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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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Chainalysis is excited to announce upgraded support for Stellar, one of the longest-running blockchains in the ecosystem. Founded in 2014,…
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The Netherlands Police have arrested a a 21-year-old man from Dordrecht, suspected of selling access to the JokerOTP phishing automation tool that can intercept one-time passwords (OTP) for hijacking accounts. [...]
The more you share online, the more you open yourself to social engineering If you've seen the viral AI work pic trend where people are asking ChatGPT to "create a caricature of me and my job based on everything you know about me" and sharing it to social, you might think it's harmless. You'd be wro...
The former boss of the L3Harris-owned hacking and surveillance tools maker Trenchant faces nine years in prison for selling several exploits to a Russian broker, which counts the Russian government among its customers.
Criticize the government online? The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) might ask Google to cough up your name. By abusing an investigative tool called "administrative subpoenas," DHS has been demanding that tech companies hand over users' names, locations, and more. We're explaining how companie...
Surveillance technology vendors, federal agencies, and wealthy private donors have long helped provide local law enforcement “free” access to surveillance equipment that bypasses local oversight. The result is predictable: serious accountability gaps and data pipelines to other entities, including I...
via the comic artistry and dry wit of Randall Munroe, creator of XKCD
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Surveillance technology vendors, federal agencies, and wealthy private donors have long helped provide local law enforcement “free” access to surveillance equipment that bypasses local oversight. The result is predictable: serious accountability gaps and data pipelines to other entities, including I...
NEW YORK, Feb. 11, 2026, CyberNewswire — GitGuardian, a leading secrets and Non-Human Identity (NHI) security platform and #1 app on GitHub Marketplace, today announced a $50 million Series C funding round led by global software investor Insight Partners… (more…)
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Criticize the government online? The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) might ask Google to cough up your name. By abusing an investigative tool called "administrative subpoenas," DHS has been demanding that tech companies hand over users' names, locations, and more. We're explaining how companie...
Several security issues were fixed in the Linux kernel.
Several security issues were fixed in Python-Multipart.
New libpng packages are available for Slackware 15.0 and -current to fix a security issue.
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered what they said is the first known malicious Microsoft Outlook add-in detected in the wild.
In this unusual supply chain attack detailed by Koi Security, an unknown attacker claimed the domain associated with a now-abandoned legitimate add-in to serve a fake...
New gnutls packages are available for Slackware 15.0 and -current to fix security issues.
Cyber resilience means anticipating threats, detecting them early, and recovering fast when incidents occur. Wazuh shows how its open source SIEM and XDR unify visibility, detection, and automated response to strengthen proactive defense. [...]
4 min readMany teams are approaching agentic AI with a mixture of interest and unease. Senior leaders see clear potential for efficiency and scale. Builders see an opportunity to remove friction from repetitive work. Security teams, meanwhile, are asked to enable this progress without becoming a b...
It was discovered that Python-Multipart incorrectly handled certain
regular expressions. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause
Python-Multipart to consume excessive resources, leading to a regular
expression denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.
(CVE-2024-24762...
A surge in LummaStealer infections has been observed, driven by social engineering campaigns leveraging the ClickFix technique to deliver the CastleLoader malware. [...]
New guide details how a unified, AI ready SIEM platform empowers security leaders to operate at the speed of AI, strengthen resilience, accelerate detection and response, and more.
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