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Today's cybersecurity landscape is marked by several critical threats and trends. Recently patched vulnerabilities in Barracuda devices are being actively exploited, allowing attackers root access. Cisco's BroadWorks and Openwave flaws are also under attack despite available patches. Apple has addressed Bluetooth and AirPlay vulnerabilities, reinforcing the need for prompt patching as 45% of EU IT service providers delay critical updates. New malware threatens Exchange servers, and leaked exploit kits are compromising iPhones via ads. Additionally, Microsoft released a substantial patch update addressing 1,094 vulnerabilities, including a critical zero-day in Outlook that risks credential theft. Cybersecurity resilience remains a priority as organizations grapple with the rising tide of AI-discovered vulnerabilities.
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The Android ecosystem is a thriving global community built on trust, giving billions of users the confidence to download the latest apps. In order to maintain that trust, we’re focused on ensuring that apps do not cause real-world har...
Google says that through 2025, it blocked more than 255,000 Android apps from obtaining excessive access to sensitive user data and rejected over 1.75 million apps from being published on Google Play due to policy violations. [...]
FRANKFURT, Feb. 19, 2026, CyberNewswire — Link11 launches its new “AI Management Dashboard”, closing a critical gap in how companies manage AI traffic. Artificial intelligence is fundamentally changing internet traffic. But while many companies are already feeling the … (more…)
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The sky has never been falling. Yet here we are again, watching a new generation of prognosticators prophecy civilizational collapse while evidence of human adaptability and economic dynamism surrounds them. Salon’s recent piece about “swarms of AI bots threatening democracy” epitomizes this tireso...
libvpx could be made to crash or run programs if it opened a specially crafted file.
OpenAI just announced ads are coming to ChatGPT. For 800M weekly users, this changes everything about how 'free' AI actually works.
The post ChatGPT Ads Are Coming: What 800 Million Users Need to Know About the New Economics of ‘Free’ AI appeared first on Security Boulevard.
ClickFix, an attack technique used to trick victims into pasting or clicking on malicious commands, has rapidly become a favorite method of threat groups. Recent reports by Huntress, Microsoft, and Intego detail how quickly the ClickFix tactic is evolving.
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New Remcos RAT variant enhances real-time surveillance and evasion techniques to compromise Windows
Self-hosted agents execute code with durable credentials and process untrusted input. This creates dual supply chain risk, where skills and external instructions converge in the same runtime. As OpenClaw-like systems enter enterprises, governance and runtime isolation become critical.
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Microsoft has disclosed a privilege-escalation vulnerability in Windows Admin Center (WAC), a browser-based platform widely used by IT administrators and infrastructure teams to manage Windows clients, servers, clusters, Hyper-V hosts and virtual machines, as well as Active Directory-joined systems....
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Insider Threat Indicators Beyond the Firewall
Insider threats rarely start with a dramatic breach. Instead, they begin quietly. A shift in behavior. A suspicious or unauthorized external contact. An unexplained access request...
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The real deal or another research project overblown? Cybersecurity researchers say they've spotted the first Android malware strain that uses generative AI to improve performance once installed. But it may be only a proof of concept.…
Session 12D: ML Backdoors
Authors, Creators & Presenters: Hao Yu (National University of Defense Technology), Chuan Ma (Chongqing University), Xinhang Wan (National University of Defense Technology), Jun Wang (National University of Defense Technology), Tao Xiang (Chongqing University), Meng Sh...
Improper access control in Microsoft Teams allows an unauthorized attacker to disclose information over a network.
During independent security research, a CSS injection vulnerability (CVE-2026-26000) was identified in the XWiki platform. XWiki is an open-source enterprise wiki and collaboration platform commonly used for internal documentation and knowledge management. According to XWiki, the platform has over 8...
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) ordered government agencies to patch their systems within three days against a maximum-severity Dell vulnerability that has been under active exploitation since mid-2024. [...]
Fraud campaign exploiting Indonesia’s Coretax resulted in $1.5m to $2m in losses via malicious apps
Several security issues were fixed in the Linux kernel.
Abstract Security today added a modular security information and event management (SIEM) platform to its portfolio that also makes use of artificial intelligence (AI) to surface threats in near real time. Company CEO Colby DeRodeff said the AI-Gen Composable SIEM enables cybersecurity teams to cont...
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Dell RecoverPoint and GitLab flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added Dell RecoverPoint and GitLab flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV)...