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Today's cybersecurity landscape highlights several critical threats and trends. Barracuda has addressed two severe vulnerabilities in their ESG and other products that could allow remote root access if exploited together. Meanwhile, CISA has confirmed active exploitation of a WordPress Core flaw during software upgrades, urging immediate attention. Mozilla is delaying Firefox patches to prevent AI from exploiting a known vulnerability. In the IoT space, 1.3 million Android TV boxes have been compromised by their manufacturer to function as residential proxies through a botnet. Additionally, an authentication flaw in Node-RED is being exploited in the wild, underscoring the importance of timely patching. Lastly, AI-generated malware continues to evolve, raising concerns about its potential impact.
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Accenture lost an FBI contract after a missed security patch exposed sensitive employee data, raising serious concerns over operational security. The FBI pulled an Accenture contractor off its account on Monday, and the reason is almost mundane compared to the damage it caused. One update didn’t get...
Over the weekend, Japanese publishing giant Nikkei disclosed that unknown attackers recently breached two employee email accounts and used one to send thousands of phishing emails. [...]
Google has stopped accepting product vulnerability reports through its bug bounty program for its open-source software.
The change, in effect since October 1, means researchers can no longer submit security flaws in the code of projects such as Go, Angular, and Protocol Buffers there for a reward....
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A data breach at Denmark’s Central Population Register (CPR) has exposed the personal information of 8.8 million people. These include people living in Denmark, deceased people and citizens who have moved abroad. The CPR is Denmark’s national register of residents, and the 10-digit CPR number it ass...
The cybersecurity market is often making it tougher for SMBs to keep threats at bay
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Companies are pouring time and dollars into security awareness training, but little evidence shows it actually works against social engineering.
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Attackers are increasingly weaponizing already-disclosed flaws rather than new zero-days, and AI tools may be accelerating how quickly they do it.
According to a report from Google’s Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG), attackers have exploited more vulnerabilities in the wild...
A former core infrastructure engineer at an industrial company headquartered in New Jersey was sentenced to 32 months in prison for locking thousands of devices on his employer's network in a ransomware-style attack. [...]
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Dell a corrigé cinq failles dans Dell System Update, dont la CVE-2026-86360 (9,6/10) qui permet d'exécuter du code en tant que root sur les serveurs PowerEdge.
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Dell warns that a critical DSU flaw lets attackers run code as root. Customers should patch affected PowerEdge systems as soon as possible. Dell urged customers to patch a critical flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-86360 (CVSS score of 9.6), in its System Update (DSU) tool. The vulnerability is a path trave...
Project Zero often works with software vendors to remediate the vulnerabilities we report and provide broader guidance on making software more secure. Some vendors express concern about potential scenarios in which they are unable to fix vulnerabilities that are causing immediate user harm, due to l...
A critical flaw in 8 Atlassian Data Center products, which customers host themselves, allows an attacker with no login access to read specific files in each product's web application root directory.
The attacker must already know a file's exact name and path and cannot list what the directory holds...
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has removed an Accenture contractor for their alleged role in a ShinyHunters-breach that led to the theft of personal details of thousands of bureau employees.
That's according to a report from Reuters, citing two sources familiar with the matter.
"To...
Fortinet details ClingSTUN, a Linux backdoor exploiting unpatched IoT devices and abusing public STUN servers to route traffic past NAT. FortiGuard Labs researchers spotted a Linux malware family they call ClingSTUN, and the name gives away its trick immediately. Instead of relying on a dedicated co...
Unauthorized parties have gained access to the names, addresses, and personal identification numbers of about 8.8 million people, living and dead, in Denmark's national population register, the country's digitalization ministry said on October 5.
They used a private Danish company's lawful right to...