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The Hidden Cost of Cybersecurity Specialization: Losing Foundational Skills

Cybersecurity has changed fast. Roles are more specialized, and tooling is more advanced. On paper, this should make organizations more secure. But in practice, many teams… Read MoreThe Hacker News

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U.S. Sentences Russian Hacker to 6.75 Years for Role in $9M Ransomware Damage

A 26-year-old Russian citizen has been sentenced in the U.S. to 6.75 years (81 months) in prison for his role in assisting major cybercrime groups,… Read MoreThe Hacker News

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⚡ Weekly Recap: CI/CD Backdoor, FBI Buys Location Data, WhatsApp Ditches Numbers & More

Another week, another reminder that the internet is still a mess. Systems people thought were secure are being broken in simple ways, showing many still… Read MoreThe Hacker News

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We Found Eight Attack Vectors Inside AWS Bedrock. Here’s What Attackers Can Do with Them

AWS Bedrock is Amazon’s platform for building AI-powered applications. It gives developers access to foundation models and the tools to connect those models directly to… Read MoreThe Hacker News

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Microsoft Warns IRS Phishing Hits 29,000 Users, Deploys RMM Malware

Microsoft has warned of fresh campaigns that are capitalizing on the upcoming tax season in the U.S. to harvest credentials and deliver malware. The email… Read MoreThe Hacker News

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Trivy Hack Spreads Infostealer via Docker, Triggers Worm and Kubernetes Wiper

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered malicious artifacts distributed via Docker Hub following the Trivy supply chain attack, highlighting the widening blast radius across developer environments. The… Read MoreThe Hacker News

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Hackers Exploit CVE-2025-32975 (CVSS 10.0) to Hijack Unpatched Quest KACE SMA Systems

Threat actors are suspected to be exploiting a maximum-severity security flaw impacting Quest KACE Systems Management Appliance (SMA), according to Arctic Wolf. The cybersecurity company… Read MoreThe Hacker News

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FBI Warns Russian Hackers Target Signal, WhatsApp in Mass Phishing Attacks

Threat actors affiliated with Russian Intelligence Services are conducting phishing campaigns to compromise commercial messaging applications (CMAs) like WhatsApp and Signal to seize control of accounts belonging to individuals with high intelligence value, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said Friday. “The campaign

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Oracle Patches Critical CVE-2026-21992 Enabling Unauthenticated RCE in Identity Manager

Oracle has released security updates to address a critical security flaw impacting Identity Manager and Web Services Manager that could be exploited to achieve remote code execution. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-21992, carries a CVSS score of 9.8 out of a maximum of 10.0. “This vulnerability is remotely exploitable without authentication,” Oracle said in an […]

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Trivy Supply Chain Attack Triggers Self-Spreading CanisterWorm Across 47 npm Packages

The threat actors behind the supply chain attack targeting the popular Trivy scanner are suspected to be conducting follow-on attacks that have led to the compromise of a large number of npm packages with a previously undocumented self-propagating worm dubbed CanisterWorm. The name is a reference to the fact that the malware uses an ICP […]

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