Critical Check Point VPN Flaw Exploited to Bypass Passwords in IKEv1 Setups

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Check Point has warned of active exploitation of a critical vulnerability impacting Remote Access VPN and Mobile Access deployments that are configured to use the deprecated IKEv1 key exchange protocol.

⚡ Weekly Recap: Instagram Account Hacks, Android Zero-Day, GitHub Worm and More

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Monday again. The weekend was meant to be quiet. It wasn’t. Last week had poisoned packages, a broken AI helper, and a worm tearing through repos. The ugly part: basic

The Hardest Fork

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Mythos is real. I know a big chunk of the industry thinks it’s a marketing stunt, and I get why. I get it. But I’ve seen the findings, and they’re

AI Phishing Is Crushing SOCs with Alert Volume: How to Reduce Tier 1 Overload

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Phishing has always been a numbers game. AI has turned it into a volume machine. Attackers can now create convincing emails, fake login pages, and tailored lures in minutes. Every

VerdantBamboo Deploys BSD Variant of BRICKSTORM on Linux Appliances

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A China-nexus cyber espionage group has been observed deploying a BSD variant of a known backdoor called BRICKSTORM, as well as two other malware families codenamed PLENET (aka GRIMBOLT) and

UNC3753 Used Vishing and Physical Intrusions in U.S. Data Theft Extortion Campaign

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Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a financially motivated data theft extortion campaign that has targeted dozens of organizations across professional, legal, and financial services in the U.S. between January

VS Code Adds 2-Hour Extension Auto-Update Delay to Limit Supply Chain Attacks

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Microsoft has announced that Visual Studio Code (VS Code) will apply a two-hour delay before extensions for the integrated development environment (IDE) are updated automatically to a newer version in

New ChatGPT Lockdown Mode Limits Tools That Could Enable Data Exfiltration

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OpenAI has begun rolling out a new Lockdown Mode to ChatGPT for eligible personal accounts to reduce the risk of data exfiltration arising from prompt injection attacks. The feature is

CISA Adds Actively Exploited SolarWinds Serv-U DoS Flaw to KEV Catalog

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The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a high-severity security flaw impacting SolarWinds Serv-U multi-protocol file server software to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence

Free Apps Are Quietly Turning Smart TVs Into Web-Scraping Proxies for AI

06/06/2026 0 Comments 0 tags

A researcher has reverse-engineered the iOS SDK that Bright Data embeds in consumer apps and documented how it turns devices, including always-on smart TVs, into exit nodes that relay web-scraping