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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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US officials told The New York Times that cyberattacks were used to turn off the lights in Caracas and disrupt air defense radars.
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Back in 2020 we added MQTT support to curl. When curl 8.19.0 ships in the beginning of May 2026, we have also added MQTTS; meaning MQTT done securely over TLS. This bumps the number of supported transfer protocols to 29 not too long after the project turned 29 years old. What’s MQTT? Wikipedia descr...
It all sounds pretty dystopian:
Inside a white stucco building in Southern California, video cameras compare faces of passersby against a facial recognition database. Behavioral analysis AI reviews the footage for signs of violent behavior. Behind a bathroom door, a smoke detector-shaped device capt...
The NCSC encourages local government and critical infrastructure operators to harden their ‘denial of service’ (DoS) defences
Russian‑aligned hacktivist groups continue to target UK organisations with disruptive cyber attacks
USN-7955-1 fixed vulnerabilities in urllib3. The update introduced a
regression in response streaming on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.
This update fixes the problem.
We apologize for the inconvenience.
Original advisory details:
It was discovered that urllib3 incorrectly handled decompr...
Several security issues were fixed in Snowflake.
Just a few years ago, the cloud was touted as the “magic pill” for any cyber threat or performance issue. Many were lured by the “always-on” dream, trading granular control for the convenience of managed services.
In recent years, many of us have learned (often the hard way) that public cloud servic...
Labour's latest U-turn? 61 backbenchers pile pressure for Starmer to back Tory peer's amendment The British government may impose a ban on under-16s using social media, despite Labour prime minister Keir Starmer having previously expressed skepticism over the measure.…
Law enforcement agencies in Ukraine and Germany have identified two members of a Russian-affiliated ransomware group and carried out searches in western Ukraine. Search (Source: Cyber Police of Ukraine) Investigators also named the alleged organizer, a Russian national, and placed him on an intern...
A coordinated campaign of malicious browser add-ons has bypassed Chrome Web Store’s defenses, weaponizing extensions advertised as productivity tools to steal corporate session tokens and attempt full account takeover.
“The extensions work in concert to steal authentication...
A team of academics from the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security in Germany has disclosed the details of a new hardware vulnerability affecting AMD processors.
The security flaw, codenamed StackWarp, can allow bad actors with privileged control over a host server to run malicious code wi...
Oleg Evgenievich Nefedov, allegedly one of the founders of Black Basta, was also placed on Europol’s and Interpol’s Most Wanted lists
Kids return to classrooms after safety infrastructure knocked out A Warwickshire secondary school says it will fully reopen this week after a cyberattack forced a prolonged closure – though staff will return to classrooms with "very limited access" to IT systems.…
Keepnet launched its Agentic AI for Behavioral Microlearning solution, which moves success metrics from “completion rates” to behavior change and verifiable incident reduction. Agentic AI autonomously plans, creates, delivers, and optimizes training based on real-time risk data, eliminating manual i...
Posing as an ad blocker, the malicious extension crashes the browser to lure victims into installing malware.
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The compromised personal information includes names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, and employment-related data.
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Python-Libraries sind mit manipulierten Metadaten in KI-Modellen infiziert und können beim Laden Schadcode ausgeführen.
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NeMo, Uni2TS und FlexTok, Python-Bibliotheken für Künstliche Intelligenz (KI) und Machine Learning (ML), die in Hugging-Face-Mode...
What a great way to start 2026! Let's Encrypt have now made their short-lived certificates available, so you can go and start using them right away.It wasn't long ago when the announcement came that by 2029, all certificates will be reduced to a maximum of
It was discovered that Pion DTLS, vendored in Snowflake, did not impose a limit
on the amount of data that was buffered during the handshake. An attacker could
possibly use the issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2022-29189)
It was discovered that Pion DTLS, vendored in Snowflake, did not prev...