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Qilin Ransomware Attackers Exploit PAN-OS Authentication Bypass for Initial Access

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 of CVE-2026-0257 (CVSS score: 7.8), an authentication bypass flaw affecting the portal and gateway

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Zimbra Patches Critical SNMP Command Injection and Four XSS Vulnerabilities

Zimbra has rolled out fixes to address multiple critical security issues, including a command injection flaw in the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) monitoring component. As many as nine security vulnerabilities have been patched in Zimbra 10.1.20. Topping the list is a command injection vulnerability in the SNMP monitoring component when SNMP notifications are enabled. Also patched

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Empirical Security Raises $25 Million in Series A Funding

The startup will use the investment to accelerate the development of its threat prediction and discovery products. The post Empirical Security Raises $25 Million in Series A Funding appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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SecurityWeek Launches Critical Impact Awards to Recognize Excellence in Industrial Cybersecurity

Independently judged and sponsor-neutral, the new awards program honors the people, organizations, and technologies delivering proven impact in industrial cybersecurity; winners to be announced live at the 2026 ICS Cybersecurity Conference in Nashville The post SecurityWeek Launches Critical Impact Awards to Recognize Excellence in Industrial Cybersecurity appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Open-Source Android AI Agents Could Let Invisible Screen Text Run Code on Host PCs

An Android app that can draw over other windows and write to shared storage can slip instructions to the AI agent driving that phone, in text no human eye will ever see. Two more steps, and the same app is running commands on the PC driving the agent. Researchers demonstrated that chain, plus six other attacks, against five open-source mobile agent frameworks: AppAgent, AppAgentX,

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New HollowGraph Malware Abuses Microsoft 365 Calendar for C&C Communication

Part of a larger toolkit, HollowGraph uses a compromised 365 account’s calendar as a two-way dead-drop. The post New HollowGraph Malware Abuses Microsoft 365 Calendar for C&C Communication appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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N-day is Becoming N-Hour. Patching Faster Won't Save You.

Every patch is a confession. The moment a vendor ships a security fix, the diff between the old code and the new code tells anyone watching exactly what was broken and where. Turn that diff back into a working exploit, and you can hit every system that hasn't updated yet. This is N-day exploitation, and it's always been a race: the vendor patches, the clock starts, and defenders try to deploy

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CISO Conversations: Andreas Gaetje – From Economics to CISO at Körber AG

Gaetje’s story shows that you don’t need to be a ‘deep bit-crawler’ to become a Chief Information Security Officer. The post CISO Conversations: Andreas Gaetje – From Economics to CISO at Körber AG appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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New Bit2Watt Attack Could Let Cloud Tenants Disrupt Power Grids Without an Exploit

A cloud tenant using nothing but ordinary GPU access can push a data center's power draw up and down fast enough to threaten the grid it runs on, with no exploit and no break-in. That is the claim behind Bit2Watt, described by three Zhejiang University researchers in a paper accepted to CHES 2026, the IACR's hardware-security conference, and the evidence splits in two: they measured the power

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Estée Lauder Discloses Impact From Oracle EBS Zero-Day Hack

Hackers exfiltrated personal, financial, and health information from the company’s Oracle EBS instance in August 2025. The post Estée Lauder Discloses Impact From Oracle EBS Zero-Day Hack appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Meta Paid $78,000 Bounty for Vulnerability Exposing Customer Support Data

A security researcher discovered a broken access control vulnerability in Meta’s support infrastructure. The post Meta Paid $78,000 Bounty for Vulnerability Exposing Customer Support Data appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Clover Health Investments Discloses Data Breach

Using social engineering, hackers compromised employee accounts with access to personal and health information. The post Clover Health Investments Discloses Data Breach appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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WordPress wp2shell Exploitation Grows as Public Exploit Fuels Mass Scanning

Attackers have begun to exploit two critical vulnerabilities in WordPress that, when combined together, enable unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) and complete compromise of vulnerable websites. The two security flaws, tracked as CVE-2026-63030 and CVE-2026-60137, have been codenamed wp2shell. "By the early hours of Saturday morning (UTC), successful exploitation was already well

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Exploitation of ServiceNow Vulnerability Seen Days After Disclosure

The ServiceNow AI platform vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-6875 can be exploited for remote code execution. The post Exploitation of ServiceNow Vulnerability Seen Days After Disclosure appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Zimbra Update Patches Critical Vulnerabilities

The latest Zimbra refresh resolves command injection, XSS, restriction bypass, and SSRF security defects. The post Zimbra Update Patches Critical Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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New ENCFORGE Ransomware Targets AI Model Files in Langflow RCE Attack

Researchers at Sysdig have linked a second attack on the same Langflow server to JADEPUFFER, the AI-agent-driven operator it first documented earlier this month. The same operator has now been spotted deploying ENCFORGE, a new compiled Go ransomware designed to encrypt model weights, vector indexes, training datasets, and other AI infrastructure files across the host filesystem. The entry

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Critical ServiceNow AI Platform Flaw Exploited for Unauthenticated Code Execution

Threat actors are now exploiting a recently disclosed critical security flaw impacting ServiceNow AI Platform, according to Defused Cyber. In a post shared on X, the threat intelligence firm said it's observing in-the-wild exploitation of CVE-2026-6875 (CVSS score: 9.5), a sandbox escape vulnerability that could allow an unauthenticated user to run arbitrary code. Patches for the flaw were

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FakeGit Campaign Uses 7,600 GitHub Repositories to Spread SmartLoader Malware

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered nearly 7,600 malicious GitHub repositories, out of which more than 800 pose as artificial intelligence (AI) skills or Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers to deliver a malware family known as SmartLoader as part of an ongoing campaign codenamed FakeGit. "FakeGit uses copied projects, lookalike developer profiles, convincing READMEs, and malicious ZIP

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Exposed Server Reveals AI-Assisted Phishing Toolkit Behind WebDAV Malware Campaign

A malware operator left its delivery server wide open, and Rapid7 pulled down the whole toolkit: 1,048 files spanning lure templates, filename-spoofing tests, execution experiments, droppers, builder notes, and two campaign chains. One was already live against Windows users in Mexico, delivering an infostealer through a fake government ID-lookup site over WebDAV. What makes it more than a

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Neo Emerges From Stealth With $100M to Control and Secure Enterprise AI Software

Neo raised money across seed and Series A funding rounds from Andreessen Horowitz, Bessemer Venture Partners, and others. The post Neo Emerges From Stealth With $100M to Control and Secure Enterprise AI Software appeared first on SecurityWeek.