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WorkNest Secure Achieves CREST STAR-FS Accreditation for Red Teaming

WorkNest Secure has achieved CREST Simulated Targeted Attack & Response for Financial Services (STAR-FS) accreditation, ...
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Global cyber attacks up 48% as ransomware and phishing climb, Check Point finds

Organisations worldwide faced an average of 2,803 cyber attacks per week in September 2026, up 16% on August and 48% on the ...
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No EDR, no problem: how Huntress rebuilt an Akira ransomware attack from forensic leftovers

Incident responders rarely get to watch an attack from the beginning. More often, security tooling arrives after the damage ...
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Tines Named Headline Sponsor of CSIDES 2026 in Weston-super-Mare

Tines has been announced as the headline sponsor of CSIDES 2026, a community-focused cyber security event taking place at the Grand Pier in Weston-super-Mare on the 9th October. Organised by ...
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Huntress and ALSO partner to put managed security in reach of more European MSPs

Huntress has signed a pan-European distribution partnership with ALSO, giving value-added resellers (VARs) and managed ...
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Exabeam Pushes The “Agentic SOC” Into The Cloud And On-Premises, With Analysts Kept In The Loop

Security operations centres are facing a two-sided problem. Attackers are increasingly automating their campaigns, while inside the business, AI agents and auto ...
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Attacker signs up as a member to plant webshells on parks and recreation platform, hunts for card data

Security researchers at Huntress have detailed a multi-stage intrusion in which a threat actor compromised three web servers belonging to a popular recreation m ...
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Attackers weaponise ChatGPT Custom GPTs to deliver RAT via eight-stage ClickFix chain

Threat actors are abusing ChatGPT’s Custom GPT feature to funnel victims into a ClickFix attack that ends with a ...
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Attackers build “silent” cryptominer on victim’s machine and give themselves away

Security researchers at Huntress have uncovered an unusual attack in which a threat actor compiled a cryptocurrency miner directly on a victim’s computer, rather than simply dropping a ready-made one, ...
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OpenAI agent breached Australia’s Medicare portal – and nobody noticed for three months

An autonomous AI agent built by OpenAI gained unauthorised access to non-public files on an Australian government Medicare portal in June, but Canberra was only told about it in September, in what is ...
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Zero-day hackers ditch exploits for a fake image file in new DarkMe campaign

A threat group best known for exploiting previously unknown flaws in WinRAR and Windows has switched to a much simpler method: an email link to what appears to be an image. New research from Huntress ...
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CRA Reporting Is Live: What Manufacturers, Vendors, and Distributors Need to Know

The CRA applies to products with digital elements that connect to a device or network: operating systems, IoT devices, browsers, routers, and similar technology. These fall into four criticality tiers ...