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Canadian cybersecurity executive arrested in federal extortion case
A Canadian cybersecurity executive was arrested in Pennsylvania on Thursday, facing federal charges of conspiracy to commit extortion. Edward Dubrovsky, 54, a co-founder and former Chief Operating Officer of CYPFER, a firm specializing in ransomware negotiation, is charged with conspiring to threaten the confidentiality of information for extortion and conspiring to commit Hobbs Act extortion,…
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Criminal IP Introduces AITEM as the Next Evolution of Attack Surface Management
AI SPERA, the company behind the cyber threat intelligence platform Criminal IP, has announced AITEM (AI-Powered Threat Exposure Management), an expansion of its Attack Surface Management (ASM) offerings. AITEM aims to move beyond traditional asset discovery to provide a more comprehensive approach to understanding, prioritizing, and responding to security exposures. The platform is scheduled…
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Unpatched AhsayCBS flaws exploited to deploy webshells, mine crypto
Threat actors are actively exploiting two unpatched vulnerabilities in the AhsayCBS backup management platform to deploy webshells and cryptocurrency miners. The targeted attacks, first observed on October 7, have affected at least five organizations, primarily managed service providers (MSPs) and system integrators.
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Citrix warns admins to patch new NetScaler RCE flaw immediately
Citrix has issued an urgent advisory to administrators regarding a new critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-107406, affecting its NetScaler ADC networking appliances and NetScaler Gateway secure remote access solutions. The company is urging immediate patching to mitigate the risk of remote code execution (RCE) or denial-of-service (DoS) attacks.
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Thousands of wind and solar park systems sit exposed on the internet across Europe
A recent report by Modat and the Dutch government's cybersecurity center, NCSC-NL, has revealed that 8,547 industrial control systems at wind and solar energy facilities across 35 countries in and around the European Union are directly accessible from the internet. These systems, which should be isolated from public networks, range from basic login portals to turbine control interfaces…
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Cisco warns of critical flaws allowing Nexus switch takeover
Cisco has issued a warning regarding five critical vulnerabilities identified in its NX-OS data center network operating system, which could enable attackers to execute arbitrary code with root privileges on Nexus switches. In scenarios where remote code execution is not achievable, exploitation of these flaws could lead to process crashes and device reloads, resulting in denial-of-service…