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WordPress Membership Plugin Vulnerability Let Attackers Create Admin Accounts

A critical security flaw, identified as CVE-2026-1492, has been found in the User Registration & Membership plugin for WordPress. This vulnerability allows unauthenticated attackers to bypass security controls and create administrator accounts, leading to a complete website takeover. The User Registration & Membership plugin helps website owners create…

Shadow IT: The Initial Access You Didn’t Log

In multiple incident response engagements over the past few years, one detail keeps repeating: the first compromised system wasn’t the one the SOC was watching. It wasn’t visible in the EDR console, it wasn’t tracked in the CMDB, and it…

Claude Used to Hack Mexican Government

An unknown hacker used Anthropic’s LLM to hack the Mexican government: The unknown Claude user wrote Spanish-language prompts for the chatbot to act as an elite hacker, finding vulnerabilities in government networks, writing computer scripts to exploit them and determining…

Iranian APT Hacked US Airport, Bank, Software Company

The attacks, observed since February, show that Iranian hackers already have a presence in the networks of US organizations. The post Iranian APT Hacked US Airport, Bank, Software Company appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article has been indexed from SecurityWeek…

New cyber module strengthens risk planning for health organizations

The Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response’s (ASPR) new cybersecurity module in the Risk Identification and Site Criticality (RISC) 2.0 Toolkit helps organizations identify critical gaps, prioritize investments, and make informed decisions about risk mitigation to reduce disruptions to patient…