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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.

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.

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

An integer overflow tracked as CVE-2026-111585 could be used to execute arbitrary code on the viewer’s system.

Blockchain analysts link the record crypto theft to North Korean hackers, as Binance probes a possibly compromised engineer laptop.

Risk managers are trained to spot weak signals, plan for disruption and make hard decisions under uncertainty. But the discipline looks different when the risk is not a system or an enterprise, but you.

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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.

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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.

Blockchain analysts link the record crypto theft to North Korean hackers, as Binance probes a possibly compromised engineer laptop.

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Over the last several days, weeks really for some, people have noticed an uptick in the amount of spam coming from compromised Yahoo accounts. SecurityWeek staff has witnessed this uptick in spam as well. But this spam run is designed to spread malware to Android devices, so it’s likely not as simple as a weak password issue.

The makers of the Pushdo malware – also known as Cutwail - have adopted new strategies to hide command-and-control [C&C] traffic after surviving multiple takedowns.

WASHINGTON - The CIA prides itself on secrecy but the spy agency unveiled a revamped website Monday that promises a user-friendly layout and a "sleeker, more modern web experience." Borrowing the jargon of corporate marketing, the Central Intelligence Agency touted its new online look for job-seekers or people interested in the spy service's origins.

Say the word phishing, and there are people who would probably begin to think back to a quiet day on a boat. But the kind of phishing that begins with a "ph" is far from relaxing, and it is on the rise.

MOSCOW, June 24, 2013 (AFP) - Former US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden's stop in Moscow is an unexpected windfall for the Russian secret services even if it risks worsening the already strained relations between the Kremlin and Washington.

Looking at BYOD from the viewpoint of data matters most. New York’s Mobile Helix is shifting away from train of thought that says security is about managing the device, and has instead produced a platform that will enable applications – no matter how they’re coded – to run securely no matter where they are accessed.

BEIJING - China interceded to allow Edward Snowden's dramatic flight from Hong Kong, calculating that infuriating the United States for now was necessary to prevent deeper corrosion to their relationship, analysts and media said Monday.

In a previous SecurityWeek column, I wrote about the security considerations for software defined networking (SDN). Whether or not SDN becomes the next evolution of networking, this new architecture clearly showcases the move towards a more dynamic and agile environment.

Facebook on Friday said that phone numbers and email addresses belonging to roughly 6 million of its users had been improperly shared due to a software bug in the Facebook platform.The bug was discovered and reported by a security researcher to Facebook’s White Hat program.

WASHINGTON - China and the United States traded hacking charges on Sunday as Washington accused Beijing of stealing US intellectual property and the Chinese authorities expressed concern over US cyberattacks.

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