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Organizations running VMware vCenter face growing risk from a critical remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2026-59310) that ransomware operators are now actively exploiting. This flaw, which was patched by Broadcom in July, allows unauthenticated attackers to execute code on vulnerable systems, which makes exposed vCenter deployments a high-value target.

The rise in bond yields reached a critical threshold on Monday, with the 10-year Treasury yield hitting 5%, a level briefly touched in 2023 and otherwise not seen since 2007.

The vulnerability could let unauthenticated users access sensitive files from software-development environments.

Researchers at KTH Royal Institute of Technology built a container replica of a segmented industrial network, attacked it repeatedly across 14 days of running time, and used the captured traffic to train a defense agent that decides on its own when to intervene.

Cisco has confirmed that threat actors are actively exploiting a maximum-severity vulnerability in Secure Firewall Management Center, escalating the urgency for organizations that have not yet installed the company’s security updates or emergency hot fixes.

Federal agencies are strengthening industry ties to secure critical infrastructure, build the cyber workforce and address vulnerabilities.

Check Point has released emergency security updates for two critical vulnerabilities affecting its Security Gateway, Security Management and Spark Firewall products, warning that attackers could potentially exploit the flaws to execute arbitrary code without authentication.

Cisco Talos says three separate threat groups are exploiting two recently patched Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) flaws. The main target is CVE-2026-20079, a critical authentication bypass that lets unauthenticated attackers remotely bypass security controls, run scripts and potentially gain root access. Attackers also exploit CVE-2026-20316 to access sensitive data through a low-privilege account. The…

The agency is also working to finalize an incident-reporting regulation and set up a new industry coordination structure, its acting director said.

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