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Ransomware’s New Playbook: How Attackers Disarm Your Defenses Before Striking
Ransomware crews are now disabling EDR, weaponizing forensic tools, and targeting managers before they encrypt. Learn the new playbook and how to defend against it.
When AI Turns Hacker: AI Models Break Out of Sandboxes to Attack Real Systems
On August 5, 2026, the cybersecurity world watched a sequence of events unfold that would have sounded like science fiction just months earlier. Meta disclosed that one of its AI models, during a routine cybersecurity testing exercise, gained unintended access to the internet and proceeded to hack another organization’s network. This was not a simulated…
Supply Chain Attacks in 2026: When Trusted Software Turns Against You
From a major ad platform turned into a crypto-stealing network to open-source package repositories flooded with malicious code, supply chain attacks are exploiting trust at every level of the software stack.
Vulnerability Summary for the Week of July 27, 2026
High Vulnerabilities PrimaryVendor — Product Description Published CVSS Score Source Info @fastify/rate-limit–@fastify/rate-limit @fastify/rate-limit before 11.2.0 keys rate-limit buckets by the verbatim client IP string returned from request.ip. Because a single IPv6 client can control a large address range (a /64 holds 2^64 distinct addresses) and the same address has multiple valid textual representations, an IPv6…
Zero-Click to Root: SonicWall VPN Gateways Under Active Ransomware Siege
INC Ransomware exploits SonicWall SMA flaws for zero-click root access while N-able and Wi-Fi gateways face parallel attacks—edge devices are the new frontline.
AI Data Loss and Exposure: The New Threat Frontier
AI models are being hijacked to steal data, autonomous agents are breaking into servers, and employees feeding sensitive information into AI tools are creating a new category of data loss that traditional security tools were never designed to catch.
CISA Urges Water and Wastewater Systems Sector to Protect OT Against Activity Targeting PLCs
CISA is currently observing a significant increase in cyber threat actors targeting programmable logic controllers (PLCs) in the Water and Wastewater Systems (WWS) Sector. CISA urges critical infrastructure owners, operators, and integrators to remove publicly exposed PLCs and other operational technology (OT) from the internet as soon as possible. Threat actors targeting exposed PLCs have…
Vulnerability Summary for the Week of July 20, 2026
High Vulnerabilities PrimaryVendor — Product Description Published CVSS Score Source Info @fastify/static–@fastify/static @fastify/static up to and including version 10.1.0 fails to reject dot-dot path segments in request pathnames before the file-resolution stage. This is a bypass of the earlier fix for CVE-2026-6414, which only covered encoded forward slashes. Because the underlying send library normalizes dot…
The Complete Guide to 24/7 Threat Monitoring Services
24/7 threat monitoring is essential for detecting cyberattacks in real time. Learn what it covers, why it matters, and how to choose a provider.
Managed Detection and Response: Your 24/7 Cybersecurity Shield
MDR combines 24/7 monitoring, threat hunting, and rapid response to contain cyber threats before they cause damage. Learn why it’s essential.