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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: 10-year-old phpBB flaw enables session hijacking Researchers uncovered a critical authentication…

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Cisco on Thursday announced an agreement to acquire identity lifecycle security company WideField Security to strengthen the capabilities of Splunk’s Agentic SOC.  No financial details have been publicly disclosed. WideField raised more than $11 million in Series A funding last year.  WideField has developed technology that enables organizations to discover human and non-human identities, map exposures across accounts and roles, and assess hygiene gaps.  The company’s platform also enables users to detect misconfigurations in authentication…

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Live Webinar: June 17, 2026 at 1PM ET – Register to Attend Today’s attackers are no longer breaking in — they’re logging in. Threat actors are increasingly using sophisticated social engineering, MFA fatigue attacks, session hijacking, credential theft, and help desk impersonation to bypass traditional security controls and move undetected across enterprise environments. In this webinar, we’ll break down the modern identity attack chain and examine how recent breaches exploited weaknesses in authentication, identity verification,…

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Mackay Sugar, a major Australian sugar producer, has been targeted in a ransomware attack that forced it to shut down some of its mills. The hacker attack came to light on June 10, when Mackay Sugar announced it was responding to a cybersecurity incident affecting some of its operations. “Interim processes are in place to support critical business functions and minimise disruption where possible,” the company said at the time. Mackay Sugar operates three cane-processing…

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