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Onyx Security Launches With $40 Million in Funding

The startup is building a control pane to help organizations oversee autonomous AI agents and rapidly adopt them. The post Onyx Security Launches With $40 Million in Funding appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Google Fixes Two Chrome Zero-Days Exploited in the Wild Affecting Skia and V8

Google on Thursday released security updates for its Chrome web browser to address two high-severity vulnerabilities that it said have been exploited in the wild. The list of vulnerabilities is as follows - CVE-2026-3909 (CVSS score: 8.8) - An out-of-bounds write vulnerability in the Skia 2D graphics library that allows a remote attacker to perform out-of-bounds memory access via a crafted HTML

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Authorities Disrupt SocksEscort Proxy Service Powered by AVrecon Botnet

Law enforcement agencies in the US and Europe targeted the cybercrime service that has impacted 360,000 devices since 2020. The post Authorities Disrupt SocksEscort Proxy Service Powered by AVrecon Botnet appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Nine CrackArmor Flaws in Linux AppArmor Enable Root Escalation, Bypass Container Isolation

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed multiple security vulnerabilities within the Linux kernel's AppArmor module that could be exploited by unprivileged users to circumvent kernel protections, escalate to root, and undermine container isolation guarantees. The nine confused deputy vulnerabilities have been collectively codenamed CrackArmor by the Qualys Threat Research Unit (TRU). The

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Chrome 146 Update Patches Two Exploited Zero-Days

The flaws can be exploited to manipulate data and bypass security restrictions, potentially leading to code execution. The post Chrome 146 Update Patches Two Exploited Zero-Days appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Authorities Disrupt SocksEscort Proxy Botnet Exploiting 369,000 IPs Across 163 Countries

A court-authorized international law enforcement operation has dismantled a criminal proxy service named SocksEscort that enslaved thousands of residential routers worldwide into a botnet for committing large-scale fraud. "SocksEscort infected home and small business internet routers with malware," the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) said. "The malware allowed SocksEscort to direct internet

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Veeam Patches 7 Critical Backup & Replication Flaws Allowing Remote Code Execution

Veeam has released security updates to address multiple critical vulnerabilities in its Backup & Replication software that, if successfully exploited, could result in remote code execution. The vulnerabilities are as follows - CVE-2026-21666 (CVSS score: 9.9) - A vulnerability that allows an authenticated domain user to perform remote code execution on the Backup Server. CVE-2026-21667 (

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Rust-Based VENON Malware Targets 33 Brazilian Banks with Credential-Stealing Overlays

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new banking malware targeting Brazilian users that's written in Rust, marking a significant departure from other known Delphi-based malware families associated with the Latin American cybercrime ecosystem. The malware, which is designed to infect Windows systems and was first discovered last month, has been codenamed VENON by Brazilian

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Hive0163 Uses AI-Assisted Slopoly Malware for Persistent Access in Ransomware Attacks

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a suspected artificial intelligence (AI)-generated malware codenamed Slopoly put to use by a financially motivated threat actor named Hive0163. "Although still relatively unspectacular, AI-generated malware such as Slopoly shows how easily threat actors can weaponize AI to develop new malware frameworks in a fraction of the time it used to take

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Apple Updates Legacy iOS Versions to Patch Coruna Exploits

The company has released iOS and iPadOS versions 16.7.15 and 15.8.7 to patch the vulnerabilities. The post Apple Updates Legacy iOS Versions to Patch Coruna Exploits appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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How to Scale Phishing Detection in Your SOC: 3 Steps for CISOs

Phishing has quietly turned into one of the hardest enterprise threats to expose early. Instead of crude lures and obvious payloads, modern campaigns rely on trusted infrastructure, legitimate-looking authentication flows, and encrypted traffic that conceals malicious behavior from traditional detection layers. For CISOs, the priority is now clear: scale phishing detection in a way that helps

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Meta Launches New Protection Tools as It Helps Disrupt Scam Centers

The social media giant has disabled more than 150,000 accounts powering scam centers in Asia. The post Meta Launches New Protection Tools as It Helps Disrupt Scam Centers appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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ThreatsDay Bulletin: OAuth Trap, EDR Killer, Signal Phishing, Zombie ZIP, AI Platform Hack & More

Another Thursday, another pile of weird security stuff that somehow happened in just seven days. Some of it is clever. Some of it is lazy. A few bits fall into that uncomfortable category of “yeah… this is probably going to show up in real incidents sooner than we’d like.” The pattern this week feels familiar in a slightly annoying way. Old tricks are getting polished. New research shows how

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Backstory Of East Coast Hang Out (ECHO), The First Social Network Launched In 1989

This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Mar. 12, 2026 – Listen to the podcast Stacy Horn, 66, is an author and the founder of East Coast Hang Out, or ECHO, which is widely regarded as the first social The post Backstory Of East Coast Hang Out (ECHO), The First Social Network Launched In 1989 appeared first on Cybercrime Magazine.

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Ally WordPress Plugin Flaw Exposes Over 200,000 Websites to Attacks

The issue allows attackers to inject SQL queries and extract sensitive information from the database. The post Ally WordPress Plugin Flaw Exposes Over 200,000 Websites to Attacks appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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The Human IOC: Why Security Professionals Struggle with Social Vetting

Applying SOC-level rigor to the rumors, politics, and 'human intel' can make or break a security team. The post The Human IOC: Why Security Professionals Struggle with Social Vetting appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Splunk, Zoom Patch Severe Vulnerabilities

Critical- and high-severity flaws could be exploited to execute arbitrary shell commands or elevate privileges. The post Splunk, Zoom Patch Severe Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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International security chiefs to convene in Glasgow for flagship CYBERUK conference

CYBERUK will be delivered by the NCSC and sponsors across four distinct tracks of activity: Resilience, Technology, Threat, and Ecosystem.

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Attackers Don't Just Send Phishing Emails. They Weaponize Your SOC's Workload

The most dangerous phishing campaigns aren’t just designed to fool employees. Many are designed to exhaust the analysts investigating them. When a phishing investigation takes 12 hours instead of five minutes, the outcome can shift from a contained incident to a breach. For years, the cybersecurity industry has focused on the front door of phishing defense: employee training, email gateways that

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Cisco Patches High-Severity IOS XR Vulnerabilities

The security defects could lead to denial-of-service (DoS) conditions, command execution, or device takeover. The post Cisco Patches High-Severity IOS XR Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek.