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Vanderbilt Tells Its Campus to Shut Down Devices as the BYOD Gang Claims the Attack
Vanderbilt University told students and staff to shut down their devices immediately and leave campus Wi-Fi during an active cyber incident officials call likely ransomware. The BYOD gang…
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AI Inference Platforms Breached: NEAR AI Hit Through an SGLang RCE, Fireworks AI by an LLMjacking Crew
NEAR AI says an attacker exploited a remote code execution flaw in the SGLang inference engine, exposing user data, agent logs…
CopperDragon’s “Sparrow” Toolkit Ties Three China-Nexus Espionage Campaigns Together
Check Point Research links SilentDelivery, OceanGate and DarkWire through a shared framework called Sparrow, which it suggests a…
Fortinet’s Ten Critical Advisories: Upgrade FortiMail, FortiManager and FortiOS, or Migrate Where No Fix Exists
Fortinet published ten critical advisories on 10 November, including unauthenticated code execution in FortiMail and…
Chrome Zero-Day, Cisco BroadWorks and Openwave Join CISA KEV With a 24 November Deadline
CISA’s 10 November KEV batch adds Chrome’s eighth exploited zero-day of 2026 (CVE-2026-125350), a Cisco BroadWorks XXE that can…
Xen Orchestra Auth Bypass (VSA-2026-062) Is Exploited: An Empty-Object Cookie Hands Over XCP-ng Hosts
Vates warns that a critical Xen Orchestra flaw is being actively exploited: a crafted cookie parsed as an empty object passes…
November 2026 Patch Tuesday: An Exploited Outlook Hash Leak Leads About 1,094 Microsoft Fixes
Microsoft’s November release publishes about 1,094 new CVEs, but only one is exploited: CVE-2026-124194, a “Moderate” Outlook…
MAG212 CYBER Daily, 11 November 2026: Barracuda exploited, Outlook zero-day, Xen Orchestra takeover, Fortinet criticals
Attackers keep coming in through admin interfaces: an exploited Barracuda flaw chain that gives root on six appliance lines (KEV due 13 Nov), Microsoft’s exploited Outlook hash leak among about 1,094 CVEs, a Xen Orchestra bypass taking over XCP-ng hosts, a Chrome zero-day, ten critical Fortinet advisories, the…
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