Topic: cybersecurity threats
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Hospitals Overwhelmed by Unmanageable Threats
The healthcare sector faces a severe cybersecurity crisis, with 93% of U.S. organizations experiencing attacks in the past year, frequently disrupting patient care and exposing vast amounts of sensitive data. Key vulnerabilities include exposed staff data on people search sites, attacks on medica...
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Patch Tuesday Forecast & Critical Trend Micro RCE PoC Released
A critical unauthenticated remote code execution flaw (CVE-2025-69258) in Trend Micro Apex Central requires immediate patching, and CISA warns of active exploitation of a similar HPE OneView vulnerability. The cybersecurity threat landscape is expanding to include novel risks from internal low-co...
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2025's Biggest Tech Failures: AI, Cloud, and Supply Chain
Supply-chain attacks became the dominant cybersecurity threat in 2025, exploiting trust in a single provider to cause widespread, cascading failures across interconnected digital infrastructure. These attacks are highly efficient for cybercriminals, as compromising a central source like a cloud s...
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IT Leaders' Top 2026 Fears: AI and Cyber Risk
Cybersecurity threats are the top disruptor shaping IT strategy for 2026, with AI advancement and regulation as a close second major concern. AI-generated attacks are viewed as the most significant threat to data integrity, leading to strategic investments in cybersecurity and data resilience. Mo...
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AI Toys for Kids: Unexpected Conversations on Sensitive Topics
AI-enabled children's toys lack basic safeguards, engaging in inappropriate conversations about explicit topics and propaganda, raising urgent safety and privacy concerns. A U.S. border proposal could require travelers from visa-waiver countries to submit years of social media history and persona...
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Chinese Hacking Contractor Exposed in Major Data Leak
A major data breach at Chinese cybersecurity firm KnownSec exposed hacking tools and sensitive data stolen from over 80 global organizations, including terabytes of records from India, South Korea, and Taiwan, directly linking its activities to Chinese state interests. In a separate incident, sta...
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Rethink Network Visibility for Australia's Critical Infrastructure
Government agencies in Australia and the Asia Pacific face escalating cybersecurity threats due to the deep integration of digital and physical infrastructure, making public services like transportation and healthcare prime targets for sophisticated attacks. The convergence of IT and OT systems, ...
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Barracuda Research: Your Hub for Global Threat Intelligence
Barracuda Networks has launched Barracuda Research, a centralized hub providing threat intelligence and cybersecurity analysis to help organizations identify risks and implement protective measures. A study reveals that 31% of businesses with up to 2,000 employees struggle to handle cyberthreat i...
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NCSC: Senior Execs Unprepared for Cyber-Attacks
UK government and security officials are urging business leaders to take immediate ownership of cybersecurity, emphasizing it is a top-level responsibility and not just a middle-management issue. Senior executives, including CEOs and board members, are ultimately accountable for leading crisis ma...
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Master Your Data: Start with Visibility and Control
Organizations face increasing pressure to secure data as AI expands data volumes and strategic value, driving significant IT investments in cybersecurity and cloud infrastructure amid stricter regulations like Australia's updated Privacy Act. Fragmented data environments create security gaps thro...
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EU Cyberattacks Increasingly Target Critical Infrastructure
The ENISA Threat Landscape 2025 report reveals a significant increase in cyberattacks targeting operational technology systems, which now account for 18.2% of all documented threats, driven by their growing interconnectedness and deliberate targeting by malicious actors. Pro-Russian hacker groups...
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Bolster Defenses Against Scattered Spider Attacks, Experts Warn
The Scattered Spider hacking group poses a severe threat to businesses by using sophisticated methods like social engineering and ransomware, requiring immediate improvements in identity management, security processes, and third-party risk management. Their attack strategy often starts with vishi...
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Czech Agency Warns of Chinese Tech Risks in Critical Infrastructure
The Czech Republic's cybersecurity agency warns critical infrastructure operators to avoid Chinese technology and data transfers due to high risks of disruption and national security threats. Chinese laws allow government access to data from private cloud providers, and malicious cyber activities...
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Cisco Zero-Day Exploited, Kali Linux 2025.4 Released
A critical zero-day vulnerability in Cisco's email security appliances is being actively exploited by a suspected Chinese-nexus group to compromise devices and erase logs, highlighting urgent patch management needs. Major vendors like Fortinet, SonicWall, and Apple are addressing serious, activel...
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Guardio Raises $80M in Funding From ION Crossover Partners
AI-powered coding tools are creating new security vulnerabilities by enabling rapid development of fraudulent websites, with Guardio developing specialized technology to detect malicious AI-generated code. Guardio has secured $80 million in new funding to accelerate expansion and now serves 500,0...
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The Looming Threat of Malicious AI Agents
Businesses are rapidly adopting AI agents but lack proper security measures, particularly in identity management, creating risks as these non-human workers operate without adequate tracking of their credentials and actions. The core security challenge is that AI agents require access to sensitive...
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AI Browsers: The Looming Cybersecurity Threat
The rapid integration of AI into web browsers introduces serious cybersecurity vulnerabilities, including data breaches and privacy invasions, as these tools collect and retain more personal data than traditional browsers. Security researchers have identified flaws in early AI browsers, such as p...
