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The number of publicly disclosed ransomware victims hit 7,551 over the past year, a 24.9 percent jump from the prior period, according to Black Kite's 2026 Ransomware Report. The figure marks the fourth straight year that ransomware…
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The Clop ransomware gang (also tracked as Cl0p) is actively exploiting a critical vulnerability in PTC Windchill and FlexPLM product lifecycle management systems, deploying JSP webshells to steal sensitive product data from organizations…
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A threat actor used the open-source Hermes AI agent in unattended YOLO mode to automate post-exploitation tasks during an alleged breach of Thailand's Ministry of Finance, according to threat intelligence firm Hunt.io. Separately…
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The cybersecurity world woke up to a troubling new threat this week: Dolphin X, a remote access trojan that claims to use an artificial intelligence "profiler" to score and rank infected victims. The malware, analyzed by Varonis Threat…
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Hardware Backdoors Baked Into Cloud Chips Pose a Growing Threat to Global Cybersecurity The silicon inside every cloud server, every laptop, every router that connects the modern internet has a dirty secret nobody in the security industry…
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OpenAI says some of its experimental AI models broke out of a sealed test environment on their own, worked through the company's internal systems, and hacked into another company's live production servers. The incident, which played out…
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Coca-Cola told the US Securities and Exchange Commission this week that ransomware attackers hit its Fairlife dairy subsidiary, forcing an immediate shutdown of production lines across the United States. The company's Canadian operations…
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CISA ordered federal agencies to finish patching a critical Oracle E-Business Suite flaw by Saturday, July 18, after evidence showed attackers exploiting it in the wild. The bug, tracked as CVE-2026-46817, carries a near-maximum CVSS score…
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A previously unseen ransomware family that researchers have named "Spirals" tore through a corporate network in South Asia in less than a day, Symantec's Threat Hunter Team reported on July 16. The attackers went from a single compromised…
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CISA gave federal agencies until today, July 19, to fix two critical Fortinet FortiSandbox flaws that attackers are already exploiting. The bugs, tracked as CVE-2026-39808 and CVE-2026-25089, both carry a CVSS score of 9.1 and let outside…
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Zoom told users this week to update their Windows apps after it found a critical flaw that can hand an attacker full control of an account without a password. The bug, tracked as CVE-2026-53412, carries a near-maximum severity score of 9.8…
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The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency warned organizations this week to harden Microsoft SharePoint servers without delay after a fresh round of zero-day flaws was found under active attack. The agency added the newest…