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Today's cybersecurity landscape highlights a growing concern over AI-driven threats. The UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) warns that AI-powered attacks, particularly in ransomware, could target critical infrastructure by 2028, as legacy systems remain vulnerable. Meanwhile, a significant breach at Revolve has compromised the card details of up to 1.5 million customers, and a data breach at Harvard University has exposed 851,000 accounts. On the botnet front, Google has dismantled the XCPE botnet, which leveraged over 1.3 million devices for malicious activities. Additionally, ongoing exploitation of critical vulnerabilities, such as those in Siemens IoT devices and CryptoPayment Gateway plugins, underscores the urgent need for robust cybersecurity measures. The prevalence of AI in both attacks and defenses continues to shape the threat landscape, necessitating immediate action from organizations.
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U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Linux Kernel and Broadcom VMWare ESX flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added Linux Kernel and Broadcom VMWare ESX vulnerabilities to its Known Exploi...
IDC has named Microsoft a Leader in the 2026 IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Modern Endpoint Security for Enterprises.
The post IDC MarketScape names Microsoft a Leader in the 2026 Worldwide Modern Endpoint Security for Enterprises Vendor Assessment appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog.
As Microsoft Threat Intelligence continues to track how threat actors operationalize AI to increase the speed and efficiency of attacks, we’ve identified North Korean threat actors expanding their use of AI with varying levels of adoption. This blog breaks down how North Korean threat actors are uti...
A flaw in the Linux kernel's TCP code, tracked as CVE-2026-98432, affects Ubuntu, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), and other Linux distributions. The kernel's own CVE team rates it 9.8 out of 10 on the CVSS scale.
Anthropic said on October 27 that its AI model wrote an exploit that uses the flaw to...
Threat actors are delivering malicious loaders and cryptocurrency miners under the guise of artificial intelligence (AI) desktop applications for Anthropic Claude and OpenAI ChatGPT as part of a campaign dubbed Yoba.
The activity involves creating fake GitHub projects that claim to be desktop appli...
Google’s new frontier model scored 88.2% on SEC-bench Pro and is rolling out first to vetted cyber defenders via its Fairwind Program.
The post Google Touts Powerful Cybersecurity Capabilities in Gemini 4 Carbon Model appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Unpatched voting machines, unverifiable QR-coded ballots, and AI-driven influence campaigns leave US elections short of secure.
The post How Secure Are US Elections? Voting Machine Risks and the Growing Threat of AI appeared first on SecurityWeek.
NIK C2 malware can fall back on victims’ OpenAI API keys to run AI queries
Fake GitHub projects posing as desktop versions of ChatGPT and Claude have been used to spread a malware chain that ends with a cryptocurrency miner, Check Point has found. The researchers have been tracking the campaign, dubbed Yoba, for the past two months. Its operator set up repositories and Git...
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Microsoft has resolved a known issue that prevents non-admin users from connecting to devices via Remote Desktop when the "Administrator protection" security feature is enabled. [...]
Cisco open sourced Project Quarry, a rule language for detecting AI agent attacks that only emerge across sequences of benign actions.
The post Cisco Open Sources Quarry to Catch AI Agent Attacks Hidden in Harmless Steps appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Forever Security found ways out of the built-in browsers in five AI coding assistants: Cursor, GitHub Copilot, OpenAI’s Codex, Microsoft’s VS Code and Anthropic’s Claude Desktop. In all five, a web page or a local file reached the computer behind the browser. Cursor ran attacker code, Copilot showed...
Key findings On October 26, Cohere reported a puzzling incident involving Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, an open-weight model from Alibaba. The task was straightforward: write a detection rule for suspicious curl downloads followed by bash execution. Instead, the model produced a shell command that inspected i...
Fake Firefox extensions posing as Phantom, Jupiter, and Bitget targeted users to steal crypto wallet recovery phrases and private keys.
Phishing remained the leading initial access technique, while percentage of ransomware and pre-ransomware cases increased. Finance and public administration tied as the top-targeted industries.
AI agents can control authenticated browsers, interact with corporate applications, and access sensitive data while appearing to act as legitimate employees. Keep Aware examines three ways agents operate inside browsers and why traditional security tools may struggle to distinguish their activity fr...
CREST has published a framework for strengthening cyber resilience across financial services
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned federal agencies to patch a high-severity Linux kernel privilege escalation bug that attackers are chaining with the PHP2Shell flaws in the wild. [...]
The Federal Trade Commission ordered nine food delivery, airline and ride-sharing companies to turn over detailed information on how they harness personal data to set individual consumer prices and employee compensation.