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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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An industrial router made by Australian telecommunications equipment company NetComm Wireless is affected by several serious vulnerabilities that can be exploited remotely to take control of affected devices.

Google wants to know where you go so badly that it records your movements even when you explicitly tell it not to.An Associated Press investigation found that many Google services on Android devices and iPhones store your location data even if you've used privacy settings that say they will prevent it from doing so.

Patch management has always been an evergreen topic for security practitioners. Each time poor patching is identified as the root cause of a breach, it triggers a new flood of opinions on the countless dos and don’ts of triaging common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs), understanding criticality scores, and deploying patches. Often left out of the conversation, however, is an especially crucial variable: risk.

A recently patched security vulnerability in the Kaspersky VPN application for Android resulted in DNS queries being exposed even after the user connected to a virtual server.

Oracle informed customers late on Friday that its Database product is affected by a critical vulnerability. Patches have been released and users have been advised to install them as soon as possible.

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