Most good security work is invisible by design. Today is the exception. The 2026 Cybersecurity Stars Awards winners are announced across 95 subcategories in four main award categories. The reason is simple. Cybersecurity is full of work that deserves recognition…
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AI Broke Vulnerability Management. That’s Why CISOs Are Moving Budget to BAS.
For thirty years, vulnerability management ran on a buffer: the months between when a vulnerability was found and when someone could figure out how to weaponize it. The solution was straightforward enough; triage by severity, schedule the fix, validate, and…
OceanLotus Hits Vietnam Investors With SPECTRALVIPER in FireAnt Attack
The Vietnam-aligned threat actor known as OceanLotus has been attributed to two distinct campaigns that targeted domestic entities and stock investors with a backdoor known as SPECTRALVIPER. The campaigns involve a prolonged cyber espionage operation aimed at a Vietnamese infrastructure…
GitHub to Disable npm Install Scripts by Default to Stop Supply Chain Attacks
GitHub has announced what it said are “breaking changes” coming to npm version 12, one of which turns off install scripts by default to combat software supply chain threats. The changes aim to combat attack techniques that abuse the “npm…
China-Linked JDY Botnet Expands to 1,500+ Devices for Cyber Reconnaissance
Cybersecurity researchers have warned of a “resurgence and expansion” of JDY, a covert network associated with China-nexus state-sponsored threat actors. “The JDY botnet comprises over 1,500 SOHO [small office and home office] and IoT devices and operates as a centrally…
CISA Adds Cisco, Chrome, and Arista Flaws to KEV Catalog Amid Active Exploitation
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added three new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, following reports of active exploitation. The list of vulnerabilities is as follows – CVE-2026-20245 (CVSS score: 7.8) – An…
Unpatched Langflow Flaw CVE-2026-5027 Exploited for Unauthenticated RCE
A high-severity unpatched security flaw in Langflow, an open-source low-code platform to build artificial intelligence (AI) applications, has come under active exploitation in the wild, according to findings from VulnCheck. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-5027 (CVSS score: 8.8), a…
Ivanti, Fortinet, and SAP Release Patches for Multiple Critical Vulnerabilities
Fortinet, Ivanti, and SAP have released security updates to address multiple critical security vulnerabilities that could result in arbitrary code execution and information disclosure. The security flaw patched by Fortinet relates to a command injection vulnerability in FortiSandbox, FortiSandbox Cloud,…
Microsoft Patches Record 206 Flaws, Including Three Zero-Days and Critical RCE Bugs
Microsoft on Tuesday released fixes for a record 206 security vulnerabilities impacting its software portfolio, including three flaws that have been publicly disclosed at the time of release. Of the 206 flaws, 39 are rated Critical, and 167 are rated…
Your Automated Pentest Looks Clean. See What It Missed in This Expert Webinar
Your pentest report looks clean. That might be the problem. Run automated pentesting long enough, and the new findings start to dry up. By the third or fourth run, fewer issues appear. The report looks stable. Leadership reads “stable” as…
Anthropic Releases Claude Fable 5, Its Most Powerful AI Yet, With Cyber Safeguards
On June 9, Anthropic released Claude Fable 5, the most capable model it has ever made, generally available. It also did something unusual: it shipped one model as two products, split not by capability but by a layer of safety…
ServiceNow Flaw Exploited to Gain Unauthorized Access to Customer Instances
ServiceNow has warned about a security incident in which unknown threat actors exploited a flaw to obtain deeper unauthorized access to susceptible instances. “On June 5, 2026, ServiceNow applied a security update to hosted customer instances,” the company revealed in…
Microsoft Defender RoguePlanet Zero-Day Grants SYSTEM Access on Updated Windows
The anonymous security researcher going by the name Chaotic Eclipse (aka Nightmare-Eclipse) has released a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit for yet another Microsoft Defender zero-day named RoguePlanet. “The exploit is a race condition, so it’s a hit or miss,” the researcher,…
Six Proto6 Vulnerabilities in protobuf.js Expose Node.js Apps to RCE and DoS
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged half a dozen vulnerabilities in protobuf.js, a JavaScript and TypeScript implementation of Protocol Buffers (Protobuf), that, if successfully exploited, could result in remote code execution (RCE) and denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. “In affected environments, a single malicious…
Veeam Backup & Replication RCE Flaw Lets Domain Users Run Remote Code
Veeam has released security patches to address a critical flaw in its Backup & Replication software that could result in remote code execution. Tracked as CVE-2026-44963, the vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 9.4 out of a maximum of 10.0.…
Meta to Use Off-Site Business Data for Feed and AI Personalization
Meta on Tuesday announced that it will use information shared by other businesses to personalize users’ feed and responses from its artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, expanding its scope beyond targeted ads. “Businesses often share information about people’s activity on their…
Microsoft Restores Some GitHub Repos, Keeps Others Offline as Miasma Probe Continues
Microsoft on Monday confirmed that it temporarily removed some GitHub repositories in response to a recent security incident that led to 73 of its open-source projects being compromised to inject an information stealer into the code. “Our priority is to…
Chrome V8 Zero-Day CVE-2026-11645 Exploited in the Wild – Patch Now
Google has released security updates to address 74 vulnerabilities, including one that has come under active exploitation in the wild. The high-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-11645 (CVSS score: 8.8), has been described as an out-of-bounds memory access in V8, Chrome’s…
Researchers Build Self-Replicating AI Worm That Operates Entirely on Local, Open-Weight Models
University of Toronto researchers have built and tested a proof-of-concept AI-driven computer worm that uses a locally hosted open-weight large language model to reason its way through a network, generate tailored attack strategies for each target it encounters, and replicate…
WinRAR Flaw Exploited by Russia-Aligned Groups to Deploy Stealers in Ukraine
Two Russia-aligned cyber attack campaigns have continued to exploit a security flaw in WinRAR to target Ukrainian organisations, almost a year after patches for the vulnerability were released. The activity has been attributed by Trend Micro to Earth Dahu (aka…