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The “City-Forum” campaign has been active since at least March 2025 and has targeted organizations across multiple sectors with custom tooling.

Enterprise defenses are tuned to catch the attacks that make noise. This year’s data shows attackers winning by making none.

According to Picus Labs’ new Blue Report 2026, which measured more than 338 million real attack simulations across actual client production environments in the first half of 2026, defenses are having one of their strongest years yet. Average prevention effectiveness

A newly disclosed flaw in the way OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google carried hidden AI reasoning between API calls let researchers recover internal reasoning and secrets from session logs, including API keys and passwords.

The weakness affected encrypted reasoning objects used by the providers’ reasoning APIs, where a block created in one session could be replayed into another and, during testing,

A massive set of 737 free VPN and proxy extensions have been found to mainly target Russian-speaking users seeking access to blocked services with an aim to intercept browser traffic and route them through a proxy infrastructure.

The extensions, published across at least 40 Chrome Web Store developer accounts, racked up 75,486 installs. Of those identified, 274 have been found to impersonate 66

The North Korean threat actor known as Lazarus Group has been attributed to the zero-day exploitation of a newly patched security flaw impacting Microsoft Windows to deliver a never-before-seen backdoor targeting defense and aerospace companies across France, Germany, Brazil, and India.

The activity, per Check Point Research, is part of Operation Dream Job, a long-running cyber espionage and

Researchers disclosed the bug to Microsoft after examining a long-running campaign by North Korean hackers to exploit the job application process.

This month’s update features about five times the volume of patches Microsoft was shipping in a typical month before AI-assisted vulnerability discovery took hold.

Unread antivirus alerts and an unpatched content management system exposed Britain’s ACRO to three separate data breaches, according to a reprimand notice.

Leaked passwords, social engineering and spoofed social media sites are among the tools hackers are using to gather individuals’ private content and sell it online, the FBI said.

The bug allowed attackers to gain full control of the victims’ systems and deploy the ForestTiger backdoor.

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