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Lantronix Serial-to-IP Converter Flaw Exploited in Attacks After OT Threat Warning

The exploited flaw, CVE-2025-67038, is one of the vulnerabilities disclosed in April as part of the BRIDGE:BREAK research project. The post Lantronix Serial-to-IP Converter Flaw Exploited in Attacks After OT Threat Warning appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Surviving the Mythos Era: Richard Bejtlich on the Case for NDR

Despite the abundance of telemetry at analysts’ disposal, many security operations teams struggle to answer a few basic questions during incident investigation: What happened? What evidence do we have? How do we know we’re seeing it all, in context? Answering these questions requires teams to go beyond alerts, the most common basis for initial triage. But investigations (and their outcomes)

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GitLab Patches Code Execution, Information Disclosure Vulnerabilities

The latest GitLab CE/EE updates address 13 vulnerabilities, including three high-severity defects. The post GitLab Patches Code Execution, Information Disclosure Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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25-Year-Old Vulnerability Patched in Curl

The latest version of the open source data transfer tool resolves 18 medium and low-severity vulnerabilities. The post 25-Year-Old Vulnerability Patched in Curl appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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New Gaslight macOS Malware Uses Prompt Injection to Disrupt AI-Assisted Analysis

A previously undocumented Rust-based macOS implant and information stealer has been found to embed a prompt injection payload designed to trick a malware analyst's artificial intelligence (AI) tools and trick it into aborting or refusing an analysis of the artifact. The malware has been codenamed Gaslight owing to this deceptive behavior. It's been assessed with high confidence that the tool is

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SecurityWeek ICS Cybersecurity Conference Heads to Nashville for Special 25-Year Anniversary Edition

The 2026 Industrial Control Systems (ICS) Cybersecurity Conference takes place October 6-8, 2026, at the W Nashville. The post SecurityWeek ICS Cybersecurity Conference Heads to Nashville for Special 25-Year Anniversary Edition appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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New Mistic Backdoor Linked to KongTuke in ClickFix and ModeloRAT Campaigns

A new, stealthy backdoor named Mistic has been deployed as part of suspected financially motivated attacks aimed at multiple organizations spanning insurance, education, IT, and professional services sectors since April 2026. According to Symantec and Carbon Black's Threat Hunter Team, the backdoor, also tracked as MLTBackdoor, is said to be linked to an initial access broker (IAB) named

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NIST Opens Updated IoT Security Guidance to Public Review

The guidance aims to establish product cybersecurity requirements for IoT devices integrated into federal agencies’ networks. The post NIST Opens Updated IoT Security Guidance to Public Review appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Chrome 149 Update Resolves 18 Severe Vulnerabilities

More than half of the bugs are use-after-free defects, which can potentially lead to remote code execution. The post Chrome 149 Update Resolves 18 Severe Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Cisco SD-WAN Zero-Day Exploited Months Before Patching

CVE-2026-20245, the 7th Cisco SD-WAN vulnerability exploited in 2026, was used for months prior to its disclosure and patching. The post Cisco SD-WAN Zero-Day Exploited Months Before Patching appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Zero-Day CVE-2026-20245 Exploited to Gain Root Access

An unknown threat actor exploited a recently disclosed high-severity security flaw impacting Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN as a zero-day at least two months before it was publicly disclosed, according to new findings from Google-owned Mandiant. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-20245 (CVSS score: 7.8), allows an authenticated, local attacker to execute arbitrary commands with elevated privileges

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When Information Becomes the Attack Surface – Understanding AI Agent Traps

From hidden content injections to cognitive state poisoning, attackers are turning trusted data sources into traps for autonomous AI. The post When Information Becomes the Attack Surface – Understanding AI Agent Traps appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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CISA Warns Critical Lantronix EDS5000 Flaw Is Being Actively Exploited

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday warned of active exploitation of a critical security flaw impacting Lantronix EDS5000 Series devices, urging Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) agencies to apply the fixes by June 26, 2026. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2025-67038 (CVSS score: 9.8), a code injection flaw that could result in the execution

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Amadey and StealC Malware Network Disrupted, 27M Stolen Credentials Recovered

A coordinated law enforcement operation, in partnership with private sector companies, including Bitdefender, Bitsight, ESET, and Microsoft, has resulted in the takedown of criminal infrastructure powering Amadey and StealC. "The main common goal was to disrupt the 'assembly lines' cybercriminals use to launch ransomware, financial fraud, and attacks on critical infrastructure," Europol said in

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Microsoft and Allies Smash Shared Infrastructure of Amadey and StealC Malware

Hundreds of C&C servers were disrupted in an operation involving law enforcement and several cybersecurity companies. The post Microsoft and Allies Smash Shared Infrastructure of Amadey and StealC Malware appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Cordyceps CI/CD Flaws Expose 300+ GitHub Repositories to Supply-Chain Attacks

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new class of CI/CD workflow weakness that allows attackers to hijack workflows and compromise open-source supply chains. The "critical exploitable pattern" has been codenamed Cordyceps by Novee Security. The issue can allow full attacker control of repositories at dozens of the largest organizations worldwide, including Microsoft, Google, Apache, and

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Dawn of the Apex Agentic Adversary

We are standing at the end of an era we never thought to mourn: the era of human-speed threats. For years, cybersecurity moved to a rhythm organizations could follow. A researcher found a bug, a CVE was cataloged, a vendor navigated a patch cycle, and weeks or even months later, a fix was deployed. In this era, dwell time was measured in days, sometimes weeks. We are now approaching an

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DoJ Seizes Huione Cloud Account Tied to Cyber Scam Money Laundering

The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Tuesday announced the seizure of a cloud computing account put to use by subsidiaries of Cambodia-based corporate conglomerate HuiOne Group, as the Treasury unveiled fresh sanctions against nine individuals and 26 entities linked to Prince Group. "These subsidiaries are alleged to have assisted individuals and organizations in transferring proceeds of

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Cisco Unified CM Flaw Exploited After PoC Reveals File-Write Path to Root

Threat actors have begun to exploit a recently disclosed critical security flaw impacting Cisco Unified Communications Manager (Unified CM) and Unified Communications Manager Session Management Edition (Unified CM SME). The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-20230 (CVSS score: 8.6), is a case of improper input validation for specific HTTP requests that could allow an unauthenticated, remote

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FortiBleed Targeted FortiGate Firewalls in 110 Million-Credential Harvesting Operation

A Russian-speaking initial access broker (IAB) driven by financial gain is assessed to be behind a large-scale credential-harvesting operation known as FortiBleed that has targeted over 430,000 FortiGate firewalls globally. The campaign, active since February 2026, involves collecting credential lists, searching for exposed services, brute-forcing accessible systems, and deploying bespoke