Mississippi mayor says ransomware incident led city to shut down systems
Government services were temporarily disrupted by ransomware in Vicksburg, Mississippi. Mayor Willis Thompson said the FBI and other authorities are investig...
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'Warlock' ransomware used in attacks on critical infrastructure in Portuguese, Spanish-speaking countries
The group is exploiting a variety of vulnerabilities impacting Microsoft SharePoint, according to a new report from Symantec Threat Hunter Team.
The EDR blind spot: 3 ways browser attacks evade endpoint telemetry
Browser-based attacks can steal sessions, abuse extensions, or manipulate users without creating the endpoint artifacts EDR is designed to detect. NordLayer ...
Sony PS5 Relapse Jailbreak Exploit Uses JSC Memory Corruption and Kernel UAF
A newly released PlayStation 5 jailbreak chain, called Relapse, targets PS5 and PS5 Pro consoles running firmware versions 7.00 through 13.
macOS Users Targeted by Fake Zoom Installer Carrying CloudSyncD Backdoor
The dropper “carries a complete universal Mach-O inside itself, roughly 756 KB in the development build, and extracts it at runtime. The post macOS Users Tar...
AI is giving attackers a head start, Microsoft warns
Threat actors are using AI to find bugs, build malware and run intrusions faster than defenders can keep up. Microsoft’s 2026 Digital Defense Report, coverin...
Zammad Vulnerabilities Let Attackers Execute Code and Escalate Privileges to Root
Two critical vulnerabilities in the open-source Zammad helpdesk and ticketing platform can be exploited together, enabling attackers to achieve remote code e...
Dell asks admins to patch max severity CSM flaws as soon as possible
Dell has patched two maximum severity vulnerabilities in the Container Storage Modules (CSM) that connect Dell enterprise storage arrays to Kubernetes enviro...
Safari History Database Tags Can Reveal Users’ Browsing Themes in Forensic Investigations
Safari’s History database contains a lesser-known tagging artifact that can help investigators infer a user’s browsing themes. While this feature is not defi...
OpenAI Parts Ways With Three Safety Researchers Over Sensitive Information Mishandling
OpenAI has parted ways with three members of its safety team after they leaked private information in violation of company policies, The Wall Street Journal ...
367,000-Ship Study Finds Global GPS Spoofing, Red Sea Activity Before Grounding
A study of 367,000 ships finds global GPS spoofing, including Red Sea activity detected months before the MSC…
Exposed Hacker Server Reveals Toolkit Used in Viva Aerobus-Linked Intrusion
A publicly exposed attacker staging server has provided a rare, detailed view of a Microsoft SQL Server-focused intrusion linked to a Viva Aerobus-side envir...
Crypto Scammers Hijack Microsoft’s Official X Account
Hackers used the account, which has 13 million followers, to amplify a Clippy-themed cryptocurrency account. The post Crypto Scammers Hijack Microsoft’s Offi...
Why CISOs Struggle to Answer the Board's Three Hardest Questions, and How to Fix the Report
The quarterly board meeting is two weeks out. The security team is pulling exports from the identity provider, the cloud posture tool, the vulnerability scan...
Multiple cPanel & WHM Vulnerabilities Enable Root Code Execution and Admin Session Hijacking
cPanel has released security updates to address three vulnerabilities in cPanel & WHM that could allow attackers to hijack WHM administrator sessions or exec...
In Rare Move, Iranian Hacker Accused of Working for IRGC Extradited to US
Amir Barati, an alleged member of the Mabna Institute, was indicted for targeting universities, private organizations, and government entities in the US and ...
Capacitor Vulnerability Lets Remote Content Run With Full App Origin Trust
A critical vulnerability in Capacitor, identified as CVE-2026-103922, could allow attacker-controlled remote content to execute within vulnerable Android and...
OpenAI Blocks 15,000 Requests Trying to Extract Protected Model Reasoning
OpenAI has disrupted a coordinated campaign to extract protected internal reasoning from its AI models on a large scale. The company took action against acti...
How American Political Campaigns Are Using AI—and What They’re Spending on the Tools
This essay was written with Nathan E. Sanders, and originally appeared in The Guardian.
Hackers Are Turning Trusted Software Updates Into Credential-Stealing Malware
A growing wave of supply-chain attacks is proving the opposite: attackers are compromising legitimate open-source packages and using trusted update channels ...