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CISA orders feds to patch actively exploited Oracle flaw by Saturday

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has ordered federal agencies to secure their systems by Saturday against ongoing attacks exploiting a critical vulnerability in the Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) financial application. Discovered in the File Transmission component of EBS’s Oracle Payments product and tracked as CVE-2026-46817, this security flaw allows unauthenticated threat actors

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Russian hackers trojanize WebEx, Zoom apps to push Starland malware

A financially motivated Russian threat actor tracked as UAT-11795 is using trojanized software to steal credentials and cryptocurrency by deploying a new backdoor called Starland RAT. Attacks have been occurring since at least June 2025 and have focused on users in the U.S., although victims in Germany, Romania, and Venezuela have been observed as well.

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New Spirals ransomware encrypts victim network in under 24 hours

A new ransomware actor called Spirals completed a corporate intrusion, from initial access to data theft and encryption, in less than 24 hours. The attack occurred in June and breached an IT services firm in South Asia after compromising an Internet Information Services (IIS) server exposed on the public web. Researchers at Symantec’s Threat Hunter

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Dutch police bust investment fraud ring stealing over €100 million

AI is changing how vulnerability research gets done, but most of the conversation is still theoretical: what a model might eventually be capable of, rather than what it can actually find today. We wanted to answer a more practical question: using the models already available to us right now, how far can AI take us

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Latest Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates stamp out a record 622 security vulnerabilities, as the company’s AI-enhanced bug hunt looks to bear fruit

As much as AI has its drawbacks, it’d be wrong to say it doesn’t have its uses. Case in point, Microsoft’s previous commitment to leverage AI vulnerability detection in Windows security updates looks to be bearing fruit, as the latest Patch Tuesday release fixes an astonishing 622 CVEs across its products. Which is a new

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CISA warns admins to patch actively exploited SharePoint flaws

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned Tuesday that attackers are actively exploiting three vulnerabilities to hack Internet-exposed on-premises SharePoint Server instances. These security flaws (tracked as CVE-2026-32201, CVE-2026-45659, and CVE-2026-56164) affect all supported self-hosted SharePoint Server versions, including SharePoint Server Subscription Edition (the latest on-premises version, which uses a “continuous update” model).

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US charges alleged operators of Russian bulletproof hosting service

U.S. federal prosecutors have unsealed charges against three Russian nationals, accusing them of providing bulletproof hosting (BPH) services to ransomware gangs that caused over $62 million in damages to victims worldwide. BPH providers lease servers that help hinder disruption efforts targeting their malicious activities, including malware delivery, command-and-control operations, phishing attacks, and illicit content hosting.

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SonicWall warns of SMA1000 flaws exploited in zero-day attacks, patch now

The Spanish Police dismantled a cybercrime and money-laundering organization that made €140 million ($160 million) from investment fraud and business email compromise (BEC) attacks. As part of the law enforcement operation, four people were arrested in Spain, Portugal, and Panama. The police describe the operation as an industrial-level scheme as it involved at least 800

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Microsoft Entra ID gets passkeys default authentication starting September

Microsoft has announced that passkeys will become the default authentication method for the Entra ID enterprise identity service starting September 2026. Passkeys will be enabled automatically for Entra ID users now using phone-based SMS and voice authentication, which will be retired in February 2027 across all tenants. However, users who are already signing into their

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New phishing kits target Microsoft 365 accounts, evade MFA

Two new phishing kits, Jalisco and OmegaLord, have been discovered in attacks targeting Microsoft 365 accounts, using techniques that defeat multi-factor authentication (MFA). While Jalisco uses the device-code phishing method, OmegaLord masquerades as a PDF reader to collect account login credentials and associated phone numbers, which could help the attacker intercept or hijack MFA requests

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