> TODAY'S SUMMARY (14 articles)
Today's cybersecurity news highlights several significant threats and trends. A major cyberattack on French bank Crédit Mutuel Arkéa resulted in fraudulent transactions totaling $133 million, emphasizing the risks associated with third-party service providers. Scammers are increasingly impersonating trusted brands in fake gift card schemes, collecting personal information from unsuspecting consumers. The rise of IoT vulnerabilities is underscored by recent hacks affecting critical infrastructure, such as blood labs and grocery stores. Additionally, vulnerabilities in SonicWall's SonicOS have been exploited, prompting CISA to add these to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. Developers are also reminded of security best practices, as sensitive credentials were found exposed in public GitHub repositories.
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CVE-2026-61500 allows attackers to recover the session-cookie signing key and gain administrative access and RCE.
The post Exploitation Hits Rejetto HFS Vulnerability Discovered by AI appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Exploitation of Citrix NetScaler Zero-Day Hits Appliances Patched Days Earlier Citrix NetScaler administrators spent the weekend scrambling after attackers began exploiting a new zero-day, CVE-2026-88779, a high-severity memory overflow affecting NetScaler ADC and Gateway appliances configured as a...
More than 730 cyber breaches affected over 270 million Americans last year, costing an average of $10 million per breach.
The post Senate Passes Bipartisan Bill to Strengthen Healthcare Cybersecurity appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Apple has announced that it's taking steps to tighten controls around a macOS setting called Full Disk Access (FDA) due to security risks posed by artificial intelligence (AI) agents.
"Some developers are using Full Disk Access in ways that could put users at risk, exposing everything on their syst...
Microsoft has pushed out an out-of-band security update for Exchange Server that fixes a high-severity vulnerability (CVE-2026-96940) that may allow authenticated attackers to read emails and attachments of other users in the same organization, but “does not allow access across tenant boundaries.” C...
A suspected ShinyHunters member known as Rey has been detained in Jordan and is reportedly helping the FBI track down the rest of the group. Reuters reports that Jordanian authorities detained Saif al-Din Khader, alias Rey, last week, with two of its three sources placing the arrest on Tuesday. One...
Google has paused its Open Source Vulnerability Rewards Program due to a flood of AI submissions
OpenAI is expanding ads in ChatGPT, and one of the first new formats will show visual ads while you're generating images. [...]
Here’s what it would take: stronger defenses for large utilities, hands-on help for smaller systems and federal support to make both happen.
The post The US needs a real plan to defend its water systems appeared first on CyberScoop.
CircuitMess, a Croatian electronics kit maker, is selling MAKERphone 2.0, a build-it-yourself 4G phone on Kickstarter that buyers program in MicroPython or Arduino C++ and extend with plug-in hardware. Insert a SIM and it makes real calls and sends real texts. For anyone who tests or tinkers with de...
Microsoft confirmed over the weekend that some games and applications using AC-3 (Dolby Digital) audio decoding will crash after installing the September 2026 KB5124010 Windows 11 preview update. [...]
Intruders retrieved email addresses from superseded tech kept running for an internal system
Ofqual study finds growing number of UK schools are bouncing back “immediately” from cyber-attacks
MI5 warns UK universities that over 100 academics may have unknowingly worked on research funded by a Chinese institute linked to the MSS. On September 30, MI5 published a formal warning naming the China General Technology Research Institute, CGTRI, also called CAGT in some translations, as an outfi...
A breach at school software provider Frontline Education has exposed employee data
Iranian hacker Amir Barati faces extradition to the US over an alleged Iranian campaign that stole 31TB of data from universities. Amir Barati spent June 25 getting arrested in Montenegro, and this week a Montenegrin court signed off on sending him to the United States. He’s a dual Turkish and Irani...
Google has now suspended submissions to its Open Source Software Vulnerability Rewards Program (OSS VRP) after being flooded by AI-generated reports. [...]
In its roughly 30-year history, the CISO role has been reshaped by waves of new technology and rising cyber threats.
In many organizations, CISOs now own risk reporting, information risk management, threat monitoring, cyber risk accountability and governance, and security s...
Apple plans to introduce additional controls for Full Disk Access in macOS, citing growing privacy risks as AI agents become more capable and autonomous. Users will need to take explicit action to grant apps this permission. The company has not specified a rollout date or detailed how the controls w...
A critical security flaw impacting Rejetto HTTP File Server (HFS) is witnessing active exploitation attempts, according to VulnCheck.
The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-61500 (CVSS score: 9.3), a case of session forgery stemming from the use of a weak pseudo-random number generator (PRNG) th...