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Today's cybersecurity news highlights significant threats involving GitHub and AI. Attackers compromised 42 GitHub repositories by utilizing payloads too large for standard search mechanisms, indicating a trend in exploiting file size limitations to evade detection. Additionally, a new offensive AI agent dubbed 'Skynet' has emerged, capable of hijacking exposed AI models online to facilitate cyberattacks. This development underscores the growing intersection of AI and cybercrime, raising concerns about the security of machine learning systems. Organizations must enhance their defenses against such evolving threats.
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This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of WatchGuard FireWare OS. An attacker must first obtain the ability to write to the samld session directory on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability. The ZDI has assigned a CVSS rating...
This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of WatchGuard FireWare OS. Authentication is required to exploit this vulnerability. The ZDI has assigned a CVSS rating of 7.2. The following CVEs are assigned: CVE-2026-18145.
Starting in full force on Dec. 10, 2024, the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) is a regulation (EU 2024/2847) that defines mandatory cybersecurity requirements for all products with digital elements sold in EU markets. Reporting obligations will begin on Sept. 11, 2026, with full enforcement kicking in...
BH Consulting, the Irish cybersecurity and data protection consultancy, has launched BH Haven, an ongoing service that gives Irish small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) access to its specialist consultants, supported by a proprietary AI tool for analysis, evidence review, regulatory mapping and...
Detectify analyzed exposure data from 1,293 of its customers in the US, the UK and the Nordics and found that most serious flaws still open on their internet-facing systems are months old. Of the critical and high-severity vulnerabilities open at the time of the snapshot, 97% in the Nordics had been...
Microsoft made WSL containers generally available and shipped the feature with controls that let administrators switch it off or limit where it pulls images from. WSL containers run Linux containers on Windows through the Windows Subsystem for Linux. They install with wsl --update or from Microsoft’...
Perl DBI module could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file.
Cisco surveyed 8,000 security professionals in 30 markets about how well their organizations defend against AI-era threats, and only 8% landed in the top group. Cisco gave the most weight in its scoring to internal friction, meaning the delays and turf problems inside a company that slow a security...
Cloudflare plans to become a public certificate authority (CA), an organization that issues the digital certificates websites use to encrypt traffic and prove who they are. The company said that its CA will issue conventional certificates and a post-quantum type called Merkle Tree Certificates (MTCs...
The accord opened the door to future regulation but focused on four voluntary steps for the companies to take.
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Microsoft is taking Windows Subsystem for Linux beyond just running Linux distributions, as WSL Containers is now generally available. [...]
Face à l’intensification des attaques cybercriminelles liées à des violations de données affectant les services de l’État, le Premier ministre a demandé le 1er septembre 2026 à l’Agence nationale de la sécurité des systèmes d’information (ANSSI) de mettre en place une capacité renforcée de...
Le fournisseur PK Softech a été victime d'une cyberattaque à la fin du mois de septembre, ce qui a entraîné une fuite de données au sein de la caisse de retraite Publica. Il est présumé que des données personnelles confidentielles, incluant des informations sur les salaires, les soldes de prévoyance...
Le gouvernement du comté de Terrebonne a été victime d'une cyberattaque qui a mis ses systèmes hors ligne. L'incident, survenu le 30 septembre, est actuellement sous enquête de la part du Bureau de la sécurité intérieure de l'État de Louisiane. Il n'est pas encore connu si des informations personnel...
The activity is linked to a broader campaign that previously used a different delivery mechanism
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Une vulnérabilité a été découverte dans CPython. Elle permet à un attaquant de provoquer une atteinte à l'intégrité des données.
De multiples vulnérabilités ont été découvertes dans GitLab. Elles permettent à un attaquant de provoquer une atteinte à la confidentialité des données et un contournement de la politique de sécurité. Gitlab indique que la vulnérabilité CVE-2026-85706 est activement exploitée.
Face à l’intensification des attaques cybercriminelles liées à des violations de données affectant les services de l’État, le Premier ministre a demandé le 1er septembre 2026 à l’Agence nationale de la sécurité des systèmes d’information (ANSSI) de mettre en place une capacité renforcée de...