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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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BANGKOK - An Algerian computer hacker wanted by the FBI for allegedly stealing millions of dollars from American banks to fund a lavish lifestyle has been arrested in Bangkok, Thai police said Monday. Hamza Bendelladj, 24, appeared unruffled by his looming extradition to the United States as he was paraded before the media in handcuffs with a beaming smile.

Symantec has identified new malware targeting Google Android devices that collects personal data. The malware, detected as Android.Exprespam, is spread through the spamming of links to fake Google Play pages. These pages are hosted on a server located in Washington.

PHNOM PENH - About 80 Taiwanese and Chinese nationals have been arrested in Cambodia for allegedly extorting money from victims overseas over the telephone, police said on Monday. The suspects, mostly Taiwanese nationals who were arrested on Saturday, will be deported to their home countries to face justice, interior ministry spokesman Khieu Sopheak told AFP.

Yearly predictions are always risky. Even more so when your subjects are cybercrime organizations, hacktivist groups, and other security attackers – entities not exactly known for sharing plans.

WASHINGTON - John Brennan, President Barack Obama's pick to lead the CIA, is a 25-year agency veteran who has passionately defended the US campaign of unmanned drone attacks against Al-Qaeda militants.

WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama on Monday chose former senator Chuck Hagel to be defense secretary, praising his "willingness to speak his mind" amid expectations of a tough Senate confirmation fight.

Dell SecureWorks Launches Vulnerability Management Offering for Virtual and Cloud Deployments Looking to attract more business customers to the cloud, Dell SecureWorks announced on Monday that they were launching a new Vulnerability Management Service (VMS) and Web Application Scanning service (WAS).

John McAfee, founder of the anti-virus and security company that carries his name, said that he built his own custom made botnet designed to monitor Belizean government employees, police officers, Cabinet Minister’s assistants, girlfriends of powerful men, and boyfriends of powerful women. After buying 75 laptop computers, McAfee, with some trusted assistance from others, installed spyware on the systems, repackaged them as new, and gave them away as gifts to his targets.

Tehran - Iran is designing "intelligent software" that would give citizens restricted and controlled access to banned social networking sites, local media Sunday quoted police chief Esmaeil Ahmadi Moghadam as saying."Smart control of social networks will not only avoid their disadvantages, but will also allow people to benefit from their useful aspects," Ahmadi Moghadam said, as cited by the 7Sobh daily.

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