OpenAI is preparing to add invisible watermarks to text generated by ChatGPT and Codex in the European Union. […]

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A new global benchmark reveals a widening gap between cybersecurity investment and operational readiness as AI accelerates attack and defence.

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As AI models become more capable, they uncover more security vulnerabilities and identify increasingly sophisticated paths to exploit them, raising the bar for how quickly defenders must respond. Security teams now face more potential vulnerabilities than their existing processes were designed to handle — each requiring investigation, reproduction, and a repair that must be tested…

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The IT Press Tourhttps://www.itpresstour.net/, run by The IT Press Tour founder, Philippe Nicolashttps://www.linkedin.com/in/phnicolas/, has rolled into Silicon Valley for its…

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Plus, why the U.S. to abruptly pulled bombers from a U.K. base and new Trump Account rules will put individual stocks kids’ portfolios.

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The Linux backdoor exploits 24 known flaws to compromise IoT devices and uses legitimate public STUN servers to obscure communications.

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Former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon repeated his warnings at a hearing Monday.

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Hackers are actively scanning for a Rejetto HFS weak signing key vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-61500, that allows session forgery, account takeover, and remote code execution (RCE). […]

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AI agents can misuse legitimate access. Learn why action-level security, trusted policy enforcement and verified approvals are critical to stop data leaks

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AI-assisted research uncovered a critical Rejetto HFS flaw that enables authentication bypass and remote code execution, now exploited in the wild. A Rejetto HFS vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-61500 (CVSS score of 9.3), discovered with the help of the Anthropic Mythos AI model is now being exploited in the wild, turning an interesting security research experiment…

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Only days after Citrix addressed actively exploited NetScaler flaws CVE-2026-88771 and CVE-2026-88772, defenders faced another urgent security issue. A newly disclosed vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-88779 has been exploited in targeted attacks against customer-managed NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway appliances configured for SAML authentication. Citrix rates the vulnerability as high severity with a CVSS v4.0 score…

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Fortinet has disclosed a critical FortiMail zero-day vulnerability that attackers are already exploiting in the wild. Tracked as CVE-2026-104286 and rated 9.8 on the CVSS scale, the flaw enables an unauthenticated remote attacker to write arbitrary files to the underlying system by sending specially crafted HTTP or HTTPS requests. The vulnerability poses a significant risk…

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Italy’s Data Protection Authority (GPDP) has fined IQVIA €7 million ($7.8M) over poor data-processing practices that the agency says could have put roughly one million patients at risk of data exposure and de-anonymization. […]

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Microsoft has released out-of-band security updates to address a high-severity flaw in Microsoft Exchange Server that could allow an attacker to escalate privileges under certain conditions. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-96940, is rated 8.8 on the CVSS scoring system. “Weak authorization in Microsoft Exchange Server allows an authenticated attacker to elevate privileges over a

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Meet ClingSTUN, a new Linux backdoor that exploits IoT vulnerabilities, gives attackers remote command access and turns infected devices into proxy nodes.

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An emerging threat group known as TA419 established seemingly legitimate professional relationships with AI policy experts working for US think tanks, universities, and legal organizations.

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Denmark’s Central Population Register (CPR) is warning of a data breach that exposed the personal information of approximately 8.8 million registered individuals. […]

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Welcome to the PCI Security Standards Council’s blog series, The AI Exchange: Innovators in Payment Security. This special, ongoing feature of our PCI Perspectives blog offers a resource for payment security industry stakeholders to exchange information about how they are adopting and implementing artificial intelligence (AI) into their organizations.  

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Companies like Google and Microsoft are find much bigger numbers of vulnerabilities in their own products as a result of AI. But the same technology is leading to public reporting programs becoming overwhelmed by the mass submission of speculative, duplicated, or hallucinated findings. Now, Google’s announced it has temporarily stopped accepting submissions to its open…

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CISA has added another Citrix NetScaler vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on Sunday: CVE-2026-88779, a memory overflow bug that may cripple vulnerable NetScaler ADCs and Gateways. “Citrix has observed targeted attacks on unmitigated NetScaler deployments which can lead to Denial of Service. If the condition is triggered repeatedly, the service may remain unavailable,”…

