> TODAY'S SUMMARY (122 articles)
Today's cybersecurity landscape highlights several critical threats and trends. The Canadian regulator is investigating IDScan for potential data privacy violations, while the ransomware PAYLOAD has demonstrated a new tactic, paralyzing an organization without file encryption. Volexity reported a China-aligned threat group exploiting vulnerabilities in Chrome and Microsoft software. The hacking group ShinyHunters claims to have breached the FBI, raising significant counterintelligence concerns. Additionally, ClosedQuorum malware is leveraging AI for attack decisions, indicating a trend towards more sophisticated, autonomous threats. CISA has urged federal agencies to patch a critical Zyxel flaw actively exploited by attackers. Meanwhile, the rise of AI in cybercrime continues, with deepfakes and AI-driven bots posing increasing risks to organizations.
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Sawtooth waves you can't hear still mess with your Bluetooth. Firefox and Brave say they've got you covered
A new strain of malware is being used to infect Android-based car systems, turning the devices into part of a botnet.
If your developers are using AI coding tools, you are probably already seeing the upside: faster development, more code, and less time spent on routine work.
The harder part is what comes after. AI can also introduce open-source packages at a pace your security team was never built to handle. More...
More than 200 vulnerabilities have been patched to date this year, compared to only 16 in 2025 and 22 in 2024.Â
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Red Hat and the Keycloak project have released patches to address a critical security flaw in the open-source identity and access management server that could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to take over any user account by forcing a password reset.
The vulnerability, assigned the CVE iden...
Job postings asking for AI skills in cybersecurity have doubled in a single year in G7 countries according to new research from the Cisco-founded AI Workforce Consortium. Analysis from recruitment firms Cornerstone and Indeed covering 24 months, from April 2024 to March 2026, spans G7 markets. It fo...
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a cyber espionage campaign targeting Myanmar that uses graduation ceremony invitation lures to deliver a Go backdoor called QUICAgent.
The campaign, codenamed Operation QUICSILVER, has been found to target government and information technology sectors, per Seq...
A Microsoft-signed Windows Defender remediation driver can be repurposed into a kernel-level “operation engine” capable of deleting files, modifying the registry and neutralizing security controls, according to new research from Check Point Research (CPR).
The technique doe...
We found PavinLoader being used across ClickFix, fake software, and RenPy campaigns to deliver Amatera Stealer and other malware.
Big security risks come in small packages. While enterprise security teams focus on policing the proliferation of employees using ChatGPT and Claude for quick drafting tasks, a more urgent threat is posed by a handful of AI super-adopters who are quietly hardcoding unvetted tools into critical busin...
Juan Manuel Gouveia-Aguilera has been sentenced to 8 years in prison for his role in an ATM jackpotting scheme that caused millions in losses.
The post Venezuelan Gets Record Federal Prison Term for ATM Jackpotting appeared first on SecurityWeek.
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) wants federal agencies to (re)shape their logging strategy around one question: when an attack hits, can you actually use the logs you’ve collected to catch it and reconstruct what happened afterward? The Logging Reference Architecture (...
Fake bank websites play dead to evade security scanners Researchers have documented a phishing technique called Chameleon SEO Poisoning that uses manipulated search rankings and cloaked, typosquatted banking domains to steal credentials while dodging automated security sweeps. The trick lies in “pre...
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has ordered U.S. government agencies to patch an actively exploited vulnerability in Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) within three days. [...]
Interesting paper:
Abstract: With entrepreneurial fraud cases on the rise, we investigate how entrepreneurs carry out criminal deception, employing deceptive means to defraud audiences. Analyzing court data from Silicon Valley ventures and their founders prosecuted for fraud between 2000 and 2023, o...
Once shunned by the IT crowd, pen-and-paper password vaults are getting the love they deserve in 2026
The private equity firm appears to have been targeted as part of a campaign focusing on major financial companies.
The post Personal Information Exposed in Apollo Global Data Breach appeared first on SecurityWeek.
As AI dramatically shortens the time from vulnerability disclosure to exploitation, enterprises must look beyond patching to reduce application risk.
The post Rethinking Application Security for the AI Era appeared first on SecurityWeek.
A newly discovered Android malware, distributed through the built-in updaters in affected Android-based car head units, turns infected devices into ad-fraud tools and nodes in a proxy botnet, Kaspersky has found. According to the researchers, it’s the first documented case of malware found on a car...
Microsoft has shared a temporary fix for ongoing gaming issues caused by Windows 11 updates released during the August 2026 Patch Tuesday. [...]