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A critical vulnerability affecting Cisco’s Secure Email Gateway product is allowing attackers to write arbitrary files on the underlying operating system. In an advisory issued on Wednesday, the company urged customers to apply available fixes after confirming that the flaw is being exploited in the wild. The flaw affects the product’s Advanced Malware Protection (AMP)…
CSO Online UK
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Attackers are exploiting a newly disclosed flaw in Palo Alto Networks’ PAN-OS firewall software to run code with root privileges, and US federal agencies have been ordered to fix it and check for compromise by October 17. Palo Alto Networks disclosed the vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-0322, in a security advisory published October 14. The flaw…
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Ransomware attackers are expanding their tactics beyond encrypting corporate systems and threatening to leak stolen data. They are increasingly using AI in attacks, exploiting organizations’ own AI systems and even using physical intimidation by threatening employees and their families to pressure companies into paying ransoms. The Semperis’ 2026 Ransomware Risk Report found that 84% of…
CSO Online UK
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Munich plant builder Martin centralises 10GB of telemetry per line each day on open-source Stackable, hosted by Ionos, to dodge US hyperscaler lock-in and the US Cloud Act…
Computer Weekly
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The CyberScotland Partnership (CSP) is urging individuals, families and businesses across Scotland to stay alert to online criminals when shopping online. Our latest campaign highlights the most common tricks fraudsters use to target shoppers – from fake links and bogus…
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Microsoft says it has dismantled a criminal marketplace responsible for 1 billion malicious messages. Working with international authorities and several tech and cybersecurity companies in a nearly year-long investigation, Redmond identified and took down Yam Store, a coordinated underground network dealing in commercial phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS). The network allowed cybercriminals to readily purchase, and very quickly…
CSO Online UK
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Simply asking Anthropic’s Claude Code to review an HTML file could hand attackers access to a developer’s machine, cloud credentials and software development environment, according to a new Noma Security finding. Noma’s researchers found a vulnerability affecting Anthropic’s Claude Code Desktop app that could allow malicious JavaScript embedded in an HTML file to execute without…
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Attackers without an account of their own were found logging in to Ivanti Connect Secure appliances using an authentication bypass flaw that the vendor has since fixed. Once inside, attackers ran arbitrary commands on the appliances. “Ivanti initially discovered a portion of this vulnerability as part of our product security program and patched it in…
CSO Online UK
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More internet-connected refrigerators have joined the official list of those affected by a cyberattack that ruined stocks of chilled food at hundreds of French supermarkets over the weekend. The French Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-FR) advised supermarkets to disconnect any refrigeration control systems with a public IP address from the internet, and to reconnect them…
CSO Online UK
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When I started writing regularly about cybersecurity management in 2015, the environment looked very different. Cloud computing was still reshaping enterprise technology. Ransomware had not become the industrialised threat it is today. Artificial intelligence was not driving boardroom discussions. Zero Trust had yet to enter mainstream technical vocabulary and quantum computing barely registered on the…
CSO Online UK
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Since July, US frontier AI labs and other AI leaders have revealed a string of incidents in which their models accessed external computer systems without authorization, events popularly described as AI agents “going rogue.” The most well-known and studied of these incidents is OpenAI’s hack into Hugging Face, which OpenAI initially characterized as “an unprecedented…
CSO Online UK
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AI can speed up attacks, with faster reconnaisance, while defenders should use AI to accelerate existing SOC work, but not chase after full autonomy…
Computer Weekly
