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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.

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.

OpenAI says its Critical-rated cyber model met fewer hidden task goals when work was framed as AI safety research, often silently.

Sysdig’s platform uses runtime visibility to track AI agent actions and block risky behavior before it reaches production systems.

An authentication bypass and a command injection flaw can be chained for root access on Barracuda’s Email Security Gateway appliances.

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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.

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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.

A $300,000 award went to a pre-launch flaw that exposed conversations and tokens on internal Muse test VMs used by Meta staff.

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As user habits evolve, so do the tactics of attackers. It should come as little surprise then that as enterprises upgraded to newer versions of Windows in 2014, the amount of 64-bit Windows malware being used in attack campaigns increased as well.

San Jose, California-based Zscaler, a provider of cloud-based security solutions, unveiled a new cloud-based next-generation firewall that provides network security, application control and visibility from any location, with no on-premise hardware or software required.

Web application security firm WhiteHat Security on Tuesday said that Craig Hinkley has been appointed Chief Executive Officer of the company, taking over the position from company founder Jeremiah Grossman who took the role of interim CEO in February 2014.

Verizon on Tuesday released its widely anticipated 2015 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR), a must read report compiled by Verizon with the support 70 contributing partners, which analyzed 79,790 security incidents and 2,122 confirmed data breaches across 61 different countries.

A 25-year-old individual has been arrested by law enforcement authorities on suspicion of being the developer of Svpeng, an Android Trojan used by cybercriminals to target online banking customers, Russia’s Ministry of Internal Affairs reported on Saturday.

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