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Today's cybersecurity landscape highlights several critical trends and threats. Vanderbilt University is recovering from a cyberattack, with claims of stolen data yet to be confirmed. The Qilin ransomware group has reportedly targeted over 365 organizations in recent months, emphasizing the growing threat of ransomware affiliates. A significant number of vulnerabilities were addressed in Microsoft's November Patch Tuesday, including a zero-day flaw in Outlook that is actively exploited. Furthermore, recent reports indicate that hackers are leveraging AI tools for credential theft and impersonation fraud, raising concerns about the security of AI systems. Lastly, vulnerabilities in Cisco BroadWorks and Openwave systems are being actively exploited despite available patches, illustrating the ongoing challenge of timely vulnerability management.
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ZEST Security introduces AI Sweeper Agents that identify which vulnerabilities are truly exploitable, helping security teams cut patch backlogs and focus on real risk.
The post ZEST Security Adds AI Agents to Identify Vulnerabilities That Pose No Actual Risk appeared first on Security Boulevard.
VoidLink, the high-impact Linux malware framework disclosed last week, is back under scrutiny for claims that the bulk of its development was done by artificial intelligence (AI).
According to the follow-up analysis from Check Point Research (CPR), which first disclosed Voi...
Security teams at agile, fast-growing companies often have the same mandate: secure the business without slowing it down. Most teams inherit a tech stack optimized for breakneck growth, not resilience. In these environments, the security team is the helpdesk, the compliance expert, and the incident...
Amped Software’s 2026 training courses go beyond button-clicking to teach the science, workflows, and courtroom-defensible skills needed to handle real-world image and video evidence with confidence.
Claroty has secured $150 million in Series F funding led by Golub Growth, an affiliate of Golub Capital, with additional confirmed participation from existing investors up to $50 million. This investment will support global expansion through organic and inorganic growth as the company continues to p...
The startup will use the new funding to accelerate product development and deepen remediation capabilities.
The post Furl Raises $10 Million for Autonomous Vulnerability Remediation appeared first on SecurityWeek.
UK Executives Warn They May Not Survive a Major Cyber-Attack, Vodafone Survey Finds
We discuss a novel AI-augmented attack method where malicious webpages use LLM services to generate dynamic code in real-time within a browser.
The post The Next Frontier of Runtime Assembly Attacks: Leveraging LLMs to Generate Phishing JavaScript in Real Time appeared first on Unit 42.
Arctic Wolf warned of a new wave of automated attacks making unauthorized firewall configuration changes on Fortinet FortiGate devices. Arctic Wolf researchers reported a new automated attack cluster observed since January 15, 2026, targeting FortiGate devices. Attackers created generic accounts for...
Security researchers uncovered 37 previously unknown vulnerabilities on the opening day of Pwn2Own Automotive 2026, earning a combined $516,500 in prize money, according to results released by Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative. The Master of Pwn leaderboard (Source: Trend Micro) Successful demonstra...
The critical-rated flaw leaves unpatched systems open to full takeover Cisco has finally shipped a fix for a critical-rated zero-day in its Unified Communications gear, a flaw that's already being weaponized in the wild, and which CISA previously flagged as an emergency priority.…
Debian now runs on the OpenWrt One hardware platform following recent engineering work by Collabora. OpenWrt One is a developer focused router designed to support embedded Linux work on standardized hardware. The platform serves as a reference device for the OpenWrt community and includes open hardw...
DLA Piper finds 22% increase in breached firms notifying European GDPR regulators
A new malicious package discovered in the Python Package Index (PyPI) has been found to impersonate a popular library for symbolic mathematics to deploy malicious payloads, including a cryptocurrency miner, on Linux hosts.
The package, named sympy-dev, mimics SymPy, replicating the latter's project...
Here’s how the most common scams targeting Apple Pay users work and what you can do to stay one step ahead
A new security flaw in SmarterTools SmarterMail email software has come under active exploitation in the wild, two days after the release of a patch.
The vulnerability, which currently does not have a CVE identifier, is tracked by watchTowr Labs as WT-2026-0001. It was patched by SmarterTools on Jan...
Fixes were rolled out for over two dozen vulnerabilities, including critical- and high-severity bugs.
The post Atlassian, GitLab, Zoom Release Security Patches appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Blue Origin announced TerraWave, a satellite communications network designed to support enterprise, data center, and government users that rely on reliable connectivity for mission-critical operations. The network will provide symmetrical data speeds of up to 6 Tbps worldwide. The TerraWave architec...
It has just been a few weeks since reports emerged of the Christmas cyber attack suffered by the European Space Agency (ESA), and the situation has already become worse.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Cisco has released patches for CVE-2026-20045, a critical vulnerability that can be exploited for unauthenticated remote code execution.
The post Hackers Targeting Cisco Unified CM Zero-Day appeared first on SecurityWeek.