Weekly cybersecurity recap covering emerging threats, fast-moving attacks, critical flaws, and key security developments you need to track this week.

Palo Alto patched CVE-2026-0227, a DoS flaw in GlobalProtect Gateway and Portal Vulnerability could force firewalls into maintenance mode; severity rated 7.7/10 Cloud NGFW unaffected; patches required ...

An emerging phishing campaign is exploiting a dangerous combination of legitimate Cloudflare services and open source Python tools to deliver the commodity AsyncRAT. The attack demonstrates threat ...

Samsung has begun rolling out the January 2026 security update to the Galaxy S22 and S23 series in Korea, with a global release to follow soon. The nearly 400MB update contains 55 security fixes but ...

Palo Alto Networks released patches for a critical vulnerability in its firewall platform. The flaw in question allowed for attackers to trigger a denial of service (DOS) based exploit. Marked by Palo ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. GitLab patched CVE-2026-0723, a flaw allowing 2FA bypass and account takeover Additional DoS ...

STRONG PASSWORDS. SO WE’VE TALKED ABOUT THIS BEFORE, BUT IT’S WORTH REPEATING. STRONG PASSWORDS ARE ABSOLUTELY THE KEY TO PERSONAL ONLINE SECURITY. I’VE TALKED TO MANY HACKING VICTIMS OVER THE YEARS, ...

Oracle has handed security teams their first big patching workload of the year, with its latest quarterly update containing a hefty 337 security fixes across its product range, including 27 rated ...

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