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White House
Residential proxy traffic caught leaving the White House network

The White House network has been working as an exit point for residential proxy services, a setup that may open a path into one of the most closely guarded networks in the …

sentence
Assad regime hacker who caused $136 billion market drop sentenced to 42 months

A Syrian man who used a hijacked news agency Twitter account to post a fake report of explosions at the White House has been sentenced to 42 months in prison, the US …

attack
Chinese hackers used VMware ESX zero-day; PHP2Shell and Fragnesia chained to root firewalls

China-nexus threat actors have exploited a VMware ESX zero-day to hide their tracks and chained PHP2Shell flaws with the “Fragnesia” Linux kernel bug to root …

China
Volt Typhoon targeted enterprise control planes via ever-changing “Silent Train” relay network

Volt Typhoon, a Chinese state-sponsored APT group that’s focused on cyberespionage and United States’ critical infrastructure, has been using a covert, constantly …

data leak
Hacktivists leak 41,000 DHS staff records, revealing undercover ICE agents

Names, offices, contact details and assignments of more than 41,000 U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) employees have been leaked by a hacktivist group calling itself …

Key
Stolen staff logins are spreading attacks between K-12 school districts

Last school year, 808 K-12 school organizations got some unwelcome news. The Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC) told them their staff accounts or …

CISA
CISA updates ScubaGear and ScubaGoggles, and says Microsoft 365 checks get faster

CISA released ScubaGear v2.0 and ScubaGoggles v1.1.0, new versions of the open-source tools it publishes to check Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace settings against its …

University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center
Cyberattack disrupts University of New Mexico hospitals, extortion group claims attack

University of New Mexico (UNM) Health Sciences Center (HSC), the academic medical arm of the University of New Mexico, has suffered a cyberattack that has temporarily …

AI
US Army is developing AI agents that could strike enemy networks and vanish without a trace

The US Army is looking for AI agents that can slip into an adversary’s network, find their target, copy themselves onto nearby tablets and computers, and then erase …

fraud
Scammers clone candidates’ voices to steal cash and voter data ahead of 2026 midterms, FBI warns

Three weeks before Americans vote in the 2026 midterm election, fraudsters are borrowing candidate names, logos and slogans to collect fake donations and harvest personal …

person
The cyber talent shortage? Job postings just hit a four-year low

US employers posted 235,786 cybersecurity jobs from January through September 2026. That is the lowest total for those months in the four years that staffing and workforce …

North Korea
FBI raids 40+ laptop farms helping North Korea pocket US tech salaries

North Korean IT workers used stolen and fabricated identities to land remote jobs at more than 70 US companies, with help from Americans who allegedly kept company-issued …

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