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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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Microsoft security researchers discovered a growing trend of AI memory poisoning attacks used for promotional purposes, referred to as AI Recommendation Poisoning. The MITRE ATLAS knowledge base classifies this behavior as AML.T0080: Memory Poisoning. The activity focuses on shaping future recommend...
This year should break all the records in terms of vulnerability disclosed, reaching or even surpassing 50,000 new CVEs disclosed
Smug faces across all those who opposed the WordPad-ification of Microsoft's humble text editor Just months after Microsoft added Markdown support to Notepad, researchers have found the feature can be abused to achieve remote code execution (RCE).…
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More than two dozen advisories have been published by the chip giants for vulnerabilities found recently in their products.
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Google expanded its “Results about you” tool to give users more control over sensitive personal information and added a way to request removal of non-consensual explicit images from Search. Manage and limit sensitive personal information in Search Users can request the removal of Search results that...
Google has secured unconditional EU antitrust approval for its $32 billion acquisition of cloud security firm Wiz, clearing a major regulatory hurdle and paving the way for one of the largest cybersecurity acquisitions to date.
The decision removes a key uncertainty for e...
It was discovered that Expat, contained within the xmltok library, incorrectly
handled the initialization of parsers for external entities. An attacker could
possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2026-24515)
It was discovered that Expat, contained within the xmltok library, inc...
Microsoft on Tuesday released security updates to address a set of 59 flaws across its software, including six vulnerabilities that it said have been exploited in the wild.
Of the 59 flaws, five are rated Critical, 52 are rated Important, and two are rated Moderate in severity. Twenty-five of the pa...
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Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new botnet operation called SSHStalker that relies on the Internet Relay Chat (IRC) communication protocol for command-and-control (C2) purposes.
"The toolset blends stealth helpers with legacy-era Linux exploitation: Alongside log cleaners (utmp...
Microsoft veut durcir la configuration de Windows 11 avec des contrôles comme sur smartphone Android et iOS pour l'accès aux fichiers et périphériques.
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Six actively exploited zero-day bug have been patched by Microsoft
A new Linux botnet, SSHStalker, has infected about 7,000 systems using old 2009-era exploits, IRC bots, and mass-scanning malware. Flare researchers uncovered a previously undocumented Linux botnet dubbed SSHStalker, observed via SSH honeypots over two months. Researchers ran an SSH honeypot with we...
The bugs could be exploited without authentication for command execution and authentication bypass.
The post Fortinet Patches High-Severity Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Several security issues were fixed in Expat.
UK government grilled over progress made to prevent a second life-threatening leak Legacy IT issues are hampering key technical measures designed to prevent highly sensitive data leaks, UK government officials say.…
Cybersecurity has officially moved out of the IT department and into the boardroom. Recent reporting highlights that a majority of Indian business leaders now rank cyber breaches as the single biggest threat to business performance, surpassing operational, financial, and regulatory risks, according...