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Chainalysis Says an AI-Driven Attacker Got Into Its Internal Tools: What Was Taken, What Was Not, and What Is Still Unclear

L7 News November 1, 2026

Chainalysis builds blockchain analytics tools that police, government agencies, crypto exchanges and banks use to follow money through cryptocurrency transactions....

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Northflank Tells Every Customer to Rotate Secrets After a Breach, and Stolen AI Keys Are Already Being Used

L7 News November 1, 2026

If anyone building software for your business uses Northflank, today is a good day to change passwords and keys. The...

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A Password Reset Will Not Undo This: How Two Intrusions Turned a Fake Support Call Into Certificates for Privileged Accounts

L7 News October 31, 2026

Here Is How Layered Defenses Close the Certificate GapMost businesses that run Windows networks have heard about fake help desk...

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A Cleared Defense Contractor Lent His Identity to North Korea’s Remote Job Scheme. A Video Call That Did Not Match Helped Expose It

L7 News October 31, 2026

John Allen Kurrle Jr. had what remote job fraudsters want most: a real American identity and an active Top Secret...

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A 9.8 Linux Kernel Bug Can Hand Over Root Remotely on Some Servers: Your Questions on CVE-2026-98432, Answered

L7 News October 31, 2026

A newly disclosed Linux kernel vulnerability has drawn two very different severity ratings, and the gap between them is the...

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All Three Links Now Patched: How the Ivanti Connect Secure Attack Chain Went From Zero-Day to Full Fix, and What the Attackers Were After

L7 News October 31, 2026

Earlier this month, Ivanti Connect Secure customers learned that attackers had a way into their VPN gateways that needed no...

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Attackers Are Trying to Catch WordPress Sites Mid-Update: The Race-Condition Flaw Fixed in 7.1.4, and a Checklist for Site Owners

L7 News October 31, 2026

Most security bugs live in code that runs all the time. This one lives in a moment: the few seconds...

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A Name, an Email Address and a Convincing Voice: How Fake IT Help Desk Callers Talked Their Way Into Remote Sessions, and One Into Ransomware

L7 News October 30, 2026

Here Is How Layered Defenses Help When the Caller Says They Are From ITThe caller does not need to know...

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Applied for College Aid in Florida? A Breach of the State’s Student Aid Website May Have Exposed Social Security Numbers for 4.9 Million People

L7 News October 30, 2026

The Florida Department of Education announced on Thursday that its student financial aid website was breached and that personal information...

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Chainalysis Says an AI-Driven Attacker Got Into Its Internal Tools: What Was Taken, What Was Not, and What Is Still Unclear

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Northflank Tells Every Customer to Rotate Secrets After a Breach, and Stolen AI Keys Are Already Being Used

A Password Reset Will Not Undo This: How Two Intrusions Turned a Fake Support Call Into Certificates for Privileged Accounts

A Cleared Defense Contractor Lent His Identity to North Korea’s Remote Job Scheme. A Video Call That Did Not Match Helped Expose It

A 9.8 Linux Kernel Bug Can Hand Over Root Remotely on Some Servers: Your Questions on CVE-2026-98432, Answered

All Three Links Now Patched: How the Ivanti Connect Secure Attack Chain Went From Zero-Day to Full Fix, and What the Attackers Were After

Attackers Are Trying to Catch WordPress Sites Mid-Update: The Race-Condition Flaw Fixed in 7.1.4, and a Checklist for Site Owners

A Name, an Email Address and a Convincing Voice: How Fake IT Help Desk Callers Talked Their Way Into Remote Sessions, and One Into Ransomware

Applied for College Aid in Florida? A Breach of the State’s Student Aid Website May Have Exposed Social Security Numbers for 4.9 Million People

Microsoft Quietly Closed a Windows 11 Path From Standard User to SYSTEM, With No CVE to Track

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One Supplier, Many Airlines: The Amadeus Booking Breach Keeps Growing

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