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Dell warned customers to patch a critical vulnerability in the System Update (DSU) command-line interface (CLI) deployment tool as soon as possible. […]

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ClingSTUN exploits known IoT flaws and abuses public STUN servers to keep proxy access to devices

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South Korea’s Financial Services Commission (FSC) held an emergency meeting following a series of cyberattacks targeting financial institutions in the country. […]

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A blank field. A public repo. One reply to an email. A box left exposed. None of this sounds dramatic, which is partly the problem. This week’s threats keep finding leverage in small things that were easy to overlook. There are actively exploited bugs in the mix, cleaner intrusion paths, smarter automation, and a long…

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Automated license plate readers (ALPRs) are cameras that photograph passing vehicles, read their number plates, and typically log the time, location, and vehicle details. On their own, the images might be used to find a stolen car or locate a suspect. But lately there have been a lot of concerns raised about the way they are…

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Rapid7 has uncovered new BPFDoor, BPF Rekoobe and AVERAT malware variants targeting telecom and network-edge appliances in South Korea and Taiwan

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For the latest discoveries in cyber research for the week of 5th October, please download our Threat Intelligence Bulletin. TOP ATTACKS AND BREACHES Arizona’s state court system has suffered a phishing-led cyberattack after an employee clicked a malicious link. Attackers copied backup files containing protective-order records and more than 150,000 Foster Care Review Board reports…

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Malwarebytes has launched the Malwarebytes Scam Link Check, a free web tool that lets anyone check whether a website link is safe or dangerous before clicking it. Users paste any suspicious URL, the kind that arrives by text, email, chat, or social media, and the tool returns a safety result, along with the reasons behind…

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Cybercriminals are using fake discounts posted on Facebook and TikTok to lure shoppers to phishing sites that steal their payment card details and one-time passwords, Group-IB has warned. The phishing kit called Milk Dragon (also known as NaiLong) has been active since October 2025, and is linked to 258 phishing pages and victims in 66…

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Hackers accessed names, addresses and CPR numbers of 8.8 million people in Denmark through a third-party company with legal registry access. A hacker broke into the database that holds basically every identifying detail on every person connected to Denmark, living, dead, or long since moved away. Denmark’s digital affairs minister announced it Monday and didn’t…

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LTM has announced the launch of BlueVerse AgenTraceIQ, an offering designed to help organizations securely adopt and scale agentic AI. Combining Rubrik Agent Cloud with LTM’s AI governance and managed services expertise, the offering enables organizations to monitor AI agents, establish guardrails, and rewind unintended agent actions across business-critical environments. As part of Rubrik’s Project…

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tenfold has added shared content governance and real-time event auditing to its free Community Edition for organizations with under 150 users. The new features help teams manage Microsoft 365 sharing and investigate suspicious identity activity. […]

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Stellar Cyber has announced Stellar Cyber 7.0, a release that advances the Human-Augmented Autonomous SOC from a vision for applying AI to security operations into a practical operating model for running them. Stellar Cyber 7.0 unifies AI-powered case triage, measurable SOC workflows, deeper investigative evidence, expanded automated response and new APIs for operating security at…

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The memory buffer vulnerability can result in denial of service to customers, with CISA warning it poses “significant risks” to the federal government

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U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Citrix NetScaler flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added a Citrix NetScaler flaw tracked as CVE-2026-88779 (CVSS score of 8.7), to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. CVE-2026-88779 is a memory overflow vulnerability in Citrix NetScaler ADC and Gateway…

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The U.S. Department of Justice has announced the arrest of the alleged developer of Ploutus malware, used to steal millions of dollars in ATM jackpotting attacks across the United States. […]

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AI-powered attacks are fast, relentless, and automated. How security teams can keep up is top of mind, according to the latest Dark Reading reader poll.

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Plus, companies are finding AI costs hard to predict

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A developer has released RemoveMacAI, a free command-line tool that turns off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and deletes about 12 GB of downloaded AI models. It requires a Mac with Apple silicon. macOS 27 doesn’t have a switch for Apple Intelligence, and the models stay on disk after you disable the features. If that…

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Anthropic is betting $100 million that winning enterprise AI will require more than better models — companies also need engineers who know how to deploy them. The company on Friday unveiled Claude Frontier Academy, a training initiative designed to prepare 10,000 “Frontier Deployed Engineers” by the end of 2027. The program targets one of the…

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Citrix has warned customers about another high-severity vulnerability in its NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway products, just days after the company urged them to fix a separate batch of flaws that included two actively exploited zero-days. The new vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-88779, is a memory-overflow issue that can cause a denial-of-service (DoS) condition on affected…

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Claude helped me vibe-code a Mac app and pass Apple’s review in less than two weeks. Come with me on my journey from idea to purchasable App Store product.

