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A former core infrastructure engineer at an industrial company headquartered in New Jersey was sentenced to 32 months in prison for locking thousands of devices on his employer's network in a ransomware-style attack. [...]
Dell warns that a critical DSU flaw lets attackers run code as root. Customers should patch affected PowerEdge systems as soon as possible. Dell urged customers to patch a critical flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-86360 (CVSS score of 9.6), in its System Update (DSU) tool. The vulnerability is a path traversal issue that can let attackers execute code with root pri…
A critical flaw in 8 Atlassian Data Center products, which customers host themselves, allows an attacker with no login access to read specific files in each product's web application root directory. The attacker must already know a file's exact name and path and cannot list what the directory holds. Atlassian disclosed the flaw, CVE-2026-21589, on October 5,…
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has removed an Accenture contractor for their alleged role in a ShinyHunters-breach that led to the theft of personal details of thousands of bureau employees. That's according to a report from Reuters, citing two sources familiar with the matter. "To date, our review has determined that the incident occurred as…
Fortinet details ClingSTUN, a Linux backdoor exploiting unpatched IoT devices and abusing public STUN servers to route traffic past NAT. FortiGuard Labs researchers spotted a Linux malware family they call ClingSTUN, and the name gives away its trick immediately. Instead of relying on a dedicated command server, the malicious code leans on STUN, the protocol…
In this interview with Help Net Security, Ann Barron-DiCamillo, EVP, CISO at U.S. Bank, talks about how the CISO role has grown to cover fraud, resilience, third-party risk, and AI governance. She says no single leader can own all of it, so partnerships across technology, risk, legal, and business teams matter most. Barron-DiCamillo also weighs in on shorter…
Unauthorized parties have gained access to the names, addresses, and personal identification numbers of about 8.8 million people, living and dead, in Denmark's national population register, the country's digitalization ministry said on October 5. They used a private Danish company's lawful right to look up records in the Central Person Register (CPR). The mi…
A new type of ClickFix attack is using compromised websites to trick users into executing a malicious payload cached in a web browser's cache. "Instead of downloading and executing remote payloads like the typical attack pattern, in this attack, the websites pre-fetch a script payload into the browser cache disguised as a PNG file," the Microsoft Threat Inte…
Reflection AI has built Beam, a 501-billion-parameter open-weight model for coding and agent tasks, and plans to publish the weights under an Apache 2.0 license later this month. Open-weight means developers can download the trained model and run it on their own hardware. Beam uses a mixture-of-experts design, so 23 billion of its parameters fire for any giv…
Security budgets rarely stretch to cover a full NIS2 programme in one pass. Credential controls are where a constrained team can start, because they make access visible, revocable, and reviewable without new infrastructure. NIS2 compliance rests on risk-management measures that fit the actual risk an organization faces under Article 21, with the choice of sp…
Webroot Mobile Security combines device security checks, Safari protection, text scam filtering, and data breach monitoring. It is available for iPhone, iPad, and Android devices. The app requires an active Webroot subscription and is included with Essentials, Premium, and Total Protection. The home screen displays subscription status, a Scan Now button, the…
Associate IAM Engineer New York City Office of Technology & Innovation | USA | On-site – View job details As an Associate IAM Engineer, you will support daily identity and access management operations in Microsoft Entra ID and related platforms. You will manage users, groups, access provisioning, and role assignments, resolve authentication issues and suppor…
Several mysteries surround what appeared to be an unauthorized push notification sent to customers of London-based clothing company ASOS.
OpenAI is preparing to add invisible watermarks to text generated by ChatGPT and Codex in the European Union. [...]
Beyond the potential misuses of its services, Wikimedia said activity by AI agents can be a drain on web platforms that are already operating with limited resources.
The Linux backdoor exploits 24 known flaws to compromise IoT devices and uses legitimate public STUN servers to obscure communications.
Hackers are actively scanning for a Rejetto HFS weak signing key vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-61500, that allows session forgery, account takeover, and remote code execution (RCE). [...]
Saif al-Din Khader is cooperating with the FBI, reports said, as the bureau responds to a massive breach that exposed employee data.
AI-assisted research uncovered a critical Rejetto HFS flaw that enables authentication bypass and remote code execution, now exploited in the wild. A Rejetto HFS vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-61500 (CVSS score of 9.3), discovered with the help of the Anthropic Mythos AI model is now being exploited in the wild, turning an interesting security research e…
Fáilte! Pwn2Own Ireland 2026 has arrived in Cork, and the world's top security researchers are ready. We've got more phone entries than we've ever had, and more than 60 entries total. Earlier today, we held the random draw to determine attempt order. Below is the official schedule. All times are Irish Standard Time (IST) and may change as the competition pro…
Citrix confirmed late on Friday that it was “tracking a newly observed issue” related to some customer-managed NetScaler deployments but claimed the problem was not connected to vulnerabilities reported last week that also caused alarm among cybersecurity experts.
Italy's Data Protection Authority (GPDP) has fined IQVIA €7 million ($7.8M) over poor data-processing practices that the agency says could have put roughly one million patients at risk of data exposure and de-anonymization. [...]
Ukraine’s largest grocery store chain, ATB, confirmed that it was hit by a cyberattack after hackers posted an extortion demand on its website.
Key Takeaways Qualys TotalAppSec is now FedRAMP High Authorized on the Qualys Government Platform (FedRAMP Certified Class D, package FR2231052341). Federal AI use cases more than doubled in a year (3,611 use cases across 56 agencies), and most AI interactions are delivered through APIs; expanding an estate traditional IP-based inventory was never designed t…