Tag: cyber
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PoC Disclosed for Critical Root ASUSTOR ADM RCE Flaw
A critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-6644, has been uncovered in ASUSTOR’s ADM (ASUSTOR Data Master) operating system. Specifically, the flaw exists within the PPTP VPN Client feature. Carrying a CVSS v4.0 score of 9.4, this OS command injection vulnerability allows an authenticated administrator to execute arbitrary commands with root privileges. ASUSTOR has since addressed the…
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OpenAI Unveils Cyber Defense Roadmap Focused on AI-Powered Security
OpenAI has released a comprehensive cyber defense roadmap titled >>Cybersecurity in the Intelligence Age<< to responsibly equip defenders with AI-powered security tools faster than malicious actors can adapt. Spearheaded by Sasha Baker in April 2026, the action plan outlines five core pillars to democratize advanced defensive capabilities and build lasting national resilience. Five Pillars for…
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AI is widening the asymmetry between attackers and defenders
As threat actors leverage AI to launch attacks at machine speed, cyber defenders must adopt an assumed breach mindset and prioritise breach containment First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/news/366642503/AI-is-widening-the-asymmetry-between-attackers-and-defenders
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Attackers Exploit cPanel Authentication Bypass 0-Day After PoC Release
A critical zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-41940, is currently being actively exploited across the web hosting industry. This CVSS 9.8 flaw allows unauthenticated remote attackers to bypass cPanel and WHM login mechanisms, granting them full administrative control over servers. The vulnerability stems from a Carriage Return Line Feed (CRLF) injection flaw within the application’s session…
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Attackers Exploit cPanel Authentication Bypass 0-Day After PoC Release
A critical zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-41940, is currently being actively exploited across the web hosting industry. This CVSS 9.8 flaw allows unauthenticated remote attackers to bypass cPanel and WHM login mechanisms, granting them full administrative control over servers. The vulnerability stems from a Carriage Return Line Feed (CRLF) injection flaw within the application’s session…
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ODNI to CISOs on threat assessments: You’re on your own
Tags: access, ai, china, ciso, computer, control, credentials, cyber, cybercrime, data, defense, detection, disinformation, encryption, finance, framework, government, healthcare, identity, infrastructure, intelligence, iran, jobs, korea, metric, resilience, risk, russia, service, strategy, technology, theft, threat, tool, warfareThe bifurcated framework: Operational reporting vs. homeland focus: The report now operates on two distinct tracks that risk narrowing the threat horizon for CROs. In a departure from traditional probabilistic forecasting, the IC has transitioned toward active operational reporting. This shift prioritizes immediate success metrics, such as a significant drop in border encounters and fentanyl…
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ODNI to CISOs on threat assessments: You’re on your own
Tags: access, ai, china, ciso, computer, control, credentials, cyber, cybercrime, data, defense, detection, disinformation, encryption, finance, framework, government, healthcare, identity, infrastructure, intelligence, iran, jobs, korea, metric, resilience, risk, russia, service, strategy, technology, theft, threat, tool, warfareThe bifurcated framework: Operational reporting vs. homeland focus: The report now operates on two distinct tracks that risk narrowing the threat horizon for CROs. In a departure from traditional probabilistic forecasting, the IC has transitioned toward active operational reporting. This shift prioritizes immediate success metrics, such as a significant drop in border encounters and fentanyl…
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Jenkins Plugin Updates Fix Path Traversal and Stored XSS Bugs
The Jenkins project released a critical security advisory addressing seven vulnerabilities across multiple widely used plugins. The disclosed flaws include high-severity path traversal and stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities that could allow threat actors to execute arbitrary code or hijack user sessions. All vulnerabilities were responsibly disclosed through the Jenkins Bug Bounty Program, which the…
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Backdoored WordPress Plugin Abuses Remote Update Checker for Silent Code Delivery
