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A former core infrastructure engineer at a New Jersey industrial company was sentenced to 32 months in prison for a ransomware-style network attack.

According to BleepingComputer, hackers are actively scanning the web for the CVE-2026-61500 vulnerability in Rejetto HFS, which leads to account takeover and RCE.

Dell has urged customers to immediately patch a critical vulnerability found in the System Update command-line interface deployment tool.

South Korea's Financial Services Commission held an emergency meeting following a series of cyberattacks on financial institutions.

OpenAI is expanding its advertising integration in ChatGPT, introducing a new format that displays visual ads while users are generating images.

Google has temporarily suspended submissions to its Open Source Software Vulnerability Rewards Program following a massive flood of AI-generated bug reports.

Citrix has issued emergency updates to fix a NetScaler denial-of-service vulnerability exploited in zero-day attacks.

Anthropic has begun inviting Claude users to voluntarily share their voice conversation data to help train and improve its AI models.

Google is preparing to bring deeper integration and autonomous capabilities to Gemini on macOS devices.

An alleged ShinyHunters hacker operating under the alias 'Rey' has been arrested in Jordan and is reportedly helping the FBI locate associates.

A China-linked threat group has breached multiple critical sectors including water utilities and telecom providers using SharePoint exploits.

GitLab has urged customers to immediately patch a critical AI Gateway vulnerability that could allow attackers to execute arbitrary commands on vulnerable instances.

Dell has released patches for two maximum severity flaws in Container Storage Modules connecting enterprise storage arrays to Kubernetes environments.

On Thursday, unknown attackers hijacked the official Microsoft account on X, which has over 13 million followers, to promote a crypto token.

Cybersecurity firm Fortinet has issued an urgent warning regarding a critical vulnerability in FortiMail actively targeted in zero-day attacks.

Autonomous AI agents using aggressive strategies attempted to breach US and Canadian government websites in search of school and divorce statistics.

Microsoft reports that cyberattackers are currently benefiting from artificial intelligence faster than defenders.

An international law enforcement operation named Operation KillSwitch successfully seized the KillSec ransomware gang's servers and data leak site.

The Pentagon is notifying millions of service members after hackers breached its HR management system in October 2025, stealing records of over 3 million people.

The Russian state-sponsored group Star Blizzard has adopted a new malware installation tactic called RedFlick to deploy its CosmicPulse backdoor.

According to BleepingComputer, more than 543,000 credentials exposed in public GitHub repositories remained valid in July despite platform security measures.

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has issued a warning regarding a critical remote code execution vulnerability in MikroTik RouterOS.

Persistent AI coworkers are challenging traditional security models, highlighting the urgent need for dedicated identities and scoped permissions.

Remote access software provider TeamViewer has issued an urgent warning to customers to patch high-severity vulnerabilities affecting its applications.