BeyondTrust patched two high-severity EPM flaws (CVE-2026-40144, CVE-2026-40145) allowing local privilege escalation on Windows. Update to 26.1.2.

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China-sponsored threat groups like Salt Typhoon and Flax Typhoon are increasingly relying on multiple massive botnets comprising edge and IoT devices to run their cyber espionage and network intrusion campaigns, CISA and other security agencies say. The use of such "covert networks" makes it more difficult to detect and mitigate their campaigns.

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While companies use "perp walks" for terminated employees, 48% of manufacturers fail to revoke digital access within 24 hours. Explore the growing risk of dormant accounts, the 74% automation gap in provisioning, and why experts like Darren Guccione and James Maude call overprivileged identities a "frictionless path" for modern cyberattacks.

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