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Nightmare Eclipse Drops ‘HardBreacher’ Kaspersky Product Exploit

Kaspersky told SecurityWeek that it patched the vulnerability affecting its Endpoint Security product. The post Nightmare Eclipse Drops ‘HardBreacher’ Kaspersky Product Exploit appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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ServiceNow Patches 3 Critical Code Injection Vulnerabilities

Attackers could exploit the security defects to execute arbitrary code and access or tamper with data. The post ServiceNow Patches 3 Critical Code Injection Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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⚡ Weekly Recap: Chinese Spy Proxy, AI Agents Go Off-Task, Router Backdoors and More

The boring parts caused most of the trouble. A router shipped ready to listen. A fake check turned the user into the installer. Trusted systems collected traffic and passwords, then cleaned the logs. Old bugs formed new attack chains. Even an AI agent decided its assigned task was optional. Elsewhere, fake apps, helpful support calls, cheap banking kits, exposed systems, and weak defaults kept

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McKesson Confirms Data Breach as Attacker Deadline Looms

The ShinyHunters extortion group has claimed the theft of 284 million records from the company’s systems. The post McKesson Confirms Data Breach as Attacker Deadline Looms appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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What the Hugging Face Incident Teaches Security Leaders About AI Agent Access

Security teams must treat autonomous agents as highly privileged identities. The post What the Hugging Face Incident Teaches Security Leaders About AI Agent Access appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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ValleyRAT Backdoor Hides in Signed Adware That Users Add to Antivirus Exclusions

The threat actor known as Silver Fox has been observed distributing the ValleyRAT backdoor disguised as a signed Chinese adware application, running the malware under a trusted process to slip past users who add such software to their antivirus exclusions. Russian cybersecurity vendor Kaspersky said the attackers built the disguise around QN Wallpaper, a genuine Chinese desktop-wallpaper tool

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Anthropic Warns Claude Users of Infostealer Malware Infections

The AI giant is logging customers out of their accounts and removing payment data to prevent unauthorized Claude usage. The post Anthropic Warns Claude Users of Infostealer Malware Infections appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Aurora Ransomware Operators Use Cursor AI in Attacks Against 10 Targets

Threat actors associated with Aurora (aka Aur0ra) ransomware have been observed using SpaceX's artificial intelligence (AI)-powered coding assistant Cursor to break into target networks, according to findings from CloudSEK and Gambit Security. The two independent analyses are based on exposed infrastructure associated with the Russian-speaking cybercrime group, leading to the discovery of its

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Securing Claude Code: The New Compliance API, Local Visibility, and Identity Governance

Claude Code reads files, runs shell commands, invokes MCP tools, and acts through the credentials available on a developer’s machine. Anthropic’s new Compliance API endpoints give security teams their clearest view yet into that activity. They also expose a larger problem: activity logs alone cannot tell you whether an agent’s access is legitimate. AI has moved from the browser tab to the

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Critical Ruby on Rails Vulnerability in Attackers’ Crosshairs

Named KindaRails2Shell, the arbitrary file read flaw allows attackers to extract secrets and execute arbitrary code remotely. The post Critical Ruby on Rails Vulnerability in Attackers’ Crosshairs appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Boston Scientific Still Recovering From Cyberattack

The company has called in CrowdStrike and others to investigate the attack that caused global network disruption. The post Boston Scientific Still Recovering From Cyberattack appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Extortion Group Claims Manchester Airports Group Data Breach

FulcrumSec says it stole over 80 GB of data from Manchester Airports Group and plans to leak it online. The post Extortion Group Claims Manchester Airports Group Data Breach appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Judge Says Pentagon’s Measures Against Anthropic Were ‘Illegal and Baseless’

The ruling is part of Anthropic's legal battle against the Pentagon after the government labeled the company as a supply chain risk earlier this year. The post Judge Says Pentagon’s Measures Against Anthropic Were ‘Illegal and Baseless’ appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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China-Linked Fire Ant Hijacks Cisco Routers to Steal Credentials and Blind Security Logs

A China-nexus cyber espionage actor tracked as Fire Ant has expanded a long-running campaign beyond VMware hypervisors to compromise Cisco IOS XR routers, Terminal Access Controller Access-Control System (TACACS) servers, and Linux management hosts used to route, authenticate, and manage high-value networks. Sygnia, the incident response firm that investigated the intrusion, said the actor

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Berlin Won’t Pay Extortion Group Claiming Data Theft

The Rhysida ransomware group has claimed the exfiltration of over 5TB of data, including personal information and credentials. The post Berlin Won’t Pay Extortion Group Claiming Data Theft appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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DoJ Corrects China Hacking Claim, Says U.S. Agencies Were Targets, Not Victims

The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Friday corrected a previously issued press statement that several of its agencies were victims of attacks carried out by Chinese threat actors, instead now pointing out that they were among those targeted. Last week, the DoJ said the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Federal Reserve, Department of Energy, Department of Justice, Department

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More Details Emerge on Exploited PaperCut Vulnerabilities

PaperCut has released a second emergency patch for the exploited vulnerabilities, which are now tracked as CVE-2026-82078 and CVE-2026-81578. The post More Details Emerge on Exploited PaperCut Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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TerminalFix Uses Fake Cloudflare CAPTCHAs to Deploy Reverse-Tunnel Backdoor

Microsoft has disclosed details of a new ClickFix variant, dubbed TerminalFix, that aims to trick users into running a malicious command in Windows Terminal or PowerShell. "While traditional ClickFix campaigns direct victims to the Windows Run dialog, TerminalFix campaigns apply the same technique but direct users to Windows Terminal or PowerShell instead, increasing the likelihood that complex

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Five Critical WordPress Plugin and Theme Flaws Enable Site Takeover or RCE

Multiple critical security flaws have been disclosed in WordPress plugins and themes, including WPMU DEV Dashboard, Avada, TranslatePress, Pods, and GiveWP, that could lead to authentication bypass, account takeover, and arbitrary code execution. The vulnerabilities, according to Wordfence and Patchstack, are listed below - CVE-2026-76581 (CVSS score: 9.8) - An authentication bypass flaw in

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Hasbro Data Breach Exposed Employee Personal Information

A cyberattack caused disruptions at the toy and game giant earlier this year and the company is now disclosing a data breach. The post Hasbro Data Breach Exposed Employee Personal Information appeared first on SecurityWeek.