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New federal programs take years to launch and fund. State and local governments need cybersecurity software now. The One Big Beautiful Bill already enables tax incentives. Congress should clarify and deploy them. The post How tax policy can stop threat actors from breaching US water systems appeared first on CyberScoop.
Microsoft has confirmed a fix for a bug that broke the built-in File History backup feature on millions of Windows 10 and Windows 11 machines, closing out a nearly two-week saga that started with the September 2026 Patch Tuesday rollout. The company’s support documentation, updated on September 22, 2026, says the problem is resolved in…
Have I Been Pwned now tracks 1,038 breaches and roughly 17.8 billion pwned accounts, and the site added two new incidents in the week before this article was written: a 17.8 million-record LimeLeads leak on September 22, 2026, and a 4.7 million-record Chess.com breach dated August 2026. Most people find out their credentials are circulating…
Threat actors have begun to actively exploit a critical security flaw in WordPress within hours of public disclosure. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-87902 (CVSS score: 9.2), which could allow an unauthenticated attacker to obtain remote code execution (RCE). “An unauthenticated attacker can make get_page_template() page-template resolution include a chosen readable local .php file
Threat actors are poisoning ChatGPT, Gemini, and Google AI Overview answers by seeding the Web with malicious links and data and then optimizing the content.
Introduction The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)—hereafter referred to as the “authoring agencies”—have published this fact sheet to highlight considerations for critical infrastructure entities to reduce risk and minimize vulnerabilities when working with third-party industrial control system (ICS) integrators. ICS is an umbrella term referring to integrated networks…
Unknown threat actors have managed to compromise two legitimate MemTensor packages across the npm and Python Package Index (PyPI) repositories to push a platform-specific Go-based implant dubbed sckit designed for Windows, Linux, and macOS. According to reports from Aikido, SafeDep, Socket, and StepSecurity, the libraries in question below – @memtensor/memos-cloud-openclaw-plugin versions
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed Go-based malware distributed via two Go Modules and two Terraform providers, marking the first time threat actors are using the centralized repository hosted by HashiCorp as a distribution vector for malicious payloads. According to Aikido, the list of Terraform providers and Go modules is below – gocommunity-io/dockerd (222 downloads) kreuzwenker/
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Smart glasses are already causing havoc in India When Shubnam saw an Instagram video of a Delhi protest they had attended, they realized a content creator wearing Meta smart glasses had…
The FBI jobs site, which was temporarily defaced, remains unavailable and the agency said it’s investigating the claims. The post ShinyHunters claims attack on FBI exposes almost all agents appeared first on CyberScoop.
