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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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The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added ten new vulnerabilities to its catalog of exploited bugs this week, forcing all federal civilian agencies to resolve the issues by the first week of March.
Names, addresses, bank account numbers accessed – but biz insists passwords and call data untouched The Netherlands' largest mobile network operator (MNO) has admitted that a breach of its customer contact system may have affected around 6.2 million people.…
Google detected and blocked a campaign involving more than 100,000 prompts that it claimed were designed to copy the proprietary reasoning capabilities of its Gemini AI model, according to a quarterly threat report released by Google Threat Intelligence Group.
The prompts l...
Hundreds of thousands of users have downloaded malicious AI extensions masquerading as ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok and others, warn cybersecurity researchers at LayerX
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a malicious Google Chrome extension that's designed to steal data associated with Meta Business Suite and Facebook Business Manager.
The extension, named CL Suite by @CLMasters (ID: jkphinfhmfkckkcnifhjiplhfoiefffl), is marketed as a way to scrape Meta Busin...
L'ANSSI met à jour sa politique Open Source : découvrez les 4 piliers stratégiques pour renforcer la cybersécurité et la souveraineté par le logiciel libre.
Le post Open Source : l’ANSSI dévoile ses 4 piliers pour une sécurité souveraine a été publié sur IT-Connect.
Exploitation attempts target CVE-2026-1731, a critical unauthenticated remote code execution flaw in BeyondTrust Remote Support.
The post BeyondTrust Vulnerability Targeted by Hackers Within 24 Hours of PoC Release appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Smart organizations have spent the last three years protecting their AI tools from skilled prompt injection-style attacks. The assumption has been that poisoning the foundational model, the real brains behind AI systems, requires technical expertise, privileged access, or a co...
Google says nation-state actors used Gemini AI for reconnaissance and attack support in cyber operations. Google DeepMind and GTIG report a rise in model extraction or “distillation” attacks aimed at stealing AI intellectual property, which Google has detected and blocked. While APT groups have not...
Several security issues were fixed in the Linux kernel.
Attackers are exploiting a recently patched critical vulnerability (CVE-2026-1731) in internet-facing BeyondTrust Remote Support and Privileged Remote Access instances. “Attackers are abusing get_portal_info to extract the x-ns-company value before establishing a WebSocket channel,” Ryan Dewhurst, H...
In December 2025, in response to the Sha1-Hulud incident, npm completed a major authentication overhaul intended to reduce supply-chain attacks. While the overhaul is a solid step forward, the changes don’t make npm projects immune from supply-chain attacks. npm is still susceptible to malware attac...
Disclosed at the end of January, the SolarWinds vulnerability was likely exploited as a zero-day since December 2025.
The post CISA Warns of Exploited SolarWinds, Notepad++, Microsoft Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek.
This article explores the complexities of cyberwarfare, emphasizing the need to reconsider how we categorize cyber operations within the framework of the Law of Armed Conflict (LOAC). It discusses the challenges posed by AI in transforming traditional warfare notions and highlights the potential ri...
Learn what a SAML assertion is in Single Sign-On. Discover how these XML trust tokens securely exchange identity data between IdPs and Service Providers.
The post What is a SAML Assertion in Single Sign-On? appeared first on Security Boulevard.
Proofpoint has acquired Acuvity, strengthening its platform with AI-native visibility, governance, and runtime protection for AI and agent-driven workflows. As generative AI reshapes how work gets done, organisations are deploying AI copilots, autonomous agents, and model-connected applications acro...
In healthcare software, quality is inseparable from compliance. A feature working as designed is not enough. Every workflow, integration, and data exchange must protect Protected...Read More
The post AI Powered HIPAA Compliance Readiness Testing in Healthcare Software. A QA Leader’s Guide to Continu...
When people talk about cryptography, they usually talk about algorithms. RSA versus ECC. Classical versus post quantum. Encryption strength measured in bits and curves.
In practice, none of that matters unless keys are created, stored, rotated and retired correctly.
Key...
Brutus is an open-source, multi-protocol credential testing tool written in pure Go. Designed to replace legacy tools that have long frustrated penetration testers with dependency headaches and integration gaps, Brutus ships as a single binary with zero external dependencies and native support for t...
The Dutch National Police arrested a 21-year-old man from Dordrecht as part of a cybercrime investigation by Team Cybercrime Oost-Brabant. The suspect is believed to have distributed a tool known as JokerOTP, a bot used to intercept one-time passwords (OTPs) used to secure online accounts and financ...