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  • Azure SRE Agent VNet Integration Reaches General Availability with Private Network Controls

    Microsoft has officially announced the general availability of Virtual Network (VNet) integration for Azure SRE Agent. The capability allows operations and platform teams to deploy and operate Microsoft’s autonomous site reliability engineering agent entirely within their private virtual network topology. By routing the agent’s outbound management traffic through dedicated subnets, organizations can enforce corporate Network…

  • Snowflake Deprecates Service Account Passwords as Teams Face Credential Mapping

    Snowflake is systematically eliminating single-factor password authentication for legacy service accounts across its data platform. Under the enforcement timeline, automated service accounts designated with the legacy service user type will no longer be permitted to authenticate using static passwords. Instead, data engineering and platform teams must transition automated workloads to public-key cryptography, OAuth flows, or…

  • Avada WordPress Theme Zero-Click RCE Chains Six Flaws into Remote Takeover

    A zero-click remote code execution chain affecting the Avada WordPress theme and its companion Fusion Builder plugin allows unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code on vulnerable hosts. Tracked collectively as CVE-2026-18431, the vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 9.8. Because Avada stands as one of the most widely sold commercial WordPress themes in history…

  • Attackers Abuse npm Mirrors and unpkg CDNs to Host Fake CAPTCHA Phishing Pages

    Turning Public Package CDNs into Phishing Infrastructure A newly uncovered supply chain campaign has demonstrated how threat actors are repurposing npm package mirrors and public content delivery networks (CDNs) to host deceptive phishing pages. By publishing lightweight packages containing malicious HTML files to the npm registry, attackers exploit open CDN services like unpkg to serve…

  • AnonyMousKIT Phishing Platform Uses Conversational Voice AI to Unlock Stolen iPhones

    Automating the Social Engineering of Device Unlocks Security researchers at SOCRadar have uncovered a sophisticated phishing-as-a-service platform dubbed AnonyMousKIT. Designed specifically to bypass Apple Activation Lock on stolen iOS devices, the kit integrates conversational voice AI agents alongside automated multi-channel messaging to deceive device owners into surrendering their screen passcodes. When an iPhone or iPad…

  • Azure Launches 248 and 372 vCPU Sizes for D and E v7 Virtual Machines

    Massive Compute Densities Reach General Availability Azure has officially made the largest tiers of its Dlsv7, Dsv7, and Esv7 virtual machine lines generally available, offering VM configurations scaling up to 248 and 372 vCPUs. Powered by Intel Xeon 6 6973PC processors (Granite Rapids architecture), these instances represent a significant leap in raw CPU core density…

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