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Password Managers for Teams: Why Your Business Needs One and How to Roll It Out
Shared passwords in spreadsheets and chats are a security risk. How team password managers work, what to look for and a smooth rollout plan.

Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace Security: 10 Settings Every Business Should Check
Most business email accounts are protected by default settings that leave gaps. Ten configuration checks that close the most common attack paths.

Phishing in 2026: How to Recognise and Stop Modern Attacks
Phishing has moved beyond badly written emails to AI-written messages, QR codes, fake login pages and voice calls. Warning signs and defences that work.

Passkeys Explained: Why Passwords Are Being Replaced and How to Prepare
Passkeys let people sign in with a fingerprint, face or device PIN instead of a password. What they are, why they resist phishing, and how businesses can adopt them.

Prompt Injection: The AI Security Risk Every Business Should Understand
When your chatbot reads emails, web pages or documents, hidden instructions inside them can take control. How prompt injection works and how to reduce the risk.

Ransomware Protection Checklist for Small and Mid-Sized Businesses
Twelve practical steps, in priority order, that make a ransomware attack far less likely and far less damaging, even with a small IT team.
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OpenAI AI Agents Demonstrate VM Escapes and Secret Cross-Sandbox Communication
OpenAI has announced plans to conduct frontier model training with no live internet access, as it resumes reinforcement learning (RL) training and internal inference of its most advanced AI models. "Based on the current state of alignment research, monitoring systems, and the security of internet…

BlackX UEFI bootkit exploits Baton Drop flaw to bypass Secure Boot
A new UEFI bootkit named BlackX, deployed in an espionage campaign in early 2026, exploited the old Baton Drop vulnerability to bypass Secure Boot and load a malicious driver designed to interfere with security solutions from Kaspersky and Avast.
Brotli Decoder Flaw Behind Node.js RCE Also Affects Bun, Python and Other Widely Used Software
A memory-corruption flaw in Google's Brotli decoder sits in many programs that unpack Brotli-compressed data, among them Bun, the Python Brotli and brotlicffi packages, and Envoy proxies set up to decompress Brotli. Tracked as CVE-2026-111497, the flaw allows crafted compressed data to overwrite past the…

Leaked LiteLLM Master Key Let Attackers Steal GitHub Tokens and Hijack Release Pipeline
LiteLLM on Friday revealed that an Agent Platform master key accidentally published to a public GitHub repository in late May 2026 ultimately allowed the threat actor to push a malicious version of the popular Python package. "On May 27, 2026, a configuration file was committed…

Google Says Gmail and Photos Data Shared With AI Search Could Be Used for Targeted Ads
Google has updated its privacy policy to spell out that using personalized artificial intelligence (AI) features in Search or Gemini could allow the company to serve targeted ads to users based on their activity on other connected Google services. "You may choose to allow certain…

Researchers Push Over 2 Million Updates to Remotely Disable Popcorn Time Updater That Could Fuel a Botnet
Between November 2025 and March 2026, the Dutch security firm Eye Security pushed more than 2 million updates to computers it did not own to switch off a background updater that it said could have allowed an outsider to take over the machine. The updater…

CISA Flags Two Actively Exploited Critical Flaws in Collabora Online and Arista VeloCloud
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added two vulnerabilities impacting Collabora Online Built-in CODE Server and Arista VeloCloud Orchestrator (VCO) to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV), citing reports of active exploitation in the wild. The critical-severity vulnerabilities are listed below -…

Abandoned Popcorn Time app exposed millions of devices to RCE attacks
Researchers remotely disabled a vulnerable updater in the abandoned Time4Popcorn app, a fork of the Popcorn Time BitTorrent client, closing a security flaw that could have allowed attackers to execute malicious code with elevated privileges on millions of computers.
Microsoft Teams to get AI-powered, context-aware phishing detection
Microsoft has announced plans to add AI-powered phishing detection to Teams messages starting in early November 2026.
BlackX UEFI Bootkit Bypasses Secure Boot on Patched Windows Systems Missing Revocations
Diplomatic organizations in Central Asia have been targeted by a sophisticated new Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) bootkit called BlackX. The activity, which singled out diplomatic entities in Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan in early 2026, is suspected to be orchestrated by a China-linked state-sponsored hacking…

Inside the LiteLLM 1.107.0 supply chain compromise: Credential theft through Python startup hooks
Microsoft Threat Intelligence analyzes the LiteLLM 1.107.0 compromise, including Python startup hooks, credential theft, remote code loading, detections, and mitigations. The post Inside the LiteLLM 1.107.0 supply chain compromise: Credential theft through Python startup hooks appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog .
Ruby Fixes Three Regex Engine Bugs Responsible for Four Critical GitLab RCE Flaws
Ruby has released versions 4.0.9, 3.4.12, and 3.3.13 to fix three bugs in Onigmo, the regular expression engine built into the language. The bugs lie behind four critical security flaws that GitLab patched over the past month. GitLab found that a specially crafted pattern could…

Exposed Infrastructure Reveals How Ransomware Affiliates Used AI Agents to Execute Intrusions
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered an artificial intelligence (AI)-driven intrusion ecosystem run by affiliates of the INC and The Gentlemen ransomware groups. Central to the operation is an "Autonomous Red Team Kill Chain Framework" referred to as Phantom. The threat actor is assessed to be Russian-speaking…

Microsoft: Windows Server 2016 reaches end of support in January
Microsoft says Windows Server 2016 will stop receiving security updates after it reaches the end of support in January 2027.
Quest Diagnostics confirms data breach exposed patient records
American clinical laboratory company Quest Diagnostics disclosed that patient records have been exposed after a threat actor gained unauthorized access to its Quanum LSM system.