The new study takes a first look at one piece of that exposure: what actually sits inside the apps built and marketed specifically for the military. “We are grateful for the opportunity to bring greater attention to these issues,” says Joshua Shinkle, a Purdue University PhD researcher and the study’s lead author. “We hope the ..
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A new report from Sophos found the most common method malicious actors use to enact ransomware is the abuse of compromised credentials. 79% of incidents exploited legitimate user logins and identities in order to gain initial access. The research also found that malicious actors are leveraging identities in several ways, such as intruding on systems or applications ..
Cybersecurity startup Empirical has raised $25 million in a Series A funding round that brings the total raised by the company to $37 million. The new investment round was led by Brightmind Partners, with additional support from Costanoa Ventures, Hyde Park Angels (HPA), and other investors. Founded in 2024, Chicago-based Empirical will use the fresh ..
SecurityWeek today announced the launch of the Critical Impact Awards, a new recognition program honoring the individuals, organizations, and technologies delivering measurable impact and contributions in industrial cybersecurity. Winners will be announced live at the 2026 ICS Cybersecurity Conference, taking place October 6–8, 2026, at the W Nashville, as the event celebrates its 25-year anniversary. Unlike pay-to-play ..
A recently discovered piece of malware abuses the Microsoft 365 calendar for command-and-control (C&C) communication, Group-IB reports. Dubbed HollowGraph, the malware is believed to be part of a larger toolkit and is likely linked to Cavern Manticore, an Iran-nexus threat actor that Check Point detailed earlier this month. The malware’s communication mechanism relies on the ..
Korber AG is the holding company of a diverse German technology and manufacturing organization with around 13,000 employees in 100 locations around the world. “Take Pharma,” comments Andreas Gaetje. “Probably every vaccine you ever received has been through our machines.” Korber services companies that supply consumers. So, despite its size and importance, it is rarely ..
Cosmetics giant Estée Lauder has started notifying employees that their information was stolen from its Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) instance last year. The incident, the company says, occurred in early August 2025, when the infamous Cl0p cybercrime group started exploiting CVE-2025-61882, a zero-day vulnerability in Oracle EBS that enabled unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE), to ..
A security researcher says he has received a significant bug bounty from Meta after discovering a critical vulnerability that exposed customer support data. The vulnerability was discovered and reported to Meta in January 2026 by independent researcher Rony K Roy. The initial report to the social media giant described a security hole of limited severity, ..
Healthcare technology company Clover Health Investments has disclosed a data breach impacting customers’ personal and health information. Discovered on July 4, the incident was the result of a social engineering attack that compromised three non-managerial health plan employee accounts. Clover Health Investments says it activated its response plan immediately after discovering the attack, and engaged ..
Una vulnerabilità critica nella piattaforma AI di ServiceNow consente a un attaccante non autenticato di eseguire codice da remoto e prendere il controllo dell’istanza. Identificata come CVE-2026-6875 , è passata dalla pubblicazione del proof of concept tecnico ai primi payload osservati in rete in circa 72 ore, e la finestra di esposizione per chi gestisce ..
