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Defense contractor pleads guilty to aiding North Korean remote worker scheme
The 62-year-old allowed co-conspirators to use his identity and top secret security clearance to apply for almost 100 jobs last year. The scheme’s success rate was limited.
Stopping Node2Shell: How SentinelOne Protects Customers From Brotli-Based Remote Code Execution
This month in security with Tony Anscombe – October 2026 edition
The PHP2Shell disclosure and other major cybersecurity news this month brought into relief the need for well-thought-out cyber-readiness plans
In Other News: Anthropic Breach Dispute, UEFI Flaw Hits Most Servers, Cloudflare AI Data Leak
Noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: Iran eyed in military freezer hacks, Copenhagen University breach, AI-powered malware.
WordPress RCE Flaw Draws Nearly 63,000 Attack Attempts in Just 24 Hours
ARTEX and Friends: Enter Agentic Offensive Frameworks
Written by: Aurora Blum, David Mainor, Rohit Nambiar, Omar ElAhdan, Matthew McWhirt, Will Silverstone, Bhavesh Dhake, Chris Busse Introduction Recent intrusions in which threat actors have been observed weaponizing agentic frameworks to execute…
Passkeys Are Better Than Passwords. But They Are Not Enough.
As organizations eliminate passwords, attackers will adapt. Instead of attacking the authenticator directly, they will look for opportunities around it. The post Passkeys Are Better Than Passwords. But They Are Not Enough. appeared first on SecurityWeek .
Assad regime hacker who caused $136 billion market drop sentenced to 42 months
A Syrian man who used a hijacked news agency Twitter account to post a fake report of explosions at the White House has been sentenced to 42 months in prison, the US Department of Justice has announced.
Shufti ties AI agent actions to verified owners and permissions
Shufti launches Know Your Agent (KYA), an AI agent verification solution designed to verify autonomous AI agents acting on behalf of individuals and businesses.
Bedrock Data routes data exposure fixes to owners and verifies results
Bedrock Data has announced AI-assisted remediation, which federates the work of fixing data exposure to the data owners across the enterprise.
Hackers target government Windows systems in Asia with new malware
The previously unknown malware, dubbed NetamLoader, uses legitimate Microsoft software components to execute malicious code, evade security tools and download additional programs onto infected computers.
Trezor Warns of Suspected Hardware Implant in One of Its Wallets Sold by CryptoBilis
How to prioritize remediation after a pentest: a practitioner workflow
A practical pentest workflow combines CVSS, EPSS and business impact to validate findings, prioritize fixes and document remediation decisions.
Fresh WordPress Vulnerability in Attackers’ Crosshairs
Threat actors are attempting to exploit a high-severity unauthenticated race condition leading to remote code execution. The post Fresh WordPress Vulnerability in Attackers’ Crosshairs appeared first on SecurityWeek .
British intelligence agency misplaced 'thousands' of storage devices, years later still can't say how many
Polymarket confirms cyberattack on third-party provider after outages
The company suffered outages starting at 2 p.m. Eastern U.S. time on Thursday and eventually attributed the downtime to a compromise involving an unnamed provider.