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Today's cybersecurity landscape highlights several critical trends and threats. Ransomware attacks continue to escalate, with a notable increase in targeting healthcare and critical infrastructure sectors, emphasizing the need for robust incident response strategies. Phishing schemes remain prevalent, leveraging social engineering tactics to bypass security measures. Additionally, vulnerabilities in widely-used software are being actively exploited, underscoring the importance of timely patch management. The rise of AI-driven cyberattacks is also a concern, as attackers increasingly utilize machine learning to enhance their tactics. Organizations are urged to bolster their defenses and prioritize cybersecurity training for employees.
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Ukraine’s prosecutor general, Ruslan Kravchenko, resigned this week over allegations that officials in his office took bribes to shield scam call centers from law enforcement.
A 22-year-old man built his fortune by breaking into strangers’ digital wallets, then spent it on nightclub tabs, private jets, and a fleet of cars worth millions. Malone Lam, a Singapore citizen, pleaded guilty this week in a Washington D.C. federal court to running a racketeering conspiracy that s...
Learn how to fully remove apps from your Mac, including cache, settings, and other leftover files, and free up disk space with App Cleaner in Kaspersky Premium.
Ninety-five percent of organizations believe they have visibility into their AI and machine identity exposures, yet only 36% are actually monitoring them.
SpyCloud, the leader in identity threat protection, today released its annual SpyCloud Identity Threat Report, a survey...
Muse runs on a dedicated, secure virtual machine that houses both the agent and the user’s data.
The post Meta Launches Personal AI Agent, Muse, Emphasizes Safety and Privacy appeared first on SecurityWeek.
A major vulnerability is disclosed. The alert lands immediately. Then comes the harder question: Are we actually exposed?
For many security teams, answering that means jumping between vulnerability scanners, endpoint tools, cloud inventories, SBOMs, repositories, and application data to build enoug...
A flaw in OpenAI’s ChatGPT allowed attackers to extract data from a victim’s connected Gmail account by passing hidden instructions between separate user sessions, according to research from Check Point.
In a proof-of-concept, Check Point demonstrated that a victim’s ChatGP...
Draft Australian legislation could let people switch off social media algorithms on apps like Instagram and TikTok. See why opt-out matters.
ShinyHunters is claiming to have broken into a Florida government database containing sensitive information on the state’s drivers.
The notorious extortion group said it has breached the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles’ Driver and Vehicle Information...
A flaw in DeepSeek Harness, DeepSeek's open-source tool for running AI coding agents on a developer's machine, let a sandboxed agent turn off its own sandbox with a single command.
The tool runs an agent's commands inside an operating-system sandbox, so that an agent working on untrusted files cann...
Claude Fable 5.1 solved a 370-year-old cipher in forty-four minutes.
This tracks with what I wrote about AIs doing mathematics: It’s good at things that involve lots of searching and testing.
A rootkit found on hacked F5 BIG-IP APM devices skips the usual step of writing a web shell to disk, hiding it in memory instead, according to Sophos. F5 BIG-IP APM provides access policy enforcement to secure access to apps, APIs, and data. It’s primarily used by enterprises, financial institutions...
Fermat famously claimed to have a “truly marvelous proof” of his Last Theorem, but he never wrote it down, insisting the margin of his page was too narrow to contain it. A few centuries later, Anthropic announced a complete formalization of Fermat’s Last Theorem using 13 million lines of Lean code (...
AVEVA and Rockwell Automation also released patches for vulnerabilities affecting industrial control system products.
The post ICS Patch Tuesday: Schneider Electric, Siemens Fix Critical Flaws appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Bitcoin wallet company Alby has warned of a critical flaw in Alby Hub that could have let an attacker take over a wallet and send its funds, but only where the owner had made the Hub reachable from the internet.
Alby Hub is a self-hosted Lightning wallet, meaning the owner runs it on their own comp...
Six critical vulnerabilities in Neurons for ITSM could enable remote code execution, while Sentry and EPMM received patches for authentication bypass flaws.
The post Ivanti Patches Critical Flaws Across Enterprise Security Products appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Over 36,000 Plex Media servers exposed online remain unpatched against multiple security vulnerabilities and are vulnerable to attacks. [...]
Zscaler has announced Zscaler Agentic SOC, a new approach to security operations built to proactively reduce exposures, scale human expertise and stop AI-driven attacks at machine speed. Simply layering in AI capabilities onto the existing security stack will not provide the protection needed. Zscal...
Atola Technology introduces Atola Boot Image, a free bootable environment designed for forensic acquisition when removing a drive from the host computer is difficult, risky or impossible.
Microsoft’s September 2026 Patch Tuesday fixes a record 964 vulnerabilities, including two actively exploited zero-days.