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Today's cybersecurity landscape highlights several critical threats and emerging trends. A significant focus is on the urgent need for PHP updates, with two critical remote code execution vulnerabilities (PHP2Shell) prompting mass exploitation fears; users are advised to apply emergency patches immediately. Additionally, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warns of active exploitation of vulnerabilities in Plex Media Server, while reports reveal hackers are utilizing compromised UpdraftCentral keys to backdoor WordPress sites. AI continues to play a dual role in cyber threats, as malicious actors leverage AI-driven phishing tools and autonomous attacks, prompting researchers to develop countermeasures like "context bombs" to misdirect AI agents. Meanwhile, a $10 million initiative has been launched to enhance cybersecurity at under-resourced utilities, reflecting a growing awareness of the need for improved defenses across various sectors.
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Pwn2Own Automotive 2026 has ended with security researchers earning $1,047,000 after exploiting 76 zero-day vulnerabilities between January 21 and January 23. [...]
Let's get something out of the way: retrospectives can feel a bit like mandatory fun. Someone gathers up the year's events, packages them into neat categories, and delivers "key takeaways" that land somewhere between obvious and forgettable. This is not that.
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Fix didn't quite do the job – attackers spotted logging in Fortinet has confirmed that attackers are actively bypassing a December patch for a critical FortiCloud single sign-on (SSO) authentication flaw after customers reported suspicious logins on devices supposedly fully up to date.…
Fortinet has officially confirmed that it's working to completely plug a FortiCloud SSO authentication bypass vulnerability following reports of fresh exploitation activity on fully-patched firewalls.
"In the last 24 hours, we have identified a number of cases where the exploit was to a device that...
Cyber regulations are where politics meets business – where business becomes subject to political realities.
The post Cyber Insights 2026: Regulations and the Tangled Mess of Compliance Requirements appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Under Armour said there is no evidence at this point to suggest the incident affected systems used to process payments or store customer passwords
Under Armour is investigating a recent data breach that purloined customers’ email addresses and other personal information.
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Really interesting blog post from Anthropic:
In a recent evaluation of AI models’ cyber capabilities, current Claude models can now succeed at multistage attacks on networks with dozens of hosts using only standard, open-source tools, instead of the custom tools needed by previous generations. This...
The Supreme Court’s review of United States v. Chatrie puts geofence warrants and mass digital data seizures under Fourth Amendment scrutiny, raising urgent questions about particularity, AI-driven searches, and constitutional limits in the digital age.
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A new study shows that verse-based prompts can slash the effectiveness of AI safety constraints. We’re breaking down an experiment involving 25 language models and its key takeaways.
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U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Prettier eslint-config-prettier, Vite Vitejs, Versa Concerto SD-WAN orchestration platform, and Synacor Zimbra Collaboration Suite flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Securit...
To help reduce phishing risk, 1Password added an extra layer of protection and began rolling out a phishing prevention feature designed to stop users before they share passwords with scammers. How 1Password phishing prevention works When a user clicks a link whose URL doesn’t match a saved login, 1P...
CISA has added the Zimbra flaw to the KEV catalog along with three other bugs exploited in the wild.
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Pwn2Own participants disclosed a total of 76 vulnerabilities during the three-day event.Â
The post Infotainment, EV Charger Exploits Earn Hackers $1M at Pwn2Own Automotive 2026 appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Red Teaming has become one of the most discussed and misunderstood practices in modern cybersecurity. Many organizations invest heavily in vulnerability scanners and penetration tests, yet breaches continue to happen through paths those tools never simulate. Enterprise leaders now ask a deeper quest...
TikTok on Friday officially announced that it formed a joint venture that will allow the hugely popular video-sharing application to continue operating in the U.S.
The new venture, named TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC, has been established in compliance with the Executive Order signed by U.S. Preside...
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Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new dual-vector campaign that leverages stolen credentials to deploy legitimate Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) software for persistent remote access to compromised hosts.
"Instead of deploying custom viruses, attackers are bypassing secur...
Cloud-native applications have changed how businesses build and scale software. Microservices, containers, and serverless architectures enable faster and more flexible development, but they also make the environment more challenging to...
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