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For small businesses who are often confronted with limited resources, knowing how to get started and where to find support with planning, implementing, or evaluating a cybersecurity risk management strategy can be challenging — sometimes making cybersecurity feel like an insurmountable hurdle. However, there is good news. Many non-profit organizations across the United States have…

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Every modern enterprise depends on credentials. This is how humans, systems, and now AI, all connect to data, services, and each other securely. GitGuardian helps secure that credential layer through three connected capabilities: Detect, Remediate, and Prevent. The journey starts with detection, because organizations first need to understand what credentials exist, where they live, and…

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Which text to speech model sounds best? Cartesia’s Sonic 3.6, first on the Artificial Analysis Speech Arena. Then come the questions that matter: what the free tiers behind…

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Threat actors have been observed attempting to exploit a now-patched critical security flaw impacting the Realtek Jungle software development kit (SDK) to deploy a botnet malware called Cling. “Cling is notable not because it introduces a new propagation technique, but because it repurposes ordinary STUN behavior into a practical command-and-control channel,” Nozomi Networks said in…

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Plus: Community banks swing back at Trump regulators over crypto charters, and a near-catastrophe on flight 1073 exposes gaping hole in Dubai’s aviation security.

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Russian group Star Blizzard expands phishing campaigns with a new malware delivery RedFlick technique, using scheduled tasks to deliver the CosmicPulse backdoor.

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Most organizations have been largely unable to measure financial returns from AI, but analysts say new ways to calculate return on investment are emerging. “There’s a delay between the development of technology, even the investment in the technology, and the value that an organization can capture from it,” said Michael Chui, a senior fellow at…

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Apple has announced that it’s taking steps to tighten controls around a macOS setting called Full Disk Access (FDA) due to security risks posed by artificial intelligence (AI) agents. “Some developers are using Full Disk Access in ways that could put users at risk, exposing everything on their systems—including files, mail, messages, and even browsing…

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Microsoft has pushed out an out-of-band security update for Exchange Server that fixes a high-severity vulnerability (CVE-2026-96940) that may allow authenticated attackers to read emails and attachments of other users in the same organization, but “does not allow access across tenant boundaries.” CVE-2026-96940 was discovered internally and, according to the Exchange Server Team, they “are…

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A suspected ShinyHunters member known as Rey has been detained in Jordan and is reportedly helping the FBI track down the rest of the group. Reuters reports that Jordanian authorities detained Saif al-Din Khader, alias Rey, last week, with two of its three sources placing the arrest on Tuesday. One source told the publication that…

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Google has paused its Open Source Vulnerability Rewards Program due to a flood of AI submissions

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OpenAI is expanding ads in ChatGPT, and one of the first new formats will show visual ads while you’re generating images. […]

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The summer’s cyberattacks by Iranian hackers on water systems in 12 states underscored how vulnerable U.S. water systems are to foreign adversaries. A broad attack on water infrastructure could have consequences comparable to a public health crisis that impacts the country’s entire population. The threat to water has long been clear. As the 2026 Annual…

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CircuitMess, a Croatian electronics kit maker, is selling MAKERphone 2.0, a build-it-yourself 4G phone on Kickstarter that buyers program in MicroPython or Arduino C++ and extend with plug-in hardware. Insert a SIM and it makes real calls and sends real texts. For anyone who tests or tinkers with devices, that is a cellular handset whose…

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Microsoft confirmed over the weekend that some games and applications using AC-3 (Dolby Digital) audio decoding will crash after installing the September 2026 KB5124010 Windows 11 preview update. […]

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Ofqual study finds growing number of UK schools are bouncing back “immediately” from cyber-attacks

