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The Hacker News

Microsoft Warns of Two Actively Exploited Defender Vulnerabilities

Microsoft has disclosed that a privilege escalation and a denial-of-service flaw in Defender has come under active exploitation in the wild. The former, tracked as CVE-2026-41091, is rated 7.8 on the CVSS scoring system. Successful exploitation of the flaw could allow an attacker to gain SYSTEM privileges. "Improper link resolution before file access ('link following') in Microsoft Defender

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SecurityWeek

Socket Raises $60 Million at $1 Billion Valuation

The company will invest in its firewall, certified patches, protection extensions, new products, and team expansion. The post Socket Raises $60 Million at $1 Billion Valuation appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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The Hacker News

When Identity is the Attack Path

Consider a cached access key on a single Windows machine. It got there the way most cached credentials do - a user logged in, and the key stored itself automatically. Standard AWS behavior. No one misconfigured anything or violated a policy. Yet that single key, which was easily accessible to a minor-league attacker, could have opened a path to some 98% of entities in the company's cloud

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Google Cloud Blog

Securing Your Gemini and Google API Keys

Today, AI services rely heavily on API keys. To run AI agents, users provide API keys that signify paid tokens, subscriptions, or paid accounts. While API keys are easy to use, it is just as easy to use them unsafely. The result of a hijacked key is a compromised environment that is misused or abused by perpetrators. I decided to write this blog post after seeing a thread in the r/googlecloud subreddit asking for a tutorial so users can go and protect themselves. In this post, you will find a fe

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