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Gambling Network Secretly Doubles as Cybercrime Infrastructure
A long-running cybercrime network, active since around 2011, disguises itself as an illegal online gambling service while operating a massive malware and command-and-control infrastructure primarily targeting Indonesian citizens. The operation uses an extensive network of over 328,000 domains, hi...
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Hold Off on the Hype: The Viral Moltbot AI Agent
Moltbot is a novel open-source AI assistant that proactively initiates tasks and integrates with popular messaging apps, but its complex server-based setup limits its accessibility to average users. The tool's always-on nature and extensive system permissions create severe security vulnerabilitie...
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149 Million Accounts Exposed in Major Data Breach
A massive, unprotected database containing 149 million usernames and passwords was discovered, exposing credentials for major email, social media, financial, and government websites. The database was actively updated and left completely open for a month before being secured, highlighting a slow a...
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Energy Firms Hit by Sophisticated AiTM Phishing Attacks
A sophisticated phishing campaign is targeting the energy sector using Adversary-in-the-Middle (AiTM) attacks, which bypass standard email filters and multi-factor authentication (MFA) by stealing login credentials and session cookies. Once an account is compromised, attackers establish persisten...
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AI Social Engineering: Top Cyber Threat by 2026, ISACA Finds
AI-driven social engineering is identified as the top cybersecurity threat for 2026, using AI to create convincing deceptive communications that are hard to detect, surpassing ransomware and supply chain attacks. Organizations feel underprepared for AI risks, with only 13% very prepared, and many...
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ICE Deploys Advanced Spyware for Surveillance
China demonstrated its advanced military technology in a recent parade, highlighting its global technological ambitions. The U.S. is undergoing significant policy shifts, including rebranding the Defense Department and awarding a no-bid contract for combat training, amid debates on election integ...
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Boost SOC Performance: Train Smarter & Respond Faster
Cybersecurity teams often lack hands-on expertise to investigate complex breaches, forcing reliance on external experts and delaying response times. TryHackMe offers gamified, interactive training with real-world scenarios, bridging the skills gap for roles like SOC analysts and threat hunters th...
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FortiGate Firewalls Under Attack: Critical Auth Bypass Exploited
Attackers are actively exploiting a critical Fortinet firewall vulnerability (CVE-2025-59718) to bypass authentication and steal sensitive network configuration files containing encrypted credentials. The flaw, along with a related one (CVE-2025-59719), stems from improper cryptographic signature...
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Exploit Code Released for Critical BIND 9 DNS Vulnerability
A critical security flaw (CVE-2025-40778) in BIND 9 DNS resolvers allows remote cache poisoning, enabling attackers to redirect users to malicious sites or spread malware without authentication. The vulnerability affects recursive DNS servers and authoritative servers with recursion enabled, with...
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Hackers Actively Exploit Critical BeyondTrust RCE Flaw
A critical command injection vulnerability (CVE-2026-1731) in BeyondTrust's remote access software is being actively exploited, allowing unauthenticated attackers to run arbitrary commands on unpatched systems. Threat intelligence confirms widespread scanning and exploitation, with attackers abus...
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Code Formatting Sites Leak User Secrets and Credentials
Popular online code formatting platforms like JSONFormatter and CodeBeautify are leaking sensitive user data, including passwords and API keys, through publicly accessible links due to predictable URL patterns. Security researchers found over 80,000 exposed entries containing critical information...
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US Border Patrol Surveils Millions of American Drivers
The US Border Patrol operates a predictive-intelligence program using hidden license-plate readers to monitor American drivers far from borders, flagging "suspicious" travel patterns and leading to stops and searches, raising Fourth Amendment concerns. Microsoft mitigated the largest recorded DDo...
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Protect Your Business from Deepfakes: 4 Essential Steps Now
Deepfakes, created using AI, are a growing threat to businesses, enabling cybercriminals to produce convincing fake audio and video for fraud and misinformation. The risks include severe reputational and financial damage, such as stock value drops from fake announcements, and identity theft throu...
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Secure Your Enterprise Data with Hypori Workspace
Hypori has expanded its Secure Workspace Ecosystem with new products, including Hypori Mobile and Hypori Lyte, to offer flexible, scalable, and secure mobile access while addressing modern cybersecurity challenges. Hypori Mobile provides a re-engineered virtual workspace with enhanced performance...
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Chat Control: Is Your Privacy at Risk?
The EU's proposed Chat Control legislation aims to combat child sexual abuse by requiring digital platforms to scan for illegal content, but cybersecurity experts warn it could critically undermine digital security and personal privacy. The regulation is incompatible with end-to-end encryption, e...
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1Password's New Anti-Phishing Tool Protects Your Weakest Link
AI-powered phishing scams are creating sophisticated, convincing fake websites at scale, posing a significant threat to both individuals and corporations as a common entry point for attacks. 1Password's new phishing protection feature counters this by issuing a warning when users manually paste c...
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EU Chat Control: Could Governments Monitor Through Robots?
