Latest Cybersecurity News and Articles

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OFAC Sanctions DPRK IT Worker Network Funding WMD Programs Through Fake Remote Jobs

The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has sanctioned six individuals and two entities for their involvement in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) information technology (IT) worker scheme with an aim to defraud U.S. businesses and generate illicit revenue for the regime to fund its weapons of mass destruction (WMD) programs. "The North Korean

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Interlock Ransomware Exploits Cisco FMC Zero-Day CVE-2026-20131 for Root Access

Amazon Threat Intelligence is warning of an active Interlock ransomware campaign that's exploiting a recently disclosed critical security flaw in Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) Software. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-20131 (CVSS score: 10.0), a case of insecure deserialization of user-supplied Java byte stream, which could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to

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Threat Actors Target the Entire Retail Supply Chain

The full supply chain is at risk for cyberattacks.

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Cloud Security Startup Native Exits Stealth With $42 Million in Funding

Phil Venables, former CISO of Google Cloud and now a venture partner at Ballistic Ventures, has joined Native’s board of directors. The post Cloud Security Startup Native Exits Stealth With $42 Million in Funding appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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‘DarkSword’ iOS Exploit Kit Used by State-Sponsored Hackers, Spyware Vendors

Targeting six iOS vulnerabilities and leading to full device compromise, the exploit chain is meant for surveillance. The post ‘DarkSword’ iOS Exploit Kit Used by State-Sponsored Hackers, Spyware Vendors appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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GuardDog Telehealth Accesses Sensitive Medical Records Under False Pretenses

A telehealth organization accessed patient medical data in order to share it with law firms. 

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Virtual Summit Today: Supply Chain & Third-Party Risk Summit

Cyber risk doesn’t stop at your perimeter. Today’s most dangerous threats could be hiding in your software supply chain. The post Virtual Summit Today: Supply Chain & Third-Party Risk Summit appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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EU Sanctions Chinese, Iranian Firms Supporting Hacking Operations

The sanctions target two Chinese individuals, two Chinese companies, and one Iranian firm involved in hacking EU member states. The post EU Sanctions Chinese, Iranian Firms Supporting Hacking Operations appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Shadow AI Risk: How SaaS Apps Are Quietly Enabling Massive Breaches

From Chaos to Control examines the chaos that often comes from shadow AI hidden in SaaS apps and urges better visibility and control over agentic AI. The post Shadow AI Risk: How SaaS Apps Are Quietly Enabling Massive Breaches appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Manifold Raises $8 Million for AI Detection and Response

Focused on securing autonomous AI on endpoints, the startup will invest in product development. The post Manifold Raises $8 Million for AI Detection and Response appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Iranian Hackers Likely Used Malware-Stolen Credentials in Stryker Breach

The medtech giant has been working on restoring systems affected by the cyberattack conducted by the Handala hackers. The post Iranian Hackers Likely Used Malware-Stolen Credentials in Stryker Breach appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Apple Debuts Background Security Improvements With Fresh WebKit Patches

The lightweight updates are meant to deliver security protections between security updates. The post Apple Debuts Background Security Improvements With Fresh WebKit Patches appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Fear of Surveillance Leads to Increased VPN Use

Americans are using VPNs for additional privacy.

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Claude Code Security and Magecart: Getting the Threat Model Right

When a Magecart payload hides inside the EXIF data of a dynamically loaded third-party favicon, no repository scanner will catch it – because the malicious code never actually touches your repo. As teams adopt Claude Code Security for static analysis, this is the exact technical boundary where AI code scanning stops and client-side runtime execution begins. A detailed analysis of where Claude

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9 Critical IP KVM Flaws Enable Unauthenticated Root Access Across Four Vendors

Cybersecurity researchers have warned about the risks posed by low-cost IP KVM (Keyboard, Video, Mouse over Internet Protocol) devices, which can grant attackers extensive control over compromised hosts. The nine vulnerabilities, discovered by Eclypsium, span four different products from GL-iNet Comet RM-1, Angeet/Yeeso ES3 KVM, Sipeed NanoKVM, and JetKVM. The most severe of them allow

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Researcher Discovers 4th WhatsApp View Once Bypass; Meta Won’t Patch

Meta does not plan on fixing the vulnerability because it involves the use of a modified client application. The post Researcher Discovers 4th WhatsApp View Once Bypass; Meta Won’t Patch appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Product Walkthrough: How Mesh CSMA Reveals and Breaks Attack Paths to Crown Jewels

Security teams today are not short on tools or data. They are overwhelmed by both.  Yet within the terabytes of alerts, exposures, and misconfigurations – security teams still struggle to understand context:  Q: Which exposures, misconfigurations, and vulnerabilities chain together to create viable attack paths to crown jewels? Even the most mature security teams can’t answer that

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Ubuntu CVE-2026-3888 Bug Lets Attackers Gain Root via systemd Cleanup Timing Exploit

A high-severity security flaw affecting default installations of Ubuntu Desktop versions 24.04 and later could be exploited to escalate privileges to the root level. Tracked as CVE-2026-3888 (CVSS score: 7.8), the issue could allow an attacker to seize control of a susceptible system. "This flaw (CVE-2026-3888) allows an unprivileged local attacker to escalate privileges to full root access

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Apple Fixes WebKit Vulnerability Enabling Same-Origin Policy Bypass on iOS and macOS

Apple on Tuesday released its first round of Background Security Improvements to address a security flaw in WebKit that affects iOS, iPadOS, and macOS. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-20643 (CVSS score: N/A), has been described as a cross-origin issue in WebKit's Navigation API that could be exploited to bypass the same-origin policy when processing maliciously crafted web content. The

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Critical Unpatched Telnetd Flaw (CVE-2026-32746) Enables Unauthenticated Root RCE via Port 23

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a critical security flaw impacting the GNU InetUtils telnet daemon (telnetd) that could be exploited by an unauthenticated remote attacker to execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-32746, carries a CVSS score of 9.8 out of 10.0. It has been described as a case of out-of-bounds write in the LINEMODE Set