Over a million WordPress sites hit in plugin flaw — so patch now or face the consequences

A popular WordPress plugin with roughly a million active installations contained two vulnerabilities that could have allowed malicious actors to exfiltrate sensitive data, such as password hashes and other valuable information. Security researchers at Wordfence said they were tipped off by a researcher Rafie Read More …

Water company’s leaky security earns near-£1M fine

The UK’s data protection watchdog has fined South Staffordshire Water’s parent company nearly £1 million over security failings exposed by the Cl0p ransomware attack in 2022. Issuing the fine of £963,900 ($1.3 million), the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said the Read More …

Employees are now more dangerous to their company than external hackers

New data from Orange Cyberdefense has suggested the biggest risks companies face could now be coming from inside, with internal threats rising from 47% to 57% in the space of less than a year. For the first time ever, internal Read More …

ASD: Careful Adoption of Agentic AI Services

Agentic artificial intelligence (AI) systems increasingly operate across critical infrastructure and defence sectors and support mission-critical capabilities. As agentic AI systems play a growing operational role, it is crucial for defenders to implement security controls to protect national security and Read More …

Copy Fail vulnerability allows attackers to gain root access on virtually any modern Linux distribution

A working exploit written in Python (later released in other programming languages as well) consists of about ten lines of code and uses standard system calls that are indistinguishable from normal system activity. Kaspersky explain what the CVE-2026-31431 vulnerability, unofficially Read More …

Nasty cPanel vulnerability probably exploited as a 0-day

Emergency patches are available for a critical vulnerability in cPanel and WHM that allows attackers to bypass authentication and gain root access to servers managed using it. Given that cPanel and WebHost Manager (WHM) control panel help manage properties for Read More …

Adapting Zero Trust Principles to Operational Technology

Zero trust (ZT) offers a modern, adaptive approach to cybersecurity by eliminating implicit trust and continuously validating access based on identity, context, and risk. ZT principles assume a breach has already occurred and are designed to limit threat actor movement Read More …

Governments on high alert after CISA snuffs out Firestarter backdoor on fed network

A US federal agency was successfully targeted by a previously unknown backdoor malware called Firestarter, according to CISA cybersnoops and their UK counterparts – neither of which disclosed the agency’s name. Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) agencies include NASA; Homeland Security itself (cyberworkers at CISA Read More …

Apple fixes iOS bug that kept deleted notifications, including chat previews

Apple has released a software update that deals with an issue that could allow deleted notifications to be retrieved. Something that, in at least one reported case, was used by law enforcement during forensic analysis. Apple fixed the issue in Read More …