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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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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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Microsoft on Wednesday announced the availability of a preview of Azure Container Service (ACS), providing customers with the ability to manage multiple virtual machines acting as container hosts.

The OpenSSL Project released on Thursday versions 1.0.2e, 1.0.1q, 1.0.0t and 0.9.8zh of the cryptographic software library to fix several security flaws and functionality bugs.A total of three vulnerabilities classified as “moderate” severity have been patched in the latest versions.

Fox-IT, the security firm recently acquired by NCC Group for $142 million, has published a report on Ponmocup, a sophisticated botnet that has been used over the past years by cybercriminals for financial gain.

Early morning on our annual Thanksgiving pilgrimage I noticed a nontrivial number of cameras along our route on Interstate 95 as we were leaving Northern Virginia. Left to entertain myself by my sleeping passengers, I began to contemplate their meaning.

Researchers at security firm Rapid7 discovered that the latest firmware version for some Advantech EKI products is plagued by several known vulnerabilities.Advantech EKI are Modbus gateways designed for connecting serial devices to TCP/IP network-based devices in industrial control environments.

Researchers have conducted an analysis of popular mobile broadband modems and routers from various vendors and discovered that the devices are plagued by serious vulnerabilities that can be leveraged in malicious attacks.

A security researcher has uncovered an easy-to-exploit vulnerability in the mobile version of the Yahoo! Mail website.Ibrahim Raafat discovered a persistent cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability that could have been exploited by malicious actors for various purposes.

The data breach suffered by Chinese educational toymaker VTech is more serious than initially thought, as the company has confirmed that nearly 5 million customer accounts and more than 6 million kids profiles have been compromised.

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