Institutions told to trace who is really financing their work or risk falling foul of national security law
Critical Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Zero-Day Under Active Exploitation
Vulnerability in Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager allows an unauthenticated, remote attacker to access systems with admin privileges
Cyber Briefing: 2026.10.01
Malware campaigns are combining phishing, browser-session theft, and malicious loaders to compromise accounts, while a major military-data breach has…
Microsoft Enables Windows 11 Backup Setting by Default for Organizations
Microsoft has enabled Windows settings backup by default for eligible devices running Windows 11, version 26H2, turning an opt-in function into a baseline…
Inside Gemini 4 Argon, the model Google is testing on its own infrastructure first
Google unveils Gemini 4 Argon, a frontier AI model built for coding, enterprise work, and autonomous cybersecurity defense, rolling out to trusted…
Hackers Abuse Microsoft Defender Exclusions to Hide Malware From Antivirus Scans
Hackers are abusing Microsoft Defender Antivirus exclusions to keep malicious files outside routine security scans. Rather than switching protection off…
Caltech physicists finally measure a quantum energy ladder predicted 40 years ago
Researchers have experimentally observed energy patterns that physicists have predicted for about 40 years. By arranging laser-trapped atoms into a…
Axios HTTP/2 Flaws Enable SSRF Control Bypass and Node.js Denial of Service
Axios has disclosed two high-severity vulnerabilities in its HTTP/2 implementation that could allow attackers to bypass outbound network controls or crash…
Threats Making WAVs – Incident Response to a Cryptomining Attack
Guardicore security researchers describe and uncover a full analysis of a cryptomining attack, which hid a cryptominer inside WAV files. The report…
WordPress Malware Comes Back After Removal Using a Self-Healing Backdoor
A WordPress backdoor is bringing deleted malware back within seconds, turning routine cleanup into a cycle of reinfection. Called SC, the infection…
The Oracle of Delphi Will Steal Your Credentials
Our deception technology is able to reroute attackers into honeypots, where they believe that they found their real target. The attacks brute forced…
Node.js ImageResponse Implementation Vulnerability Enables Remote Code Execution
A critical vulnerability in Next.js could allow remote code execution in applications that use the Node.js implementation of ImageResponse from the…
China-Linked Hackers Impersonate AI Experts to Target US Policy Insiders
TA419 posed as AI policymakers and economists to phish US AI policy experts’ Microsoft 365 accounts
Seven arrests in Brazil during crackdown on South America-Europe cocaine pipeline
Europol has supported law enforcement agencies from Italy and Brazil in dismantling a major drug trafficking and money laundering network linked to the…
RMM abuse behind 45% of endpoint incidents as Huntress publishes inaugural Tragic Quadrant
Huntress has published the Huntress Tragic Quadrant, a ranking of the cyber tactics its Security Operations Center (SOC) is detecting and shutting down…
Your Cloud Diagram Is Already Out of Date: An Operating Model for Continuous Security Architecture
The Diagram-to-Deployment Gap Cloud security architecture often begins with a strong design, account boundaries are defined, identity federation and…
Exabeam brings AI-assisted security investigations to data that must stay on-premises
Exabeam has introduced a new wave of capabilities that bring the Agentic SOC to life in the cloud and on-premises environments, combining AI-driven…
CISO thought he had a ‘r3@lg00dp@$$w0rd’ but forgot to patch
Replacing letters with symbols still doesn’t make it good.
LLM Pen Testing: Harness Matters More Than Model
Ridge Security released the first public benchmark comparing eight leading large language models in autonomous penetration testing workflows, revealing…
CloudSyncD MacOS Backdoor Hides Behind Fake Zoom Installer
CloudSyncD uses a fake Zoom installer to phish Mac passwords and launch a two-stage backdoor
RadarFirst helps teams investigate AI bias, data exposure and unintended actions
RadarFirst has announced the general availability of Radar AI Incident Management, a purpose-built solution that helps organizations investigate, manage,…
Pentagon breach exposes 2.76M SSNs, military records
The Pentagon has confirmed a major data breach at the Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC) that exposed sensitive personal information belonging to…
DeepKeep’s AI Lens flags coding agent data leaks and routes destructive commands for approval
DeepKeep has announced AI Lens for Developers, a new extension to the company’s AI usage control and runtime protection modules to secure software…
Microsoft enables Windows settings backup by default
Microsoft has activated Windows settings backup and restore by default for enterprise devices upgraded to Windows 11 version 26H2.