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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.

Hackers have been harvesting AI access tokens and have been using AI-assisted offensive tools to automate attacks.

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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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Web browsers should inform users when they are accessing a website over the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) to make them aware of the fact that there is no data security, the Chrome Security Team said in a proposal published over the weekend.

CSRF, XSS and SQL injection vulnerabilities found in CA Release AutomationCA Technologies, one of the world's largest independent software corporations, has released a hotfix to address several vulnerabilities affecting the company's CA Release Automation product.

NEW YORK - Microsoft said Monday it had secured broad support from a coalition of influential technology and media firms as it seeks to challenge a US ruling ordering it to hand over emails stored on a server in Ireland.

Vulnerabilities affecting a popular WordPress plugin are being abused by cybercriminals to hijack websites and redirect their visitors to a page set up to serve malware, researchers at Sucuri reported on Monday.

The market for stolen identities is thriving. But it's not just individual pieces of information that are selling. According to research from Dell SecureWorks, cybercriminals are also hawking complete kits of information. For example, a scan of a working social security card, name and address can go for $250. Another $100 will get a buyer a utility bill for additional identity verification.

Mark Marmilev, the former chief technology officer of the Costa Rica-based centralized digital currency service Liberty Reserve, has been sentenced to five years in prison and ordered to pay a $250,000 fine, the U.S. Department of Justice reported on Friday.

A researcher has identified a stack buffer overflow vulnerability in Honeywell's OPOS (OLE for Retail Point-of-Sale) Suite, a solution that provides a standard programming interface for the integration of PoS hardware into retail PoS systems based on Microsoft Windows.

Sony Pictures Entertainment pressed media outlets Sunday against using data hackers may have leaked about the studio. In the letter sent to groups including The New York Times and The Hollywood Reporter, lawyer David Boies said the "stolen information" must be destroyed and should not make it to publication.

Indian police on Saturday arrested a 24-year-old executive believed to be the handler of an influential Twitter account supporting the Islamic State group, officials said. Mehdi Masroor Biswas, employed with an Indian food conglomerate in the southern city of Bangalore, is alleged to be the handler of the Twitter account @ShamiWitness.

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