Significant cybersecurity M&A deals announced by Brinqa, Cribl, Echo, Fortinet, Kiteworks, Palo Alto Networks, and Visa.
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Organizations Warned of Cisco Secure FMC Exploitation
Cisco and CISA have flagged exploitation of CVE-2026-20079, a vulnerability disclosed in March 2026.
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Fortinet Code Execution Flaw Exploited in PivotC2 RAT Attacks
The high-severity, unauthenticated vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-25249 was patched in January 2026.
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US Agencies Warn China Is Systematically Extracting Frontier AI Capabilities
Distillation is an ‘attack’ against an AI model designed to capture outputs, understand reasoning processes, and subsequently train a different model.
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New Phishing Attack Creates Malicious Pages Inside the Victim’s Browser
Attackers are using trusted Microsoft services and blob URLs to generate stealthy phishing pages that leave defenders with no static website to detect or block.
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Microsoft Patches Record 974 Vulnerabilities, Including Two Exploited Zero-Days
The record-breaking September security update fixes two exploited privilege-escalation zero-days and 20 potentially wormable vulnerabilities.
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N-able Patches Critical Zero-Day in N-central
Administrators are advised to check their deployments for newly created user accounts they don’t recognize.
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OpenAI Agents Hijack Another Victim Website
OpenAI agents made 15,000–18,000 autonomous edits to a German wiki over three months, evading moderation and echoing tactics seen in the Hugging Face breach.
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Adobe Commerce Zero-Day Exploited to Backdoor Online Stores
The StyleSmuggler zero-day allows attackers to execute code and deploy a stealthy backdoor on Adobe Commerce and Magento stores.
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OpenAI Pledges $1 Billion to Bring Frontier AI to Critical Infrastructure Defenders
The Daybreak initiative will provide subsidized AI cyber capabilities, training and technical assistance, though OpenAI has disclosed few details about costs and eligibility.
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