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SecAlerts Exclusive: Fast, Easy Vulnerability Tracking

SecAlerts Exclusive: Fast, Easy Vulnerability Tracking

Cut through the noise with SecAlerts: fast, easy vulnerability tracking that flags the risks that matter and helps your team patch them before they become problems.

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Google Exclusive: Critical Android Zero-Day Patch Released

Google Exclusive: Critical Android Zero-Day Patch Released

Heads-up: Google has released an urgent patch for a critical Android zero-day vulnerability after evidence of limited, targeted exploitation. If you keep sensitive conversations or data on your phone, update now to protect yourself.

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ICO Exclusive Audit: Mobile Games Deemed Concerning

ICO Exclusive Audit: Mobile Games Deemed Concerning

A childs tap on a free game can hand companies a trove of data, payments and attention—and the ICOs new probe into the mobile gaming sector shows why that should make parents and players sit up and take notice.

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State-Sponsored Cyber Attacks: Exclusive Critical Threat

State-Sponsored Cyber Attacks: Exclusive Critical Threat

State-sponsored cyber attacks are escalating — learn how nation-backed hackers target organizations and practical steps you can take to stay one step ahead.

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Google Exclusive Patch Fixes 107 Android Flaws, Critical

Google Exclusive Patch Fixes 107 Android Flaws, Critical

Google’s latest monthly Android update patches 107 vulnerabilities — including two already exploited in the wild — so this isn’t optional maintenance anymore. If you manage devices, accelerate testing and push updates now before fragmentation leaves users exposed.

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New Android Albiriox Malware Exclusive: Dangerous Surge

New Android Albiriox Malware Exclusive: Dangerous Surge

Albiriox malware is being sold like a subscription, turning smartphones into turnkey crime tools that give even novice operators remote takeover, credential harvesting, and live‑fraud capabilities. That MaaS model lowers the bar for attackers and creates an industrialized path from infection to immediate theft that security teams and users now must reckon with.

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Coupang Confirms Stunning, Damaging Leak of 34M Customers

Coupang Confirms Stunning, Damaging Leak of 34M Customers

If youve shopped on Coupang, keep an eye on your accounts: the company confirmed a suspected cyber-attack exposed personal data for about 34 million customers, prompting a police probe and warnings about fraud. The breach lays bare how one‑click convenience concentrates risk and is fueling renewed calls for tougher data safeguards.

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Banning VPNs: Exclusive Report on Severe Risks

Banning VPNs: Exclusive Report on Severe Risks

Curbing access to virtual private networks in the name of “protecting kids” sounds simple — until you remember VPNs are vital privacy and safety tools for everyday users, journalists, and activists. Bans could cripple those protections, introduce new security and consumer risks, and chill speech well beyond their intended reach.

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Malware Stunningly Evades AI in Critical npm Breach

Malware Stunningly Evades AI in Critical npm Breach

Think your npm packages are safe? Researchers found a malicious npm package that talks to a remote AI-like controller, adapting at runtime to dodge scanners and quietly steal valuable data.

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Cybersecurity Exclusive: M&A Makes AI Security Stronger

Cybersecurity Exclusive: M&A Makes AI Security Stronger

When cybersecurity giants snap up AI‑security specialists, November 2025s M&A wave became a fast lane to protect models, training data and inference pipelines — reshaping defenses as vendors race to bake AI security into every stack.

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Weekly Recap: Exclusive Critical CVEs, npm Worm, M365 Raid

Weekly Recap: Exclusive Critical CVEs, npm Worm, M365 Raid

When the tools we rely on become the battering ram for attackers, the damage is quiet, efficient, and far-reaching. This week’s critical CVEs, a resurgent npm worm, and a mass Microsoft 365 raid show how supply‑chain risks turn everyday convenience into serious compromise.

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Europol Exclusive: Costly Crypto Mixer Crushed

Europol Exclusive: Costly Crypto Mixer Crushed

Think crypto leaves no trail? Europol’s takedown of Cryptomixer shows how cross‑border police work plus on‑chain forensics can unmask cryptocurrency mixers and cripple the networks that hide criminal proceeds.

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Australian Man Gets Seven Years in Stunning Harsh Sentence

Australian Man Gets Seven Years in Stunning Harsh Sentence

A Western Australia man was sentenced to seven years after weaponizing public Wi‑Fi networks to steal intimate data — a stunning verdict that spotlights how vulnerable our everyday connections are and why you should avoid sensitive activity on open networks.

