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OCT1
Zero Trust Creator Says Model Holds Firm Against AI-Assisted Attacks

Fifteen years after coining the framework, John Kindervag insists zero trust still works in the AI era—if you get the implementation right. The post Zero Trust Creator Says Model Holds Firm Against AI-Assisted Attacks appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Security Week by Kevin Townsend
OCT1
Osavul Lands $10 Million to Spot Hostile Intent Across Cyber, Physical Domains

Hybrid risk intelligence company Osavul has raised $10 million in a Series A funding round led by 33N Ventures. The post Osavul Lands $10 Million to Spot Hostile Intent Across Cyber, Physical Domains appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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OCT1
Police Arrest 16-Year-Old Suspected of Running KillSec, Seize Ransomware Leak Site and Servers

Police in Spain have arrested a 16-year-old whom investigators suspect of running the KillSec ransomware group. KillSec is accused of stealing data from organizations and threatening to publish it on its leak site unless they paid. The 16-year-old was one of 3 people arrested on September 30, when police also took control of that site. Investigators identified him as KillSec's suspected

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OCT1
ThreatsDay: AI-Powered Zero-Day Chain, 543K Live Secrets, Model Inspection RCE and 13 More Stories

This week, the useful words are boring ones: inspect, cache, compile, store, trust. Each sounds harmless. Each can become an attack path when a system does a little more than people expect. A model check can run code. A cache can mix up requests. A public secret can stay useful for years. That is the lesson running through the list. Attackers do not always need a brilliant new trick. They can

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OCT1
WordPress Backdoor Rebuilds Itself After Cleanup Using Files, Database, and Shared Memory

Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a WordPress compromise in which threat actors deployed multiple persistence mechanisms to ensure that the final payload kept returning without having to infect the site again. The backdoor has been codenamed SC after the "SC_" markers present in the injected content. Sucuri has described the malware as a "self-healing mesh" that's

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OCT1
Hacker Conversations: Rob Juncker, a Knock at the Door and a Moral Compass

Rob Juncker is chief product and technology officer at Mimecast. Is he a hacker? “Unequivocally yes,” he says. The post Hacker Conversations: Rob Juncker, a Knock at the Door and a Moral Compass appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Security Week by Kevin Townsend
OCT1
Enterprises Struggle to Prepare for AI and Quantum Threats, PwC Says

PwC’s survey found that only 22% of leaders would use fully autonomous AI for cyber defense, while just 21% are implementing quantum-resistant security measures. The post Enterprises Struggle to Prepare for AI and Quantum Threats, PwC Says appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Security Week by Kevin Townsend
OCT1
Police Shut Down KillSec Ransomware, Identify Alleged Teen Leader

Police took control of KillSec’s leak site and secured at least 110 terabytes of data stolen from victims. The post Police Shut Down KillSec Ransomware, Identify Alleged Teen Leader appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Security Week by Eduard Kovacs
OCT1
AI Has Changed Attack Speed, Not Security Fundamentals

As AI accelerates vulnerability discovery and exploitation, so-called virtual patching still comes down to defense-in-depth and strong application security fundamentals. The post AI Has Changed Attack Speed, Not Security Fundamentals appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Security Week by Joshua Goldfarb
OCT1
Zimbra Vulnerability Exploited in the Wild Prior to Public Disclosure

Under certain conditions, CVE-2026-73570 can be exploited via specially crafted emails without user interaction. The post Zimbra Vulnerability Exploited in the Wild Prior to Public Disclosure appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Security Week by Ionut Arghire
OCT1
How Financial Services Companies Can Modernize Their Software Supply Chain

Every security leader at a bank, insurer, or asset manager has had a version of this conversation: Security wants to eliminate a class of vulnerabilities. Engineering explains what it would take to upgrade the platform where they live. Somebody prices out the regression testing. Somebody else raises the change-freeze calendar. The finding gets an exception, a compensating control, and a date

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OCT1
Kevin Mandia’s Armadin Raises $255 Million at $2.5 Billion Valuation

The Series B brings the AI-powered offensive security startup’s total funding to roughly $445 million only seven months after its public launch. The post Kevin Mandia’s Armadin Raises $255 Million at $2.5 Billion Valuation appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Security Week by Mike Lennon
OCT1
Treasury Blacklists Most-Wanted ATM Malware Developer and His Network

The US government continues its crackdown on Tren de Aragua over its ATM jackpotting scheme. The post Treasury Blacklists Most-Wanted ATM Malware Developer and His Network appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Security Week by Eduard Kovacs
OCT1
Zammad Zero-Days Exploited in AI-Powered DIVD Hack

The flaws were chained to hijack sessions, achieve remote code execution, and elevate privileges to root. The post Zammad Zero-Days Exploited in AI-Powered DIVD Hack appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Security Week by Ionut Arghire
OCT1
OpenAI Disrupts Reasoning Extraction Campaign Linked to Moonshot AI Associates

OpenAI on Wednesday said it identified and disrupted a coordinated distillation campaign that was designed to illicitly extract protected reasoning from its artificial intelligence (AI) models. A "core cluster of the activity," going back to the first week of July, has been attributed to individuals associated with Moonshot AI, a Chinese AI company based in Beijing. It did not cite any

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