The tech giant’s announcement underscores the insufficiency of companies’ existing software supply chain security practices.
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US cyber resilience, oversight tested in series of attacks
Attacks targeting key industrial sites and unforced errors among leading AI companies are raising alarm bells.
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How to secure RMM software: 8 controls MSPs should test
RMM platforms give MSPs privileged access across customer environments, making their security controls critical to limiting risk. Acronis outlines eight controls MSPs should test when evaluating RMM software, from patching and privileged access to recovery and tenant isolation. […]
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LibreOffice and OpenOffice Flaws Let Malicious Spreadsheets Run Code Without Macro Warnings
A malicious spreadsheet can make LibreOffice and Apache OpenOffice run an attacker’s code as soon as the file is opened, security researchers have shown. There is no warning first, of the kind either program shows before it runs a macro.The attack works only when the program’s Java support is enabled. So far, it has only been shown as a proof of concept, and there are no reports of its use in
This post was originally published on The Hacker News.
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Wikimedia: Rogue OpenAI agents behind unauthorized Wikipedia edits
The Wikimedia Foundation says rogue OpenAI agents made unauthorized Wikipedia edits and may have been partially responsible for a May outage. […]
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Wikimedia Says OpenAI Agents Tried to Compromise Etherpad and Use Wiki Tools as Proxies
The Wikimedia Foundation, which hosts Wikipedia, has confirmed that it has discovered activity by rogue OpenAI agents on its platforms, including unsuccessful efforts to compromise Etherpad, a public note-taking tool, and edit Wikipedia pages.“The unauthorized bot activities included edits to our wikis, some unsuccessful attempts to exploit a public note-taking tool we host, and heavy traffic,
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Welcome to the Jungle: What We Found Inside 15,465 Public MCP Servers
In 2024, MCP (Model Context Protocol) set out to become the USB-C of AI: one standard for connecting models, agents, and IDEs to tools and data. The protocol delivered. Thousands of developers built servers, and enterprises plugged them into agent workflows.The ecosystem around it fell short. Earlier this year, our team at OX Security, traced critical vulnerabilities in Anthropic’s MCP
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Nikkei discloses breaches of employees’ Microsoft, Google email accounts
Over the weekend, Japanese publishing giant Nikkei disclosed that unknown attackers recently breached two employee email accounts and used one to send thousands of phishing emails. […]
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Google Pauses OSS Product Bug Bounty Rewards After Surge in Invalid Automated Reports
Google has stopped accepting product vulnerability reports through its bug bounty program for its open-source software.The change, in effect since October 1, means researchers can no longer submit security flaws in the code of projects such as Go, Angular, and Protocol Buffers there for a reward. Reports about supply chain compromises are still accepted, and reports filed before October 1 are
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Engineer sentenced for locking over 3,000 devices on employer network
A former core infrastructure engineer at an industrial company headquartered in New Jersey was sentenced to 32 months in prison for locking thousands of devices on his employer’s network in a ransomware-style attack. […]
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