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MI5 warns UK universities that over 100 academics may have unknowingly worked on research funded by a Chinese institute linked to the MSS. On September 30, MI5 published a formal warning naming the China General Technology Research Institute, CGTRI, also called CAGT in some translations, as an outfit with very strong ties to China’s Ministry…

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AI infrastructure is reshaping more than the servers inside data center racks. As GPU-intensive workloads push rack densities higher, Eaton, NVIDIA, Google, Microsoft and others are advancing direct-current power architectures designed to deliver more power with fewer conversion stages and less physical infrastructure. For solution providers, integrators and infrastructure partners, that shift could broaden the…

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A breach at school software provider Frontline Education has exposed employee data

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Microsoft announced Oct. 1 that Office and Teams leader Ryan Roslansky will leave the company, remaining as an adviser to CEO Satya Nadella through the end of 2026 while new reporting lines take effect immediately. The departure comes as Microsoft pulls Office and Teams more closely into its Copilot organization and pushes Copilot as an…

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Iranian hacker Amir Barati faces extradition to the US over an alleged Iranian campaign that stole 31TB of data from universities. Amir Barati spent June 25 getting arrested in Montenegro, and this week a Montenegrin court signed off on sending him to the United States. He’s a dual Turkish and Iranian citizen, 40 years old,…

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Barclays is expanding its use of Claude across software development and banking operations. Anthropic announced the expanded partnership Oct. 1. The bank expects Claude Code adoption to reach 50% of its developers by the end of 2026 and a majority in 2027, aiming to improve productivity and customer support. For channel partners serving financial institutions,…

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A live view of the month’s vetted cyber incidents, updated as new events are confirmed. Explore the timeline, filter by attack type, and see motivations, techniques, initial access methods, targeted sectors and target countries on an interactive map.

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Google has now suspended submissions to its Open Source Software Vulnerability Rewards Program (OSS VRP) after being flooded by AI-generated reports. […]

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In its roughly 30-year history, the CISO role has been reshaped by waves of new technology and rising cyber threats. In many organizations, CISOs now own risk reporting, information risk management, threat monitoring, cyber risk accountability and governance, and security strategy. And as AI and digital dependence grow, the CISO’s remit is growing beyond security…

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Apple plans to introduce additional controls for Full Disk Access in macOS, citing growing privacy risks as AI agents become more capable and autonomous. Users will need to take explicit action to grant apps this permission. The company has not specified a rollout date or detailed how the controls will work. Apple’s APIs include controls…

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A critical security flaw impacting Rejetto HTTP File Server (HFS) is witnessing active exploitation attempts, according to VulnCheck. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-61500 (CVSS score: 9.3), a case of session forgery stemming from the use of a weak pseudo-random number generator (PRNG) that can lead to a predictable key, which an attacker can then…

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doxx.net has launched the open beta of its Agentic Defined Networking (ADN) platform, which lets people and their agents create their own private, secure networks, communicate with no servers in the middle, and get started with no personal information required. The platform gives agents an environment with defined connectivity and built-in threat protection, helping prevent…

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In celebration of the highly anticipated new Street Fighter movie, GIGABYTE, the world’s leading computer brand, today announced an exclusive partnership with CAPCOM to launch…

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Google has stopped accepting new product vulnerability reports through its Open Source Software Vulnerability Reward Program (OSS VRP), after a wave of invalid, AI-generated submissions swamped the engineers and open source maintainers who review them. The rules page for Google’s OSS VRP states that “as of October 1, 2026, we are no longer accepting product…

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OpenAI safety veteran David Robinson resigns, warning that the company’s culture and fast AI development model could create bigger risks. OpenAI safety veteran David Robinson knows how his resignation looks. He starts his essay by calling himself “something of a cliché”: an AI company employee who quits and then raises concerns about the company. But…

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Leveraging Infosys Topaz, the collaboration will help ABN AMRO drive operational efficiency, scalability, and innovation.

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Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Fake xStocks, Pendle, and other sites bait crypto users with rewards votes Shadow AI explained: The work shortcut that could leak your company’s secrets Convincing Free Mobile phishing emails appear after data breach Malwarebytes earns another Top Product award in independent testing Pentagon breach exposes Social Security numbers and military…

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Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Fake xStocks, Pendle, and other sites bait crypto users with rewards votes Shadow AI explained: The work shortcut that could leak your company’s secrets Convincing Free Mobile phishing emails appear after data breach Malwarebytes earns another Top Product award in independent testing Pentagon breach exposes Social Security numbers and military…

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The German company aims to capitalize on growing demand for autonomous industrial robots.

