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A phishing-as-a-service framework called BigBear 2.0 has been used to bypass multi-factor authentication at 258 organizations and steal more than 5,000 Microsoft 365 credentials. [...]

NCSC warns unapproved AI tools can expose corporate data and create new security risks

Online maths learning platform Mathspace disclosed over the weekend that attackers stole data from more than 1 million students, staff, and parents after breaching its Metabase internal reporting system. [...]

The vulnerability, CVE-2026-86218, was allocated a maximum-severity rating by the software provider itself

Cryptocurrency hardware wallet maker Trezor says an August data breach at its shipping and logistics provider, ShipMonk, affects an additional 67,000 U.S. customers. [...]

The proof-of-concept (PoC) exploits lead to privilege escalation, spawning a shell with System privileges. The post Nightmare Eclipse Drops CrowdStrike, Nvidia, Avast Zero-Day Exploits appeared first on SecurityWeek.

The stealthy toolkit embeds a backdoor in HAProxy and targets automotive and media organizations in South Korea for long-term surveillance. The post North Korean Hackers Deploy New Linux Espionage Toolkit appeared first on SecurityWeek.

OpenAI agents made 15,000–18,000 autonomous edits to a German wiki over three months, evading moderation and echoing tactics seen in the Hugging Face breach. The post OpenAI Agents Hijack Another Victim Website appeared first on SecurityWeek.

The ransomware group’s published dataset reportedly includes Berlin state employee data, as well as highly sensitive emergency plans

The StyleSmuggler zero-day allows attackers to execute code and deploy a stealthy backdoor on Adobe Commerce and Magento stores. The post Adobe Commerce Zero-Day Exploited to Backdoor Online Stores appeared first on SecurityWeek.

The attacks rely on backdoored ScreenConnect instances to transfer and execute payloads to newly connected clients. The post Modified ScreenConnect Clients Used in Worm-Like Campaign appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Sekoia and Kudelski Security have observed that North Korea's Lazarus umbrella is split into six distinct clusters, focused on espionage, financial theft and sanctions evasion

OpenAI appears to be testing a new "Writing Style" feature for ChatGPT that can learn how you write by looking at examples from your connected apps. [...]

Hackers are exploiting a chain of two recently disclosed vulnerabilities in MikroTik routers to take control of devices with SSH services exposed to the internet. [...]

ConnectWise has shared temporary mitigation measures for a new ScreenConnect Remote Access vulnerability that it plans to patch later this week. [...]

Several victims of a recent breach of driver’s license information have sued the company they believe responsible

A security researcher has posted a zero-day exploit in CrowdStrike which could allow hackers to escalate privileges

N-able has released an emergency hotfix for a maximum-severity remote code execution (RCE) flaw affecting its N-central remote monitoring and management (RMM) platform. [...]

OpenAI is now rolling out ChatGPT Astra, its most powerful model to date, to those with a $20 Plus subscription, but there's no word on when free users will get access.. [...]

Threat actors have adopted the ASCII smuggling technique in phishing campaigns, using invisible Unicode characters to evade email security filters. [...]

A massive cybercriminal operation is leveraging thousands of compromised small-business websites to deliver ClickFix payloads stored in smart contracts on the BNB Smart Chain (BSC). [...]

Tracked as CVE-2026-32475 (CVSS score of 9.8), the bug described as an arbitrary file upload issue in the function that handles form submissions. The post Elementor Pro WordPress Plugin Vulnerability Exploited to Hack Sites appeared first on SecurityWeek.

OpenAI admits it did not disclose an incident where autonomous AI agents hijacked a German wiki, created 18,000 posts, shared answers, and bypassed restrictions, saying it treated the activity as model "misalignment" rather than a security breach. [...]

The letter follows revelations about Serbian student activists being infected with Pegasus and NoviSpy, and coincides with other pressures on Belgrade. The post European parliament members call for slowdown of Serbia’s EU entry over spyware use appeared first on CyberScoop.

Multiple lawsuits have been filed against identity verification company IDScan after hackers allegedly breached the service and offered to sell more than 153 million driver's licenses. [...]

Noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: Microsoft rolled out patches for cloud services, hackers compromised 5,000 Dropbox accounts, and Guardio is now valued at $1.1 billion. The post In Other News: Microsoft’s Cloud Patches, Hacked Dropbox Accounts, Guardio’s $1.1B Valuation appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Nearly two dozen issues, tracked collectively as CVE-2026-73749 (CVSS score of 9.8), were addressed with the updates. The post HPE Patches Critical RCE Vulnerabilities in AOS-CX appeared first on SecurityWeek.

The Daybreak initiative will provide subsidized AI cyber capabilities, training and technical assistance, though OpenAI has disclosed few details about costs and eligibility. The post OpenAI Pledges $1 Billion to Bring Frontier AI to Critical Infrastructure Defenders appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Attackers have begun targeting a critical-severity Citrix NetScaler auth bypass flaw (CVE-2026-19490) in the wild, according to vulnerability intelligence company Previdian. [...]

Microsoft is working to resolve a known issue that causes delays or blocks some users from opening the Microsoft Teams desktop client on Windows systems. [...]