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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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How cybercriminals recruit household appliances, and how to keep malware and malicious proxies off your home network.
Here's a riddle: Why did a Goshen Police Department officer search 6,474 automated license plate reader (ALPR) networks, representing data from 82,413 cameras, on May 7, 2025?Â
If your answer is "I don't know," it turns out you're 100% correct. The officer left the letters "idk" in the search field...
Socket has discovered a Twitch browser extension forwarding users' OAuth tokens to a Russian bot service
AI keeps showing up in the wrong places. Attackers are using it to speed up exploits, test defenses, and automate more of the job. Some models are also crossing lines on their own. That is not a great combination.
The rest of the week is more familiar: old bugs still working, fresh exploit chains,...
CISA confirms active exploitation as watchTowr spots miscreants probing internet-facing servers
China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs responded to a question about Amodei’s essay by saying that all parties should work together on AI.
The post Beijing Hits Back at Anthropic CEO’s Call to Curb China’s AI Development appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Google says its new opaque redirects tackle evolving abuse, but they also prevent users from checking a result’s destination by hovering over it.
A human attacker exploited a Marimo RCE and reached an SSH bastion in eight seconds
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds GitLab, JFrog Artifactory, and ConnectWise ScreenConnect flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added [1, 2] the following vulnerabilities to its Known Ex...
Patch automation can help IT teams keep pace with growing update volumes, but deploying faster also means bad updates can spread faster. Action1 explains how update rings, predefined success criteria, and human oversight can make automated patching faster without sacrificing control. [...]
Double free in Windows Secure Kernel Mode allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
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Entrust has unveiled new capabilities for its Cryptographic Security Platform (CSP) that help organizations turn Cryptographic Bill of Materials (CBOMs) data into action. Government agencies, financial institutions, healthcare organizations, and other critical infrastructure operators are navigating...
Bitsight access to a broad risk dataset, combining threat intelligence and continuous exposure monitoring to help teams mitigate risk across the supply chain. “The surge in third-party-originating cybersecurity breaches demands a fundamental shift in how cybersecurity leaders and their teams manage...
Concerns over the potential risks of the technology are rising as new AI models become more powerful, heightening both the potential for misuse by people with criminal aims.
The post New Warnings About the Risks of AI to Humanity Revive a Long-Running Debate appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Dataminr has announced Dataminr Advanced for Corporate Security, delivering agentic AI capabilities that give corporate security teams the confidence to protect their people, sites, and operations before risk escalates. With Agentic Corroboration, Agentic Context, and Near-Term Predictive Intelligen...
It was discovered that cgit incorrectly handled repository paths when HTTP
cloning was enabled. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to
access files outside the repository and obtain sensitive information.
The company unintentionally disclosed users’ information to a third party impersonating a government agency.
The post Personal, Financial Info Exposed in Revolut Data Breach appeared first on SecurityWeek.
As researchers warn that misaligned AI could threaten human survival, even beneficial systems may erode the critical thinking that defines our humanity.
The post The Race to Control AI and Protect What Makes Us Human appeared first on SecurityWeek.
It was discovered that Yelp allowed help documents to execute arbitrary
scripts. An attacker could possibly use this issue to trick a user into
opening a specially crafted help document and obtain sensitive information.