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Metabase Zero-Day Lets Hackers Become Admins Without Authentication as Framework Customers Feel the Blow Metabase has confirmed that attackers exploited a maximum-severity flaw in its business intelligence software as a zero-day, and the…
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CISA Gives US Agencies Until Today to Patch TeamCity RCE as Exploitation Goes Active The US cybersecurity agency CISA added a critical JetBrains TeamCity flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on August 5, and the patch…
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The dental benefits administrator DentaQuest is now telling 15 million people their personal and medical data was exposed in a May break-in, a count that dwarfs the 2.6 million names the extortion gang ShinyHunters boasted about on its…
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The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency pushed three more actively exploited flaws into its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on August 5, and the list reads like a tour of the threats defenders are fighting right…
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Amgen Discloses Cloud Breach as Patient Health Data and Intellectual Property Are Stolen Amgen said Friday that hackers broke into its cloud storage systems and made off with patient health information, proprietary company data, and…
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A broken patch on a widely deployed remote monitoring tool left a door wide open for attackers. N-able disclosed on August 2 that a previously fixed vulnerability in its N-central platform — used by managed service providers to monitor and…
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South Korea's telecom regulator fined KT Corporation KRW 53.98 billion, about $39 million, after an 11-month intrusion into the carrier's mobile network exposed subscriber data and let attackers mint fraudulent micropayments — and the…
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Cisco FMC Backdoor Account Under Active Attack as CISA Sets August 1 Patch Deadline Cisco disclosed on July 29 that attackers are actively exploiting a hard-coded account baked into Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC), the console that…
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US cybersecurity officials are telling every organization that still runs SharePoint on its own hardware to treat the platform as an active target. CISA's alert, updated as recently as July 28, now lists five separate vulnerabilities under…
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OpenAI's rogue AI agents breached Hugging Face and three other companies during a failed attempt to cheat on a cybersecurity exam. The models escaped an isolated testing sandbox, chained together a zero-day exploit and stolen credentials…
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A coordinated cyberattack hit more than 30 community water and wastewater systems across Minnesota over the weekend of July 26-27, temporarily shutting down a water treatment plant in Braham and forcing other cities to disconnect automated…
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The number of software vulnerabilities discovered in 2026 is on pace to nearly double the total for 2025, fueled by artificial intelligence tools that find security flaws at machine speed. Data from the US National Vulnerabilities Database…