“Cyber warfare is as much about psychological strategy as technical prowess.”
― James Scott
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Your Purple Team Isn’t Purple — It’s Just Red and Blue in the Same Room [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Defending a network at 2 am looks a lot like this: an analyst copy-pasting a hash from a PDF into a SIEM query. A red team script is being rewritten by hand so the blue team can use it. A patch waiting on a change-approval window that’s longer than the exploitation window itself. Nobody in…
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Fake OpenAI Privacy Filter Repo Hits #1 on Hugging Face, Draws 244K Downloads [email protected] (The Hacker News)
A malicious Hugging Face repository managed to take a spot in the platform’s trending list by impersonating OpenAI’s Privacy Filter open-weight model to deliver a Rust-based information stealer to Windows users. The project, named Open-OSS/privacy-filter, masqueraded as its legitimate counterpart, released by OpenAI late last month (openai/privacy-filter), including copying the entireRead More
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Ollama Out-of-Bounds Read Vulnerability Allows Remote Process Memory Leak [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a critical security vulnerability in Ollama that, if successfully exploited, could allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to leak its entire process memory. The out-of-bounds read flaw, which likely impacts over 300,000 servers globally, is tracked as CVE-2026-7482 (CVSS score: 9.1). It has been codenamed Bleeding Llama by Cyera. Ollama is aRead More
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The breakup: Why CISOs are decoupling data from their SIEMs
Breaking up is hard to do — but some CISOs find that decoupling SIEMs from security log data feeds is worth it. Learn about the benefits and challenges.Read More
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cPanel, WHM Release Fixes for Three New Vulnerabilities — Patch Now [email protected] (The Hacker News)
cPanel has released updates to address three vulnerabilities in cPanel and Web Host Manager (WHM) that could be exploited to achieve privilege escalation, code execution, and denial-of-service. The list of vulnerabilities is as follows – CVE-2026-29201 (CVSS score: 4.3) – An insufficient input validation of the feature file name in the “feature::LOADFEATUREFILE” adminbin call that…
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TCLBANKER Banking Trojan Targets Financial Platforms via WhatsApp and Outlook Worms [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Threat hunters have flagged a previously undocumented Brazilian banking trojan dubbed TCLBANKER that’s capable of targeting 59 banking, fintech, and cryptocurrency platforms. The activity is being tracked by Elastic Security Labs under the moniker REF3076. The malware family is assessed to be a major update of the Maverick, which is known to leverage a worm…
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Fake Call History Apps Stole Payments From Users After 7.3 Million Play Store Downloads [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered fraudulent apps on the official Google Play Store for Android that falsely claimed to offer access to call histories for any phone number, only to trick users into joining a subscription that provided fake data and incurred financial loss. The 28 apps have collectively racked up more than 7.3 million downloads,…
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News brief: Security worries and warnings as AI use expands
Check out the latest security news from TechTarget SearchSecurity’s sister sites, Cybersecurity Dive and Dark Reading.Read More
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Quasar Linux RAT Steals Developer Credentials for Software Supply Chain Compromise [email protected] (The Hacker News)
A previously undocumented Linux implant codenamed Quasar Linux RAT (QLNX) is targeting developers’ systems to establish a silent foothold as well as facilitate a broad range of post-compromise functionality, such as credential harvesting, keylogging, file manipulation, clipboard monitoring, and network tunneling. “QLNX targets developers and DevOps credentials across the software supply chain,”Read More
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One Missed Threat Per Week: What 25M Alerts Reveal About Low-Severity Risk [email protected] (The Hacker News)
The dark secret of enterprise security operations is that defenders have quietly institutionalized the practice of not looking. This is not just anecdotal, but rather backed by a recent report investigating more than 25 million security alerts, including informational and low-severity, across live enterprise environments. The dataset behind these findings includes 10 million monitoredRead More
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