CyberSecure Specialist

SecurityWeek’s weekly cybersecurity news roundup offers a concise overview of important developments that may not receive full standalone coverage but remain relevant to the broader threat landscape. This curated summary highlights key stories across vulnerability disclosures, emerging attack methods, policy updates, industry reports, and other noteworthy events to help readers maintain a well-rounded awareness of the evolving cybersecurity environment. Here are this week’s highlights: US government targets 72-hour patch cycles US cybersecurity officials are proposing…

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Poland’s Internal Security Agency (ABW) has documented a significant escalation in cyberattacks targeting industrial control systems (ICS) and other operational technology (OT) infrastructure during 2024 and 2025, with state-sponsored threat actors increasingly shifting focus toward the physical disruption of critical services. A Polish official revealed in August 2025 that a cyberattack could have caused a city to lose its water supply, but the attack was thwarted. No technical information was shared at the time.  The…

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Autonomous offensive security firm XBOW on Wednesday announced raising $35 million in an extension of the Series C funding round announced earlier this year. The initial Series C, in which it raised $120 million, increased the company’s valuation to more than $1 billion. The latest investment brings the total raised by XBOW to more than $270 million. The new funding came from Accenture Ventures, DNX Ventures, Liberty Global Tech Ventures, NVentures, Samsung Ventures, and SentinelOne…

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Palo Alto Networks is working on patches for a critical PAN-OS zero-day that has been exploited to hack some of the company’s firewall models. Tracked as CVE-2026-0300, the vulnerability has been described as a buffer overflow affecting the User-ID Authentication Portal (Captive Portal) service of PAN-OS software.  The zero-day affects PA and VM series firewalls, allowing an unauthenticated attacker to execute malicious code with root privileges via specially crafted packets.  “Limited exploitation has been observed…

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Cisco on Monday announced its intent to acquire Astrix Security, a startup focused on securing non-human identities (NHIs) such as API keys, service accounts, and OAuth tokens increasingly used by applications and AI agents. In a blog post, Cisco said the acquisition is aimed at extending zero trust principles to the emerging “agentic workforce,” where AI agents and machine identities are rapidly expanding the enterprise attack surface. Astrix’s technology is designed to help organizations discover, govern, and…

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