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Unpatched voting machines, unverifiable QR-coded ballots, and AI-driven influence campaigns leave US elections short of secure. The post How Secure Are US Elections? Voting Machine Risks and the Growing Threat of AI appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Microsoft has resolved a known issue that prevents non-admin users from connecting to devices via Remote Desktop when the "Administrator protection" security feature is enabled. [...]

Cisco open sourced Project Quarry, a rule language for detecting AI agent attacks that only emerge across sequences of benign actions. The post Cisco Open Sources Quarry to Catch AI Agent Attacks Hidden in Harmless Steps appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Key findings On October 26, Cohere reported a puzzling incident involving Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, an open-weight model from Alibaba. The task was straightforward: write a detection rule for suspicious curl downloads followed by bash execution. Instead, the model produced a shell command that inspected its environment and attempted to send a test string to an Alibaba Cloud […] The post Cohere’s Qwen Story: Looks More Like Model Jaggedness appeared first on Check Point Research.

Fake Firefox extensions posing as Phantom, Jupiter, and Bitget targeted users to steal crypto wallet recovery phrases and private keys.

AI agents can control authenticated browsers, interact with corporate applications, and access sensitive data while appearing to act as legitimate employees. Keep Aware examines three ways agents operate inside browsers and why traditional security tools may struggle to distinguish their activity from human users. [...]

Phishing remained the leading initial access technique, while percentage of ransomware and pre-ransomware cases increased. Finance and public administration tied as the top-targeted industries.

CREST has published a framework for strengthening cyber resilience across financial services

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned federal agencies to patch a high-severity Linux kernel privilege escalation bug that attackers are chaining with the PHP2Shell flaws in the wild. [...]

The flaws could lead to arbitrary code execution, authorization bypasses, and privilege escalation. The post Adobe, Veeam, Juniper Networks Patch Critical Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek.

BAE Systems says no data was extracted and no PII was breached in the incident that disrupted US bankruptcy court notices for weeks. The post BAE Says No Data Extracted in Incident Hitting Bankruptcy Courts appeared first on SecurityWeek.

The personal and work information was allegedly stolen from an Okta single sign-on system earlier this year. The post Over 41,000 DHS Employee Records Leaked Online appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Microsoft released the KB5127936 preview cumulative update for Windows 11 versions 25H2 and 26H2, with 41 changes, including File Explorer and Cloud rebuild improvements. [...]

View CSAF Summary Mendix SAML module contains an authentication bypass vulnerability that could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to gain unauthorized access by replaying a valid SAML assertion in IdP-initiated authentication flows. Siemens has released new versions for the affected products and recommends to update to the latest versions. The following versions of Siemens Mendix SAML Module are affected: Mendix SAML (Mendix 10 compatible) vers:intdot/<4.2.4 (CVE-2026-89209) Mendix SAML (Mendix 11 compatible) vers:intdot/<4.2.4 (CVE-2026-89209) Mendix SAML (Mendix 9 compatible) vers:intdot/<3.6.29 (CVE-2026-89209) CVSS Vendor Equipment v3 6.8 Siemens Mendix SAML (Mendix 10 compatible) 1 Vulnerability Authentication Bypass by Capture-replay Background Critical Infrastructure Sectors: Critical Manufacturing, Information Technology Countries/Areas Deployed: Worldwide Company Headquarters Location: Germany Vulnerabilities CVE-2026-89209 Affected versions

View CSAF Summary Hitachi Energy is aware of multiple vulnerabilities that affect the TRO600 series product versions listed in this document. These vulnerabilities can be exploited for remote code execution (RCE) to carry out further attacks and disclosure of sensitive information. Please refer to the Recommended Immediate Actions section for information about the mitigation/remediation. The following versions of Hitachi Energy TRO600 series products are affected: TRO600 vers:TRO600/<=9.2.1.6, vers:TRO600/<=9.1.1.0, 9.2.2.1, 9.1.2.0 (CVE-2026-10756, CVE-2026-106087) CVSS Vendor Equipment v3 7.5 Hitachi Energy TRO600 2 Vulnerabilities Improper Restriction of Communication Channel to Intended Endpoints, Missing Authentication for Critical Function Background Critical Infrastructure Sectors: Energy Countries/Areas Deployed: Worldwide Company Headquarters Location: Switzerland Vulnerabilities Expand All + CVE-2026-10756 TRO600 contains a vulnerability that allow

CISA has added two new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2026-97229 GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Edition Integer Overflow or Wraparound vulnerability CVE-2026-76418 Cisco Secure Firewall ASA Software and Cisco Secure FTD Software Unchecked Return Value to NULL Pointer Dereference Vulnerability These types of vulnerabilities are a frequent attack vector for malicious cyber actors and pose significant risks to the federal enterprise.  Binding Operational Directive (BOD) 26-04: Prioritizing Security Updates Based on Risk establishes vulnerability management requirements for Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) agencies. BOD 26-04 reinforces the importance of the KEV Catalog and requires federal agencies to prioritize rapid remediation of high-risk vulnerabilities, specifically those identified by Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) listed in CISA’s KEV Catalog on publicly exposed

View CSAF Summary Hitachi Energy is aware of OS command injection and Dirty Frag vulnerabilities that affect CoreTec product versions listed in this document. Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could result in impact on confidentiality, integrity and availability of the product. Please refer to the Recommended Immediate Actions for information about the mitigation/remediation. The following versions of Hitachi Energy CoreTec Product are affected: CoreTec5 vers:CoreTec5/<=3.4.0, 5.0.0 (CVE-2026-13162, CVE-2026-43284) CoreTec4 vers:CoreTec4/<=3.4.0 (CVE-2026-13162) CVSS Vendor Equipment v3 8.8 Hitachi Energy CoreTec5 2 Vulnerabilities Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection'), Write-what-where Condition Background Critical Infrastructure Sectors: Energy Countries/Areas Deployed: Worldwide Company Headquarters Location: Switzerland Vulnerabilities Expand All + CVE-2026-13162 An OS command vulnerabil

Akamai research reveals that scam detections topped six million in Q2 2026

Cisco released security updates to patch a denial-of-service zero-day in Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) and Threat Defense (FTD) software that attackers are exploiting to remotely crash vulnerable firewall devices. [...]

Apple has backported a fix for a CoreGraphics flaw reportedly exploited in targeted attacks to the iPhone XS, XS Max and XR, and seventh-generation iPad.

The data of So-net and Plala customers in Japan was exposed, along with 54,401 email account passwords and 16 bank account records. The post Hackers Steal 2.6 Million Records From Sony’s Japanese ISP So-net appeared first on SecurityWeek.

The UK’s privacy regulator has issued a reprimand to Staffordshire Police following a serious breach of personal information

Cisco Talos linked SD-WAN key-stealing malware to infrastructure overlapping Volt Typhoon’s Silent Train network, which Lumen detailed. The post Cisco SD-WAN Zero-Day Exploitation Tied to Volt Typhoon’s ‘Silent Train’ Network appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Cisco Talos observed a new AI-integrated command-and-control (C2) framework in the wild called “NIK C2.”

An exploited flaw in the Remote Access SSL VPN service lets unauthenticated attackers remotely force ASA and FTD firewalls to reload. The post Attackers Exploit Second Cisco Firewall VPN Zero-Day Since August appeared first on SecurityWeek.

The guidance sets out how federal agencies can prioritize PQC adoption for the most sensitive systems, to meet the 2031 transition deadline

MR ROBOT Android malware rents banking trojans that steal one-time passwords and card data

The malware that topped ESET’s infostealer detections in Latin America in the first half of 2026 is an example of how cybercrime has professionalized

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