> TODAY'S SUMMARY (18 articles)
Today's cybersecurity news highlights various significant threats and trends:
1. **AI-Generated Code Concerns**: Proton's CEO downplays security testing for AI-written code, raising concerns about potential vulnerabilities in software development.
2. **Data Breach at DHS**: A hacker leaked personal data of over 40,000 Department of Homeland Security employees, underscoring the ongoing risks of data breaches in government sectors.
3. **Fake IT Scams**: Attackers impersonating IT support managed to manipulate employees into granting remote access, revealing the effectiveness of social engineering tactics.
4. **Cryptocurrency Exchange Breach**: Binance experienced a significant security incident affecting $6.3 billion in assets, highlighting vulnerabilities in cryptocurrency platforms amid increasing cyber threats.
5. **Scammers Adapt Quickly**: Fraudulent online shopping sites are being rapidly re-established after takedowns, indicating persistent challenges in combating e-commerce scams.
6. **IoT Device Risks**: A recent report identifies smart TVs as major targets for cyber vulnerabilities, emphasizing the need for security measures in household IoT devices.
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There comes a time in a cybersecurity professional’s life when being a tech expert is no longer enough. The next step may lead to management or the C-suite, but the goal demands a different kind of expertise.
Technical skills will continue to serve a new CISO well, but the...
The flaw allows attackers to send files and execute them without authorization through an active remote session.
The post ConnectWise Patches ScreenConnect Vulnerability Exploited in Worm-Like Attacks appeared first on SecurityWeek.
La dématérialisation accélère les échanges, mais elle oblige aussi les organisations à mieux protéger les documents sensibles. Contrats, justificatifs, notifications ou courriers officiels peuvent être copiés, altérés ou détournés lorsqu’ils circulent sans garanties suffisantes. La fraude documentai...
WhatsApp is building a per-chat setting that keeps a conversation on a single phone. The setting, called Restricted Chat, sits in the Android beta distributed through Google Play as version 2.26.36.5, and it stops the app from syncing a chosen conversation to linked devices. Switch it on and the cha...
Microsoft has confirmed that USB audio devices may fail on some Windows systems after installing the KB5124008and KB5124012 September 2026 security updates. [...]
The Debian project shipped Debian 13.7 codenamed “trixie.” The project folded in 92 security advisories it had already published separately, added corrections to 106 source packages, and rebuilt the installer around both. Six of the 92 advisories cover the Linux kernel, each listing the linux source...
A malicious cross-store Twitch browser extension has leaked OAuth tokens associated with nearly 31,000 users to proxy servers operated by a Russian commercial bot service.
The extension, named "Twitch Enhanced Viewer | JeetBot," lists HISHIMIRO/jeetbot.cc as its developer and has the following iden...
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned that hackers are now exploiting a maximum-severity GitLab vulnerability in attacks. [...]
Someone impersonating a government agency, using an email address on that agency’s domain, obtained sensitive customer records from Revolut. The bank confirmed the incident on Saturday, September 12. The London-based fintech told TechCrunch that a limited number of customers were affected and that i...
A list of topics we covered in the week of September 7 to September 13 of 2026
Revolut a transmis passeports, selfies et historiques Bitcoin de clients à un pirate qui a usurpé le domaine e-mail d'une vraie agence gouvernementale.
Le post Fuite de données : Revolut a transmis des données sensibles à de faux agents gouvernementaux a été publié sur IT-Connect.
Anthropic CEO calls for AI slowdown, proposes embedded evaluators and global coordination. Geopolitical competition with China makes a voluntary pause structurally fragile. Dario Amodei published “We Must Pace the Frontier“, calling on the AI industry, governments, and international bodies to slow t...
Researchers at KTH Royal Institute of Technology built a container replica of a segmented industrial network, attacked it repeatedly across 14 days of running time, and used the captured traffic to train a defense agent that decides on its own when to intervene. The agent sees six numbers per interv...
Urwid could be made to crash or run programs as your login by other local users.
Several security issues were fixed in FFmpeg.
Permify is an open-source authorization service that answers access questions at run time: can user X view document Y, which posts can members of team Y edit. It keeps those rules in one place, apart from the application code that would otherwise carry them. Permify follows the design of Google Zanz...
Several security issues were fixed in CivetWeb.
This vulnerability allows local attackers to escalate privileges on affected installations of Linux Kernel. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability. The ZDI has assigned a CVSS rating of 8.8. The following C...
This vulnerability allows local attackers to escalate privileges on affected installations of Linux Kernel. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability. The ZDI has assigned a CVSS rating of 7.8. The following C...
Cybersecurity attention often rises after an incident, then recedes as organizations return to their existing priorities and practices, according to a new ManageEngine survey of 700 IT and cybersecurity leaders in the US and Canada. (Source: ManageEngine) All of them had already been through a breac...