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CISA Warns of Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS Code Injection Vulnerability Exploited in Attacks
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has added a high-severity Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS vulnerability to its Known Exploited…
Chinese Hackers Exploit BeyondTrust Zero-Day to Gain Root Access and Deploy Backdoors
A suspected China-linked espionage group exploited a zero-day vulnerability in BeyondTrust Remote Support appliances to gain access, reach root privileges…
Midnight Blizzard-Linked Hackers Use Claude AI to Rebuild Malware and Evade Detection
Hackers linked to Midnight Blizzard used Anthropic’s Claude AI to rebuild malware after security tools detected it, helping them keep espionage operations…
Top 10 Best Data Classification Tools in 2026 [Ranked & Scored]
Every downstream control DLP, encryption, retention, access inherits its accuracy from classification, which makes this the quiet foundation of data…
Top 10 Best Tokenization Solutions in 2026 [Ranked & Scored]
Tokenization does two very different jobs wearing one name: collapsing PCI audit scope for payment estates, and keeping analytics alive on protected…
BeyondTrust 0-Day Vulnerability Exploited Since August to Gain Full Admin Access in Minutes
A critical zero-day vulnerability in BeyondTrust Remote Support was exploited in late August, weeks before the company disclosed the flaw and released a…
Top 10 Best Encryption & Key Management Solutions in 2026 [Ranked & Scored]
Encryption is only as trustworthy as the key custody behind it and with post-quantum migration now a planning requirement, key inventories became strategy…
Hackers Target 60 Indian Banking and UPI Apps With New GhostBat Android Malware
A new version of GhostBat Android malware is targeting users of 60 banking, UPI, wallet, fintech and payment apps in India. The malware can abuse…
Linus Torvalds Reveals Claude Code Wrote Linux Kernel Patches and Test Programs
Linus Torvalds has disclosed that Claude Code helped write Linux kernel patches, test programs, review material, and the first draft of a technical…
Critical Linux Kernel Flaw Lets Attackers Escape Virtual Machines and Take Control of Hosts
A critical flaw in the Linux kernel may allow an attacker-controlled virtual machine (VM) to breach its isolation boundary and impact the host system.…
Critical Adobe Acrobat Flaw Lets Malicious PDFs Trigger One-Click Memory Corruption
Adobe has fixed a flaw in Acrobat and Acrobat Reader that lets a malicious PDF corrupt memory when a user opens it. Tracked as CVE-2026-81983, the…
PoC Exploit Released for Critical GitLab RCE Vulnerability (CVE-2026-97229)
A public proof-of-concept (PoC) for CVE-2026-97229 published by researcher Jonah Burgess shows how a flaw in GitLab’s CI/CD regular-expression compiler…
Critical ChatGPT GitHub Connector Flaw Could Allow Attackers to Steal Private Repository Secrets
A critical flaw in ChatGPT’s GitHub integration has the potential to turn a routine repository review into a secret-theft attack. A report published on…
Burger King Japan Confirms Data Breach Exposing 11.18M User Records
Burger King Japan has confirmed a data breach that exposed about 11.18 million records linked to members of its official app. BK Japan, which operates the…
Hackers Use ClickFix and Python Tunnels to Prepare Systems for Ransomware Attacks
Hackers are using ClickFix tricks to install malware loaders and Python tunnels on Windows systems, creating access that could support ransomware attacks.…
Citrix XenServer Vulnerabilities Could Allow Malicious VM Users to Compromise Host Systems
Citrix has disclosed four XenServer vulnerabilities, including three that could let a malicious user with elevated rights inside a virtual machine…
Just Viewing an Online Ad Can Infect Your Device With Spyware, Researchers Reveal
Simply viewing an online advertisement can be enough to infect a device with powerful spyware, without the user clicking, downloading a file, or seeing…
Chinese Phishing Network Linked to 1 Billion Messages Targeting 75,000 Organizations
A Chinese-run phishing network has been linked to one billion phishing emails targeting 75,000 organizations, according to a report published on October…
Hackers Exploit Fortinet Vulnerabilities to Deploy Stealthy PEERSTITCH Malware on FortiGate Firewalls
Attackers compromised a telecommunications managed service provider by exploiting vulnerabilities in Fortinet’s centralized management and firewall…