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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.

As organizations eliminate passwords, attackers will adapt. Instead of attacking the authenticator directly, they will look for opportunities around it.

It allowed customers to host hack-for-hire services, supported ransomware and infostealer operators, and accepted crypto payments.

Threat actors are attempting to exploit a high-severity unauthenticated race condition leading to remote code execution.

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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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.

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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.

Tracked as CVE-2026-97229, the bug allows unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code on the server.

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SAN FRANCISCO - A researcher who hacked into Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg's profile to expose a security flaw won't get the customary reward payment from the social network. While Facebook offers rewards for those who find security holes, it seems that Palestinian researcher Khalil Shreateh went too far by posting the information on Zuckerberg's own profile page.

Google said on Thursday that its Cloud Storage service now automatically encrypts all data before being stored to disk, which is automatically and transparently decrypted when read by an authorized user.

The influential journalist H.L. Mencken famously waxed poetic about news reporting, describing it as being “the life of kings.” However, Mr. Mencken’s comment was made in a pre-Internet era, and a more accurate regally-themed quote for the news business may be Shakespeare’s “Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.” News organizations today face a variety of challenges. Falling print circulations are forcing newspapers to look to their online properties to generate more revenue.

LONDON - British authorities faced a furore Monday after they held the partner of a journalist who worked with Edward Snowden to expose US mass surveillance programs for almost nine hours under anti-terror laws.

A security researcher has outlined an attack against the Philips hue smart lighting system that could quite literally leave victims in the dark.  Due to an authentication issue, the hue personal wireless system can potentially leave users vulnerable to hackers looking to cause blackouts.

Malicious hackers have broken into computer systems of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to hijack sensitive personally information (PII) for about 14,000 past and current employees.

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Just days after announcing that it would pay $2.7 billion to acquire network security firm Sourcefire, Cisco said Wednesday that it would cut 4,000 jobs, or roughly five percent of its workforce in an effort to cut costs.

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