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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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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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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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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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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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World Quantum Readiness Day: Industry Voices on Moving From Blueprint to Build

Today is World Quantum Readiness Day, and this year’s theme, “From Blueprint to Build,” says a lot about where the industry has landed. Three years ago, post-quantum cryptography (PQC) barely made it ...
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Salt Security adds native AI detection and response to agentic security platform

Salt Security has expanded its Agentic Security Platform with native AI Detection and Response (AI-DR) capabilities designed to connect attacks targeting large language models with subsequent activity ...
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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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New Settra Ransomware Strain Deploys MeshAgent RMM for Persistence

Researchers at Huntress have detailed two ransomware incidents involving Settra, a relatively new strain first observed in June, and revealed a consistent set of post-compromise tactics defenders can ...