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Cybersecurity news from CISA, NIST, the FBI, national CERTs and vendor security teams: exploited vulnerabilities, advisories, breaches, ransomware and enforcement.

Europol Takedown Exposes 179,745 Accounts Linked to CastleRAT. Source: Have I Been Pwned

Europol Takedown Exposes 179,745 Accounts Linked to CastleRAT

Europol and international law enforcement dismantled CastleRAT malware infrastructure, adding 179,745 compromised accounts to Have I Been Pwned.

AustraliaHave I Been Pwned
BlackNevas Ransomware Destroyed Virtualization Estate Without ESXi Flaws. Source: Kaspersky

BlackNevas Ransomware Destroyed Virtualization Estate Without ESXi Flaws

Kaspersky researchers found that BlackNevas ransomware destroyed an organization's virtualization estate over ten days using legitimate vCenter features.

RussiaKaspersky
6 privacy stories, week of November 13

The Privacy Week, November 13, 2026: How to Use Signal for Secure and Private Messaging

This week in privacy: 6 stories, led by How to Use Signal for Secure and Private Messaging.

TechUpscale
CVE-2026-123039, CVSS 7.8 High, US federal deadline November 16, 2026, CISA KEV

Check Point Multiple Products flaw CVE-2026-123039 is being actively exploited, CISA warns

CISA added the Check Point Multiple Products vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on November 13, 2026, with a federal remediation deadline of November 16, 2026.

United StatesCISA
Five States Join FTC Lawsuit Against Hims and Hers Over Privacy. Source: FTC

Five States Join FTC Lawsuit Against Hims and Hers Over Privacy

Arizona, Florida, Nebraska, Ohio, and Wisconsin joined an FTC lawsuit alleging telehealth provider Hims shared sensitive health data and deceived users.

United StatesFTC
17 critical CVEs, 75 advisories, NIST NVD, CERTs & vendors

Vulnerability Watch, November 13, 2026: 17 critical CVEs and 75 new vendor and CERT advisories

Every critical-severity CVE NIST published in the past day, plus the latest advisories from national CERTs and vendors.

United StatesNIST
How to Build End-to-End Evaluations for AI Agents. Source: Vercel

How to Build End-to-End Evaluations for AI Agents

Vercel explains how developers can build end-to-end evaluations to test whether AI agents complete software tasks correctly.

United StatesVercel
Cairn Autonomous AI Framework Used in 25 Operations Against 19 Organizations. Source: Unit 42

Cairn Autonomous AI Framework Used in 25 Operations Against 19 Organizations

Unit 42 reported that attackers used the autonomous AI penetration testing framework Cairn, powered by Chinese models, to target semiconductor, defense, and civil society sectors.

United StatesUnit 42
Citrus Ransomware Leans on LLMs to Write Its Attack Scripts

Citrus Ransomware Leans on LLMs to Write Its Attack Scripts

Kaspersky says the group tunnels traffic through VLESS disguised as HTTPS and encrypts victims with a Sn00py ransomware Trojan.

RussiaKaspersky
EFF and ACLU File Brief Seeking Warrant Requirement for ALPR Searches. Source: EFF

EFF and ACLU File Brief Seeking Warrant Requirement for ALPR Searches

EFF and the ACLU filed an amicus brief arguing that police tracking suspects via automated license plate readers requires a warrant.

United StatesEFF