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GitLab and Atlassian have released patches for over a dozen vulnerabilities in their products, including high-severity bugs.

Russian military intelligence hackers intensify targeting of Western logistics and technology companies moving supplies into Ukraine. 

Redmond’s threat hunters found 394,000 Windows systems talking to Lumma controllers, a victim pool that included global manufacturers. 

More than 100 AutomationDirect MB-Gateway devices may be vulnerable to attacks from the internet due to CVE-2025-36535.

SecurityWeek’s 2025 Threat Detection & Incident Response (TDIR) Summit takes place as a virtual summit on Wednesday, May 21st.

A mandatory filing to the Maine Attorney General says 69,461 customers nationwide were affected and dates the breach back to last December.

Matthew Lane allegedly hacked PowerSchool using stolen credentials and admitted to extorting a telecoms provider.

Wireless carrier Cellcom has confirmed that a week-long widespread service outage is the result of a cyberattack.

Google DeepMind has developed an ongoing process to counter the continuously evolving threatIndirect prompt injection (IPI) attacks.

Wiz warns that threat actors are chaining two recent Ivanti vulnerabilities to achieve unauthenticated remote code execution.

Many of the industrial control system (ICS) instances seen in internet scanning are likely or possibly honeypots, not real devices.

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Jeremy Koppen has left Mandiant after 13 years to become the CISO of Equifax.

Engineering and technology solutions provider Amentum has appointed Max Shier as its CISO.

PAM provider Keeper Security has appointed Shane Barney as its Chief Information Security Officer.

SpecterOps has appointed Tim Bender as CFO, Pat Sheridan as CRO, and Bryce Hein as CMO.

CISA has officially announced the appointment of Madhu Gottumukkala as its new deputy director.

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Many of the industrial control system (ICS) instances seen in internet scanning are likely or possibly honeypots, not real devices.

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Pwn2Own participants demonstrated exploits against VMs, AI, browsers, servers, containers, and operating systems.

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The 15th edition of NATO’s Locked Shields cyber defense exercise brought together 4,000 experts from 41 countries.

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American steel giant Nucor on Wednesday disclosed a cybersecurity incident that bears the hallmarks of a ransomware attack.

The China-linked hacking group Earth Ammit has launched multi-wave attacks in Taiwan and South Korea to disrupt the drone sector.

Google bundles multiple safeguards under a single Android toggle to protect high-risk users from advanced mobile malware implants.

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A former senior database administrator for GEXA Energy in Houston was sentenced today to 12 months in prison for hacking into his former employer's computer network.Steven Jinwoo Kim, 40, of Houston pleaded guilty on Nov. 16, 2009, to one count of intentionally accessing a protected computer without authorization and recklessly causing damage. Kim was also ordered to pay $100,000 in restitution to GEXA Energy and to serve three years of supervised release following his prison term.

World Cup fans continue to be prime targets for cybercriminals this summer with new mobile viruses targeting smart-phone users looking for the latest news and content surrounding the international soccer tournament being held in South Africa this year.

The number of spam messages approached 6 billion for the month of January and never dipped below 3.5 billion during the past six months, according to SaaS e-mail and web security provider AppRiver’s mid-year Threat and Spamscape report.

The third installment of the "Twilight" franchise, “Eclipse,” which premiered this week, is breaking records for a midnight opening and fans are searching in the masses for any details about the film they can find online. Cyber criminals know this and have already "poisoned" common search results hoping to gain access to people's computers and infect them with malware.

Core Security, maker of penetration testers used by “red teams” to identify security vulnerabilities, today announced beta availability of a fully automated testing solution with the ability to continuously test and measure the overall security standing of an enterprise.

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Code quality and security firm CodeAnt has secured $2 million in seed funding and it has been valued at $20 million.

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VMware patches flaws that expose users to data leakage, command execution and denial-of-service attacks. No temporary workarounds available. 

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