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Attackers Are Now Hijacking Exposed Node-RED Automation Servers With a Single Web Request

Attackers Are Now Hijacking Exposed Node-RED Automation Servers With a Single Web Request

Synology Issues a Rare Ransomware Warning: Outdated NAS Boxes Are Being Encrypted by C3RB3R

Synology Issues a Rare Ransomware Warning: Outdated NAS Boxes Are Being Encrypted by C3RB3R

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

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

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

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

Run an Online Store on Drupal? Attackers Are Already Using a Commerce Core Flaw That Needs No Login. Five Steps for Today

Run an Online Store on Drupal? Attackers Are Already Using a Commerce Core Flaw That Needs No Login. Five Steps for Today

Gray-haired man in reading glasses and a burgundy cardigan reading a laptop in a home study lined with bookshelves — Headlines

Nearly a Year Later, Harvard’s Alumni and Donor Breach Finally Has a Number: 851,000 Email Addresses

L7 News November 3, 2026

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

L7 News November 2, 2026

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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

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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

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Twenty Minutes, Ten Blockchains, $6.3 Billion: Binance Says the Biggest Crypto Theft on Record May Have Started on One Engineer’s Laptop

L7 News October 30, 2026

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Layer 7 Picks

Only 1 in 200 Vulnerabilities Ever Gets Used in an Attack. Microsoft’s Data Shows Which Ones, and Why Servers Are the Weak Spot

L7 News November 3, 2026

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Layer 7 Picks

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

L7 News November 2, 2026

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The Malware Came From the Factory: How Google Tore Down a 1.3 Million-Device TV Box Botnet

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Meet VOLTA, the Infostealer That Hands Your Stolen Data to an AI and Asks What You’re Worth

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One Text Message Can Knock an Unpatched Android Phone Off the Network: Your Questions About the “SMS of Death” Answered

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One Click on a Shared ChatGPT Link Was Enough to Read Someone’s Private Chats. OpenAI Has Fixed It. Here Is How the Trick Worked

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Eleven Hours, Up to 5,000 Developers: A Tampered Claude Code Extension Quietly Opened an SSH Back Door. The Timeline and the Cleanup

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Can The Cloud Strengthen Business Continuity?

L7 News July 9, 2020

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Stolen Microsoft 365 Sessions Opened Mailboxes at 79 Organizations Without a Single Password. The Campaign by the Numbers

L7 News October 24, 2026

Here Is How Layered Defenses Help When Attackers Skip the Password and Steal the SessionMultifactor authentication stops most password attacks....

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Nevada Says a Vendor Breach Exposed Some Anonymous School Safety Tips. Your Questions About the Navigate360 Incident, Answered

L7 News October 24, 2026

Anonymous tip lines only work if people believe they are anonymous. That promise is now under strain in Nevada and...

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New BlackX Bootkit Slips Past Secure Boot on Fully Patched PCs Because a Manual Windows Fix Was Never Switched On

L7 News October 24, 2026

Installing a Windows update usually feels like the end of the job. A new piece of malware shows why, for...

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PwC Confirms Breach at the Vendor Hosting Its Employee Training Records After Extortion Group Claims 590GB

L7 News October 24, 2026

One of the world’s largest professional services firms has become the latest example of a familiar problem: the breach that...

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CISA Flags Active Attacks on Self-Hosted Nextcloud Servers Running Collabora’s Built-In Office App. Turning It Off Is Not Enough

L7 News October 24, 2026

Plenty of small firms run their own Nextcloud server so staff can share files and edit documents without paying for...

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Microsoft Is Retiring Its Own Text-Message and Phone-Call Sign-In Codes. Here Are Your Three Paths Before February 1

L7 News October 23, 2026

Here Is How Layered Defenses Help Your Team Move Past Text-Message Codes Without Locking Anyone OutFor years, the six-digit code...

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Two Marines Take the Pentagon to Court Over a Breach That Left 3 Million People’s Records Exposed for Nine Months

L7 News October 23, 2026

For about nine months, a flaw in a Defense Department file-sharing system left unencrypted personnel files open to people who...

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Node2Shell, Explained: Your Questions About the Node.js Compression Bug That Researchers Just Turned Into Code Execution

L7 News October 23, 2026

When Node.js shipped security updates on Wednesday, October 21, the most serious fix was for a bug in the code...

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Only 1 in 200 Vulnerabilities Ever Gets Used in an Attack. Microsoft’s Data Shows Which Ones, and Why Servers Are the Weak Spot

L7 News November 3, 2026

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No Cards, No ATMs: A Cyber Incident Sends Turning Stone’s Casinos and Stores in Central New York to Cash Only

L7 News November 3, 2026

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Your AI Coding Assistant May Be Installing Abandoned Software: The MCPhantom Findings at a Glance

L7 News November 3, 2026

Illustration of a television and a streaming box with a glowing orange chip inside, sending lines to many small devices, some connections broken, with a shield checkmark

The Malware Came From the Factory: How Google Tore Down a 1.3 Million-Device TV Box Botnet

L7 News November 3, 2026

Gray-haired man in reading glasses and a burgundy cardigan reading a laptop in a home study lined with bookshelves

Nearly a Year Later, Harvard’s Alumni and Donor Breach Finally Has a Number: 851,000 Email Addresses

L7 News November 3, 2026