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SEP17
Cyberattacks on Two Oil Tankers Prompt Coast Guard, FBI to Board Vessels

The Coast Guard confirmed evidence of malicious cyber activity on the VL Prosperity, but has not attributed the attack to Iran. The post Cyberattacks on Two Oil Tankers Prompt Coast Guard, FBI to Board Vessels appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Security Week by Eduard Kovacs
SEP17
OpenAI Says Its Models Searched GitHub for Leaked API Keys During Training

OpenAI published a framework for disclosing model misalignment alongside six reports describing problematic behavior. The post OpenAI Says Its Models Searched GitHub for Leaked API Keys During Training appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Security Week by Eduard Kovacs
SEP17
CISA Retires Weekly Vulnerability Bulletin in Risk-Based Pivot

The decision follows BOD 26-04, which directs federal organizations to prioritize vulnerabilities based on real-world risk. The post CISA Retires Weekly Vulnerability Bulletin in Risk-Based Pivot appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Security Week by Eduard Kovacs
SEP17
Revolut Data Breach: 5 Months, 680 High-Profile Accounts, $3M Ransom

Revolut allegedly fed customer information to hackers impersonating an Italian government agency for five months. The post Revolut Data Breach: 5 Months, 680 High-Profile Accounts, $3M Ransom appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Security Week by Ionut Arghire
SEP17
Comp AI Raises $34 Million for AI-Native Compliance and Security

The company plans to expand into continuous cybersecurity, offering security testing across applications and infrastructure. The post Comp AI Raises $34 Million for AI-Native Compliance and Security appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Security Week by Ionut Arghire
SEP17
ISC Patches 14 Vulnerabilities in BIND 9 Security Update

Attackers could exploit the flaws to increase resource usage, trigger an unexpected program exit, or terminate the named process. The post ISC Patches 14 Vulnerabilities in BIND 9 Security Update appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Security Week by Ionut Arghire
SEP17
Critical Unbound DNSSEC Validator Flaw Could Allow RCE via a Malicious DNS Zone

Every release of the Unbound DNS resolver before 1.26.1 has a critical heap overflow in its DNSSEC validator, maintainer NLnet Labs said in an advisory on Wednesday. An attacker who controls a malicious zone and queries a vulnerable resolver can trigger it, enabling remote code execution. Unbound 1.26.1, released the same day, fixes the bug, tracked as CVE-2026-81642, along with

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SEP17
Ransomware Attacks on Manufacturers Surge as Supply Chain Risk Grows

Research shows attacks on manufacturers rose 40% in early 2026, as ransomware groups increasingly exploit the supply-chain disruption caused by operational shutdowns. The post Ransomware Attacks on Manufacturers Surge as Supply Chain Risk Grows appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Security Week by Kevin Townsend
SEP17
Cisco Fixes Dozens of Flaws Across FMC, ISE and Nexus Dashboard

The vulnerabilities may lead to root access, command execution, bypasses, SQL injection, and remote code execution. The post Cisco Fixes Dozens of Flaws Across FMC, ISE and Nexus Dashboard appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Security Week by Ionut Arghire
SEP17
Can You Prove a New CVE Is Exploitable Before Attackers Do? Learn How in This Webinar

A new CVE drops. Your scanner finds it. The severity score looks ugly. But that still does not answer the question that matters: Can it actually be exploited in your environment? Mythos-class AI is compressing the time between disclosure and working exploitation, while many security programs still validate risk on weekly or quarterly cycles. The dangerous gap is no longer just technical. It is

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SEP17
CISO's Expert Guide to Agentic Pentesting for Websites

Attackers now weaponize new vulnerabilities in about five days (Mandiant, part of Google Cloud). The median organization takes 43 days to patch one (Verizon DBIR 2026). A new free guide explains how autonomous AI agents are closing that gap, and what security leaders must demand before pointing one at production. TL;DR Exploitation is now the front door. It starts 31% of breaches (Verizon DBIR

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SEP17
China-Aligned FamousSparrow Deploys SparroWocky Backdoor Across Latin America

The China-aligned state-sponsored threat actor known as FamousSparrow has been observed deploying a previously unreported backdoor called SparroWocky in attacks targeting multiple countries in Latin America since at least August 2025. "SparroWocky is a modular, C++ backdoor," ESET security researchers Alexandre Côté Cyr and Romain Dumont said in a technical report shared with The Hacker News

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SEP17
OpenAI Reveals Six Model Incidents Involving Hidden Failures and Unauthorized Uploads

OpenAI on Wednesday disclosed six new instances of "unexpected or concerning model behavior" that took place over the past six months, while sharing a new framework for reporting, tracking, investigating, and disclosing model misalignment in a bid to improve transparency. "As AI systems grow more advanced and more widely deployed, we need to build a broader and better-informed consensus on the

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SEP17
BIND 9 Update Fixes 14 Flaws, Including an Unauthenticated Crash Over DNS-over-HTTPS

The Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) has released BIND 9.20.29 and 9.21.26 to fix fourteen security flaws it disclosed on 16 September in BIND 9, its open-source DNS server software. One of them affects any BIND server that answers DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH). A sender with no credentials can crash the server process, named, with a single request that carries an invalid SIG

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SEP17
CISA Releases Cyber Decoy Guidance to Strengthen Critical Infrastructure Defenses

Complementing Zero Trust models, decoys enable organizations to detect, observe, and block malicious activity in their environments. The post CISA Releases Cyber Decoy Guidance to Strengthen Critical Infrastructure Defenses appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Security Week by Ionut Arghire