The new vuln, CVE-2026-88779, is a memory overflow bug that leads to denial of service
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FBI confirms ‘multiple’ arrests related to ShinyHunters hack
Another few bite the dust
Legacy sign-on service comes back to bite school software provider Bromcom
Intruders retrieved email addresses from superseded tech kept running for an internal system
Debian’s latest kernel security update has 1,313 reasons to patch
AI-assisted bug hunting adds to maintainers’ workload, while broad CVE rules help explain the sprawling tally
Microsoft catches hackers exploiting Zimbra bug before disclosure
Attackers were probing the mail server flaw weeks before it had a CVE to its name
MI5 warns UK academics their research may have helped Chinese spies
Institutions told to trace who is really financing their work or risk falling foul of national security law
Anthropic’s super bug-hunting model Mythos is hardcore good at math, as latest vuln under attack shows
Exploitation attempts came from China-hosted IP, VulnCheck researcher says
CISO thought he had a ‘r3@lg00dp@$$w0rd’ but forgot to patch
Replacing letters with symbols still doesn’t make it good.
England’s schools are getting better at mopping up cyber incidents
Two-thirds report immediate recovery, although teachers remain divided over whose job security is
UK privacy watchdog starts over with new board and Manchester HQ
The Information Commission replaces the Information Commissioner, putting statutory powers under collective control
Fewer women than ever in UK’s ‘old boys’ club’ cyber industry
Younger workers often overlooked for senior roles due to historical issues and fears they’ll get pregnant, says survey
OpenAI alerts 100+ orgs that its ‘misaligned models’ attempted to break in – or worse
Mostly ‘routine research tasks,’ and ‘some involved government websites, which our models often use,’ AI giant tells The Reg
Irony alert: OpenAI whines that Chinese model stole its special IP that it stole from everybody else
US model makers can train on web data – but distilling theirs is a ‘national security risk’
Californian accused of shipping $300M worth of Nvidia chips to China without Uncle Sam’s approval
Prosecutors claim Greg Lui helped China procure advanced hardware to develop, ahem, ‘super intelligence’
16-year-old researcher found a Microsoft bug, got admin access to databases with 17.3 trillion rows
It’s 2 am. Do you know what your teen is doing?
OpenAI’s wandering AI agents earn it a California subpoena
Plus: Attorneys-general say investigators should have direct access to AI companies’ records when things go wrong
More than half of UK businesses lack confidence in basic cyber skills
Government survey puts the figure at 808k, says detecting and removing malware most common weakness
Fortinet sounds the alarm over actively exploited FortiMail zero-day
No login required, exploitation underway, and some admins are still waiting for patches
UK rail cops’ £320K face-scanning spree nets zero matches
British Transport Police’s six-month facial recognition pilot produced one alert, and it was a false positive
Spectre bug is back, this time to haunt JIT engines
Researchers find a way to recover stale indirect branch prediction entries