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Multiple high-severity vulnerabilities have been identified in FFmpeg, the widely used open-source multimedia framework. These flaws impact media parsing, decoding, filtering, and encoding components and can be triggered when an application processes malicious files. Several issues can lead to heap memory corruption, which may cause an affected application to crash and, in certain scenarios, could […]

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A recent Microsoft Defender for Endpoint update briefly disabled antivirus protection on Linux servers following an upgrade and reboot, exposing affected machines to threats before Microsoft rolled out a fix. The issue struck Linux platform builds 101.26042.0000 through 101.26042.0009, where the Defender service could become disabled on devices that were upgraded and then rebooted, effectively […]

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vBulletin has patched CVE-2026-61511, a critical remote code execution flaw that could let unauthenticated attackers execute arbitrary PHP code and compromise vulnerable forum servers. This issue affects vBulletin versions 6.2.1 and earlier as well as versions 6.1.6 and earlier. The flaw exists in the file /includes/vb5/template/runtime.php, specifically within the vB5_Template_Runtime::runMaths() method. This function processes values […]

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The notorious ShinyHunters extortion gang has publicly claimed responsibility for the Ernst & Young (EY) data breach, alleging it stole employee credentials and sensitive files through a supply-chain compromise of a third-party IT support platform. The claim, posted on the group’s dark web leak site with a “final warning” deadline of July 31, 2026, threatens […]

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GitHub has introduced a default three-day cooldown period for Dependabot version updates to reduce the risk of projects automatically adopting new malicious packages. This change targets a prevalent pattern in software supply chain attacks where attackers compromise a trusted package maintainer’s account, publish a malicious update, and rely on automated dependency tools to distribute it […]

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A new phishing operation, tracked as Operation BlueDash, is tricking users into installing a fake Microsoft Teams update that silently hands attackers not one but two independent ways to remotely control infected computers. The infection starts with an email claiming a document was “too large” to send directly and was instead shared securely through Microsoft […]

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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, July 27th, 2026, CyberNewswire Security Risk Advisors is proud to share that CRN, a brand of The Channel Company, has recognized Joe Cicero as a finalist in the second annual CRN Best of the Channel Awards in the Best Channel Visionary of the Year category. As a finalist, Joe is being spotlighted for […]

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A coalition of over 30 technology industry leaders, including NVIDIA, Microsoft, CrowdStrike, Cisco, IBM, Palo Alto Networks, and Red Hat, has launched the Open Secure AI Alliance. The initiative aims to equip cyber defenders with transparent, community-driven AI security tools to counter increasingly sophisticated digital threats. Building on the Linux Foundation’s Akrites project and the […]

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A newly discovered remote access Trojan called MedusaHVNC lets attackers open a hidden virtual desktop on a victim’s own computer, quietly loading their real browser profile, cookies, and logged-in sessions without any visible sign of intrusion. Sold as malware-as-a-service through a dedicated website and Telegram channel, MedusaHVNC represents an evolution of hidden VNC (HVNC) techniques […]

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The Vatican’s official Click to Pray app has exposed the personal information of more than 700,000 users through an unauthenticated API flaw. The issue allowed anyone with a web browser to retrieve account data without needing to sign in. Click to Pray offers daily prayers and papal content through its website and mobile applications. Users […]

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Cryptocurrency theft is increasingly moving beyond the screen. Criminals are using violence, threats, home invasions, and kidnapping attempts to force victims to unlock wallets or approve transfers while under pressure. These incidents are known as wrench attacks, a term that describes bypassing strong encryption by targeting the person who controls the keys. Instead of defeating […]

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Anthropic’s Claude share links appeared in public search results, raising fresh privacy concerns for users who shared sensitive conversations. A Reddit post this weekend revealed that hundreds of Claude AI shared chats were publicly discoverable through Google. Users searching queries such as site:claude.ai/share could access conversations containing legal advice, engineering work, and personal discussions without […]

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Threat actors continued to combine classic exploitation techniques with AI-accelerated tooling this week, from a 15-year-old NGINX bug and an actively exploited Check Point authentication flaw to autonomous AI agents chaining zero-days against Hugging Face. Below is a roundup of 18 major stories covering ransomware, AI security, kernel vulnerabilities, cloud/SaaS abuse, and critical infrastructure flaws. […]

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The current conflict between the United States and Iran has become a case study in how asymmetric warfare and coalition building are reshaping the cyber and geopolitical dimensions of modern conflict. Following the United States and Israel’s joint military strikes on Iran in February 2026, Iranian state and state-aligned actors rapidly increased cyber attacks against […]

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Managing Active Directory with native tools alone can become time-consuming as an organization grows. Routine tasks such as provisioning users, resetting passwords, managing group memberships, auditing permissions, and maintaining compliance can place a heavy burden on IT teams. Manual processes also increase the risk of configuration errors, excessive privileges, security gaps, and inactive accounts going […]

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PentesterFlow is a new open-source, human-in-the-loop agentic AI command-line tool built specifically for penetration testers and bug bounty hunters, designed to automate recon-to-reporting workflows without sacrificing analyst oversight. Most agentic AI security tools suffer from hallucinated findings, weak context retention, and poor tool integration, but PentesterFlow tackles these problems head-on with built-in pentest skills, evidence-based […]

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A newly disclosed exploit chain in GitLab shows how two long-buried memory-safety flaws in a Ruby JSON parsing library, Oj, could be combined to achieve remote code execution on default GitLab installations, exposing source code, Rails secrets, and internal services. As part of the Open Defense Initiative, Depthfirst researcher Yuhang Wu used the automated analysis […]

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A well-known AI red teamer claims to have developed a universal jailbreak that works against leading large language models, including heavily guarded flagships such as GPT-5.6 Sol, Claude Opus 5, and Fable. In a public post on X, Pliny the Liberator described the technique as effective “on ALL models” and across every category he tested. […]

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Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) anchors 2026 cybersecurity amid remote, cloud, and hybrid booms. ZTNA solutions aren’t hype—they’re vital for data locks, compliance wins, and borderless teams. “Never trust, always verify”: ZTNA okays only vetted users/devices, location-blind. Shrink attack planes, block lateral creeps, master app gates. Market clutter and threat flux complicate picks. We rank […]

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Foxit PDF Reader has been found vulnerable to a local privilege escalation flaw that allows standard Windows users to gain full SYSTEM-level control under specific conditions. The issue, tracked as CVE-2026-57239, was disclosed following research into Foxit’s updater and service architecture and represents a high-impact post-exploitation pathway, although it requires prior code execution on the […]

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