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Lawmakers Demand Answers as CISA Tries to Contain Data Leak: What Security Teams Need to Know

Security Cyber — Fri, 29 May 2026 17:46:14 +0000

Lawmakers Demand Answers as CISA Tries to Contain Data Leak

Lawmakers in both houses of Congress are demanding answers from the U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) after KrebsOnSecurity reported this week that a CISA contractor intentionally published AWS GovCloud keys and a vast trove of other agency secrets on a public GitHub account. The inquiry comes as CISA is still struggling to contain the breach and invalidate the leaked credentials.

Why this matters: This highlights ongoing challenges in cybersecurity.

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Source: Krebs on Security

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Netherlands Seizes 800 Servers, Arrests 2 for Aiding Cyberattacks: What Security Teams Need to Know

Security Cyber — Fri, 29 May 2026 17:46:12 +0000

Netherlands Seizes 800 Servers, Arrests 2 for Aiding Cyberattacks

Authorities in the Netherlands have arrested the co-owners of two related Internet hosting companies for operating IT infrastructure used by Russia to carry out cyberattacks, influence operations and disinformation campaigns inside the European Union. The two men were the focus of a 2025 KrebsOnSecurity story about how their hosting companies had assumed control over the technical infrastructure of Stark Industries Solutions, an Internet service provider sanctioned last year by the EU as a frequ

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Source: Krebs on Security

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New AI Usage Report: Enterprise AI Risk Is Heavily Concentrated Among a Small Group of AI "Power use: What Security Teams Need to Know

Security Cyber — Fri, 29 May 2026 17:39:09 +0000

New AI Usage Report: Enterprise AI Risk Is Heavily Concentrated Among a Small Group of AI "Power users"

State of AI Usage Report 2026 (full report here) by LayerX Security reveals the extent of the enterprise AI visibility gap and why most organizations still don't understand where their AI exposure is actually coming from. The research shows that enterprise AI risk is not distributed evenly across users or platforms. Instead, it is heavily concentrated among a small group of AI power users and a

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Source: The Hacker News

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ThreatsDay Bulletin: Claude Security Plugin, Azure Priv-Esc, Kali365 MFA Bypass, FIFA Scams +15 More: What Security Teams Need to Know

Security Cyber — Fri, 29 May 2026 17:39:07 +0000

ThreatsDay Bulletin: Claude Security Plugin, Azure Priv-Esc, Kali365 MFA Bypass, FIFA Scams +15 More

Every time you think the industry has finally stopped doing some reckless, low-effort crap, somebody spins up a fresh box full of sketchy loaders, fake installers, recycled social-engineering bait, and enough exposed infrastructure to make you wonder if prod is just a public beta now - meanwhile some researcher casually drops a technique that turns a "minor" foothold into total account

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Source: The Hacker News

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Threat Actors Exploit Critical FortiClient EMS Flaw to Deploy Credential Stealer: What Security Teams Need to Know

Security Cyber — Fri, 29 May 2026 16:59:54 +0000

Threat Actors Exploit Critical FortiClient EMS Flaw to Deploy Credential Stealer

Threat actors are continuing to exploit a critical, now-patched security flaw impacting FortiClient Endpoint Management Server (EMS) deployments to deliver credential-stealing malware.

"The campaign abused trusted endpoint management infrastructure to deliver malware across managed endpoints," Arctic Wolf said. "Threat actors disguised the credential stealer payload as a Fortinet endpoint

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Source: The Hacker News

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Critical Gogs RCE Vulnerability Lets Any Authenticated User Execute Arbitrary Code: What Security Teams Need to Know

Security Cyber — Fri, 29 May 2026 16:59:53 +0000

Critical Gogs RCE Vulnerability Lets Any Authenticated User Execute Arbitrary Code

A critical security vulnerability has been disclosed in Gogs, a popular open-source self-hosted Git service, that allows an authenticated user to execute arbitrary code under certain conditions.

The security flaw, per Rapid7, is rated 9.4 on the CVSS scoring system. It does not have a CVE identifier.

"The vulnerability allows any authenticated user to achieve remote code execution (RCE) on

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Source: The Hacker News

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Kimsuky Deploys HTTPSpy, Expands Arsenal with HelloDoor and VS Code Tunnels: What Security Teams Need to Know

Security Cyber — Fri, 29 May 2026 16:12:24 +0000

Kimsuky Deploys HTTPSpy, Expands Arsenal with HelloDoor and VS Code Tunnels

The North Korean state-sponsored threat actor known as Kimsuky (aka Velvet Chollima) has been attributed to a fresh set of cyber attacks targeting South Korean military and corporate entities through March and April 2026.

"Kimsuky employed a range of tailored social engineering tactics, such as spoofing security software installation pages and crafting a fake Webex meeting page that leveraged

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Source: The Hacker News

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What 2,000 Exposed Vibe-Coded Apps Reveal About the Limits of Most Security Stacks: What Security Teams Need to Know

Security Cyber — Fri, 29 May 2026 16:12:23 +0000

What 2,000 Exposed Vibe-Coded Apps Reveal About the Limits of Most Security Stacks

Shadow AI used to mean employees pasting things they shouldn't into ChatGPT. It now means something bigger: employees building full applications with AI, wiring them into production systems, and publishing them on the open internet. Without Security or IT in the loop.

The artifact moved from a prompt to a product. The risk surface moved with it.

In The Shadow Builders report (get it here), a

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Source: The Hacker News

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Starting Security Cyber: A New Voice in Cybersecurity

Security Cyber — Fri, 29 May 2026 14:55:15 +0000

Hello, Cybersecurity Community

I'm Charlie, founder of Security Cyber — an ethical cybersecurity practice built on 100+ hands-on labs across TryHackMe and Hack The Box.and a University Bs Honours (Ongoing)

Why I'm Here

Starting today, I'm committing to sharing real-world security knowledge on this platform. No fluff, no hype — just practical insights from actual engagements.

What You Can Expect

Weekly vulnerability breakdowns — deep-dives into real CVEs and how to protect against them
Pentest methodology guides — from recon to reporting, the stuff you won't find in textbooks
Tool comparisons — honest reviews of security tools (no vendor shilling)
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Good security is proactive, not reactive. Whether you're a SOC analyst triaging alerts at 3 AM or a developer writing your first API, security should be built in — not bolted on.

I believe in ethical, scoped, responsible disclosure. Everything shared here is for defense, for learning, for building better security together.

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