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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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New Information Security Resource Provides Guidance that Addresses the People, Process, Organization and Technology Aspects of Information Security. The ISACA this week published the Business Model for Information Security (BMIS), as an educational resource for security professionals and to provide comprehensive guidance that addresses the people, process, organization and technology aspects of information security.

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McAfee and Citrix Systems have delivered the first product of a joint collaboration announced earlier this year to make virtual desktop security simpler and more scalable for large enterprise deployments. Released today at the Citrix Synergy conference in Berlin, McAfee Management for Optimized Virtualized Environments AntiVirus (MOVE AV) has been specifically designed for Citrix XenDesktop, helping customers secure corporate data and applications delivered to virtual desktops running on servers in the datacenter.

Cisco ASA 5585-X Adaptive Security Appliance and AnyConnect 3.0 Bring Enhanced Security and Performance Features to the EnterpriseCisco announced new products and services this week across several elements of its “Borderless Network Architecture,” Cisco’s vision of connecting anyone, anywhere, on any device -- securely, reliably, and seamlessly.

A new report issued by Verizon this week on compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) reveals that only 22 percent of the organizations assessed were PCI compliant at the time of their initial examination. But compliance is worth the trouble. According to the report, organizations that suffer credit card data breaches are 50 percent less likely to be PCI compliant.

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