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Hackers used compromised Qubole IAM credentials to steal customer files, secrets, keys, environment variables, and credentials.

Anthropic says Mythos 5.2 improves vulnerability discovery while showing a lower tendency to escape sandboxes in controlled tests.

Attackers could exploit the flaws for remote code execution, credential theft, and administrator account creation.

CISA has added CVE-2026-123218 and CVE-2026-116779 to KEV, urging federal agencies to patch them within three days.

France summoned the Iranian ambassador and said it would seek European sanctions against those responsible for the attack

The high-severity use-after-free in Chrome’s XML component was reported anonymously on November 6 and is already exploited in attacks.

Online fashion retailer Revolve has told regulators that the September cyberattack affected more than 1.5 million individuals.

Threat actors are exploiting the four-flaw chain to hack the Plex Media Server application on QNAP NAS devices.

Hackers compromised an external cloud service used by the shopping platform and may have stolen personal information from it.

Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said Saturday that his personal data had been disseminated on the dark web.

The initial exploitation attempts are attributed to botnets and crypto miners, but other threat actors are expected to follow suit.

Hackers stole personal, health, and insurance information, including Social Security numbers, from the company’s internal systems.

Frontline Education told Indiana regulators that its August data breach affected over 3 million school district staff and students.

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CISA has added CVE-2026-123218 and CVE-2026-116779 to KEV, urging federal agencies to patch them within three days.

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The high-severity use-after-free in Chrome’s XML component was reported anonymously on November 6 and is already exploited in attacks.

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The initial exploitation attempts are attributed to botnets and crypto miners, but other threat actors are expected to follow suit.

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Working with cryptographers, DeepMind’s AI agents cut the cost of forging RSA-1024 signatures and found a cheaper way to factor keys.

CVE-2026-19868 can let attackers holding credentials for a different login method get past SAML checks, including SAML-enforced MFA.

Rated Critical for cybersecurity, OpenAI’s new model beats GPT-5.6 Cyber at exploitation while staying in scope more reliably.

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Antivirus firm Avast announced on Wednesday the acquisition of Piriform, a London, UK-based company that develops the popular cleaning and optimization tool CCleaner.

FedEx-owned international delivery services company TNT Express is still working on restoring systems hit last month by the destructive NotPetya malware attack, but some business data may never be recovered, FedEx said in a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing this week.

The Ninebot by Segway miniPRO hoverboard-style electric scooter is affected by several vulnerabilities that can be exploited to take control of the device and possibly injure the rider, security consulting firm IOActive warned.

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For a couple of decades now, the career path of a cybersecurity professional has been evolving just like the rest of the tech industry. Years ago the top title was the dedicated “security officer,” who was generally also the CIO, the CFO, or some other officer of the company.  

Google is taking another step to better protect users from malicious third-party web applications: it is now warning users of newly created web apps and Apps Scripts that are pending verification.

Mozilla has asked Germany-based security firm Cure53 to conduct an audit of the Firefox Accounts system and researchers identified a total of 15 issues, including vulnerabilities rated critical and high severity.

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