Anthropic hires architect of UK AI policy as MPs warn of 'clear conflict of interest'
Matt Clifford plans to keep role as ARIA chair while leading the LLM maker's dealings with governments outside North America
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BGP Hijack Delivers Malicious Virtualizor Update That Establishes Persistent Root Access
Virtualizor said hackers used a Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) hijack to divert Softaculous traffic. The hackers then used the diverted update traffic to deliver a malicious Virtual…
Next-gen AI networks may hinge on the telephone switchboard's return
Photonics startups like iPronics are raking in hundreds of millions in funding to make optical circuit switches faster, denser, and cheaper
Rockwell Automation Patches Over a Dozen Vulnerabilities Across Products
The industrial giant has released advisories for its RSLinx Classic, ArmorStart, ControlFLASH, FactoryTalk, and other products. The post Rockwell Automation Patches Over a Dozen Vu…
Dropbox accounts breached through Lenovo email verification flaw
Dropbox is warning some users that an unauthorized party accessed their accounts by exploiting a flaw in Lenovo's email verification process to register fraudulent Lenovo IDs. [...…
Microsoft update disarms Outlook and Teams on Arm PCs
Installing an AI gaming package offers relief while custom cursors suffer a separate reset
Meta Ads Push StreamRat Android Trojan That Can Gain Near-Complete Device Control
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new Android banking trojan called StreamRat that was promoted to Spanish-speaking users through a fake television-streaming ca…
Exploit Published for Fresh Cleo Harmony Vulnerability
The security defect allows remote attackers to bypass authentication through argument bearer manipulation. The post Exploit Published for Fresh Cleo Harmony Vulnerability appeared …
A cloud engineer walked into a bar and – no joke – ended up having to migrate a datacenter
The budget was minimal, FedEx was the bottleneck, and DNS was of course the source of trouble
Anthropic Details Response to Security Incidents, Unveils Enterprise Safeguards
Anthropic introduced Enterprise Frontier Safeguards (EFS), a system that combines zero data retention with automated monitoring for misuse. The post Anthropic Details Response to S…
Malicious Virtualizor Update Served via BGP Hijacking
Using a technically valid TLS certificate for Softaculous’ domains, a threat actor diverted traffic to fake software updates. The post Malicious Virtualizor Update Served via BGP H…
How to Secure Enterprise AI: From Adoption to Incident Readiness
The debate about whether AI delivers business value is over. The challenge now is implementing it at scale and securely across every function while meeting board-level pressure to …
London Tube closes the 5G gap with streets above
Mobile signal below ground beats the citywide average, Ookla says
Attackers Exploit Two SonicWall SMA 1000 Zero-Days That May Form an Attack Chain
SonicWall has released security updates to address two security flaws impacting its Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 1000 series VPN appliances that have been exploited in zero-day attac…
UK goes shopping for homegrown AI with £100M procurement scheme
Startups invited to tackle NHS, defense, compute, and agent security challenges while Whitehall's own adoption remains patchy
OpenAI’s Astra Crosses ‘Critical’ Cyber Threshold After Finding Zero-Days
The designation applies when a model can independently find and exploit zero-day vulnerabilities across many well-defended systems. The post OpenAI’s Astra Crosses ‘Critical’ Cyber…
Microsoft Defender flags legitimate Google search links as malicious
Microsoft is investigating an issue causing the Defender for Office 365 security software to mistakenly block access to legitimate Google search links. [...]
Wireless Routers as Motion Detectors
Comcast has added motion detection as a feature to its wireless routers: The feature sends push notifications to users when motion is detected near a connected device, such as a TV…
Northern Ireland adds £15M to Fujitsu education deal without competition
Japanese supplier remains in place despite scrutiny over its Horizon role
UK cyber bill targets AI users, not the vendors building it
Ministers reject proposed red lines and emergency shutdown powers, pointing instead to voluntary safeguards
GeoNetwork Fixes Unauthenticated RCE Chain Affecting Government Geoportal Backends
Two vulnerabilities in GeoNetwork can be chained to achieve unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) on the open-source geospatial metadata catalog, which sits behind many gover…
Chrome and Firefox Updates Patch Dozens of Vulnerabilities
The browser refreshes fix multiple use-after-free, sandbox escape, and privilege escalation bugs. The post Chrome and Firefox Updates Patch Dozens of Vulnerabilities appeared first…
Extradited Russian Hacker Faces Charges Over Excel Malware Campaign That Infected Thousands
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) has charged a Russian national, extradited from Cyprus on August 28, with using roughly 255 fake accounts on a freelance platform to send malwa…
US charges Russian for infecting 80,000 freelancers with malware
A California federal grand jury has indicted a Russian national for his role in a phishing campaign that infected thousands of freelancers with TVRAT and DarkVNC malware. [...]
UK digital ID may be dead, but its legacy IT problem lives on
Spending watchdog says fragmented data and inconsistent standards would constrain any future attempt
23-Year-Old Sality P2P Botnet Disrupted
The shutdown operation involved peer list manipulation and Sality payload URL takedown. The post 23-Year-Old Sality P2P Botnet Disrupted appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Sality botnet infrastructure dismantled in joint global takedown
International law enforcement agencies and private partners have seized Sality malware infrastructure in a joint action aiming to disrupt and take down the peer-to-peer (P2P) botne…
Researchers Use Claude to Port Pre-Auth RCE Exploit From One PLC Model to Another
Forescout Research - Vedere Labs said it used Anthropic's Claude to port a working pre-authentication remote code execution (RCE) exploit from one WAGO programmable logic controlle…
Attackers Exploit Critical Switchvox Flaw to Deploy Reverse Shells Without Credentials
Threat actors are exploiting a severe security vulnerability in Sangoma Switchvox, an enterprise VoIP platform, that could allow unauthenticated remote code execution. The vulnera…
Authorities Turn Sality's P2P Network Against Itself, Cutting Off New Malware Payloads
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Tuesday announced the takedown of a long-standing peer-to-peer (P2P) botnet known as Sality as part of a coordinated law enforcement operati…