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39 New Methods That Compromise Passkey Authentication

Passkeys were introduced with a strong security proposition. Replace passwords with public key cryptography, bind the credential to the legitimate service, keep the private key away from the server, and many of the phishing and credential theft attacks that have plagued enterprise security for decades become dramatically harder. All of that is true. But the […]

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OpenAI confirms ‘wiki incident,’ says it’s ‘working on a framework’ for more disclosure

OpenAI has acknowledged its role in a recently reported incident where AI agents took over a German wiki forum. The company also said it’s “past time” to “define standards” around how it shares information around incidents where its technology behaves in unexpected ways. In a post on X, OpenAI said it previously “treated misalignment [when

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IDScan sued over alleged data breach affecting 153 million drivers

Multiple lawsuits have been filed against identity verification company IDScan after hackers allegedly breached the service and offered to sell more than 153 million driver’s licenses. Several law firms, including Markovits, Stock & DeMarco, and Hall Attorneys, have also launched investigations into potential class-action litigation related to the reported security incident at IDScan. Brian Krebs

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Critical Citrix NetScaler auth bypass now leveraged in attacks

Attackers have begun targeting a critical-severity Citrix NetScaler flaw in the wild, according to vulnerability intelligence company Previdian. Tracked as CVE-2026-19490, this security flaw can allow unprivileged threat actors to bypass authentication remotely when the NetScaler appliance is configured as an AAA virtual server or as a Gateway (SSL VPN, ICA Proxy, CVPN, RDP Proxy),

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Over 5,400 hacked sites serve ClickFix payloads stored on the blockchain

A massive cybercriminal operation is leveraging thousands of compromised small-business websites to deliver ClickFix payloads stored in smart contracts on the BNB Smart Chain (BSC). Over the past months, researchers identified more than 5,400 hacked websites, most of them built on WordPress and PrestaShop. The initial compromise method remains unknown, but each site was injected

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OpenAI admits it didn’t disclose rogue AI wiki hijacking incident

OpenAI has acknowledged that it did not publicly disclose an earlier incident in which its autonomous AI agents took over a German wiki to communicate, share answers, and exchange techniques for bypassing restrictions. The company says it treated the activity as model “misalignment” rather than a security incident, but now admits its disclosure practices must

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Attackers conceal phishing lures using invisible Unicode characters

Threat actors have adopted the ASCII smuggling technique in phishing campaigns, using invisible Unicode characters to evade email security filters. ASCII smuggling has been used in AI prompt injection attacks to conceal malicious instructions from users by encoding them with Unicode characters from the Tags block (U+E0000-U+E007F). Microsoft threat researchers discovered a large-scale phishing campaign

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N-able patches max severity N-central flaw amid ongoing attacks

N-able has released an emergency hotfix for a maximum-severity remote code execution (RCE) flaw affecting its N-central remote monitoring and management (RMM) platform. IT departments and managed service providers (MSPs) use the N-central platform to monitor, manage, and maintain client networks and devices from a centralized web-based console. Tracked as CVE-2026-86218, this RCE vulnerability allows

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ConnectWise warns of new ScreenConnect flaw without patch

ConnectWise has shared temporary mitigation measures for a new ScreenConnect Remote Access vulnerability that it plans to patch later this week. ScreenConnect is an on-premises or cloud-hosted remote access platform typically used by managed service providers (MSPs), IT departments, and support teams for troubleshooting, patching, and system maintenance. The security flaw affects both cloud and

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Hackers exploit new MikroTik RouterOS flaws to hijack routers

Hackers are exploiting a chain of two recently disclosed vulnerabilities in MikroTik routers to take control of devices with SSH services exposed to the internet. One of the security issues, tracked as CVE-2026-67276, is an SSH authentication bypass flaw in MikroTik RouterOS caused by incomplete validation of RSA public keys. An attacker who knows a

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