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Today's cybersecurity landscape highlights several critical threats and vulnerabilities. Notably, the FBI and CISA issued warnings regarding cyberattacks targeting industrial refrigeration systems, which could lead to severe consequences for food and medical supplies. OpenSSH has revealed a significant flaw that allows remote attackers to bypass authentication on certain Linux systems, while a breach at Chainalysis exposed sensitive credentials for all its customers. Additionally, CEO impersonation scams utilizing AI have resulted in over $100 million in losses, emphasizing the growing sophistication of cybercriminal tactics. In response to these threats, organizations are urged to enhance their security measures, particularly around password management and vulnerability patching.
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China's spy chief identified Anthropic’s Claude Mythos and OpenAI’s GPT-5.5-Cyber as signs of what he called a “disruptive upgrade” in cyber capabilities, increasing the speed and potential weaponization of vulnerability discovery and malware development.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg held a press conference on Monday touting the takedown of the sites, which hosted AI-generated videos of more than 1,200 people. The sites allowed users to use the faces and bodies of real people to create illegal pornography.
The incident occurred in May, when RubyGems maintainers suspended new account registrations due to what appeared like malicious activity.
The post OpenAI Investigates Report Linking AI Agents to RubyGems Attack appeared first on SecurityWeek.
A new AI subscription service called Luciferus is being marketed on a hacking forum as an alternative to jailbreaking ChatGPT or Claude, Sophos found. The Counter Threat Unit (CTU) spotted the advertisement on August 24 on the Exploit forum, posted by a persona going by “Optimus_Prime.” The account...
Critical LiteSpeed Enterprise flaw lets one shared hosting account gain root, bypassing CageFS; patch now to 6.3.7 via forced update. cPanel warned that a critical flaw in LiteSpeed Enterprise can let a low‑privilege website user break out of their account and gain root on the whole server. On a box...
Italian startup Exein has raised a $270 million round of funding led by Headline at a $1.7 billion valuation.
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned security teams that ransomware gangs have now joined ongoing attacks exploiting a critical VMware vCenter vulnerability patched in July. [...]
OpenRGB 1.0 est disponible après trois ans de développement : à quoi sert ce logiciel open source ? Voici les nouveautés et la raison de cette attente.
Le post OpenRGB 1.0 : cet outil open source pilote vos périphériques RGB sur Windows, Linux et macOS a été publié sur IT-Connect.
UK and allies provide advice to help organisations and individuals at risk detect and counter the threat from CHOSEN BRICK malware.
Advisory on CHOSEN BRICK malware, including technical analysis and advice to help individuals and organisations protect themselves.
With artificial intelligence (AI) shrinking the window between vulnerability discovery and exploitation and lowering the barrier to entry for bad actors, new findings from Sysdig show that skilled human operators can move just as swiftly after gaining initial access.
In one instance highlighted by...
Cybercriminals used HBO Max’s verified Reddit account to run 108 malicious ads that tricked people into installing information stealers.
Hackers exploited a vulnerability in a VPN product to steal the personal information of roughly 240,000 people.
The post 240,000 Hit by Data Breach at Japan’s Digital Agency appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Une faille dans Logitech Options+ (CVE-2026-12518) permet à un utilisateur standard d'obtenir les privilèges SYSTEM sur Windows. Un correctif est disponible.
Le post Logitech Options+ : une faille donne les privilèges SYSTEM à n’importe quel utilisateur Windows a été publié sur IT-Connect.
Introduction
Security teams have gotten pretty good at testing against what can hurt them. Can this EDR agent catch this payload? Will my organization fail the phishing simulation? Does this SIEM rule fire on this particular technique? And, in more mature organizations, this testing happens continu...
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a mass-scanning campaign that has targeted Vite deployments siphon sensitive data.
The first is an automated effort aimed at internet-exposed Vite development servers that's designed to steal cloud credentials, configurations from Amazon Web Servi...
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...