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Federal officials have yet to say what caused the communications disruption or whether they are investigating a possible cyberattack.

Noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: Siemens details security advisory policy, OpenAI Codex backdoor risk, Microsoft warns of model weight backdoors.

Microsoft is trying different ways to identify the cause of the problem and get its servers back online, using “a measured approach to identify and repair affected infrastructure.”

The web scraping company says an intruder accessed customer accounts and obtained personal information or stored data.

Enea says SilentAir hijacked mobile network nodes to intercept calls and messages, with Taiwanese subscribers the primary targets.

Investigators seized 235 servers and 257 domains, along with 6.4 million victim credentials as part of Operation Endgame.

Successful exploitation could lead to unexpected behavior or denial-of-service (DoS) conditions.

Daybreak Red Team pentests web applications with AI agents, while Defense Factory investigates security findings and prepares patches.

It abuses CLFS and Windows Defender to trigger arbitrary file creation in the context of the antimalware process.

PHP2Shell enabled initial compromise, while CVE-2026-123039 allowed attackers to elevate privileges to root.

Dubbed 4EverAble2Shell, the flaw could allow remote, unauthenticated attackers to execute code with root privileges.

Also Thursday, the FBI blamed North Korea for a separate social engineering scheme that officials say resulted in the theft of $400 million worth of cryptocurrency.

Microsoft says failed server health checks disrupted Outlook and other Microsoft 365 services. The company is still investigating the cause and has disclosed no evidence of a cyberattack.

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Federal officials have yet to say what caused the communications disruption or whether they are investigating a possible cyberattack.

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It abuses CLFS and Windows Defender to trigger arbitrary file creation in the context of the antimalware process.

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PHP2Shell enabled initial compromise, while CVE-2026-123039 allowed attackers to elevate privileges to root.

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Dubbed 4EverAble2Shell, the flaw could allow remote, unauthenticated attackers to execute code with root privileges.

The mod_http2 race condition, CVE-2026-119618, could let unauthenticated attackers execute code on servers with HTTP/2 enabled.

The malicious activity started shortly after a researcher dropped over 30 zero-days. N-able patched the unauthenticated ones.

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The details of three new speculative execution vulnerabilities affecting Intel Xeon and Core processors were disclosed on Tuesday. The flaws have been dubbed Foreshadow and L1 Terminal Fault (L1TF), and patches and mitigations are already available.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A North Dakota Army National Guard unit based in Bismarck has been notified it could be mobilized.Detachment 1, 174th Cyber Protection Team has about seven soldiers on an alert status. The unit is led by 1st Lt. Charles Werner of Upham.

Exabeam, a San Mateo, California-based provider of a next-gen security information and event management (SIEM) platform, announced on Tuesday that it has closed $50 million in Series D funding.  

The Patch Tuesday updates released by Adobe for August 2018 address nearly a dozen vulnerabilities in Flash Player, the Creative Cloud Desktop Application, Experience Manager, and Acrobat and Reader.

The UK Metropolitan Police Service -- the Met, the UK's largest police force and one of the largest in the world -- has introduced a new portable fingerprint scanner. This is not the first portable scanner used by the Met, but differs from the earlier option by being developed in-house.

A team of researchers has disclosed the details of a new attack method that can be used to crack encrypted communications. The products of several vendors, including Cisco, Huawei, ZyXEL and Clavister, are impacted.

Finding a competitive edge in heavy industries and manufacturing today is as much about digitization and data analytics as it is about bringing new products and services to market. It has therefore become imperative for businesses in these sectors to invest in technologies that allow them to connect, control and monitor their industrial environments using sensors, gateways and other digital transformation tools.

The U.S. Department of Defense on Monday announced the launch of “Hack the Marine Corps,” the Military's sixth bug bounty program.Similar to previous programs run by the Pentagon, Hack the Marine Corps is hosted by bug bounty platform HackerOne.

The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) on Friday published version 1.3 of the Transport Layer Security (TLS) traffic encryption protocol as RFC 8446.

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