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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.

Noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: Synology warns about NAS ransomware attacks, Flowise ‘hello’ attacks, Chainalysis breach impact expands.

Hackers created an account on an internal system and accessed names, email addresses, phone numbers, and business addresses.

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

The recommendations come amid attacks targeting fridges and freezers in supermarkets and blood banks in Europe.

The October incident will cut fourth-quarter sales by up to €250 million and has led Ahold Delhaize to lower its 2026 outlook.

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

On Linux distributions using musl libc without PAM, some accounts accept any password between 257 and 1024 characters.

After its sandbox proxy failed, an internal OpenAI model crafted raw packets and probed AWS services trying to reach the internet.

The trio, who have nicknames that include “Rocky Balboa,” “Superman Cash” and “Fat Boy,” often targeted the companies’ accounting departments.

An unreleased OpenAI cyber model found and exploited 948 distinct Linux kernel privilege escalation bugs for about $1.2 million.

More than 200 sites were seen serving phishing content to first-time visitors but not to those who revisit.

The incident comes after supermarkets in a number of European countries reported this week that their fridges and freezers warmed up after they were remotely hacked.

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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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On Linux distributions using musl libc without PAM, some accounts accept any password between 257 and 1024 characters.

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An unreleased OpenAI cyber model found and exploited 948 distinct Linux kernel privilege escalation bugs for about $1.2 million.

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Tracked as CVE-2026-107441, the out-of-bounds write flaw could allow attackers to execute OS commands via crafted HTTP requests.

The large-scale watering hole campaign has been targeting entities in the US and Europe, mainly in Ukraine.

Hackers have been harvesting AI access tokens and have been using AI-assisted offensive tools to automate attacks.

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The OpenSSL Project has released updates to patch several vulnerabilities in the crypto library, including a high severity TLS issue that can be exploited to crack encrypted communications and steal potentially sensitive data.

SAN FRANCISCO – RSA CONFERENCE 2016 - Kaspersky Lab, the Moscow-based security firm known for uncovering some of the world’s most sophisticated attack operations globally, today announced a new solution aimed at helping customers detect advanced targeted attacks, and a new security Intelligence offering for enterprises.

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The Pentagon is expanding its cyber war against Islamic State computer networks, senior defense officials said Monday as they claimed to have seized the momentum in the 18-month-old fight against the jihadists.

ESET’s home and business customers took to the company’s forums earlier today to complain that they had been prevented from accessing a large number of websites after applying the latest product updates.

IBM announced on Monday that it plans to acquire Resilient Systems, a privately-held company that offers an Incident Response Platform (IRP) that helps organizations prepare, assess, manage, and report on privacy breaches and security incidents.The terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

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