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SecurityWeek

9.5 Million Impacted by Aesto Health Data Breach

Hackers stole personal and health information from the healthcare technology company’s AWS infrastructure. The post 9.5 Million Impacted by Aesto Health Data Breach appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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The Hacker News

Attackers Steal METR API Key and Consume AI Credits Worth About $600,000

METR (short for Model Evaluation and Threat Research and pronounced "Meter"), a research non-profit that evaluates frontier artificial intelligence (AI) models for their ability to carry out long-horizon, agentic tasks, disclosed that it suffered "two notable security incidents" where external actors attempted to gain unauthorized access to its systems. No sensitive information is believed to

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SecurityWeek

WatchGuard Patches Critical Vulnerabilities

Three critical issues in the Fireware OS iked process could allow unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code remotely. The post WatchGuard Patches Critical Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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The Hacker News

Russia-Aligned UAC-0099 Plants Nuclear Weapon Prompt in Malware to Disrupt AI Analysis

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a new technique dubbed GuardBreaker that's been put to use by a Russia-aligned threat actor known as UAC-0099 against a target in Ukraine with an aim to interfere with artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted analysis. The idea, ESET said in a series of posts on X, is to deliberately trip a large language model's (LLM) safety mechanisms and prevent its

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Stack Overflow Blog

The good ol’ days of building Java

Ryan sits down with Tim Lindholm, an early contributor to the Java language at Sun Microsystems, to chat about what it was like building one of the most popular programming languages ever at its inception, why it was strategically important for the Java team to create a cross-platform ABI to compete with Windows NT, and how applets were initially just an interesting demo.

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The Hacker News

Attackers Exploit Critical Langflow and Rails Flaws in Credential-Probing and C2 Activity

Threat actors are exploiting two critical flaws impacting Langflow and Ruby on Rails, according to new findings from VulnCheck. The vulnerabilities in question are listed below - CVE-2026-0768 (CVSS score: 9.8) - A lack of proper validation of a user-supplied input vulnerability that could be exploited to execute arbitrary Python code in the context of the root user. CVE-2026-66066 aka

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