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Check Point VPN Zero-Day Exploited in Qilin Ransomware Attacks

Security Week - Tue, 06/09/2026 - 5:47am

The authentication bypass vulnerability allows attackers to establish VPN connections without a valid password.

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Google Patches 5th Chrome Zero-Day Exploited in 2026

Security Week - Tue, 06/09/2026 - 1:57am

The vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2026-11645 and it was reported in late April by an anonymous researcher.

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A Security Raises $37 Million for Autonomous Offensive Security Platform

Security Week - Mon, 06/08/2026 - 1:19pm

The company founded by Yossi Torati, Omer Gull, and Yuval Itzchakov has emerged from stealth mode.

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Everybody Is Vibe Coding But Nobody Told the Security Team

Security Week - Mon, 06/08/2026 - 11:30am

AI-driven development is not something organizations can or should block. But it must be governed.

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WhatsApp Catches Spyware Firm NSO Defying No-Hacking Court Order

Security Week - Mon, 06/08/2026 - 9:23am

The Meta-owned communications app is filing a federal court contempt order against NSO.

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Cybersecurity M&A Roundup: 26 Deals Announced in May 2026

Security Week - Mon, 06/08/2026 - 8:38am

Significant cybersecurity M&A deals announced by Akamai, Check Point, Cisco, Cyera, Dragos, WatchGuard and Zscaler.

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Everest Forms Vulnerability Exploited to Hack WordPress Sites

Security Week - Mon, 06/08/2026 - 8:16am

The flaw allows attackers to execute arbitrary code remotely and has been exploited in the wild for two months.

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174,000 Impacted by Lansing Community College Data Breach

Security Week - Mon, 06/08/2026 - 7:27am

Hackers accessed personal information stored on certain Lansing Community College systems in February 2025.

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Silent Ransom Group Uses DNS Fast Flux in Attacks

Security Week - Mon, 06/08/2026 - 6:31am

Focusing on hacking law firms in the US, the ransomware group relies on fast flux to hide its C&C infrastructure.

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OpenAI Rolling Out ChatGPT Account Security Controls

Security Week - Mon, 06/08/2026 - 4:32am

The Active Sessions and Lockdown Mode features are being made more broadly available by the AI giant.

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Anthropic Urges Industry Coordination to Allow for a ‘Pause’ in AI Development if Risks Grow

Security Week - Mon, 06/08/2026 - 4:00am

The proposed coordination would let advanced AI labs verify that global rivals have actually stopped or slowed their work.

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SolarWinds Serv-U Vulnerability Exploited in the Wild

Security Week - Mon, 06/08/2026 - 3:52am

Unauthenticated attackers can exploit the flaw via specially crafted POST requests that crash the Serv-U service.

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Meta Says 20,000 Instagram Accounts Hacked via AI Tool Abuse

Security Week - Mon, 06/08/2026 - 2:41am

The social media giant has informed authorities about the impact of the recent attack involving an account recovery support tool.

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Emphere Raises $2.1 Million for AI-Powered Vulnerability Remediation

Security Week - Sun, 06/07/2026 - 7:30am

Emphere’s solution delivers AI-driven remediation to software companies to speed up releases.

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Opal Security Raises $23 Million for AI-Native Identity Governance

Security Week - Sat, 06/06/2026 - 6:15am

Raising $59 million to date, Opal also announced five senior leadership appointments.

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OWASP Incubator Project Helps Developers Find and Fix Vulnerable Dependencies in Seconds

Security Week - Fri, 06/05/2026 - 12:35pm

CVE Lite CLI is a free, open-source command line tool that scans your projects in seconds and tells you exactly which included packages contain a vulnerability.

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In Other News: Anthropic Maps AI Threats, Unpatched Comodo Flaw, Palantir Chief Eyed for CISA

Security Week - Fri, 06/05/2026 - 9:05am

Other noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: Ultrahuman data leak, The Gentlemen ransomware analysis, Hola Browser bundles miner.

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Hackers Leak DentaQuest Information Impacting 2.6 Million

Security Week - Fri, 06/05/2026 - 7:33am

The ShinyHunters extortion group leaked roughly 234 GB of data allegedly stolen from the dental benefits administrator.

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Chrome 149 Patches 429 Vulnerabilities

Security Week - Fri, 06/05/2026 - 7:13am

Over 100 bugs are critical or high-severity, mainly use-after-free and insufficient validation of untrusted input flaws.

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Industry Reactions to New Trump AI Cybersecurity Executive Order: Feedback Friday

Security Week - Fri, 06/05/2026 - 6:24am

Experts commented on the EO’s voluntary nature, the balance between innovation and security, and potential implementation gaps.

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