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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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Internet giant Google on Wednesday announced the launch of Mobile Application Management (MAM) for iOS devices, a solution designed to help Google Apps administrators recommend and manage applications that employees should install and use on their managed iOS devices in the workplace.

Germany-based enterprise software maker SAP has addressed a total of twenty vulnerabilities as part of its September 2015 Security Patch Day.In addition to fixing 20 new flaws, SAP noted that it has also updated five previously released patches. The company rated 16 of the new vulnerabilities as having “high” or “very high” (hot news) severity.

President Barack Obama will offer his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping a full state welcome at the White House later this month, belying tensions fueled by Beijing's increased military assertiveness.

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