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The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added a high-severity security flaw impacting UnrealIRCd, an open-source Internet Relay Chat (IRC) server, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, following reports of...
A type confusion flaw in PostgreSQL lets a database user who can create objects run code on the server. Updates released yesterday fix it, along with 51 other security flaws. Full protection from this flaw also requires rebuilding any C-language extensions...
Two attacks made public this week allow a malicious host to read data inside AMD SEV-SNP-protected virtual machines (VMs), which are built to keep the server's operator out. One of them, Mior, can also modify a VM's memory and fake the signed report...
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has established that threat actors tied to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK aka North Korea) have stolen more than $400 million worth of cryptocurrency as part of a social engineering scheme...
Three Trezor Safe 5 wallets bought from the reseller CryptoBilis contain an implant, an extra circuit board that can copy their recovery phrases, hardware wallet maker Trezor said yesterday. The implant reads the phrase from the wallet's screen and sends...
Suppose an AI agent is asked to sort support tickets and look up account details. A ticket contains instructions that lead the agent to export records to an unfamiliar destination. The agent can make the request because its identity has access to the...
A newly identified spying group used hacked equipment inside Asian mobile operators to intercept the calls and texts of selected people, mostly in Taiwan. Enea, a telecom and cybersecurity software company based in Stockholm, found the group's attack...
An international police operation took down servers behind Gootloader, CastleRAT and StealC this week. Criminals used the three malware tools to gain access to computers, steal passwords, and launch ransomware attacks. Police also seized about 6.4 million...
An unknown threat actor has been observed targeting unpatched Check Point Security Gateways to obtain initial access via the PHP2Shell vulnerabilities and then a previously unreported local privilege escalation flaw in Gaia OS to deploy a backdoor called...
N-able on Thursday said it's taking additional precautions in the wake of public disclosure of a new set of flaws tracked as 4EverAble2Shell and Agent2Shell. "We are restricting certain N-central features and integrations," the company said in a Thursday...
Security teams have more alerts, logs, and monitoring tools than ever. Yet when an attack happens, one simple question can still take too long to answer: Who or what is behind this activity, and what can they access? A suspicious login might belong to an...
A search result isn't always safe. An access request isn't always harmless. And a familiar account doesn't always mean a familiar person is using it. Simple things to remember. Yet a surprising amount of this week's trouble starts right there. Attackers...
Public exploit code released earlier this week claims that a local Windows user can gain SYSTEM privileges through the Common Log File System driver. The proof of concept, called SignDrop, targets a log-authentication feature added to the driver last year....
A critical flaw in Red Hat Quay allows an attacker who can access a Quay registry to read and overwrite private container images in every repository. Quay enables anonymous access by default, and while it is enabled, the attacker needs no account. When it...
Citrix has released patches for multiple critical security flaws impacting NetScaler ADC, Citrix NetScaler Gateway, and NetScaler Console that could lead to denial-of-service (DoS) or an authentication bypass. The critical vulnerabilities that impact...
Cybersecurity researchers have found that lookalike domains masquerading as artificial intelligence (AI) tools are being used to serve ClickFix-style lures, browser-hijacking malware, and a set of extensions that hijack user searches. This delivery pattern...
The ongoing campaign targeting ConnectWise ScreenConnect deployments involves the exploitation of a now-patched critical security flaw in the remote access software, and not a new vulnerability, it has emerged. Blackpoint Cyber's Adversary Pursuit Group...
Google Cloud VMs on AMD Turin chips need a guest OS patch and a stop-and-start to protect against three CPU side-channel flaws, Google said this week. The company has already applied mitigations against attacks between VMs, and between VMs and the host....
N-able on Thursday said it's investigating a new public disclosure containing claims of additional vulnerabilities in on-premise versions of N-central running version 2026.4.1 HF2. "Based on our initial review, the server issue described depends on a...
Since mid-August 2026, a phishing operation has been stealing live Google sessions from corporate users. Every check defenders normally lean on to judge a link came back clean, and the operator designed it that way on purpose. The Threat Research team at...
PTC has released patches for a new critical vulnerability impacting Windchill and FlexPLM software that, if successfully exploited, could result in remote code execution. The security flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-126325, carries a CVSS v4 score of 9.2 out of...
A critical flaw in MongoDB Server allows an unauthenticated attacker to send two requests that trigger a crash on the database server. The crash occurs only if that server is later chosen to take over as the main server while it still lacks some recent...
A flaw fixed in Node.js this week lets unauthenticated clients crash servers that use the runtime's built-in HTTP/2 support on the 24.x and 26.x release lines. A second HTTP/2 flaw can cause a server to send a client pieces of its memory, including...
Starting Tuesday, an attacker used stolen credentials for 4,837 GitHub accounts to plant a secret stealer in repositories those accounts could write to, according to Aikido Security, a security software company. The stealer is built to take the secrets and...
A critical flaw in Apache HTTP Server's HTTP/2 module, mod_http2, can let a remote attacker run code on the server. Tracked as CVE-2026-119618, it affects versions 2.4.55 through 2.4.70 and is fixed in version 2.4.71, released yesterday. Only servers with...
ConnectWise has taken the precautionary step of disabling five third-party extensions in partner environments following reports of unauthorized access. In an advisory posted on its site, the company said there is no evidence that the incident involves a...
Zoom has released software updates to address two security flaws impacting Zoom Workplace for Windows, including a critical bug that could result in privilege escalation on affected systems. The vulnerabilities are listed below - CVE-2026-108186 (CVSS...
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a campaign in which an emerging agentic penetration testing platform called AntiFox has been used to steal Amazon Web Services (AWS) credentials and pivot laterally into compromised environments. "In...
Threat actors have been observed targeting Qlik Sense servers to unsuccessfully deliver PowerShell reverse shell commands against multiple environments in October 2026. Cynet's CyOps and Research teams said they identified the suspicious activity in...
Of the 37,571 Grok-built apps that security company Claroc found online, 35,578 were open to anyone without a sign-in, the researchers said yesterday. They included 24 apps built by staff at the social network X and at SpaceXSI, the company that makes the...