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Today's cybersecurity landscape highlights several significant threats and trends. The UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) warns of an imminent rise in AI-powered cyberattacks targeting critical infrastructure, driven by outdated security measures. A recent assessment projects that these AI-enabled threats will escalate through 2028, underscoring the urgency for organizations to enhance their defenses. Additionally, tech firms have successfully dismantled a large botnet consisting of over 1.3 million compromised Android TV boxes, which had been misused for proxy services. Meanwhile, European supermarkets are facing repercussions for neglecting cybersecurity after a recent attack led to operational failures and spoilage. Overall, the combination of AI advancements and overlooked vulnerabilities poses an unprecedented risk to organizations.
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Attackers are targeting Steam forums with malicious PowerShell commands disguised as fixes for game launch issues. Here’s how this version of the ClickFix scam works.
UNISOC modem flaw enabled kernel-level code execution through video calls
GitHub subit une panne mondiale ce 17 août 2026 : 20 % d'erreurs sur le web et l'API, Actions, Copilot et les pull requests dégradés. Voici ce que l'on sait.
Le post Lundi 17 août 2026 : Microsoft confirme que GitHub est en panne à l’échelle mondiale ! a été publié sur IT-Connect.
GitHub is down for some users as a widespread outage is causing errors across the website, API, Actions, Pull Requests, and several other services. [...]
Microsoft explique le retard de la CU1 d'Exchange Server SE : les failles remontées par ses outils d'IA saturent ses équipes. Aucune date n'est annoncée.
Le post Exchange Server SE : Microsoft explique pourquoi la CU1 n’arrive toujours pas a été publié sur IT-Connect.
About 20 years ago, with macOS 10.5 (Leopard), Apple introduced screen sharing. Apple did not invent a new protocol for screen sharing. Instead, it used the established VNC protocol. VNC is a pretty simple, unencrypted protocol using TCP port 5900. Historically, the protocol used a simple global pas...
France’s tax authority has disclosed a data breach after an attacker accessed the General Directorate of Public Finances (DGFiP) systems, saying the intrusion exposed data on 678,000 individuals and professionals. The incident came to light after an alleged attacker using the alias “ZeroBytes” took...
A cybersecurity expert has demonstrated how computer-generated patterns can successfully prevent surveillance cameras from detecting vehicles - such as the controversial AI-powered Flock licence plate readers that are becoming increasingly common on American streets.
Read more in my article on th...
CVE-2026-54121 lets a standard domain user turn your Enterprise CA into a Domain Controller. The patch is the easy part. The lesson is standing privilege, implicit trust, and treating PKI as the Tier 0 identity infrastructure it has always been. [...]
As AI takes on more security operations center (SOC) workflows to automate threat triage, indicator extraction, and incident report generation, security operations leaders face a persistent question: Does SOC performance depend more on the large language model (LLM) deployed o...
Hackers used compromised credentials to access enterprise and personal tax-related data.
The post 680,000 Impacted by French Tax Authority Data Breach appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Fortinet has acquired Virtue AI, strengthening its broader Security for AI strategy and its vision for securing the agentic enterprise. The acquisition builds on Fortinet’s existing AI security portfolio, which includes the FortiGate Hyperscale Firewall. As organizations deploy AI applications and a...
Proton a dévoilé un nouveau socle logiciel écrit en Rust pour remplacer wireguard-go dans ses applications VPN, ainsi que muon pour lutter contre la censure.
Le post Proton VPN migre vers Rust : un nouveau cœur WireGuard pour ses applications a été publié sur IT-Connect.
For the latest discoveries in cyber research for the week of 17th August, please download our Threat Intelligence Bulletin. TOP ATTACKS AND BREACHES Colombia’s Ministry of Justice has experienced a ransomware attack that affected part of its technology infrastructure and disrupted public services re...
The researcher who found RoguePlanet has discovered ShieldBreak, a new way to bypass Microsoft’s fix and gain SYSTEM privileges.
Critical User Profile Builder flaw let unauthenticated attackers access administrator accounts
The expensive attacks are not always the clever ones.
This week had plenty of proof. Exposed services got hit, old bugs found fresh use, browser sessions became attack paths, and supply-chain problems kept spreading farther than the original compromise. A lot of it came down to access that was alre...
Microsoft a ajouté une fonctionnalité à Entra Cloud Sync : la synchronisation des objets ordinateur de l'Active Directory vers Entra ID, appelée Device Sync.
Le post Microsoft Entra Cloud Sync : la synchronisation des appareils est disponible en préversion a été publié sur IT-Connect.
The hacks at shipping companies used to mail out hardware wallets puts crypto owners at greater risk of real-world attacks.
Microsoft has reminded IT administrators that Windows Server 2022 is rapidly approaching its mainstream end date of October 2026, when it will switch to extended support. [...]