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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.

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

Its multi-agent AI platform generates the telemetry an attack would produce to fix gaps in enterprise defenses.

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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.

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Nearly 33,000 MongoDB databases have been hijacked as of today, the latest numbers associated with a series of attack campaigns that have been picking up pace over the past couple of weeks show.

Updates released on Monday for the Ansible IT automation platform address a security bypass vulnerability that can be exploited to execute arbitrary commands on the Ansible controller and gain access to the hosts connected to it.

The RIG exploit kit (EK) managed to grab nearly 35% of the overall EK activity during the last month of 2016, retaining the leading spot in the landscape for the fourth month in a row, Symantec reports.

Proof-of-concept (PoC) code released by a researcher for a denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability affecting the Local Security Authority Subsystem Service (LSASS) in Windows has led to the discovery of a different, but similar, flaw.

Connectivity solutions provider D-Link Systems has retained the Cause of Action Institute to help it fight against the “unwarranted and baseless” charges brought by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC).

Microsoft has addressed vulnerabilities affecting Windows, Office and the Edge web browser, but the company’s January 2017 Patch Tuesday updates include only four security bulletins.

Adobe informed users on Tuesday that updates released for Acrobat, Reader and Flash Player patch a total of 42 vulnerabilities, including many that could lead to arbitrary code execution.

After the fall of the Nuclear and Angler exploit kits (EKs), overall activity generated from exploit kits has dropped to only a fraction of what used to be.

Phantom, a cybersecurity startup that has developed a community-powered security automation and orchestration platform, announced that it has raised $13.5 million in a Series B funding round led by iconic Silicon Valley VC firm Kleiner Perkins.

A second variant of the Shamoon 2 malware discovered by researchers at Palo Alto Networks has been set up to target virtualization products, likely in an effort to increase the impact of the attack and make recovery more difficult for targeted organizations.

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