A long-dormant backdoor has been uncovered in the >>Quick Page/Post Redirect Plugin,<< a popular WordPress add-on with over 70,000 active installations. The tampered plugin, specifically version 5.2.3, contained two distinct malicious features. First, it featured a passive content injection mechanism. On every page viewed by a logged-out user, the plugin connected to a third-party server…
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Cyber is the Number One Global “People Risk,” Says Marsh
Marsh’s 2026 People Risks survey finds cyber”‘related challenges dominate, as cyber”‘threat literacy tops risks and cyber and AI skills shortages rise First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/cyber-number-one-global-people/
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Qinglong Task Scheduler RCE Flaws Exploited in the Wild
Tags: authentication, cyber, exploit, flaw, hacker, malware, open-source, rce, remote-code-execution, vulnerabilityHackers are actively exploiting two severe authentication bypass vulnerabilities in Qinglong, a popular open-source task scheduling platform. These flaws allow attackers to execute arbitrary code and deploy resource-draining cryptomining malware on vulnerable servers. Qinglong is a self-hosted task management platform used by developers to automate background tasks using Python, JavaScript, Shell, and TypeScript scripts. With…
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Bad Bots in the Agentic Age: What the 2026 Thales Bad Bot Report Reveals
Tags: ai, api, application-security, attack, automation, banking, business, container, control, crime, cyber, cybercrime, data, defense, detection, exploit, finance, fraud, identity, infrastructure, intelligence, Internet, LLM, malicious, monitoring, resilience, risk, service, threat, tool, vulnerabilityBad Bots in the Agentic Age: What the 2026 Thales Bad Bot Report Reveals josh.pearson@t“¦ Thu, 04/30/2026 – 07:31 The modern internet is becoming less human by the day. Bot traffic is increasing, and human traffic is shrinking. Malicious automated traffic is getting harder to spot. The Thales 2026 Bad Bot Report, now in it’s…
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Dutch Health Tech Firm ChipSoft Confirms Destruction of Stolen Patient Data
The Cyber Express previously reported the ChipSoft cyberattack, in which ransomware actors stole patient data. Now, reports have surfaced from the Dutch medical software provider, noting that the compromised data has been destroyed, though key details about the incident remain undisclosed. First seen on thecyberexpress.com Jump to article: thecyberexpress.com/chipsoft-cyberattack-stolen-data-destroyed/
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Cyber-Resilienz mit Echtzeit-Governance – Commvault erweitert DSPM auf strukturierte und KI-Daten
First seen on security-insider.de Jump to article: www.security-insider.de/commvault-erweitert-dspm-auf-strukturierte-und-ki-daten-a-04180df6ab7a5425f54ad764a257c693/
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Compromised SAP npm Packages Found Harvesting Developer and CI/CD Secrets
Security researchers have identified a severe supply chain attack targeting the SAP developer ecosystem. A threat group identified as TeamPCP has compromised multiple legitimate SAP npm packages in a new campaign named Mini Shai Hulud. The operation relies on injecting malicious pre-install scripts that execute silently during dependency installation. By leveraging a multi-stage payload, the…
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SonicWall SonicOS Flaw Lets Attackers Bypass Access Controls and Crash Firewalls
SonicWall has released a security advisory detailing three new vulnerabilities affecting its SonicOS software. Disclosed on April 29, 2026, under advisory ID SNWLID-2026-0004, these security flaws open the door for attackers to bypass access controls, manipulate restricted files, and intentionally crash critical firewall infrastructure. The most severe of the three bugs carries a high-severity score,…
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ProFTPD SQL Injection Flaw Opens Door To Remote Code Execution Attacks
A newly disclosed flaw in ProFTPD is drawing urgent attention because it can let attackers move from a simple SQL injection bug to authentication bypass, privilege escalation, and in some environments even remote code execution. Tracked as CVE-2026-42167, the issue was found in ProFTPD’s mod_sql extension by ZeroPath Research, and MITRE assigned it a CVSS…
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Linux Kernel 0-Day “Copy Fail” Grants Root Access Across Major Distros Since 2017
Security researchers have disclosed a critical zero-day vulnerability in the Linux kernel dubbed >>Copy Fail<< (CVE-2026-31431), which allows unprivileged local users to gain root access. Using a tiny 732-byte Python script, attackers can exploit a logic flaw present in major Linux distributions released since 2017. Copy Fail is a local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability found…
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Adaptive Security Leadership in an Expanding Threat Surface
