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Optiv Launches CyberBOT Cybersecurity Awareness Training Program
Hands-on sessions provide educators, nonprofits, and community leaders with an accessible resource to foster year-round cyber awareness and build more resilient communities.
Survey Finds High-Profile Executives Feel Untouchable as Digital Exposure Turns Into Physical Risk
360 Privacy finds more than 8 in 10 security and wealth professionals say cybersecurity and physical security can no longer be separated.
PHP Issues Emergency Patches for Two Critical PHP2Shell RCE Flaws as Exploit Attempts Emerge
PHP has released emergency updates that fix two critical flaws in the language itself, letting an attacker without an account run code on a web server. The fixes are in PHP 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36 and 8.2.35, and the PHP team says only updating fully protects a server. The flaws,
Google Chrome Adds ClickFix Warnings to Stop Users From Running Malicious Commands
Google on Tuesday said it's rolling out improved safeguards in its Chrome browser to secure users against ClickFix attacks when Enhanced Protection is enabled. ClickFix is a popular social engineering technique in which bad actors trick users into copying and pasting malicious co
Decades-Old Windows Utility Powers Modern ClickFix Attack
The attack uses malicious Google search results related to Amazon and leverages the 'finger' utility to launch a CAPTCHA that installs malware, including the Lumma stealer.
China-Aligned Bronze Sandcastle Abuses Sandboxie DLL Sideloading to Deploy Backdoors
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a previously undocumented China-aligned threat cluster known as Bronze Sandcastle that has been observed targeting organizations in Asia and Africa since mid-2025. "The most distinctive technical marker for Bronze Sandcastle is
Generative AI Is Erasing Behavioral Tells, Weakening Behavior-Only Detection, Proofpoint Reports
Generative AI has changed what a malicious email looks like. Messages that once gave themselves away through clumsy wording, generic pretexts, and reused templates now arrive fluent, personalized, and unique to each recipient, and the behavioral signals email filters have relied
PHP2Shell: What Actually Protects You Before the 14:00 UTC PHP RCE Patch, and What Doesn't
You cannot fully block the two critical PHP flaws called PHP2Shell before today's fix, and the one setting being passed around as a workaround is not enough on its own, the security firm that suggested it now says. PHP will release the fix at 14:00 UTC on October 21 for two flaws
The Harness Is the Hard Part of Agentic Pentesting
An AppSec team can point an AI agent running on a general-purpose model at its own web apps with little setup. Sure, the model writes the attacks. But everything that makes those attacks safe to run against production and worth acting on afterward lives in the harness around the
Attackers Hijacked Over 300 Tor Exit Relays to Intercept SSH Connections
Attackers took control of more than 300 Tor exit relays in early October and used them to redirect SSH connections to servers that stole login passwords, a researcher found. Exit relays are the last hop in a Tor circuit, where traffic leaves the network for its destination. Only
PHP2Shell: Two Unpatched Critical PHP RCE Flaws (CVSS 9.2) Trigger Emergency Security Alert
This story is developing and was written before PHP's scheduled 14:00 UTC release on October 21. Once the release is out, the affected and fixed versions below are confirmed by the official advisory. PHP will ship an out-of-cycle security release at 14:00 UTC today, October 21, f
Attackers Abuse UpdraftCentral Keys to Plant Backdoors on WordPress Sites
Unknown threat actors breached TeamUpdraft's website and potentially gained unauthorized access to customers' connection keys for UpdraftCentral, UpdraftVault, and UpdraftClone, using them to backdoor WordPress sites. TeamUpdraft is the developer behind UpdraftPlus, a popular Wor
U.S. Orders DeepSeek Removed From Federal Civilian Systems, Bans New Purchases
U.S. federal civilian agencies must remove DeepSeek products from their information technology systems, along with any third-party products or services "developed using DeepSeek implementations," under a Department of Homeland Security order. They may also no longer buy informati
State Bank of India Confirms Data Leak After 3,897 Customer Records Found on Dark Web
State Bank of India has identified 3,897 customer records containing personal information in a set of about 375,000 records available on the dark web, and it does not yet know where the data came from. The state-owned bank, India's largest, said in a stock-exchange filing dated O
CISA Orders Federal Agencies to Patch Exploited Plex2Shell, Siemens, and SiteGuard Flaws
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added four vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, including four vulnerabilities impacting Plex Media Server that's collectively called Plex2Shell. The vulnerabilities are l
Tech Giants Block eMudhra Certificates Tied to 8 Compromised Keys
Google, Mozilla, Apple, the Go project and others moved swiftly to block the affected certificates from the Indian CA, though it's unclear how the keys were compromised.
Ex-OpenAI Engineer Detained After Planting Secret Recorder at HQ
The perp, who has Saudi ties, was arrested for allegedly bugging an OpenAI conference room, highlighting a preventable insider threat vector.
Close Identity Gaps in Software Development Before Unleashing AI
Artificial intelligence is complicating security in the software development life cycle, but a Dark Reading roundtable found collaboration, better identity visibility, and reduced testing costs offer CISOs a way ahead.