Guide: Principles & Frameworks appeared first on Security Boulevard.
The 2024 incident was initially linked to China, but an infostealer infection has now revealed North Korean involvement.
The post Polyfill Supply Chain Attack Impacting 100k Sites Linked to North Korea appeared first on SecurityWeek.