Latest Cybersecurity News and Articles

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Authorities Turn Sality's P2P Network Against Itself, Cutting Off New Malware Payloads

The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Tuesday announced the takedown of a long-standing peer-to-peer (P2P) botnet known as Sality as part of a coordinated law enforcement operation. The effort was undertaken on August 31, 2026, by authorities from the U.S., Bulgaria, Hungary, and Romania, in collaboration with private industry partners CrowdStrike and the Shadowserver Foundation. To that

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SonicWall Warns of Two SMA1000 Zero-Days Exploited in Attacks

The vulnerabilities CVE-2026-83549 and CVE-2026-83548 can be chained for unauthenticated remote code execution. The post SonicWall Warns of Two SMA1000 Zero-Days Exploited in Attacks appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses

A new identity theft service launched on the dark web this week is selling digital scans of more than 153 million drivers licenses from people in the United States and Canada. Based on interviews with individuals whose licenses are available for purchase on this service, it appears to be siphoning images collected by a widely-used identity verification company based in Louisiana. KrebsOnSecurity also has learned that the New Orleans field office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) today launched an official inquiry into the source of the images.

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Palo Alto Networks Acquires AI Agent Platform Console

The cybersecurity giant announced the acquisition alongside quarterly results showing a 34% increase in revenue and strong growth in next-generation security ARR. The post Palo Alto Networks Acquires AI Agent Platform Console appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Sevii Targets AI-Speed Attacks With Preemptive Autonomous Defense

Sevii has expanded its ADR platform with AI agents designed to investigate, contain, and remediate AI-driven attacks within minutes. The post Sevii Targets AI-Speed Attacks With Preemptive Autonomous Defense appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Coast Guard Establishes Office of Maritime Cybersecurity Policy

The new office will serve as the central authority for cybersecurity policy covering US ports, vessels, and maritime facilities. The post Coast Guard Establishes Office of Maritime Cybersecurity Policy appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Attackers Exploit Critical JFrog Artifactory Flaw to Mint Admin Tokens Days After Disclosure

Threat actors are exploiting a newly patched critical security flaw impacting JFrog Artifactory merely days after public disclosure, according to watchTowr. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-82329 (CVSS score: 9.8), a case of authentication bypass that could lead to administrative access in Artifactory. "JFrog Artifactory contains an authentication weakness that, under default

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Breeze Comet Executes Hundreds of Fraudulent Transactions via Brazilian Payment Systems

Brazilian financial services, retail, and e-commerce organizations have become the target of a financially motivated threat actor dubbed Breeze Comet (formerly UNC5669) since 2024. Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) and Mandiant teams described the threat actor as "specializing in manipulating payment systems and banking software in Brazil to conduct fraudulent transfers." The adversary

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13 Malicious Packagist Packages Target Unpatched iPhones to Steal Crypto Wallet Seeds

Cybersecurity researchers have identified a set of 13 malicious Composer theme packages on Packagist that are designed to inject JavaScript into Vietnamese movie and comic streaming sites that install those libraries and initiate the deployment of spyware aimed at unpatched iOS devices. "The injected code runs two operations against a site's visitors: a mobile ad-fraud and gambling-redirect

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Iranian Hackers Pose as Recruiters to Deliver Cross-Platform RATs Through Coding Tests

The Iranian Nimbus Manticore hacking group has been attributed to two previously undocumented malware families that highlight the continued evolution of its toolset and likely expand its targeting footprint to infect Linux and Apple macOS systems using cross-platform remote access trojans (RATs) developed using Node.js and JavaScript. Russian cybersecurity company Kaspersky is tracking the

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Experiment: Porting a PLC Exploit With AI Takes Hours and Hundreds of Dollars

Forescout researchers used Claude AI to port a remote code execution exploit between WAGO PLC models. The post Experiment: Porting a PLC Exploit With AI Takes Hours and Hundreds of Dollars appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Hackers Start Exploiting Critical Langflow Vulnerability

Tracked as CVE-2026-0768, the security defect allows unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary Python code remotely. The post Hackers Start Exploiting Critical Langflow Vulnerability appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Threat Actors Don’t Want Better Attacks. They Want Repeatable Ones

The most common way into a company last year was to ask. A web page tells the visitor to prove they are not a robot. While they read the instructions, it quietly places a command on their clipboard. Then it talks them through opening a terminal and pasting it in. The technique is called ClickFix, and it was the most common initial access method Microsoft’s team observed last year, accounting

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Five Venezuelans Plead Guilty in US Court to ATM Jackpotting

The defendants unsuccessfully attempted to physically install malware on ATMs to force them to dispense cash. The post Five Venezuelans Plead Guilty in US Court to ATM Jackpotting appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Ransomware Gang Claims Nutex Health Data Breach

The company has notified the SEC that hackers accessed patient, employee, provider, business, and financial information. The post Ransomware Gang Claims Nutex Health Data Breach appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Critical JFrog Artifactory Vulnerability Reportedly Exploited in the Wild

Exploitation of the authentication bypass vulnerability CVE-2026-82329 started just days after its public disclosure. The post Critical JFrog Artifactory Vulnerability Reportedly Exploited in the Wild appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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9.5 Million Impacted by Aesto Health Data Breach

Hackers stole personal and health information from the healthcare technology company’s AWS infrastructure. The post 9.5 Million Impacted by Aesto Health Data Breach appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Attackers Steal METR API Key and Consume AI Credits Worth About $600,000

METR (short for Model Evaluation and Threat Research and pronounced "Meter"), a research non-profit that evaluates frontier artificial intelligence (AI) models for their ability to carry out long-horizon, agentic tasks, disclosed that it suffered "two notable security incidents" where external actors attempted to gain unauthorized access to its systems. No sensitive information is believed to

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WatchGuard Patches Critical Vulnerabilities

Three critical issues in the Fireware OS iked process could allow unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code remotely. The post WatchGuard Patches Critical Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Russia-Aligned UAC-0099 Plants Nuclear Weapon Prompt in Malware to Disrupt AI Analysis

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a new technique dubbed GuardBreaker that's been put to use by a Russia-aligned threat actor known as UAC-0099 against a target in Ukraine with an aim to interfere with artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted analysis. The idea, ESET said in a series of posts on X, is to deliberately trip a large language model's (LLM) safety mechanisms and prevent its