The EU's proposed Chat Control framework, initially for online child safety, creates incentives for pervasive monitoring that could extend to robots in homes and hospitals by classifying them as communication services. Mandating continuous monitoring for risk assessment introduces significant cyb...
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Can Your Phishing Detection Stop 2025's Security Threats?
Social engineering attacks like Clickfix surged 500% in early 2025, with cybercriminals increasingly using AI to create sophisticated Business Email Compromise scams that exploit human psychology rather than technical vulnerabilities. Clickfix bypasses traditional defenses by tricking users into ...
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ClickFix Phishing Kit Exposed by Cybersecurity Experts
Palo Alto Networks has identified the IUAM ClickFix Generator, a phishing toolkit that enables even novice cybercriminals to create convincing fake browser verification pages to deploy malware. The toolkit allows customization of phishing pages, detects the user's device and OS to tailor maliciou...
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400 Million Windows PCs Face Critical Security Threat
Microsoft is ending security updates for Windows 10, leaving 400 million PCs vulnerable to cyber threats due to hardware incompatibility with Windows 11. The scale of affected devices is unprecedented, with 41% of global PCs running Windows 10, far exceeding previous Windows phase-outs and creati...
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Microsoft, Adobe, SAP Issue Critical September 2025 Patch Tuesday Updates
The September 2025 Patch Tuesday included critical security updates from Microsoft, Adobe, and SAP, addressing numerous vulnerabilities not currently under active exploitation. Microsoft patched over 80 flaws, including a privilege escalation issue in Windows NTLM and a high-risk remote code exec...
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Nearly Half of Workers Share Confidential Data with AI
A significant gap exists between the rapid daily adoption of generative AI by over 65% of individuals and the lack of workplace training, with 58% receiving no instruction on data security and privacy risks. The study highlights that 43% of workers have shared sensitive company information with A...
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EU Moves to Block High-Risk Foreign Tech Over Cybersecurity
The European Commission has proposed new mandatory cybersecurity legislation to replace voluntary guidelines, requiring the removal of high-risk foreign suppliers from critical telecom networks to address security vulnerabilities. The rules, which avoid naming specific companies but target concer...
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The All-Access AI Agent Era Has Arrived
The rise of all-access AI agents requires deep integration into operating systems and personal files, raising significant cybersecurity and privacy concerns due to centralized, sensitive data. These autonomous agents function by accessing broad data sources like emails and calendars to perform ta...
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FCC to Roll Back ISP Cybersecurity Mandate
The FCC is reversing a cybersecurity mandate for internet providers after industry lobbying, with Chairman Brendan Carr arguing it overstepped legal authority and that companies have already improved security voluntarily. The original 2025 ruling responded to state-sponsored cyberattacks like Chi...
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Leaked Oracle EBS Exploit Fuels New Attack Wave (CVE-2025-61882)
A critical vulnerability chain in Oracle's E-Business Suite (CVE-2025-61882) is being actively exploited following the public leak of functional exploit scripts, enabling complete system compromise. The attack uses obfuscated HTTP requests to perform server-side request forgery, tricking the serv...
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Bitdefender GravityZone EASM Lowers Cyber Threat Risks
Bitdefender launched GravityZone External Attack Surface Management (EASM) to help organizations gain visibility into internet-connected assets and vulnerabilities, addressing complex IT security challenges. The solution proactively scans and analyzes external digital assets without endpoint inst...
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AI Converts C to Rust for Enhanced Software Safety
A new initiative called the Great Refactor proposes using AI to automatically convert vulnerable C/C++ code into the memory-safe language Rust, aiming to eliminate entire categories of software bugs at their source. Rust is uniquely positioned for this task as it offers both high performance and ...
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UK, US, Australia Sanction Russian Cyber Host Media Land
The United Kingdom, United States, and Australia have jointly sanctioned three bulletproof hosting providers and four Russian executives for enabling ransomware operators and cybercriminals by supplying critical infrastructure. These services are essential to the cybercrime underworld, allowing t...
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SOTI ONE Enhances Secure Device Management for Australian Healthcare
SOTI has upgraded its SOTI ONE Platform with Stella, an AI assistant, to enhance operational efficiency, reduce device downtime, and accelerate patient response times in the Australian healthcare sector. Outdated infrastructure and legacy systems hinder digital progress, with 99% of Australian IT...
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Notepad's Markdown Update Comes With a Critical RCE Flaw
A high-severity vulnerability (CVE-2026-20841) in Microsoft Notepad's Markdown feature allows remote code execution if a user opens a malicious file and clicks an embedded link. Microsoft has patched the flaw, noting no current active exploits, but its impact is significant due to Notepad's ubiqu...
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Instagram Denies Data Breach Claims
Meta denied a system breach, attributing a wave of password reset emails to an external party exploiting a technical flaw that has since been fixed. A separate data scraping incident exposed largely public information from about 17 million accounts, with 6.2 million records including an email add...
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5 Rules to Guide Your AI Innovation Success
Modern business leaders must navigate AI innovation within evolving regulatory frameworks, viewing thoughtful governance as a catalyst for responsible and effective development rather than a mere obstacle. Executives emphasize practical strategies including building controlled environments for ex...
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