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Today's cybersecurity landscape highlights a growing concern over AI-driven threats. The UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) warns that AI-powered attacks, particularly in ransomware, could target critical infrastructure by 2028, as legacy systems remain vulnerable. Meanwhile, a significant breach at Revolve has compromised the card details of up to 1.5 million customers, and a data breach at Harvard University has exposed 851,000 accounts. On the botnet front, Google has dismantled the XCPE botnet, which leveraged over 1.3 million devices for malicious activities. Additionally, ongoing exploitation of critical vulnerabilities, such as those in Siemens IoT devices and CryptoPayment Gateway plugins, underscores the urgent need for robust cybersecurity measures. The prevalence of AI in both attacks and defenses continues to shape the threat landscape, necessitating immediate action from organizations.
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Expanded plugin count allows the malware to monitor users’ location, stream live audio, and interact with authenticated browser sessions.
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Three vulnerabilities in LG's webOS can be chained to give an attacker on the same local network root access to certain smart TVs without a PIN or any interaction from the owner.
LG has issued a fix, according to an advisory published by SSD Secure Disclosure on October 12.
The chain was tested on...
Dès novembre 2026, Microsoft Teams pourra afficher des alertes en réunion grâce à des outils tiers de détection de deepfakes. Voici ce qui va changer.
Le post Microsoft Teams ouvre la porte aux détecteurs de deepfakes : ce qui change en novembre a été publié sur IT-Connect.
IBM’s Steve Wallin talks to SecurityWeek on the effect of AI-driven attacks on enterprise defenses.
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Presently sponsored by: Where are your AI agents? Origin's sensor finds every install on your fleet, grouped by owner, including the ones your MDM never sees.I remember the name of that AI doco now - The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist. I was watching it on the long-haul flight home the ot...
A small circuit board hidden under the signers’ screens read user data and transmitted it to the attackers.
The post $86 Million Crypto Heist Linked to Ledger Signer Hardware Implant appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Can vehicle data reveal the difference between normal and reckless driving? Discover how iVe uses velocity logs, hard braking, and acceleration events to uncover critical changes in driver behavior and provide valuable evidence in investigations.
A user opens a browser tab, pastes data into a chat assistant, and nothing is installed.
A developer adds a coding assistant as an editor extension, and nothing shows up in the installed programs list.
Someone downloads a local model runtime, a program that runs models directly on the machine inst...
YuSung Han discovered that PyJWT did not properly validate certain JWK keys
when performing HMAC verification. An attacker could possibly use this
issue to forge authentication tokens. This issue only affected Ubuntu
26.04 LTS. (CVE-2026-102266)
Rohan Das discovered that PyJWT incorrectly handled...
A flaw in npm’s Trusted Publishing mechanism could allow attackers to hijack legitimate software packages by reclaiming abandoned GitHub repository names, potentially exposing millions of package downloads to supply-chain attacks.
Researchers at Bloom Security identified mo...
The government is planning tweaks to legislation, new incident response and more to head of AI security threats
Several IT systems remain offline and orders face delays as TFG London becomes latest retailer to suffer cyberattack
The company says it took some of its systems offline to contain a security issue within its network.
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Meta’s Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full models are built for AI agents that handle tasks such as preparing insurance claims, reviewing leases and developing software. The models combine document analysis and tool use with the ability to retain relevant details across conversations and work through o...
GitLab is urging users of self-managed instances to patch a critical vulnerability (CVE-2026-97229) in its CI/CD Regular Expression Compiler that could allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on GitLab servers. About CVE-2026-97229 CVE-2026-97229 is an integer overflow vulnerability in GitL...
Socura report claims CISOs are calling in sick or taking holiday to miss Patch Tuesday
Bloom Security researchers found that npm’s Trusted Publishing feature let an attacker push new versions of someone else’s package without stealing a credential. The attacker only needed to register a GitHub repository name the maintainer had left behind. Bloom counted more than 1,500 npm packages e...
Attackers took remote control of fridges and freezers at hundreds of French supermarkets on the night of October 11 and warmed them, forcing stores to throw food away, several retail chains said.
The attackers reached them through the controller that runs all of a store's fridges and freezers, a de...
Two of 31 newly disclosed flaws in Progress Software's MarkLogic Server database could let an account given only some management privileges take administrator control of the server, the company says.
Progress published all 31 on October 12 and scored five of them critical. Fixes have been available...
A cyberattack targeted refrigeration controllers, setting refrigerators and freezers across hundreds of supermarkets to defrost.
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