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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.

The company will invest in agentic data security capabilities and expand its go-to-market organization.

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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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The United States secretly penetrated North Korea's computer systems four years ago -- a breach that allowed Washington to insist Pyongyang was to blame for the recent cyberattack on Sony Pictures, the New York Times reported Monday.

Hackers could have easily hijacked the email accounts of Verizon customers by leveraging a vulnerability in a FiOS Web service, a researcher revealed on Sunday.Software developer and security researcher Randy Westergren discovered the flaw while analyzing the Android app for Verizon’s fiber optic Internet, telephone and television service FiOS.

Washington - Hackers took over the Twitter accounts of the New York Post and United Press International on Friday, writing bogus messages, including about hostilities breaking out between the United States and China. One tweet posted under the UPI account quoted Pope Francis as saying, "World War III has begun."

US President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron, meeting in Washington on Friday, are expected to announce a newly strengthened partnership against cyber-crime. Cameron, on his fourth visit to the White House, is also the first European leader to meet with Obama since the deadly jihadist attacks in Paris, so global security will be on the agenda.

Following a year of high-profile data breaches, continued lack of guidelines for industry-government information sharing and frequent naming of attack victims as culprits by regulators, one might forgive those on the receiving end of cyber intrusions for revisiting thoughts of alternative cyber protective measures.

An 18-year-old was arrested this morning in the United Kingdom on suspicion of being involved in the distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks launched against Sony's PlayStation Network and Microsoft's Xbox Live over Christmas.

At least two Google AdSense campaigns have been leveraged by cybercrooks to redirect the visitors of numerous websites to scam pages.The malvertising campaign started in the second half of December and lasted until a few days ago when Google finally managed to remove the offending advertisements.

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