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Today's cybersecurity landscape highlights a significant threat from a malicious Claude Code-branded browser extension, which has been identified to deploy a persistent SSH backdoor. Microsoft has released analysis and remediation guidance for affected users. Additionally, organizations are advised to carefully evaluate Web Application and API Protection (WAAP) solutions as they approach renewal decisions, considering integration of various tools for comprehensive security against multiple threats. Overall, the focus remains on enhancing defenses against sophisticated attacks while navigating complex security tool ecosystems.
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Hackers have stolen personal information on over 520,000 people from the University of Copenhagen
Wiz Research has recovered more than 13,500 planted branches from 850+ compromised GitHub accounts, the work of a campaign it calls Gheist, after the user agent the tool sends with its GitHub API requests. The tool takes a stolen token, finds every repository that token can open, and plants a workfl...
The most startling claim is that a Samsung TV without a built-in microphone may use a connected soundbar or Bluetooth microphone to listen to the room.
Anthropic presents its own initial public offering as a step toward mitigating the risks it believes AI poses.
The post Risks Spelled Out for Anthropic Investors Include Possible Harms From Runaway AI appeared first on SecurityWeek.
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds PHP flaws PHP2Shell to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added the PHP PHP2Shell vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog: On Octo...
​Apple has backported security patches released last month to older iPhones and iPads, addressing a zero-day bug exploited in "extremely sophisticated" targeted attacks on iOS devices. [...]
ISC2 is seeking 3000 volunteers to enrol to a pilot exam phase for its upcoming AI security certification
DreamHost has brought its File Manager back online after an incident that disrupted several of its services, though some of its customers still can’t get into their email or FTP accounts until someone sets a new password for them. DreamHost is a web hosting provider whose services include shared, VP...
Keep your patch management pipelines primed in case another round of Citrix NetScaler patches get released soon.
The post This is Fine: What NetScaler Zero-Days Tell Us About the New Normal appeared first on SecurityWeek.
What does it mean to be "blue collar" for the blue team? Ryan Fetterman discusses the realities of detection engineering, and shares his philosophy on building a career in security without burning out.
A China-linked ransomware crew disabled the security tools at a critical infrastructure operator before it launched the encryptor. Most security budgets never priced that in.
The post What happens when security tools go dark before the ransomware appeared first on CyberScoop.
Ukraine warns that attackers can remotely access Dahua cameras and recorders via Easy4IP, viewing video and changing settings. Ukraine’s cyber incident response team CERT-UA has warned about attackers taking over video surveillance systems made by Dahua. In its alert dated October 23, 2026, it repor...
Maîtrisez Claude Code: découvrez les 5 modes de permission, leurs cas d'usage et les risques pour faire le bon choix selon le type de projets ou tâches.
Le post Claude Code : comprendre les modes de permission et choisir le bon a été publié sur IT-Connect.
Running at system boot, it periodically polled the update domain to execute any code served, with full privileges.
The post Dead Popcorn Time Updater Put Millions of Computers at Risk of Takeover appeared first on SecurityWeek.
UK police forces and fire and rescue services have been urged to strengthen cybersecurity as rising cyber threats outpace current defenses
A criminal using the Amadey malware can no longer access or steal data from 180,000 infected computers around the world, including some in Australia, the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) says. The agency's operators gained access to the criminal's operation's backend and cut it off from those co...
French energy giant ENGIE, one of the world's largest power and natural gas providers, confirmed that attackers stole customer data after breaching a marketing platform used by business partners. [...]
Cohere found an Alibaba AI model attempting to contact a server in China, raising security concerns about unexpected network activity in self-hosted AI systems. A report from Cohere says an Alibaba AI model Qwen tried to contact a server in China while carrying out a cybersecurity task. “Asked to wr...
The median blast radius of data breaches has increased year-on-year at the same time cybercriminals have begun using AI to mine stolen datasets for damaging information that enables follow-on fraud and cyberattacks.
In 2026, the median breach exposed 542 organizations beyon...
OpenAI's compaction feature, which shrinks a long conversation to save space, could be turned into a way to copy a model's hidden reasoning out in plain text, security firm Xint has shown.
OpenAI's reasoning models work through a problem before answering, and the service normally returns only the r...