The Health Care Cybersecurity and Resiliency Act of 2026 was passed by unanimous consent last week, potentially expanding federal cyber requirements for healthcare organizations.
A teenager from Amman, Jordan suspected of leading the prolific data theft and extortion group ShinyHunters has been detained and is reportedly cooperating with the FBI to identify other members of the hacking gang. KrebsOnSecurity has learned that the suspect, who uses the hacker handle "Rey," was detained as ShinyHunters was in the process of extorting a business unit recently divested by the global aerospace company Boeing, which manufactures the fleet of planes used by the employer of Rey's…
The individual was detained in May and has been extradited to Germany to face hacking charges. The post Qilin Ransomware Suspect Arrested in Japan, Extradited to Germany appeared first on SecurityWeek.
A report by a Labour MP and an academic argues that if the British public cannot see what Russian activity costs, it cannot weigh that burden against the cost of defending against it.
Over 100 hacked websites used fake Cloudflare checks to trick visitors into installing LunexStealer through ClickFix commands. The lure is the now-familiar ClickFix technique, dressed up as Cloudflare’s standard bot check. The fake page asks you to run a command, supposedly to confirm you’re not a bot, and that command quietly downloads and installs an […]
Hadrian offers an agentic offensive security platform that allows defenders to operate at the same speed as attackers. The post Hadrian Raises $40 Million to Expand Autonomous Offensive Security Platform appeared first on SecurityWeek.
A recent phishing campaign abused Microsoft Power BI links to deliver multiple rogue ScreenConnect clients.
Users of two types of Fortinet hardware should take steps to limit their exposure to a now-global credential stealing campaign, U.S. federal law enforcement says.
A critical vulnerability (CVE-2026-21589) affecting multiple Atlassian product families, including Jira, Confluence, and Bitbucket, is being exploited in attacks that do not require authentication. [...]
The Japanese chip testing giant said hackers stole personal information from its servers in the February 2026 cyberattack. The post Advantest Discloses Data Breach Months After Ransomware Attack appeared first on SecurityWeek.
OverviewOn October 5, 2026, Atlassian published a security advisory for CVE-2026-21589, a critical arbitrary file access vulnerability affecting eight products: Bitbucket Data Center, Confluence Data Center, Jira Service Management Data Center, Jira Software Data Center, Bamboo Data Center, Crowd Data Center, Crucible, and Fisheye. Atlassian assigned the vulnerability a CVSSv4 score of 9.3. An unauthenticated remote attacker who knows a target file's exact name and path can access it within the…
The 2026 findings are not just a year-over-year shift. They mark the latest point in a five-year arc where resilience, AI governance, human risk, and board scrutiny are converging inside the systems where work actually happens. For years, the enterprise cybersecurity story has been told as a straight line of escalation: more attacks, more data loss, more pressure, and more urgency. That
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Secret Service (USSS) on Tuesday warned that the FortiBleed credential harvesting campaign remains an active threat aimed at internet-facing Fortinet FortiGate firewalls and secure socket layer (SSL) virtual private network (VPN) gateways. "The campaign exploits reused or leaked credentials and legacy SHA-256 password storage, enabling threat
Threat actors have begun to exploit a newly disclosed critical security flaw impacting Atlassian Data Center products that could allow access to sensitive files under certain conditions. The arbitrary file access flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-21589 (CVSS score: 9.3) affects multiple products, including Bitbucket Data Center, Confluence Data Center, Jira Service Management Data Center, Jira Software
If you’re evaluating an agentic pentesting solution right now, you’ve probably heard the same pitch more than once: point it at a target, and it discovers, validates, and exploits attack paths autonomously, the way a real attacker would. That promise is worth taking seriously. It’s also worth pressure testing, and three questions do the heavy lifting. What can the assessment actually
SonicWall has released hotfixes to address a maximum-severity server-side request forgery (SSRF) flaw in SMA1000 series appliances. [...]
Four critical-severity use-after-free defects were fixed in Chromecast, Browser, Navigation, and Track. The post Chrome 155 Update Patches 247 Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek.
This week, ASOS customers opened their phones to find a hostile push notification delivered through the retailer’s own app. The message claimed the company’s Snowflake environment had been compromised and directed ASOS to engage with the sender through Telegram. ASOS later confirmed to Sky News that an unauthorized customer notification had been sent and said it was investigating activity involving third-party platforms used to communicate with customers. The company also said basic personal in…
A North Carolina musician was sentenced to 18 months in prison for collecting more than $10 million in royalties from Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, and YouTube Music in a massive streaming royalty fraud scheme. [...]
Advantest Corporation is notifying affected individuals that a ransomware attack earlier this year exposed their personally identifiable data. [...]
Anthropic is integrating the CVP and Project Glasswing into a single offering, with three levels of access to its most capable AI models. The post Anthropic Introduces 3-Tier Cyber Verification Program for AI Access appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Anthropic created three access tiers for Claude’s offensive security use, matching cyber capabilities and safeguards to the user’s level of trust. Anthropic is trying to solve the difficult balance between using AI for cybersecurity and preventing misuse. The same model that helps security teams fix vulnerabilities can also help attackers break into systems. Its answer, […]
The cybersecurity community has seen examples of autonomous agents, built inside AI labs, attacking public infrastructure. How you prepare for agentic threats is what makes the difference during real incidents.
Hackers compromised a third-party communication platform and sent rogue notifications to ASOS users. The post ASOS Confirms Cyberattack, Data Breach appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Enabling the Next-Gen Enclave Architecture for On-Device AI on Android
A plausible-sounding sponsorship offer could mask an attempt to compromise your Google account
Anthropic on Tuesday said it's expanding a program that allows vetted cybersecurity professionals to test its advanced artificial intelligence (AI) models with reduced safeguards and blocking classifiers, as the company claimed its Project Glasswing initiative uncovered at least 129,000 verified software vulnerabilities between April and July 2026. The company said it also found an additional
Wikimedia looked into whether its own websites had seen activity like that disclosed by other organizations The post Wikimedia Says Rogue OpenAI Agents Tried to Turn Its Tools Into Proxies appeared first on SecurityWeek.
On 5 October 2026, Atlassian published a security advisory addressing a critical arbitrary file access vulnerability. It affects Bitbucket Data Center, Confluence Data Center, Jira Service Management Data Center, Jira Software Data Center, Bamboo Data Center, Crowd Data Center, Crucible and Fisheye. CERT-EU strongly recommends upgrading all affected installations to a fixed version as soon as possible, starting with instances accessible from the internet. CERT-EU also recommends checking access…
Wikimedia found unauthorized OpenAI agent activity on its platforms, including unapproved edits, proxy attempts and millions of automated API requests. Wikimedia ran its own investigation after other organizations started reporting rogue AI agents breaking into websites, and the answer came back yes, it happened here too. The foundation found unauthorized bot activity tied to OpenAI […]