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Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Exclusive: Major Leak

Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Exclusive: Major Leak

A suspected ransomware attack on the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea is a stark wake-up call about how much of our lives we trust to local councils. Beyond locked systems, exposed personal records and disrupted services can leave residents — especially the vulnerable — at risk of fraud, identity theft and real harm.

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CISA Exclusive: Critical XSS in OpenPLC ScadaBR

CISA Exclusive: Critical XSS in OpenPLC ScadaBR

CISA has added an actively exploited XSS (CVE‑2021‑26829) in OpenPLC ScadaBR to its KEV catalog — a stark reminder that even “moderate” web bugs can let attackers hijack operator sessions and issue commands to PLCs. If you run OpenPLC/ScadaBR, prioritize assessment and mitigation now.

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Legacy Python Bootstrap Scripts: Stunning PyPI Threat

Legacy Python Bootstrap Scripts: Stunning PyPI Threat

Legacy zcbuildout scripts left in projects can become silent attack vectors—if a referenced domain lapses and an attacker reclaims it, builds can pull and execute malicious code that reaches PyPI. ReversingLabs’ findings show how a tiny oversight in old bootstrap helpers can enable wide supply‑chain compromise, so it’s time to find, update, or remove those scripts.

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North Korean Hackers: Exclusive Dire OtterCookie Attack

North Korean Hackers: Exclusive Dire OtterCookie Attack

Discover how North Korean hackers unleashed the elusive Dire OtterCookie attack in our exclusive investigation — get the inside scoop on their methods, motives, and the practical steps you can take to stay protected.

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Prompt Injection Through Poetry: Exclusive Best Defenses

Prompt Injection Through Poetry: Exclusive Best Defenses

What if a poem could fool the guard? New research shows adversarial verse — and even $5 expired-domain hijacks — can cheaply and reliably bypass model guardrails, turning style and supply-chain trust into a dangerous new attack surface.

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Threat Actors Use Stunning, Dangerous Calendar Subs

Threat Actors Use Stunning, Dangerous Calendar Subs

Think that calendar invite is safe? Threat actors are weaponizing calendar subscriptions—slipping phishing links, malware, or hidden instructions into benign-seeming invites hosted on trusted services, turning everyday convenience into a stealthy breach vector.

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Black Friday Exclusive: 3 Dangerous Scams to Avoid

Black Friday Exclusive: 3 Dangerous Scams to Avoid

Black Friday scams are getting smarter—learn the three dangerous tricks scammers use and the simple steps you can take to protect your wallet and personal info.

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RPAM Must-Have: Effortless Gains for Modern Firms

RPAM Must-Have: Effortless Gains for Modern Firms

Perimeters are gone — Remote Privileged Access Management (RPAM) delivers effortless gains by shifting control to identity and devices, combining MFA, short‑lived credentials, secrets management and session recording into a cloud‑native control plane. The outcome: consistent, least‑privilege access and full auditability for admins, contractors and machine identities wherever they work.

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French Football Federation Exclusive: Damaging Data Breach

French Football Federation Exclusive: Damaging Data Breach

Imagine names, birthdates and contact details for more than two million amateur players suddenly exposed — that’s the frightening possibility tied to a suspected breach at the French Football Federation. Players and parents should be on alert for phishing and scams while the federation works to lock down access and notify those affected.

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MS Teams Guest Access Exclusive Critical Defender Risk

MS Teams Guest Access Exclusive Critical Defender Risk

Think twice before you add guests to Microsoft Teams: when someone joins as a guest, their protections are set by the host tenant — a Teams guest access gap attackers can exploit to bypass Defender for Office 365. Patch immediately, rotate credentials, and hunt sign‑in logs to stop a small convenience from becoming a major breach.

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Bloody Wolf: Exclusive Dangerous Java RAT Hits Central Asia

Bloody Wolf: Exclusive Dangerous Java RAT Hits Central Asia

Think your monitoring keeps you safe? Bloody Wolf has been quietly delivering NetSupport RAT across Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan via a Java-based loader and DLL sideloading — a stealthy, modular campaign that evades signature scanners and forces defenders to rely on behavioral monitoring and active threat hunting.

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