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thehackernews.com > 2026 > 02 > how-top-cisos-solve-burnout-and-speed.html

How Top CISOs Solve Burnout and Speed up MTTR without Extra Hiring

1+ hour, 25+ min ago   (632+ words) Here's how they're breaking the cycle and speeding up response without extra hiring. The fastest way to reduce MTTR is to remove the delays baked into investigations. Static verdicts and fragmented workflows force analysts to guess, escalate, and re-check the…...

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thehackernews.com > 2026 > 02 > beyondtrust-fixes-critical-pre-auth-rce.html

BeyondTrust Fixes Critical Pre-Auth RCE Vulnerability in Remote Support and PRA

4+ hour, 45+ min ago   (334+ words) BeyondTrust has released updates to address a critical security flaw impacting Remote Support (RS) and Privileged Remote Access (PRA) products that, if successfully exploited, could result in remote code execution. "BeyondTrust Remote Support (RS) and certain older versions of Privileged…...

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thehackernews.com > 2026 > 02 > openclaw-integrates-virustotal-scanning.html

OpenClaw Integrates VirusTotal Scanning to Detect Malicious ClawHub Skills

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (922+ words) OpenClaw (formerly Moltbot and Clawdbot) has announced that it's partnering with Google-owned VirusTotal to scan skills that are being uploaded to ClawHub, its skill marketplace, as part of broader efforts to bolster the security of the agentic ecosystem. "All skills…...

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thehackernews.com > 2026 > 02 > china-linked-dknife-aitm-framework.html

China-Linked DKnife AitM Framework Targets Routers for Traffic Hijacking, Malware Delivery

2+ day, 21+ hour ago   (344+ words) Cybersecurity researchers have taken the wraps off a gateway-monitoring and adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) framework dubbed DKnife that's operated by China-nexus threat actors since at least 2019. An analysis of DKnife's infrastructure has uncovered an IP address hosting WizardNet, a Windows implant deployed…...

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thehackernews.com > 2026 > 02 > cisa-orders-removal-of-unsupported-edge.html

CISA Orders Removal of Unsupported Edge Devices to Reduce Federal Network Risk

2+ day, 23+ hour ago   (317+ words) The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has ordered Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) agencies to strengthen asset lifecycle management for edge network devices and remove those that no longer receive security updates from original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) over the…...

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thehackernews.com > 2026 > 02 > claude-opus-46-finds-500-high-severity.html

Claude Opus 4.6 Finds 500+ High-Severity Flaws Across Major Open-Source Libraries

3+ day, 6+ hour ago   (457+ words) Artificial intelligence (AI) company Anthropic revealed that its latest large language model (LLM), Claude Opus 4.6, has found more than 500 previously unknown high-severity security flaws in open-source libraries, including Ghostscript, OpenSC, and CGIF. Claude Opus 4.6, which was launched Thursday, comes with improved…...

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thehackernews.com > 2026 > 02 > the-buyers-guide-to-ai-usage-control.html

The Buyer’s Guide to AI Usage Control

4+ day, 1+ hour ago   (670+ words) With AI becoming central to productivity, enterprises face a new challenge: enabling the business to innovate while maintaining governance, compliance, and security." A new Buyer's Guide for AI Usage Control argues that enterprises have fundamentally misunderstood where AI risk lives....

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thehackernews.com > 2026 > 02 > critical-n8n-flaw-cve-2026-25049.html

Critical n8n Flaw CVE-2026-25049 Enables System Command Execution via Malicious Workflows

4+ day, 6+ hour ago   (657+ words) A new, critical security vulnerability has been disclosed in the n8n workflow automation platform that, if successfully exploited, could result in the execution of arbitrary system commands. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-25049 (CVSS score: 9.4), is the result of inadequate sanitization that…...

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thehackernews.com > 2026 > 02 > microsoft-develops-scanner-to-detect.html

Microsoft Develops Scanner to Detect Backdoors in Open-Weight Large Language Models

4+ day, 18+ hour ago   (571+ words) Microsoft on Wednesday said it built a lightweight scanner that it said can detect backdoors in open-weight large language models (LLMs) and improve the overall trust in artificial intelligence (AI) systems. The tech giant's AI Security team said the scanner…...

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thehackernews.com > 2026 > 02 > microsoft-warns-python-infostealers.html

Microsoft Warns Python Infostealers Target macOS via Fake Ads and Installers

5+ day, 5+ hour ago   (432+ words) Microsoft has warned that information-stealing attacks are "rapidly expanding" beyond Windows to target Apple macOS environments by leveraging cross-platform languages like Python and abusing trusted platforms for distribution at scale. The tech giant's Defender Security Research Team said it observed…...