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⚡ Weekly Recap: AI-Powered Phishing, Android Spying Tool, Linux Exploit, GitHub RCE & More

⚡ Weekly Recap: AI-Powered Phishing, Android Spying Tool, Linux Exploit, GitHub RCE & More 2026-05-04 at 18:59 By This week, the shadows moved faster than the patches. While most teams were still triaging last month’s alerts, attackers had already turned control panels into kill switches, kernels into open doors, and open-source pipelines into silent delivery […]

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DigiCert Revokes Certificates After Support Portal Hack

DigiCert Revokes Certificates After Support Portal Hack 2026-05-04 at 16:22 By Ionut Arghire Hackers delivered malware via a customer chat channel, infected an analyst’s system, and accessed the internal support portal. The post DigiCert Revokes Certificates After Support Portal Hack appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original Source

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Cybersecurity M&A Roundup: 33 Deals Announced in April 2026

Cybersecurity M&A Roundup: 33 Deals Announced in April 2026 2026-05-04 at 16:22 By Eduard Kovacs Significant cybersecurity M&A deals announced by Airbus, Cyera, Fortra, Palo Alto Networks, Silverfort, and Socket. The post Cybersecurity M&A Roundup: 33 Deals Announced in April 2026 appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original Source

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Silver Fox Deploys ABCDoor Malware via Tax-Themed Phishing in India and Russia

Silver Fox Deploys ABCDoor Malware via Tax-Themed Phishing in India and Russia 2026-05-04 at 16:22 By The China-based cybercrime group known as Silver Fox has been linked to a new campaign targeting organizations in Russia and India with a new malware called ABCDoor. The activity involved using phishing emails that mimic correspondence from the Income

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Mark Zuckerberg is trying to wiggle out of testifying in person at a slew of social media trials

Mark Zuckerberg is trying to wiggle out of testifying in person at a slew of social media trials 2026-05-04 at 14:31 By Thomas Barrabi The Instagram parent is headed to Calif. federal court this summer as part of federal multidistrict litigation – a bid to streamline more than 2,400 lawsuits filed by school districts, state

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Exploitation of ‘Copy Fail’ Linux Vulnerability Begins

Exploitation of ‘Copy Fail’ Linux Vulnerability Begins 2026-05-04 at 14:30 By Ionut Arghire CISA has added the bug to its KEV list, and Microsoft has observed limited exploitation, mainly associated with PoC testing. The post Exploitation of ‘Copy Fail’ Linux Vulnerability Begins appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original

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Critical cPanel Vulnerability Weaponized to Target Government and MSP Networks

Critical cPanel Vulnerability Weaponized to Target Government and MSP Networks 2026-05-04 at 14:30 By A previously unknown threat actor has been observed targeting government and military entities in Southeast Asia, alongside a smaller cluster of managed service providers (MSPs) and hosting providers in the Philippines, Laos, Canada, South Africa, and the U.S., by exploiting the

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Moving to mainframe can be cheaper than sticking with VMware: Gartner

Moving to mainframe can be cheaper than sticking with VMware: Gartner 2026-05-04 at 14:03 By Simon Sharwood Serious Linux VMs will enjoy big iron – if you can learn to love lock-in risks and skills challenges VMware users considering a new home might find it cheaper to move to an IBM mainframe than adopting Broadcom’s

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Claude Security enters public beta with Opus 4.7 vulnerability scanning and patching

Claude Security enters public beta with Opus 4.7 vulnerability scanning and patching 2026-05-04 at 13:11 By Anamarija Pogorelec Claude Security, previously called Claude Code Security, is in public beta for Claude Enterprise customers. Available in Claude.ai, the capability scans codebases for security vulnerabilities and suggests targeted patches for review, helping teams identify and fix issues

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15-year-old detained over massive data breach at French government agency

15-year-old detained over massive data breach at French government agency 2026-05-04 at 13:11 By Sinisa Markovic French authorities have detained a 15-year-old suspected of involvement in a data breach at France Titres, the government agency responsible for issuing official documents. “Between 12 and 18 million data records were reportedly being offered for sale on cybercriminal

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Over 40,000 Servers Compromised in Ongoing cPanel Exploitation

Over 40,000 Servers Compromised in Ongoing cPanel Exploitation 2026-05-04 at 13:11 By Ionut Arghire The attacks likely target CVE-2026-41940, a recently patched zero-day leading to administrative access. The post Over 40,000 Servers Compromised in Ongoing cPanel Exploitation appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original Source

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Lens Agents brings policy control to AI across cloud and desktop

Lens Agents brings policy control to AI across cloud and desktop 2026-05-04 at 10:56 By Industry News Lens by Mirantis has announced Lens Agents, a governed platform for running AI agents across enterprise systems, giving organizations a unified, policy-driven way to run, secure, and scale AI agents across desktop and cloud environments. Available in early

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Edtech Firm Instructure Discloses Data Breach Amid Hacker Leak Threats

Edtech Firm Instructure Discloses Data Breach Amid Hacker Leak Threats 2026-05-04 at 10:56 By Ionut Arghire Hackers disrupted services and stole names, email addresses, student ID numbers, and user messages. The post Edtech Firm Instructure Discloses Data Breach Amid Hacker Leak Threats appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original

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Ask.com, former home of search butler Jeeves, closes just as conversational search comes back

Ask.com, former home of search butler Jeeves, closes just as conversational search comes back 2026-05-04 at 09:46 By Simon Sharwood Like actual butlers, this relic of the first dotcom boom has been a quaint anachronism for decades In the mid-1990s, search engine designers settled on the user interface that dominates to this day: a text

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Pipelock: Open-source AI agent firewall

Pipelock: Open-source AI agent firewall 2026-05-04 at 09:46 By Mirko Zorz AI coding agents run with shell access, environment variables containing API keys, and unrestricted internet connectivity, creating a single point of failure where one compromised tool call can leak credentials to an attacker-controlled domain. Pipelock, an open-source security harness developed by Joshua Waldrep under

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What researchers learned about building an LLM security workflow

What researchers learned about building an LLM security workflow 2026-05-04 at 09:46 By Sinisa Markovic Security operations centers are running into the same wall everywhere. Detection tools generate more alerts than analysts can work through, and the early stages of any investigation involve pulling together logs from several sources to decide whether something is worth

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