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Significant cybersecurity deals were announced by Absolute Security, Aikido, Anthropic, Cohere, Hex-Rays, and Proofpoint.

The Florida Department of Education says SSNs and other personal data may have been exposed in a breach of its financial aid website.

Hackers accessed its online shopping platform and stole customers’ personal and payment card information.

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The extension performed host reconnaissance and attempted to create a reverse SSH tunnel.

The attackers used offensive agentic techniques to access the company’s systems and internal tools.

DebugBear says its DNS records were compromised via its domain registrar, and early findings show a single customer was targeted.

The FBI has officially pinned the $6 billion Binance hack on North Korea’s TraderTraitor as the attackers launder the stolen crypto.

CISA has added CVE-2026-111357 and CVE-2026-118527 to its KEV catalog after the Ivanti VPN flaws were chained in zero-day attacks.

The startup maps how identities, assets and vulnerabilities connect, and uses AI agents to find and fix risky combinations of issues.

A US court sentenced Syrian hacker Ahmad Umar Agha to 42 months for pro-Assad attacks on media, businesses, and government entities.

Over 22.6 million exposed instances are potentially affected by the critical PHP flaws that have been targeted for over a week.

Noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: Iran eyed in military freezer hacks, Copenhagen University breach, AI-powered malware.

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The FBI has officially pinned the $6 billion Binance hack on North Korea’s TraderTraitor as the attackers launder the stolen crypto.

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CISA has added CVE-2026-111357 and CVE-2026-118527 to its KEV catalog after the Ivanti VPN flaws were chained in zero-day attacks.

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A US court sentenced Syrian hacker Ahmad Umar Agha to 42 months for pro-Assad attacks on media, businesses, and government entities.

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Over 22.6 million exposed instances are potentially affected by the critical PHP flaws that have been targeted for over a week.

Drupal says a highly critical Commerce Core access bypass is exploited in the wild and urges store owners to audit their orders.

Malicious code linked to a website monitoring tool was designed to hijack logged-in Polymarket sessions and siphon user funds.

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PasswordBox, a maker of software solutions that help users keep track of passwords across computers and mobile devices, today announced it has raised $6 Million in a Series A funding round. The San Francisco-based company said that it plans to use the funds to continue scaling and growing its team.

Popular Mac news and information site MacRumors.Com said that its forums site was hacked on Monday, according to a notice alerting readers that usernames, email addresses and (hashed) passwords were likely obtained by the attacker(s).

LONDON - Dozens of London-based banks joined other financial institutions in the capital on Tuesday for a giant exercise to test their defenses against a cyber-attack, officials said. Government officials, regulators and the Bank of England oversaw the exercise, dubbed "Waking Shark II".

Most everyone is familiar with the expression, “If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.”  Yet few are heeding this cautionary tale as thousands of businesses and millions of people continue to fall victim to fraudulent schemes every year. The Internet has only accelerated the rate in which businesses and users are subjected to malicious behavior aimed at separating them from their money or critical information.

According to a recent survey (PDF) of 240 information security professionals around the globe, network operations and applications owners to determine how security management affects organizations’ agility with regards to connectivity of critical applications in the modern data center.

F-Secure Labs announced that it discovered 259 new mobile threat families and variants of existing families in the third quarter of 2013, according to the new Mobile Threat Report for July-September 2013. Two hundred fifty two of these were Android threats and the remaining seven were Symbian. The number is an increase from the 205 threat families and variants found in the second quarter.

Just recently, reports of a banking Trojan modified to look for SAP GUI (graphical user interface) installations reignited discussion about vulnerabilities impacting SAP ERP (enterprise resource planning) systems.

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