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Microsoft says threat actors linked to ShinyHunters, Helix, and other extortion gangs are using passkey and single sign-on-themed social engineering attacks to compromise corporate Microsoft accounts and steal data from Microsoft 365 services. [...]
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Analysis of 2.47 million simulated attacks shows why organizations should measure credential leaks and reporting, not just clicks. The post Phishing Research Challenges Conventional Security Awareness Testing appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Two days after being placed on a paid leave of absence, Matt Mullenweg says he has been reinstated as CEO of Automattic, according to a Slack message seen by TechCrunch. WordPress Executive Director Mary Hubbard confirmed Mullenweg's return to the CEO role in a Friday post on X, which the official WordPress account shared and Mullenweg reposted. I'm relieved and pleased to see Matt Mullenweg return as CEO of Automattic, the largest financial contributor to the WordPress project. Having WordPre
Adversaries can manipulate AI defensive reasoning to silently compromise target networks.
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A few months ago, I saw something that made me rethink what coding assistants are actually capable of. A teammate was dealing with a frustrating race condition hidden deep inside a legacy service. It wasn't an obvious bug, and it had already taken quite a bit of time to investigate. Instead of digging through the code manually again, he described the problem to a coding agent, started it, and stepped away for a coffee.
GitLab has released patches to address multiple flaws, including a maximum-severity security vulnerability that has witnessed in-the-wild probes within hours of public disclosure. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-85706 (CVSS score: 10.0), a path traversal issue in the repository commits API that could allow an unauthenticated user to read arbitrary files from the GitLab server under
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