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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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It was discovered that the Ubuntu-specific SetLanguage patch to
AccountsService incorrectly handled dropping privileges. A local attacker
could use this issue to execute arbitrary commands as an administrator.
(CVE-2026-61897)
It was discovered that the Ubuntu-specific SetLanguage helpers for
Accou...
Hackers are exploiting the "wp2shell" critical vulnerability suite (CVE-2026-63030 and CVE-2026-60137) affecting WordPress Core to deploy persistent webshells and install malicious plugins on affected servers. [...]
The House Intelligence Committee advanced its fiscal 2027 authorization legislation Monday.
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Alleged developer arrested in Indonesia after more than 200 servers slain
Qilin ransomware exploits the PAN-OS GlobalProtect flaw CVE-2026-0257 to gain unauthorized VPN access to unpatched networks. Arctic Wolf researchers warn that the Qilin ransomware gang is exploiting the critical PAN-OS GlobalProtect vulnerability CVE-2026-0257 to compromise corporate networks. CVE-2...
A new type of malware can worm deep into AI coding systems to steal data and logins—and can flip a “death switch” to destroy files and keep out real users.
Hidden text on a web page was enough to make Kiro, AWS's agentic coding IDE, rewrite its own configuration file and run an attacker's code on a developer's machine, with no approval step able to stop it.
Intezer, in research with Kodem Security, found that a request as ordinary as asking Kiro to su...
DTEX researchers found a series of transactions in a payment wallet showing North Korean IT worker salaries flowing into sanctioned entities that support the regime’s military programs.
The post North Korea’s IT worker scheme funds Russia’s war effort appeared first on CyberScoop.
Discover how attackers use the ConsentFix attack to hijack Microsoft 365 sessions, what risks it poses to organizations, and how to protect your corporate infrastructure.
Google's DeepMind on Tuesday announced the release of Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber, a specialized artificial intelligence (AI) model built atop 3.5 Flash that's designed to discover, validate, and patch vulnerabilities quickly and efficiently.
According to the tech giant, the model will be exclusively av...
Attackers started exploiting the critical wp2shell vulnerability chain within hours of patches being released, putting sites and their visitors at risk.
A third SharePoint Server flaw patched by Microsoft as part of its Patch Tuesday update for July 2026 has come under active exploitation, per watchTowr.
The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-50522 (CVSS score: 9.8), a critical deserialization of untrusted data in Microsoft Office SharePoint tha...
A hacker took names, phone numbers, and physical addresses of millions of customers who used AI music generator Suno.
Roughly 7,600 malicious GitHub repositories were uncovered, more than 800 of them posing as AI Skills or Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, in a wave that peaked in April 2026, according to Island. The scale of the FakeGit operation (Source: Island) The fake repositories are tied to about 6,600 a...
James Henstridge discovered that snapd's default apparmor template did
not restrict access to systemd-userdbd varlink interface. A local
attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive information.
(CVE-2024-5300)
Qualys discovered that snap-confine can be tricked to create
attacker-cont...
Teleport has expanded its Identity Security platform with three new capabilities designed to ensure that agent behavior remains within defined boundaries: Beams Session Summaries, Agentic Classifiers, and Risk Scoring. They give enterprises a foundational harness for identifying and preventing agent...
Threat actors have been observed exploiting a now-patched high-severity Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS vulnerability as an entry point to deploy Qilin (aka Agenda) ransomware on victim environments.
Arctic Wolf Labs said it investigated multiple intrusions in June 2026 that began with the exploitation o...
Russian-speaking actor Trim built a commercial offensive AI pentest tool on jailbroken Claude models
Critical infrastructure attacks often begin with stolen credentials, compromised devices, or trusted accounts. Specops Software explains why Zero Trust should verify both user identities and device trust before granting access to critical systems. [...]
Have I Been Pwned confirms scale for first time