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OpenAI Announced $1B in Defensive Tools for Water Utilities
OpenAI pledges $1B in subsidized Daybreak AI cybersecurity tools for under-resourced critical infrastructure defenders. OpenAI announced Daybreak for Frontli...
PaperCut Flaws Exploited in Attacks on U.S. and European Schools
Attackers are exploiting two new PaperCut flaws to steal credentials and gain privileged access in education-sector attacks across the U.S.
Broadcom Patches Critical VMware Workstation and Fusion VM-Escape Vulnerabilities
Broadcom patched two VMware Workstation/Fusion VM-escape bugs. No workarounds exist.
U.S. CISA adds Google Chromium V8 flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
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Crooks Behind Manchester Airports Group Hack Leaked Data of 8.8 Million People
Manchester Airports Group (MAG) data allegedly leaked by FulcrumSec exposes emails and phone numbers of 8.8 million people.
PostgreSQL Hit by 12-Year-Old Vulnerability Allowing Server Takeover
PostGREShell (CVE-2026-6471) is a 12-year-old PostgreSQL flaw that lets low-privileged attackers execute code and take over servers. Cyera researchers found ...
Chinese Hackers Use AI Agents in Multi-Country Cyber Campaign
Hunt.io uncovered a Chinese-speaking campaign using AI agents to automate cyberattacks against Asian government, education and industrial targets.
Google fixes the sixth actively exploited Chrome zero-day of 2026
Google patched 12 Chrome flaws, including an actively exploited V8 zero-day that could enable remote code execution through a crafted webpage. Google release...
Dark Web Service Nexus Sells 153M+ Driver’s Licenses
FBI probes suspected breach at IDScan.net after dark web service Nexus offered 153M+ US and Canadian driver’s license scans.
Pegasus and NoviSpy Used Against Serbian Protesters
Serbian activists were targeted with zero-click Pegasus and NoviSpy spyware, exposing a major surveillance campaign ahead of elections. A member of Serbia’s ...
Cisco Fixed Critical RCE in Nexus 9000 Series Switches
Cisco patched a critical Nexus 9000 vulnerability, CVE-2026-20212, allowing unauthenticated remote root code execution. Cisco has released patches for a crit...
412,000 The Town 2025 Ticket Buyers’ Data Hits the Dark Web
412,000 The Town 2025 festival buyer records are being sold for $10,000, with Brazil’s data openly marketed for bank fraud, loans and SIM registration. A sel...
Chaotic Eclipse Releases Crowdstrike Falcon ZeroDay FalconFlank
Chaotic Eclipse released FalconFlank, a PoC exploit for a Crowdstrike Falcon ZeroDay Elevation of Privileges Vulnerability Security researcher Chaotic Eclips...
2,000 Leaked Documents Reveal How Russia Turns Engineering Students Into GRU Cyber Operators
2,000 leaked files expose Bauman University’s hidden Department No. 4, which trained GRU-linked hackers and propagandists linked to APT28 and Sandworm.
OpenAI Astra Brings Autonomous Zero-Day Exploitation to AI
OpenAI says Astra can autonomously find zero-days and build exploits, marking its first model to reach the “Critical” cyber risk level. Astra is now official...
SonicWall Patches Two New Actively Exploited Zero-Days in SMA 1000 VPNs
SonicWall patched two zero-days in SMA 1000 VPNs, including a CVSS 10 pre-auth SSRF flaw, after confirming active exploitation. SonicWall has released securi...
$536 and 8 Hours: AI Learns to Attack a Different PLC
Experts got Claude to port a PLC exploit, but it cost $536 and 8 hours, and a later AI-generated payload accidentally destroyed the hardware.
Iran-linked APT Mirage Kitten Uses Fake Job Tests to Spread Malware
Mirage Kitten used fake LinkedIn coding tests to spread NodeRabbit and PollCat, even banning AI tools that could have spotted the malware.