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How a 40-Year-Old Protocol Is Leaving Critical Infrastructure Exposed

A decades-old industrial communications protocol still used to connect controllers, sensors, and monitoring equipment is leaving some critical infrastructure systems exposed online. Researchers at Comparitech said they identified 179 likely real industrial control system devices…

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Ivanti Exploitation Underscores the Fragility of Mobile Infrastructures

The active exploitation (CVE-2026-1340) of the Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile solution lays bare an uncomfortable irony at the heart of enterprise security: The platforms organizations deploy to govern and protect mobile devices have become high-value…

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The Axios Supply Chain Attack and What It Reveals About Open Source's Invisible Risk

In modern cybersecurity, open-source tools can often provide the perfect avenue for attackers due to widespread access and dependencies. The Axios promise-based HTTP client is present in around 80% of cloud and code environments, making…

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How North Korean Hackers Turned GitHub Into a Spy Network Hiding in Plain Sight

Attackers are constantly looking to develop their tactics and technologies for increased success, requiring ongoing intelligence and advancement in security to account for the evolution of risk. Recently, threat actors linked to the DPRK have…

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CISA Flags Actively Exploited Citrix NetScaler Vulnerability

CISA has elevated Citrix CVE-2026-3055 from a vendor advisory to an active response issue. On March 30, the agency added the NetScaler flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog and directed federal civilian agencies to…

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Why Enterprise Permissions Are AI's Most Dangerous Inheritance

Broken access control has led the OWASP Top 10 for six straight years, affecting 100% of tested applications in 2025. However, nobody had ever measured actual permission usage in production to answer the question of…

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Ubuntu Patches Snap Flaw That Could Let Local Users Gain Root

Ubuntu has patched a local privilege-escalation flaw tied to Snap that could let an unprivileged local user gain root access on affected systems. Qualys disclosed the vulnerability this month, saying it stems from the interaction…

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How Manufacturing's Identity Crisis Is Turning Access Gaps Into Attack Vectors

One of the main competitive advantages of the manufacturing sector, provided by rapid scaling, seasonal agility, and third-party integration, is also its identity security liability. In manufacturing environments, access is provisioned at operational speed, and…

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AI Pipeline Code Flaw Exposes Patch Cycle Times

The cybersecurity community has long operated under an implicit assumption: When security alert organizations disclose a vulnerability, defenders have at least a few days—perhaps weeks—to assess, test, and deploy a patch before attackers catch up.…

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Researchers Say Claude Flaws Could Be Chained to Silently Exfiltrate User Data

Researchers at Oasis Security say they found a three-part exploit chain involving Claude features and related claude.com infrastructure that could silently extract sensitive data from a user’s conversation history. The attack abused trusted platform features…

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How a Single DNS Loophole Exposes AI Agents to Command-and-Control Attacks

The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter is a managed service enabling AI agents to execute Python code dynamically and securely within a managed cloud environment. The service’s sandbox mode was positioned by…

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The Bank in Your Pocket Is Now the Front Door for Fraud

Traditional defenses against fraud have been designed for traditional kinds of threats, prioritizing hardened servers, network perimeters, and layered authentication to defend against the attacks that were prevalent at the time. These measures are increasingly…

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Signed And Trusted But Still Dangerous

Microsoft Defender Experts recently found a series of phishing campaigns abusing legitimate signatures to deceive targets. Identified in February 2026, the phishing lures consisted of crafted meeting invitations and PDF attachments leading to false pages…

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Cybercrime Group Targets Salesforce Misconfigurations

A renewed cyberattack campaign on Salesforce by the cybercrime group ShinyHunters highlights a key consideration for security teams. Simple configuration mistakes can expose enterprise data—at scale. As this recent campaign unfolded, Salesforce warned customers about…

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Identity Overload Is Creating a New Cybersecurity Breaking Point

Autonomous Identity Platform provider Lumos recently published the “AI, Automation, and Risk in 2026: Identity at a Breaking Point” report, exploring the state of identity in the age of AI. According to the report, identity-based…

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How AI Browsers Turn Ordinary Content Into an Attack Surface

Agentic AI browsers are being sold as the next productivity leap, tools that can summarize content, move across tabs, connect tasks across apps and services, and act on a user’s behalf. But new research from…

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Preparing the Web for the Post-Quantum Era

While threats continue to ramp up and security efforts struggle to keep pace, a more existential technological challenge looms: the potential for quantum computing to undermine current public-key cryptography. Understanding the gravity of not meeting…

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The Hidden Risk of AI Agents Running on Your Laptop

Oasis Security researchers disclosed a vulnerability chain that they said allowed a malicious website to take over a locally running OpenClaw AI agent, exposing how browser-accessible local services can become a new attack surface for…

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