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The Hacker News

WordPress RCE Flaw Draws Nearly 63,000 Attack Attempts in Just 24 Hours

Threat actors have been observed attempting to exploit a high-severity security flaw in WordPress Core shortly after patches were released. The vulnerability, which does not have a CVE identifier, relates to a case of remote code execution impacting WordPress Core versions 4.7 through 7.1.3. It carries a CVSS score of 8.1 on the CVSS scoring system. Patches for the flaw were released on October

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BleepingComputer

SS7 and Diameter Attacks: How Signaling Flaws Expose Your Phone

Flaws in SS7 and Diameter signaling protocols can allow attackers to track phone locations, intercept calls and SMS verification codes, and impersonate subscribers without compromising their devices. Cape explains how these attacks exploit trust between networks and how its security-focused mobile service helps defend against them. [...]

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Google Cloud Blog

ARTEX and Friends: Enter Agentic Offensive Frameworks

Written by: Aurora Blum, David Mainor, Rohit Nambiar, Omar ElAhdan, Matthew McWhirt, Will Silverstone, Bhavesh Dhake, Chris Busse Introduction  Recent intrusions in which threat actors have been observed weaponizing agentic frameworks to execute highly-automated intrusions has put a spotlight on evolving adversarial use of LLMs. In our September 2026 report, Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) noted that forward leaning adversaries were beginning to transition from basic prompting to agentic

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DZone

Should Developers Switch From SQLite to DuckDB?

If you are a data scientist, data analyst, or anyone who works with big data, you have likely used SQLite, or even use it daily. Introduced in 2000, SQLite quickly became a popular choice for database-related tasks. Whether you used it in an introductory database module, built a local data pipeline, or managed local metadata in production, SQLite has long been the gold standard for a zero-configuration database, with more than 25 years of widespread use.

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SecurityWeek

Passkeys Are Better Than Passwords. But They Are Not Enough.

As organizations eliminate passwords, attackers will adapt. Instead of attacking the authenticator directly, they will look for opportunities around it. The post Passkeys Are Better Than Passwords. But They Are Not Enough. appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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