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Microsoft Defender flags legitimate Google search links as malicious

Microsoft is investigating an issue causing the Defender for Office 365 security software to mistakenly flag legitimate Google search links as malicious. The company first acknowledged the incident (tracked under MO1465962) at 10:30 AM UTC and says affected users are seeing “Opening this website might not be safe” warnings when trying to open the blocked

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US charges Russian for infecting 80,000 freelancers with malware

A California federal grand jury has indicted a Russian national for his role in a phishing campaign that infected thousands of freelancers with TVRAT and DarkVNC malware. 40-year-old Searzhudin Tamirlanovich Aktulaev was extradited to the United States after being arrested in Cyprus at Larnaca Airport in May 2025. According to court documents filed in June

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Sality botnet infrastructure dismantled in joint global takedown

International law enforcement agencies and private partners have seized Sality malware infrastructure in a joint action aiming to disrupt and take down the peer-to-peer (P2P) botnet. As part of this operation, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), FBI, and DCIS seized Sality-linked domains in the United States, while law enforcement partners in Bulgaria, Hungary, and

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SonicWall warns of actively exploited SMA1000 zero-day flaws

SonicWall warned customers that threat actors are chaining two new SMA1000 zero-day vulnerabilities in remote code execution attacks. The first is a maximum-severity command injection flaw (CVE-2026-83548) found in the SMA1000 Appliance WorkPlace interface that stems from a server-side request forgery (SSRF) weakness. This actively exploited zero-day chain also targets a command injection vulnerability (CVE-2026-83549)

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Why Even the Best Edge Security Still Misses High-Risk Sessions

Security teams have more edge controls at their disposal than ever, and each plays an important role. Yet, despite the best request inspection, credential validation, device fingerprinting, and automation signals available, attackers still successfully hide inside traffic that looks remarkably similar to legitimate user activity. One reason for this is that each security control focuses

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Novocure data breach affects more than 1,400 cancer patients

Healthtech company Novocure says the data of an undisclosed number of employees and more than 1,400 U.S. cancer patients has been exposed in a mid-August cyberattack. Novocure is a global oncology company with more than 1,300 employees and operations in North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, known for inventing and commercializing Tumor Treating

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Hackers push malicious Virtualizor update in BGP hijacking attack

Hackers delivered malicious updates to the Virtualizor VPS management software after hijacking BGP routing for its update infrastructure and redirecting update requests to malicious servers. Virtualizor is a legacy web control panel from Softaculous that hosting providers use to create, sell, and manage virtual private servers (VPS). An urgent notice from the vendor warns that

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Critical Langflow flaw exploited to steal OpenAI and AWS keys

Threat actors are exploiting an unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2026-0768) in Langflow, an open-source framework for building AI applications, to steal credentials, tokens, and keys. The security issue received a critical severity rating and resides in the code validator of Langflow’s custom component editor. Threat intelligence company VulnCheck detected the activity on its honeypots

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Aesto Health says data breach affects over 9.5 million patients

Aesto LLC, operating as Aesto Health, disclosed that a data breach discovered recently affects more than 9.5 million individuals. The private technology company provides software-as-a-service solutions that help healthcare organizations migrate, archive, and access patient data when replacing electronic health record systems or acquiring medical practices. The company first informed the public of the attack

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Hackers abuse Faronics Deploy admin tool to install ScreenConnect

Phishing actors are abusing the legitimate Faronics Deploy endpoint-management platform to gain remote administrative control over victim computers and install the ScreenConnect remote support software. In activity observed between July 21 and August 20, Faronics-themed lures reached more than 457 endpoints via emails disguised as invoices, tax documents, or other business files. Faronics Deploy is

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