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Authorities Turn Sality's P2P Network Against Itself, Cutting Off New Malware Payloads
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Tuesday announced the takedown of a long-standing peer-to-peer (P2P) botnet known as Sality as part of a coordinated law enforcement operation. The effort was…
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Threat Actors Don’t Want Better Attacks. They Want Repeatable Ones
The most common way into a company last year was to ask. A web page tells the visitor to prove they are not a robot. While they read the instructions, it quietly places a command on their clipboard.…
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Attackers Steal METR API Key and Consume AI Credits Worth About $600,000
METR (short for Model Evaluation and Threat Research and pronounced "Meter"), a research non-profit that evaluates frontier artificial intelligence (AI) models for their ability to carry ou…
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Russia-Aligned UAC-0099 Plants Nuclear Weapon Prompt in Malware to Disrupt AI Analysis
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a new technique dubbed GuardBreaker that's been put to use by a Russia-aligned threat actor known as UAC-0099 against a target in Ukraine with an aim to i…
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Attackers Exploit Critical Langflow and Rails Flaws in Credential-Probing and C2 Activity
Threat actors are exploiting two critical flaws impacting Langflow and Ruby on Rails, according to new findings from VulnCheck. The vulnerabilities in question are listed below - CVE-2026-0768 (…
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Securing Claude Code: The New Compliance API, Local Visibility, and Identity Governance
Claude Code reads files, runs shell commands, invokes MCP tools, and acts through the credentials available on a developer’s machine. Anthropic’s new Compliance API endpoints give security teams thei…
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China-Linked Fire Ant Hijacks Cisco Routers to Steal Credentials and Blind Security Logs
A China-nexus cyber espionage actor tracked as Fire Ant has expanded a long-running campaign beyond VMware hypervisors to compromise Cisco IOS XR routers, Terminal Access Controller Access-Control Sy…
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Thousands of OpenAI Agents Quietly Turned an Abandoned Wiki Into Their Coordination Channel
A group of AI safety researchers says a fleet of autonomous agents that identified the…
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