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* Rhysida ransomware group breached Berlin’s state government, stealing 1.44 million files weighing in at around 5.8TB * Attackers demanded 30 BTC (~$2.3M); Berlin refused, leading to full leak online * Leaked data reportedly includes water supply info, staff records, and emergency plans A cybercriminal group known as Rhysida
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Sophos has announced Exploit Path Verification (EPV), a new capability being developed for its Sophos Managed Risk service to help security teams determine which vulnerabilities are actually exploitable in their environments. EPV will use OpenAI’s GPT cyber models through the OpenAI Daybreak Defense Network to assess factors including asset
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* Microsoft reports phishing campaign using ASCII smuggling to bypass spam filters * Attackers insert invisible characters into keywords, tricking filters and AI agents * Defenders should normalize Unicode tags and flag unexpected invisible code points as suspicious Cybercriminals are using the “ASCII smuggling” technique to make sure phishing emails pass security filters
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OpenAI has submitted an incident report to the European Commission over the dormant German wiki that its agents took over and used as a messaging channel between themselves. Thomas Regnier, a Commission spokesperson, confirmed the filing, Reuters reported, and set out what Brussels expects of such documents. “Incident reports are
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North Korea-aligned threat actors have been using a new Linux toolkit in attacks targeting automotive and media organizations in South Korea, Rapid7 reports. Designed for long-term surveillance, the framework consists of a HAProxy instance called ‘ted backdoor’ and trojanized versions of tools such as ‘agetty’, ‘atd’, ‘crond’, ‘polkitd’, and ‘sshd’
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Threat actors are exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Commerce and Magento e-commerce platforms to backdoor online stores, cybersecurity firm Sansec reports. Dubbed StyleSmuggler, the security defect enables attackers to inject PHP code into Magento’s template system and evade detection by using the ‘styles’ properties. According to Sansec, the
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OpenAI agents overwhelmed a small German Wikipedia-style website with thousands of posts that fought the moderator to avoid being removed. On September 4, 2026, Reuters reported that ‘a swarm’ of OpenAI agents ‘had hijacked a German wiki site’. Open AI acknowledged the event describing it as a misalignment incident (a
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Modified ScreenConnect clients are being used in an attack campaign to spread malicious payloads to other endpoints, cybersecurity firm Huntress warns. The worm-like attacks began in late August and start with the rogue clients being deployed on victims’ machines via social engineering. Following the installation, the malicious ScreenConnect instances have
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Autistici/Inventati, an Italian nonprofit that has hosted email, websites, mailing lists, and blogs for activists since 2001, is closing down. The collective said it will discontinue all services and help users retrieve their data, eleven days after the United States listed it as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist. The
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Defending against cyber foes is among factors hitting food price inflation, report finds A UK watchdog is warning that cyber criminals making moves against online systems in the food supply chain could cause serious upset, following damaging attacks on the Co-op and Marks & Spencer last year. The National Audit
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By Manoj Warrier, VP, Infrastructure, and Sudhindranath Byna, Executive Director, Cybersecurity Architecture, Providence India The technology that matters most in healthcare is usually the technology nobody notices. A clinician opens a patient record, a scanner sends an image, an AI model supports a decision, and the experience feels effortless. Behind
