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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.

Google’s new frontier model scored 88.2% on SEC-bench Pro and is rolling out first to vetted cyber defenders via its Fairwind Program.

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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.

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

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

Unpatched voting machines, unverifiable QR-coded ballots, and AI-driven influence campaigns leave US elections short of secure.

Cisco Talos linked SD-WAN key-stealing malware to infrastructure overlapping Volt Typhoon’s Silent Train network, which Lumen detailed.

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Will Oracle Acquire CSC?Will Larry Ellison pull out his wallet yet again to make another large acquisition? Does Oracle have CSC in its sights? Tips suggest that this may be the case and that Oracle is possibly looking to acquire services giant CSC.

Deployment of Domain Name System Security Extensions Enhances global security for India and AsiaAfilias, a provider of Internet infrastructure services, this week announced that it has enabled Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) for the .IN country code top-level domain (TLD) for the country of India and, in coordination with DotAsia, announced that (DNSSEC) has been enabled for the .ASIA top-level domain.

In an effort to honor the sacrifice of returning war heroes, Raytheon and Cisco today announced they would expand support of the Wounded Warrior Project’s education initiatives and support the development of a new cybersecurity training program that aims to help wounded servicemen and women re-enter the workplace with IT and cybersecurity skills.

Identity and Access Management Product Enhancements Help Fulfill Vision for Content-Aware IAM for Distributed and Mainframe EnvironmentsCA Technologies took another step toward fulfilling its vision for Content-Aware Identity and Access management (IAM) today with new releases and enhancements to several of its offerings.

BitDefender, a provider of innovative internet security solutions based in Bucharest, Romania, today released a Free Antispam for Linux Mail Servers. The product uses the same antispam engines that earned the company a perfect track record, with 9 VBSpam Awards in periodic tests run by Virus Bulletin.

Researchers Predict Advanced, Blended Threats, Laser-Focused on Attacking Business and InfrastructureWeb security researchers say that recent evidence and metrics suggest that cybercriminals and their blended attacks are having a field day taking advantage of security gaps left open by legacy technologies like firewalls, antivirus, and simple URL blockers.

Update 1:23PM EST (11/10/10) - Facebook has confirmed the issue was on their end. A representative confirms in an email to SecurityWeek: "We began removing the posts immediately upon discovering them and shortly after they were made.

Students and professors at Washington State University arriving for class last Friday morning were greeted with a surprise video message on classroom video screens, courtesy of an unknown hacker who gained control of the campus media services system.According to Darin Watkins, Executive Director for external communications at Washington State University, the hack caused video screens in several classrooms in two buildings to simultaneously come down without warning, followed by a video automatically playing on the screen.

Backupify, a provider of online backup, archiving and export services for cloud-based data, today launched a backup and archival solution for Facebook Fan Pages.With the new solution, users can backup all Facebook data from a unified account. Backup of Fan Pages adds to the company’s existing solutions to backup other Facebook data, including News Feeds, Wall Posts, Photo Albums and Messages.

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

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