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Citrix has released security updates for a high-severity security flaw in NetScaler ADC and Citrix NetScaler Gateway that has been exploited as part of targeted zero-day attacks. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-88779, carries a CVSS score of 8.7 out of 10.0. “CVE-2026-88779 is a memory overflow vulnerability in Citrix NetScaler ADC and Citrix NetScaler Gateway…

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In this Help Net Security video, Drew McCombs, CTO and CISO at Cylerity, explains how he balances both roles. Security work is scheduled into every sprint, and issues touching patient data or funds disbursement come first. He covers how Cylerity keeps PHI away from its bank partner, why AI models recommend but never act, and…

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Every Twitch growth plan obsesses over one number, the viewer count, and almost nobody plans for the number sitting right next to it.

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New service pairs AI-powered vulnerability discovery with validation from the world’s largest vendor-agnostic bug bounty program to identify exploitable attack paths

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Rarely a day goes by without another organisation revealing a cyber breach, but the growing threat landscape is also creating a hiring boom among cybersecurity vendors as they…

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The rapid adoption of AI agents is creating a new financial headache for enterprises with many lacking a reliable way to determine whether their increasing AI investment is…

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Keyorix is an open-source secrets manager that runs entirely on a company’s own servers. A secrets manager is the locked store where an application fetches the database passwords, API keys, and tokens it needs, so they stay out of config files and source code. It ships as one binary and, in its core form, needs…

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Huntress found attackers using legitimate remote monitoring and management (RMM) software in 45% of the endpoint-related incidents it recorded in the first quarter of 2026. The security company also ranked 11 attack tactics by how often it sees them and how much damage each can do, and RMM abuse sits farthest right on the chart,…

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For an experiment, I created a script [1] that parses and send the TTY logs collected from actors or bots activity that run various commands after they successfully login the DShield sensor. Those TTY logs are sent daily at the end of each day to the DShield SIEM [2] to be correlated with all the…

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AI use is measured in tokens, but the models’ use of tokens at any given task can be unpredictable.

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Citrix has released emergency updates for a new NetScaler denial-of-service vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-88779 that has been exploited in zero-day attacks, with researchers investigating whether it can also be exploited for remote code execution. […]

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It’s been nearly two months since the previous issue of Venture in Security, and since I posted much on LinkedIn. I didn’t plan for this break. Part of this was life, and the fact that building a company tends to consume all available time and mental capacity. But a much bigger part was that I…

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Security Affairs AI-CYBERSECURITY newsletter includes a collection of the best articles and research on AI in the international landscape Artificial intelligence is rapidly changing cybersecurity, reshaping both the techniques used by attackers and the tools available to defenders. AI agents can automate tasks, analyze large amounts of data, discover vulnerabilities and accelerate offensive operations. At…

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Plus, why AI’s ‘thought’ process can’t always be trusted, why teens are losing sense of time, how Google’s AI push in schools went too far for some students and more.

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Security Affairs Malware newsletter includes a collection of the best articles and research on malware in the international landscape Malware Newsletter Lunex Unmasked: A New Information Stealer Deployed Through BYOVD   Storm-3168: Agentic-driven cloud attacks using compromised service principals   Don’t Call Us, We’ll Call Your APIs | TraderTraitor Backdoors Resurface on Victim With No Crypto Ties  …

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A suspected ShinyHunters member arrested in Jordan is reportedly cooperating with the FBI, helping investigators track down the group. A suspected member of ShinyHunters, the group that claims to have stolen data on every FBI employee, was picked up in Jordan this week. The man is Saif al-Din Khader, detained by Jordanian authorities, with two…

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I’m in Denmark! Well, just, I’m now at Copenhagen airport ready to begin the long trek home, with the final event at GOTO now done and going just perfectly. This week, there are two ShinyHunters arrests in the news: Pepijn in the Netherlands and then Saif in Jordon. It’s an inevitable outcome, of course, and…

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Anthropic has started asking Claude users to voluntarily share their voice conversations to help train and improve its AI models. […]

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