> TODAY'S SUMMARY (14 articles)
Today's cybersecurity news highlights several significant threats and trends. A major cyberattack on French bank Crédit Mutuel Arkéa resulted in fraudulent transactions totaling $133 million, emphasizing the risks associated with third-party service providers. Scammers are increasingly impersonating trusted brands in fake gift card schemes, collecting personal information from unsuspecting consumers. The rise of IoT vulnerabilities is underscored by recent hacks affecting critical infrastructure, such as blood labs and grocery stores. Additionally, vulnerabilities in SonicWall's SonicOS have been exploited, prompting CISA to add these to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. Developers are also reminded of security best practices, as sensitive credentials were found exposed in public GitHub repositories.
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The boring parts caused most of the trouble.
A router shipped ready to listen. A fake check turned the user into the installer. Trusted systems collected traffic and passwords, then cleaned the logs. Old bugs formed new attack chains. Even an AI agent decided its assigned task was optional.
Elsewh...
Berlin's city administration has confirmed that cybercriminals are attempting to extort the city after the Rhysida ransomware gang listed it on their data leak site. [...]
The ShinyHunters extortion group has claimed the theft of 284 million records from the company’s systems.
The post McKesson Confirms Data Breach as Attacker Deadline Looms appeared first on SecurityWeek.
It was discovered that cpio incorrectly sanitized hard-link targets when
extracting tar archives in copy-in mode. If a user or automated system
were tricked into extracting a specially crafted tar archive, an attacker
could possibly use this issue to create hard links to files outside the
extraction...
Belkasoft previews offline translation in Belkasoft X. BelkaGPT will translate chats, SMS, and artifact text in more than 100 languages, entirely on the examiner machine.
Bot operators have historically had the economic advantage, bypassing static, deterministic detection rules with cheap proxies and retooling. Cloudflare's new Adaptive Intelligence engine flips this dynamic by autonomously learning from the meta-signals of live traffic and deploying disposable rules...
It was discovered that OpenZFS incorrectly handled authorization checks for
certain ioctl operations on Linux. A local attacker could possibly use this
issue to perform pool-administrative operations or access privileged
information, resulting in an authorization bypass.
Several security issues were discovered in the WebKitGTK Web and JavaScript
engines. If a user were tricked into viewing a malicious website, a remote
attacker could exploit a variety of issues related to web browser security,
including cross-site scripting attacks, denial of service attacks, and
ar...
The pharmaceutical and healthcare technology company McKesson informed regulators it is in the early stages of investigating a cybersecurity incident involving an unnamed third-party application.
It was discovered that libblkid in util-linux had a heap use-after-free
vulnerability during nested partition probing. An attacker who could
present a crafted block device image could possibly use this issue to
obtain sensitive information or cause a denial of service. (CVE-2026-13595)
It was disco...
One of Slovenia’s largest gambling and tourism groups has begun reopening its casinos after a cyberattack forced them to shut down for several days.
It was discovered that UDisks did not correctly validate the caller
identity when handling the as-user option in the
org.freedesktop.UDisks2.Filesystem.Mount() D-Bus method. A local attacker
with an active console session could possibly use this issue to mount
filesystems on behalf of arbitrary user...
USN-8673-1 fixed vulnerabilities in OpenSSL. The update inadvertently left
out the fix for CVE-2026-75803 in Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. This update fixes the
problem.
We apologize for the inconvenience.
Original advisory details:
It was discovered that OpenSSL incorrectly handled the QUIC server incoming...
Security teams must treat autonomous agents as highly privileged identities.
The post What the Hugging Face Incident Teaches Security Leaders About AI Agent Access appeared first on SecurityWeek.
The threat actor known as Silver Fox has been observed distributing the ValleyRAT backdoor disguised as a signed Chinese adware application, running the malware under a trusted process to slip past users who add such software to their antivirus exclusions.
Russian cybersecurity vendor Kaspersky sai...
The AI giant is logging customers out of their accounts and removing payment data to prevent unauthorized Claude usage.
The post Anthropic Warns Claude Users of Infostealer Malware Infections appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Multiple security issues were discovered in MySQL.
MySQL has been updated to 8.4.11 in Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS packages have been updated with backported patches.
In addition to security fixes, the updated packages contain bug fixes, new
features, and possibly incom...
It was discovered that libssh had a stack buffer overflow in its SFTP
server when constructing directory listing entries for long filenames. An
attacker could possibly use this issue to cause libssh to crash or execute
arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. (CVE-2026-15370)
It w...
The AWS Management Console now loads inside a network with no path to the public internet. Console Private Access became generally available on August 28 for virtual private clouds, the isolated networks customers run inside AWS, that have no internet connectivity at all. Authentication flows, the J...
Healthcare company McKesson disclosed a cybersecurity incident in which hackers got into third-party applications and stole data. McKesson is a major U.S. healthcare company that distributes pharmaceuticals, medical supplies and other healthcare products to pharmacies, hospitals and clinics. Accordi...