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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.

Cisco patched an RCE in UCS Central Software; WatchGuard fixed authentication and MitM flaws.

Every autonomous AI agent deployed across your enterprise today is a new proxy identity operating inside your perimeter.

Ryan Davis went from hacking his school’s network to running security at New Charter Technologies. What worries him now is shadow AI.

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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.

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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.

Binance’s first incident report traces the record theft to a months-long campaign that compromised three engineers’ computers.

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Researchers at High-Tech Bridge have identified several vulnerabilities in TheCartPress, an eCommerce plugin installed on more than 5,000 WordPress websites.According to experts, the plugin is plagued by security holes that can be exploited for cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks, arbitrary PHP code execution, and sensitive data disclosure.

It’s important to acknowledge that “shadow IT” shouldn’t be feared. We live in an era where individual SaaS vendors maintain an increasing amount of our corporate data. And for good reasons as these cloud-based services provide organizations with near-instant access to advanced capabilities that allow teams to remain a step ahead of their competition.

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Managing IT risk is an essential component of the business risk management process, which has achieved broader adoption in recent years. However, with the growing number of data breaches and a whole new set of security challenges facing companies, it’s time to re-examine the definition of IT risk management.

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