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A security weakness where systems keep factory-set or example passwords instead of unique ones, letting attackers log in without guessing or cracking.
Gunra actors entered a victim's network through an SSL VPN admin account still on default credentials, according to a 10 August 2026 advisory. The path used no software flaw, so it tests credential changes, lockout and account reviews on edge devices.
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South Korea plans to discipline public-agency heads for basic cyber lapses after 247 public-sector breaches since 2021 led to no head being disciplined. The penalties are headed into the rules now, while the staff incentives and the security budget are still being worked out.
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Wiz found 294 of 3,074 internet-facing LiteLLM gateways answering admin requests in February, and two thirds of those had no key set at all rather than the documented sk-1234. That changes what needs fixing.
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In a deliberately vulnerable training app, a debug statement writes every login password to a cleartext log file, and a monitoring console left on root and admin lets anyone read that file through a browser.
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A developer rented boxes in Frankfurt, New York and Singapore, told nobody the addresses, and counted the knocks. One host on Korea Telecom's network sent nearly half the packets, so the background rate only appears once you subtract it.
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