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Today's cybersecurity news highlights significant threats, including a major breach at French Bank Crédit Mutuel Arkéa, where attackers exploited vulnerabilities in a third-party service provider to steal up to $133 million. This incident underscores the ongoing risk associated with third-party integrations. Additionally, refrigeration cyberattacks continue to target European retailers, raising concerns about supply chain security. As organizations face these evolving threats, proactive measures and timely patching, especially in light of upcoming Patch Tuesday, are crucial for mitigating risks. Overall, the focus remains on enhancing security protocols to safeguard against sophisticated cyber threats.
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AI is accelerating vulnerability discovery, exploit development, and attacker weaponization faster than most organizations can adapt. Security teams are inundated with vulnerability disclosures, threat intelligence feeds, exploit chatter, and vendor advisories, all demanding i...
A Canadian man is facing decades in prison for hacking customer accounts at cloud storage provider Snowflake and stealing data from more than 165 organizations. Connor Riley Moucka, also known as “Waifu” and “Judische,” 26, of Kitchener, Ontario, pleaded guilty in federal court in Washington state t...
Cybersecurity is full of frameworks, regulations, and directives that tell organizations what they should do. Zero Trust, NIST, CIS Controls, CMMC, DORA, NIS2, and now Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) all provide valuable guidance and describe desired outcomes....
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Forescout found 22 internet-facing Rockwell Automation programmable logic controllers (PLCs) in cities hit by recent cyberattacks on US water utilities. Nineteen used the same mobile carrier network.
Its August 3 scan counted 4,407 exposed Rockwell controllers worldwide, including 2,844 in the Unit...
After more than 300,000 production penetration tests (pentests), our company has learned something that may surprise people watching the recent wave of autonomous security announcements.
The hardest problem in autonomous security isn’t teaching a machine how to attack. It’s...
Huntress has documented a case where the Oracle database itself became the malware host.
The security firm disclosed a campaign in which threat actors exploited a SQL injection vulnerability to store a custom post-exploitation toolkit, dubbed Khunt, inside an Oracle databas...
(Video) In this podcast, we share insights from Edna Conway, a recognized leader in cybersecurity and supply chain resilience with over 40 years of experience in the field.
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So-called “wrench attacks” have resulted in $30m in losses so far in 2026, says Chainalysis
Leaving this information exposed allowed someone else to gain access
Summary Annual value stolen in violent attacks peaked at $58 million in 2025, the highest on record, with 2026 already…
The post Estimated $30 Million Stolen in Violent Crypto Attacks in 2026 as France Records Emerges as Hotspot appeared first on Chainalysis.
Coinspect has identified CryptoJS.lib.WordArray.random() as the weak random number generator behind the Ill Bloom wallet drains.
Introduced in the JavaScript cryptography library 12 years ago, the function supplied weak entropy that affected wallet apps used to generate recovery phrases. Coinspect'...
Most organizations assume remediation reduces risk.
It’s a reasonable assumption. A vulnerability is identified, a patch is applied, the scanner comes back clean, and the ticket is closed. The workflow is complete, the metrics improve, and the issue is considered resolved....
What happens if a US tech provider cuts your business off? Most European companies have less than a day's runway to find out.
Criminals are impersonating OnlyFans creators using AI tools in order to scam followers.
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a security issue with Apple's iCloud Private Relay tool that can expose a user's real IP address.
Introduced with iOS 15, iCloud Private Relay employs a dual-hop architecture to ensure users' privacy by routing their Safari web traffic through two relays so...
A new class of prompt injection is spreading across commercial websites. It requires no malware, no stolen credentials, and no zero-day exploit. It abuses a standard feature built into almost every major AI assistant: pre-filled deep links.
We observed production websites embedding hidden prompt in...
An attacker could self-register, sign in for board-level API access, and import a new company for code execution.
The post Critical Paperclip Flaw Allowed Admin Access, Code Execution appeared first on SecurityWeek.
There are many companies manufacturing adversarial clothing designed to confuse facial recognition systems.
It’s a cool idea, but I worry that it’s mostly security theater:
“Our patterns play with that chaos, confuse algorithms and make it way harder to pin you down,” he said.
Bell, however, said “...
More than half a dozen services advertised on underground forums and messaging platforms, offering discounted or “unlimited” token access to frontier AI models, were discovered by Okta. Okta believes the trend is likely driven by Chinese users seeking access to AI models that are unavailable because...