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Today's cyber news highlights significant threats and trends impacting the cybersecurity landscape. CrowdSec reported a breach where an attacker accessed and copied 170 private GitHub repositories using an ex-employee's account, emphasizing risks related to insider threats and account management. Additionally, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added three Linux kernel vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, indicating active exploitation in the wild and a continued focus on securing open-source software. Meanwhile, Flock is facing a decline in contracts for its license plate readers, leading to voluntary severance offerings for employees, showcasing the impact of public sentiment on technology adoption.
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Attackers have leveraged a zero-day SQL injection vulnerability (CVE-2026-76461) to compromise Cisco Secure Email Gateway appliances, Cisco confirmed on Monday. The vendor’s Product Security Incident Response Team became aware of active exploitation of this vulnerability in September 2025, and has s...
WordPress.org analyse désormais chaque mise à jour de plugin par IA et bloque automatiquement les versions à risque, après une porte dérobée stoppée en juillet.
Le post WordPress : les mises à jour de plugins jugées à risque désormais bloquées grâce à l’IA ! a été publié sur IT-Connect.
The updates resolve kernel vulnerabilities that could lead to memory corruption, privilege escalation, system termination, and information leaks.
The post Apple Patches 200 Vulnerabilities With New iOS 27, macOS Golden Gate 27 Releases appeared first on SecurityWeek.
This essay was written with Cindy Cohn, and originally appeared in Lawfare.
One of the many legacies of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 is the government-wide shift from targeted surveillance—such as individual wiretaps or pen register/trap and trace orders—to mass surveillance techniques—such as...
1Password’s FLAWED report, published on August 6, 2026, gives defenders a misleading picture of AI patching. Its headline says models produced clean fixes only 26% of the time. That figure includes experiments that deliberately instructed agents to apply the wrong fix, along with experiments in whic...
Several security issues were fixed in the Linux kernel.
Several security issues were fixed in the Linux kernel.
Microsoft AI has published the first draft of its Humanist AI Code of Conduct, a training manual outlining how it develops AI models and intends them to behave during deployment. The draft is open for public consultation for six weeks. The company plans to review the feedback, revise the document, a...
A security issue was fixed in the Linux kernel.
Revolut Confirms Customer Data Breach Through Fake Government Requests British fintech Revolut confirmed it disclosed sensitive customer information to an unauthorized third party after receiving fraudulent information requests sent from a legitimate government agency’s email domain, in what the co...
Two China-linked groups ran identical Chrome/Windows zero-day exploits against NGOs, before Chrome’s patch shipped, deploying different backdoors each. Two China-linked threat actors used the same Chrome/Windows zero-day against NGOs starting September 1, 2026, Volexity’s new report lays out the who...
Really interesting story about Harvest, a specialized code breaking computer built in the 1960s by IBM for the NSA.
Attackers compromised the verified official HBO Max Reddit account, u/hbomax, and used its trusted advertising status to launch a ClickFix campaign targeting macOS and Windows devices with information-stealing malware. Screenshot of the fraudulent ad (Source: Alex Cutts) ClickFix has been rising in...
Five alleged leaders of the Black Axe cybercrime syndicate, known for its involvement in global-scale cyber-enabled financial fraud, have been extradited to the United States to face wire fraud and money laundering charges. [...]
A mother says Meta AI pieced together names, birth details, photos, and location information about her young daughters from years of family posts.
44-year-old Kenneth Carter from Portland, Oregon, used to work in an AT&T retail store. But now he has been sentenced to 16 months in a federal prison.
That should be plenty of time for him to rue the day he agreed to increase his monthly income by helping a SIM swap gang in their attempt to...
Several security issues were discovered in the Linux kernel.
An attacker could possibly use these to compromise the system.
This update corrects flaws in the following subsystems:
- ARM32 architecture;
- ARM64 architecture;
- PowerPC architecture;
- Compute Acceleration Framework;
- Driver...
A security issue was discovered in the Linux kernel.
An attacker could possibly use this to compromise the system.
This update corrects flaws in the following subsystems:
- IPv6 networking;
- Netfilter;
The Humanist AI Code of Conduct draws a line between defensive cyber research and operational attack capability.
The post Microsoft AI Code of Conduct Sets Cyberattack Boundaries, Chain of Command, Safety Constraints appeared first on SecurityWeek.
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