Connect with us

Hi, what are you looking for?

SecurityWeekSecurityWeek

Latest Cybersecurity News

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.

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.

Hacker Hacker

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

PHP2Shell PHP exploited PHP2Shell PHP exploited

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

Drupal Drupal

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

Top Cybersecurity Headlines

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.

SecurityWeek Industry Experts

More Expert Insights

Daily Briefing Newsletter

Subscribe to the SecurityWeek Email Briefing to stay informed on the latest threats, trends, and technology, along with insightful columns from industry experts.

Close the security gaps between pentests. Join this session to explore agentic pentesting and gain a practical framework for continuous exposure validation in your CTEM program.

Register

Join as we bring together CISOs, senior cybersecurity executives, practitioners, industry experts, and other security leaders to share practical experience and examine the issues shaping enterprise cybersecurity strategy.

Register

Upcoming Cybersecurity Events

SecurityWeek’s CodeSecCon 2026 will bring together developers and cybersecurity professionals to revolutionize the way applications are built, secured, and maintained.
[Originally August 19, 2026]

Learn More
Zero Trust Summit Now On-Demand

SecurityWeek’s 2026 Zero Trust Summit will deep-dive into the world of digital identity management and the role of zero-trust principles and associated technologies
[Originally October 14, 2026]

Read More
CISO Forum Virtual Summit

The 2026 Virtual CISO Forum brings together CISOs, senior cybersecurity executives, practitioners, industry experts, and other security leaders to share practical experience and examine the issues shaping enterprise cybersecurity strategy.
[November 10 & 11, 2026 | Virtual]

Read More
Cyber AI and Automation Summit 2026

SecurityWeek’s Cyber AI & Automation Summit pushes the boundaries of security discussions by exploring the implications and applications of predictive AI, machine learning, and automation in modern cybersecurity programs.
[December 8 & 9, 2026 | Virtual]

Read More

Vulnerabilities

Cybercrime

Microsoft has said it would release a patch this afternoon, out-of-band, that will address the recently discovered Internet Explorer vulnerability that has been used in separate targeted attacks. The security fix comes just one week after January’s monthly security release from Redmond.

Anonymous is petitioning the White House to legalize DDoS, urging them to recognize it as a legitimate means of protest. But based on the number of signatures so far, it  seems as though few people agree.

Foxit, the popular alternative to Adobe’s Reader software for PDF files, and the application often recommended as a more secure alternative, has been tagged in a recent vulnerability disclosure. Currently, there is no patch for the issue.

Nokia's Xpress Mobile Browser Decrypts HTTPS TrafficNokia earned some time in front of the InfoSec firing squad this week, after they admitted to intercepting Web traffic sent by its Xpress Mobile Web Browser. Nokia’s interception via proxy was a bit of a known secret, but has gained traction in the news due to a security researcher’s blog post earlier this week.

The European Union and the US agreed Friday to share more data on cross-border cybercriminals at the opening of a new hi-tech unit aimed at helping police catch up with increasingly imaginative criminals. "This agreement will reinforce the cooperation, the exchange of information," Europol chief Rob Wainwright told AFP at the opening of the European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) in The Hague.

FireEye, a provider of advanced threat protection solutions for enterprises, on Thursday announced that it has raised $50 million in venture funding, a massive amount that brings the total amount raised by the company to over $100 million.

Event image poster

The leading global conference series for Operations, Control Systems and IT/OT Security professionals to connect on SCADA, DCS PLC and field controller cybersecurity.

Learn More

Application Security

Application Security

OSS Scanner sends unreviewed, model-generated vulnerability reports to open source maintainers that opt in.

Cloud Security

Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft fixed vulnerabilities across Azure and AI-branded products, with privilege escalation flaws accounting for the majority.

Daily Briefing Newsletter

Subscribe to the SecurityWeek Email Briefing to stay informed on the latest cybersecurity news, threats, and expert insights. Unsubscribe at any time.