AI-assisted researchers flooded Vercel with reports, forcing the company to automate vulnerability triage. The post $1 Million Sandbox Challenge Uncovers Linux Kernel Flaws appeared first on SecurityWeek.
The principle of least privilege is straightforward to articulate but challenging to maintain at scale. When teams first deploy applications to AWS, they often grant broader permissions than strictly necessary; it’s faster to get things working, and the plan is always to tighten permissions later. But later rarely comes. Permissions accumulate, AWS Identity and Access […]
The cybersecurity startup is building a proprietary foundation model and plans to accelerate global expansion. The post Exein Secures $270M at $1.7B Valuation for Physical AI Security appeared first on SecurityWeek.
A hacker claims to have stolen 7.5 million customer records after breaching the company’s systems. The post Texas Utility CenterPoint Energy Confirms Breach After Hacker Leaks Data appeared first on SecurityWeek.
I have not done this type of diary in a while: What traffic will you see from a system on boot, before a user logs in? I just took a quick look at macOS 27 "Golden Gate" to see what traffic you should expect. Here are some of the highlights:
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a multi-platform campaign that uses the Message Queueing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) protocol as a communication channel to control Windows and Linux systems. The emerging malware family, codenamed BambooToken, is assessed to be active since at least February 2023 and put to use in attacks targeting organizations across Asia and South America.
Ihor Klymenko, who has experience in law enforcement and as interior minister, will run Ukraine's National Cybersecurity Coordination Center.
A previously unknown malware framework called BambooToken, active since at least 2023, is now using the Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) protocol to communicate with Windows and Linux systems. [...]
Hackers are actively exploiting a critical vulnerability in the WooCommerce Wholesale Lead Capture premium plugin for WordPress to upload a PHP backdoor. [...]
Houston-based CenterPoint Energy notified federal regulators about an incident that exposed some customer data on the dark web.
Reduced staffing during holidays changes more than headcount. Learn how operational resilience should shape your IT and security change decisions
AI is shrinking the time between vulnerability disclosure and exploitation, leaving defenders less time to wait for patches or public exploits. Picus Security explains how exploitability validation, security control testing, and autonomous pentesting can help teams close exposure gaps before attackers arrive. [...]
The hackers staged numerous scripts for reconnaissance and CVE probing, along with brute-force utilities and privilege escalation tools. The post Thai Broadband Provider Hacked via Fortinet Vulnerability appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Australia’s move from the Essential Eight to an outcomes-based cybersecurity model will push organizations from conducting periodic point-in-time, checklist compliance assessments to having continuous evidence of a solid security posture.Key takeawaysThe Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) is moving from the Essential Eight cybersecurity framework to a new outcomes-focused Essentials series covering enterprise IT, cloud, operational technology (OT), and potentially agentic AI.The Essential Eig…
Cisco warns of a critical zero-day in Secure Email Gateway, exploited in the wild to gain root access through malicious emails. Cisco disclosed a critical zero-day, tracked as CVE-2026-76461 (CVSS score of 9.8), affecting Secure Email Gateway appliances. The flaw can be exploited remotely without authentication. Attackers can send specially crafted emails containing malicious SQL […]
Cloudflare is giving site owners a way to stay discoverable while disallowing AI training. New controls and an Accountable designation establish a shared model with Apple, Google, and Microsoft.
You can now scope access to individual Workers and assign narrower Developer Platform roles, so teammates, CI tokens, and agents get only the access they need to debug, deploy, or monitor safely.
A single X DM split into two malware chains: AMOS stealer on Mac, NetSupport Manager on Windows, see the Huntress SOC analyst breakdown.
China's spy chief identified Anthropic’s Claude Mythos and OpenAI’s GPT-5.5-Cyber as signs of what he called a “disruptive upgrade” in cyber capabilities, increasing the speed and potential weaponization of vulnerability discovery and malware development.
The incident occurred in May, when RubyGems maintainers suspended new account registrations due to what appeared like malicious activity. The post OpenAI Investigates Report Linking AI Agents to RubyGems Attack appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg held a press conference on Monday touting the takedown of the sites, which hosted AI-generated videos of more than 1,200 people. The sites allowed users to use the faces and bodies of real people to create illegal pornography.
OverviewOn September 14, 2026, Cisco published a security advisory for CVE-2026-76461, a critical SQL injection vulnerability affecting Cisco AsyncOS Software for Cisco Secure Email Gateway. The vulnerability has a reported CVSS v3.1 base score of 9.8 and could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands with root privileges on an affected appliance.Cisco Secure Email Gateway, formerly known as IronPort Email Security Appliance, is an enterprise email security produc…
Critical LiteSpeed Enterprise flaw lets one shared hosting account gain root, bypassing CageFS; patch now to 6.3.7 via forced update. cPanel warned that a critical flaw in LiteSpeed Enterprise can let a low‑privilege website user break out of their account and gain root on the whole server. On a box where dozens or hundreds of […]
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned security teams that ransomware gangs have now joined ongoing attacks exploiting a critical VMware vCenter vulnerability patched in July. [...]
With artificial intelligence (AI) shrinking the window between vulnerability discovery and exploitation and lowering the barrier to entry for bad actors, new findings from Sysdig show that skilled human operators can move just as swiftly after gaining initial access. In one instance highlighted by the cloud security company, the threat actor pivoted from a vulnerable Marimo notebook to an SSH
Hackers exploited a vulnerability in a VPN product to steal the personal information of roughly 240,000 people. The post 240,000 Hit by Data Breach at Japan’s Digital Agency appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Introduction Security teams have gotten pretty good at testing against what can hurt them. Can this EDR agent catch this payload? Will my organization fail the phishing simulation? Does this SIEM rule fire on this particular technique? And, in more mature organizations, this testing happens continuously rather than as a one-off exercise. But no matter how much you validate against these
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a mass-scanning campaign that has targeted Vite deployments siphon sensitive data. The first is an automated effort aimed at internet-exposed Vite development servers that's designed to steal cloud credentials, configurations from Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure instances, and infrastructure state files, per F5 Labs. The
The updates resolve kernel vulnerabilities that could lead to memory corruption, privilege escalation, system termination, and information leaks. The post Apple Patches 200 Vulnerabilities With New iOS 27, macOS Golden Gate 27 Releases appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Two China-linked groups ran identical Chrome/Windows zero-day exploits against NGOs, before Chrome’s patch shipped, deploying different backdoors each. Two China-linked threat actors used the same Chrome/Windows zero-day against NGOs starting September 1, 2026, Volexity’s new report lays out the whole chain in detail. On September 1, Volexity detected a spear-phishing campaign by UTA0560 targeting several […]
