Tropical Blend: Cyber & Politics Ramp Up Across Latin America
China-linked espionage groups have attacked at least a dozen nations in the region, gathering information on maritime shipping, oil production, and other geopolitical interests.
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WhatsApp, Slack Notifications Could Hijack Google Gemini on Android
A single poisoned notification from WhatsApp, Slack, SMS, Signal, Instagram, or Messenger could have hijacked Google Gemini’s voice assistant on Android and made it open a victim’s connected windows, fake a message from their boss, push the phone into a Zoom call, or quietly poison its long-term memory. No malicious app on the phone is…
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Cyber Insurance Rates Are Dropping, but Exclusions Widen
Cyber insurance coverage is slowly changing, and some policies may not provide coverage for social engineering attacks like ClickFix.
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Coding Gaffe Exposes Microsoft 365 Accounts to Widespread Takeover
A disabled security setting meant to protect authentication across Android versions of key apps like Word, PowerPoint, and Excel paved the way for attackers to steal logins and data.
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One-Click GitHub Dev Attack Lets Attackers Steal Full GitHub OAuth Tokens
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a one-click attack via Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) that makes it possible to steal a user’s GitHub token. “Just by clicking a link, it’s possible for an attacker to steal a GitHub token that can read and write to your repos, including private ones,” security researcher Ammar Askar said….
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Malicious Notifications Could Trick Google Gemini Users
A prompt injection flaw in Google Gemini’s voice assistant let attackers hide malicious commands in notifications, enabling social engineering and more.
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Shrinking the IAM Attack Surface through Identity Visibility and Intelligence Platforms (IVIP)
The Fragmented State of Modern Enterprise Identity Enterprise IAM is approaching a breaking point. As organizations scale, identity becomes increasingly fragmented across thousands of applications, decentralized teams, machine identities, and autonomous systems. The result is Identity Dark Matter: identity activity that sits outside the visibility of centralized IAM and beyond the reach of
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Beyond the Zero-Day: See Your Network Like an Attacker | Webinar with HD Moore
Assume the breach. Zero-days keep shipping, AI is writing exploits faster than anyone patches, and “patch everything in time” stopped working years ago. Stop betting the org on winning that race. You don’t control which bug lands. You control what it can reach once it does. That is a question about the shape of your…
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Unpatched Windows Search URI Vulnerability Lets Attackers Steal NTLMv2 Hashes
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of an unpatched issue that could be exploited to disclose a user’s NTLMv2 hash to the attacker. Like in the case of CVE-2026-33829, which impacted the Windows Snipping Tool’s ms-screensketch: URI handler, the newly flagged issue resides in the search: URI handler, per Huntress. CVE-2026-33829 refers to a spoofing vulnerability…
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Global Stock Exchange Hit by Monthslong Email Campaign
A threat actor got a near-continuous view into an influential finance executive’s email inbox, thanks to clever use of legitimate, native Windows tools.