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Oct 12, 2026People who buy low-cost Android phones from online marketplaces may be carrying malware that was placed on the device before it reached them, Bitdefender has found. The campaign, dubbed Midnight Mimosa, runs on budget Android devices from different ...
Oct 12, 2026Threat actors have been observed exploiting a recently disclosed critical security flaw in SonicWall Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 1000 appliances within days of public disclosure. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-102255 (CVSS score: 10.0), is a ...
Oct 12, 2026A Canada-based cybersecurity expert was arrested last week in the United States on suspicion of being involved in ShinyHunters attacks, including the recent hacking of FBI systems. FBI director Kash Patel announced on Friday that agents had arrested...
Oct 12, 2026Three days after customers in Southeast Asia began reporting drained wallets, Ledger says the damage is limited. In its 72-hour update on X on October 11, the Paris-based hardware wallet maker said "all confirmed cases related to the disclosed draini...
Oct 12, 2026A maximum-severity security flaw impacting the Bricksforge plugin for WordPress has come under active exploitation in the wild, according to Patchstack. The critical vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-85097 (CVSS score: 10.0), which allows unauth...
Oct 12, 2026Threat actors started exploiting a recently patched critical vulnerability in SonicWall SMA1000 appliances within days after public disclosure. Tracked as CVE-2026-102255 (CVSS score of 10), the security defect is described as a pre-authenticated se...
Oct 12, 2026Microsoft is advising users and businesses to update Windows devices before digital certificates used to verify Windows Update servers expire in May and June 2027. The certificates expire on May 17 or June 19, depending on the Windows version. Devic...
Oct 12, 2026Websites that rely on Let's Encrypt will soon have to renew their TLS certificates more often. Starting February 10, 2027, the certificate authority will issue certificates valid for 64 days by default, down from 90 days. Subscribers who already use...
Oct 12, 2026Many organizations adopt open source software because they see it as a cheaper alternative to proprietary development. Maintaining it, however, still requires engineering effort, according to Google's case study, "How much does it cost to maintain a ...
Oct 11, 2026Daiichi Kosho, a major Japanese entertainment system maker, disclosed that a malware infection at its contractor, Nippon Columbia, exposed more than 8.7 million customer and employee records. The company is the largest karaoke maker in Japan, operat...
Oct 11, 2026Here's an overview of some of last week's most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: Three questions a hospital CISO should ask a healthcare fintech vendor In this Help Net Security interview, Drew McCombs, CTO and CISO at Cylerity, ex...
Oct 11, 2026OrcaRouter has released OrcaCyber Zero 1.5, a model for authorized vulnerability research. The model is the successor to OrcaCyber Zero 1.0, which shipped on September 17, 2026. OrcaCyber Zero 1.5 is a post-trained Orca model for vulnerability reprod...