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Today's cybersecurity landscape highlights significant threats and trends. A major cyber incident has forced the University of New Mexico Health System to divert patients and close over 30 clinics, underscoring the vulnerability of healthcare systems. In Japan, a virtual desktop cloud service used for forex trading was severely compromised, revealing the consequences of delayed security measures. Meanwhile, experts are downplaying alarm over a critical defect in the Brotli compression library, noting that while the issue is serious, no active exploitation has been reported. Overall, the focus remains on the urgency of addressing vulnerabilities in critical sectors and the importance of timely security updates.
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Anthropic created three access tiers for Claude’s offensive security use, matching cyber capabilities and safeguards to the user’s level of trust. Anthropic is trying to solve the difficult balance between using AI for cybersecurity and preventing misuse. The same model that helps security teams fix...
It was discovered that libwebsockets did not properly validate
user-supplied data when parsing HTTP/2 HPACK path headers, which could
result in a write past the end of an allocated buffer. An attacker could
possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2026-19773)
It was discovered that l...
The net is tightening around the Shiny Hunters cybercrime group following the reported arrest of a second member.
The cybersecurity community has seen examples of autonomous agents, built inside AI labs, attacking public infrastructure. How you prepare for agentic threats is what makes the difference during real incidents.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been
resolved: fs: dlm: fix use after free in midcomms commit While working on
processing dlm message in softirq context I experienced the following KASAN
use-after-free warning: .
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been
resolve...
Hackers compromised a third-party communication platform and sent rogue notifications to ASOS users.
The post ASOS Confirms Cyberattack, Data Breach appeared first on SecurityWeek.
UK fashion retailer ASOS has confirmed a data breach after a notification claiming hackers had broken into its data was sent to shoppers through its app. ASOS was founded in 2000 and has 16.5 million active customers in more than 100 markets. According to the company’s update to investors, the unaut...
Ethical hackers have already found 32 zero days in various products at Pwn2Own Ireland
A plausible-sounding sponsorship offer could mask an attempt to compromise your Google account
In infrastructure and security programs, I have watched visibility projects follow a familiar path. The first dashboard feels like progress. Then the data grows, ownership blurs and the team discovers that visibility without identity and action has become another estate to ope...
Anthropic expanded its Cyber Verification Program (CVP), giving approved security professionals access to advanced Claude capabilities with fewer automated blocks on work such as malware analysis and vulnerability testing. Three tiers for cybersecurity work The program now has three tiers based on t...
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The rise of AI has CISOs facing even more vulnerabilities than ever, resulting in increasingly difficult decisions around what fixes to prioritize.
“When I was a CIO, the hardest part of my job was deciding what not to do,” Snehal Antani, CEO of pentesting platform Horizon3...
A breach of 8.8 million citizens on the Danish Central Register of Persons (CPR) occurred via third-party access
Anthropic on Tuesday said it's expanding a program that allows vetted cybersecurity professionals to test its advanced artificial intelligence (AI) models with reduced safeguards and blocking classifiers, as the company claimed its Project Glasswing initiative uncovered at least 129,000 verified sof...
Wikimedia looked into whether its own websites had seen activity like that disclosed by other organizations
The post Wikimedia Says Rogue OpenAI Agents Tried to Turn Its Tools Into Proxies appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Wikimedia found unauthorized OpenAI agent activity on its platforms, including unapproved edits, proxy attempts and millions of automated API requests. Wikimedia ran its own investigation after other organizations started reporting rogue AI agents breaking into websites, and the answer came back yes...
On October 14 2026 we will ship curl 8.23.0. The next iteration in the never-ending series of version bumps from the curl project. We always think of the next release as the best version we ever did – and this time is no exception. Decades of collected experiences and meticulous polishing has lead u...
The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) has identified more than 100 compromised websites that have been injected with malicious JavaScript to serve an information-stealing malware called LunexStealer (aka Psychedelic Stealer).
The activity, which was observed by the agency in Sep...
The patches resolve a critical vulnerability in Android’s System component that could lead to privilege escalation.
The post Android’s October 2026 Updates Patch 25 Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek.