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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.

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

The emergency package comes after dozens of companies and government agencies were hit by unauthorized access to their systems and leaks of client data, prompting uneasiness across Japan.

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

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In a month, 28 residential proxy services used 6 addresses, mainly between 5 p.m. and midnight, Eastern Time.

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A vulnerability patched by the Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) in the BIND DNS software several years ago has been found to affect Linux distributions that use packages derived from BIND releases prior to the security hole being fixed.

The Russian national arrested earlier this month by Czech police has been charged in the United States for hacking into the systems of LinkedIn, Dropbox and Formspring.Yevgeniy Aleksandrovich Nikulin, 29, of Moscow, Russia, was arrested by Czech authorities on October 5, but news of the arrest only came to light last week.

Experts determined that the distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks launched last week against Dyn’s DNS infrastructure were powered by Internet of Things (IoT) devices infected with the malware known as Mirai.

A newly observed Linux backdoor Trojan can perform its nefarious activities without root access, by using the privileges of the current user, Doctor Web security researchers have discovered.

A researcher has disclosed a couple of serious Slack vulnerabilities that could have been exploited to obtain sensitive information and take over user accounts. The vendor patched the flaws and awarded the expert a total of $9,000.

Twitter, GitHub and several other major websites are inaccessible for many users due to a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on the Managed DNS infrastructure of cloud-based Internet performance management company Dyn.

Following the success of the “Hack the Pentagon” program, the U.S. Department of Defense has decided to continue to test its websites and networks for cybersecurity vulnerabilities using crowdsourced experts.

Hackers have managed to steal information associated with more than 43 million accounts belonging to customers of Weebly, a San Francisco-based web hosting service that provides a drag-and-drop website builder.

The Sarvdap spambot was recently observed checking the IP addresses of infected hosts against common blacklists, in an attempt to ensure that its spam email is successfully delivered.

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