Alex Scroxton
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Cyber authorities issue alerts over exploitation of Citrix vulns | Computer Weekly (opens the original)
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Two distinct remote zero-day vulnerabilities in Citrix NetScaler Application Delivery Controller (ADC) and Gateway are coming under rapid exploitation from threat actors, prompting fresh alerts from government cyber agencies in the UK, the Netherlands, and the US. The flaws in the frequently-targeted NetScaler product set, which run access, load balancing and authentication at the network edge, are among a tranche of fixes released by Citrix on Sunday 27 September, and should be patched immediat
Kiteworks lifts shutdown order after incident-free weekend | Computer Weekly (opens the original)
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Managed file transfer (MFT) services provider Kiteworks has rescinded a temporary shutdown recommendation asking its customers to turn off their appliances for six hours on the morning of Saturday 26 September, after no security incidents took place. In a statement published on Sunday 27 September, the company said its recommendation was lifted for all customers and it was now safe to bring their systems back online. The firm said that all “known” vulnerabilities were addressed in the current re
Oktane 2026: The industry is ready to talk about AI kill switches | Computer Weekly (opens the original)
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Amid a string of high-profile data breaches and cyber incidents linked to advanced, frontier artificial intelligence (AI) models, identity specialist Okta broke new ground at its Oktane 2026 conference in Las Vegas, becoming one of the first cyber companies to launch an explicitly defined AI kill switch as part of a series of enhancements to its Okta for AI Agents proposition. The idea of a kill switch for rogue AI models and agents is gaining traction – politicians in both the UK and the US see
US cyber agency endorses ‘decoy’ tactics | Computer Weekly (opens the original)
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The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (Cisa) – a roughly equivalent body to GCHQ’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) in the UK – has endorsed the use of so-called cyber decoys as a means to improve incident detection and response activities, and to harmlessly ‘detonate’ inbound threats. The agency said it had developed the new guidance to help defensive teams plan and implement strategies for dealing with adversaries using legitimate stolen credentials, native tools, and ot
Cisco users urged to patch email gateway flaw | Computer Weekly (opens the original)
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Cisco is urging defenders to get out in front of a highly-dangerous flaw in its Secure Email Gateway (SEG) appliance, CVE-2026-76461 that could enable an unauthenticated, remote attacker to gain the ability to execute arbitrary commands with root privileges. Listed on the US’ Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s (Cisa’s) Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (Kev) catalogue as of Monday 14 September, CVE-2026-76461 arises in SEG’s underlying AsyncOS software and occurs due to insufficien
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