Tags: access, attack, automation, control, cyber, data, identity, least-privilege, resilience, risk, saas, service, technology, threat, zero-trustLast week I joined fellow security leaders at CISO Inspire Summit North for a panel discussion on The Expanding Threat Surface: Adaptive Security Leadership for 2026 and Beyond. It was a timely discussion, because the challenge facing security leaders today is not simply more threats. It is more connections, more dependencies, and more complexity. Suppliers, SaaS, identities, automation…
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Researchers unearth industrial sabotage malware that predated Stuxnet by 5 years
fast16.sys, is briefly mentioned in the 2017 Shadow Brokers leak of documents covering exploits and tools used by US National Security Agency cyber teams.”This 2005 attack is a harbinger for sabotage operations targeting ultra expensive high-precision computing workloads of national importance like advanced physics, cryptographic, and nuclear research workloads,” the SentinelOne researchers said in their…
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Claude Mythos Fears Startle Japan’s Financial Services Sector
Global financial institutions are panicked over Anthropic’s new superhacker AI model. Cyber experts aren’t quite as worried. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cyber-risk/claude-mythos-startle-japans-financial-sector
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Congress, industry ponder government posture for protecting data centers
A hearing of the House Homeland Security panel’s cyber subcommittee weighed whether to designate data centers as a standalone critical infrastructure sector. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/congress-industry-ponder-government-posture-for-protecting-data-centers/
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Mastering agentic AI security through exposure management
As AI tools evolve from siloed chatbots to autonomous, hyperconnected systems, they create a vast new attack surface. Discover how to manage this risk by focusing on visibility, agency, and semantic security to protect your organization’s increasingly complex landscape of agentic AI systems. Key takeaways Organizations have moved from siloed AI chatbots to autonomous, hyperconnected…
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CyberAct Was KMUs jetzt tun müssen
Der Cyber-Resilience-Act (CRA) ist seit Dezember 2024 in Kraft. Doch für viele kleine und mittlere Unternehmen bleibt er ein Buch mit sieben Siegeln. Das ändert sich gerade: Ab September 2026 greifen die ersten Meldepflichten, und das deutsche Durchführungsgesetz, das die Umsetzung regeln soll, steckt in der Kritik. Verbände wie Teletrust bemängeln, dass die vorgesehene Unterstützung…
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CyberAct Was KMUs jetzt tun müssen
Der Cyber-Resilience-Act (CRA) ist seit Dezember 2024 in Kraft. Doch für viele kleine und mittlere Unternehmen bleibt er ein Buch mit sieben Siegeln. Das ändert sich gerade: Ab September 2026 greifen die ersten Meldepflichten, und das deutsche Durchführungsgesetz, das die Umsetzung regeln soll, steckt in der Kritik. Verbände wie Teletrust bemängeln, dass die vorgesehene Unterstützung…
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CyberAct Was KMUs jetzt tun müssen
Der Cyber-Resilience-Act (CRA) ist seit Dezember 2024 in Kraft. Doch für viele kleine und mittlere Unternehmen bleibt er ein Buch mit sieben Siegeln. Das ändert sich gerade: Ab September 2026 greifen die ersten Meldepflichten, und das deutsche Durchführungsgesetz, das die Umsetzung regeln soll, steckt in der Kritik. Verbände wie Teletrust bemängeln, dass die vorgesehene Unterstützung…
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Mastering agentic AI security through exposure management
As AI tools evolve from siloed chatbots to autonomous, hyperconnected systems, they create a vast new attack surface. Discover how to manage this risk by focusing on visibility, agency, and semantic security to protect your organization’s increasingly complex landscape of agentic AI systems. Key takeaways Organizations have moved from siloed AI chatbots to autonomous, hyperconnected…
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Hackernoon – Why Cloud Monitoring Has Become K12’s Most Critical Cyber Defense Tool
This article was originally published in Hackernoon on 04/23/26 by Charlie Sander. It starts with a simple student login”¦ One account gets phished, a file is dropped into a shared drive, and within minutes, malware has synced and spread across the entire network. By the time IT teams notice, the damage is already systemic ……
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State CISOs losing confidence in ability to manage cyber risks
Deloitte-NASCIO study shows AI, budget pressures are forcing states to make tough decisions. First seen on cybersecuritydive.com Jump to article: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/state-cisos-losing-confidence-ability-manage-cyber-risks/818670/