Parallel Web Systems raised $100 million in Series B funding to continue building web search for AI agents.
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Kuse Web App Abused to Host Phishing Document
Bad actors took advantage of the legitimate name and services of Kuse, a popular AI-based app designed for workplaces. The attackers exploited the users’ trust in Kuse to carry out a phishing attack.
Global Security News
‘Mini Shai-Hulud’ supply chain attack targets SAP npm packages
Categories: Threat Research Tags: advisory, NPM, SAP
AI, Global Security News
FIDO Alliance wants to keep AI agents from going rogue on online payments
AI agents are beginning to shop, log in, and complete tasks with little direct input. That shift is pushing the security industry to rethink how trust works when actions are carried out on a user’s behalf. The FIDO Alliance has announced a set of initiatives to build shared standards for these interactions, covering how AI…
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7 Best Network Security Tools to Use in 2026
This guide is for IT professionals, security teams, and business leaders looking to strengthen network defenses in 2026. It covers the best network security tools to protect data and help reduce overall organizational risk. Network security tools incorporate hardware and software technologies, methods, and policies to preserve network integrity and prevent potential breaches. These tools…
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Spy agency officials say job loss anxiety, moving fast ‘safely’ among top challenges in AI workforce overhaul
Like many organizations, the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency is moving to integrate AI tools into their business operations. Jay Harless, director of human development at NGA, said the agency is trying to strike a balance: move fast enough to keep pace in what U.S. national security officials increasingly view as an AI arms race with…
AI, Global Security News, malware
BlueNoroff Uses Fake Zoom Calls to Turn Victims Into Attack Lures
The North Korean group is using stolen victim videos, AI-generated avatars, and fake Zoom calls to scale malware attacks against cryptocurrency executives.
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New DHL Phishing Scam Uses 11-Step Attack Chain to Steal Passwords
Forcepoint’s X-Labs reports an 11-step DHL phishing scam that uses fake OTP codes and EmailJS to harvest user credentials and device telemetry.
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Broken VECT 2.0 ransomware acts as a data wiper for large files
Researchers are warning that the VECT 2.0 ransomware has a problem in the way it handles encryption nonces that leads to permanently destroying larger files rather than encrypt them. […]
AI, Compliance, Cybersecurity, Global Security News, Government & Policy, Network Security, privacy
Best AI Deepfake and Scam Detection Tools for Security in 2026
This guide is for security professionals, IT teams, and anyone concerned about AI-driven fraud who wants to detect deepfakes and scams in 2026. It covers some of the best tools available to identify fake videos, audio, and synthetic content. You can fake a video. You can clone a voice. You can even generate a “live”…
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6 Best Intrusion Detection & Prevention Systems in 2026
This guide is for IT leaders, security teams, and network administrators looking to strengthen threat detection and response in 2026. It covers the top intrusion detection and prevention systems (IDPS) and key features to consider when choosing the right solution. Network security is not just about keeping the bad guys out. It’s about having a…
Exploits, Global Security News
Hackers are exploiting a critical LiteLLM pre-auth SQLi flaw
Hackers are targeting sensitive information stored in the LiteLLM open-source large-language model (LLM) gateway by exploiting a critical vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-42208. […]
Global Security News
AI Worries Have Returned to Wall Street. Now Come Earnings.
A slide in artificial-intelligence stocks comes ahead of earnings from key tech giants.
Global Security News
Pernod Ricard and Brown-Forman End Deal Talks
The French spirits company and the Jack Daniel’s maker announced in March that they were discussing a potential combination
Global Security News
Decoding Q1 2026’s $152.9 Billion Crypto Custody Concentration
Crypto Custody Concentration hits $152.9B as institutions shift to derivatives, consolidating capital on top exchanges amid Q1 market slowdown.
AI, Exploits, Global Security News, Risk Management
CVE-2026-3854 GitHub flaw enables remote code execution
Critical GitHub flaw CVE-2026-3854 lets attackers run code with a single git push, exploiting a command injection bug. Researchers found a critical vulnerability in GitHub, tracked as CVE-2026-3854, that allows remote code execution through a simple git push. The vulnerability affects GitHub Enterprise Cloud, GitHub Enterprise Cloud with Data Residency, GitHub Enterprise Cloud with Enterprise…
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NSA Chief During Snowden Affair Shares Regrets, Reflections 13 Years Later
Chris Inglis was the head civilian in charge at the NSA when the Snowden leak exploded. He gets candid about mistakes the organization made, and what CISOs need to know about spotting potential threats, media disclosures, and “enculturation.”
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Federal CIO cautious on Anthropic’s Mythos despite planned rollout
Federal Chief Information Officer Greg Barbaccia said Tuesday the government is approaching Anthropic’s Mythos model with measured expectations, acknowledging both its potential to strengthen federal cyber defenses and the significant uncertainties that remain about how it would perform in real-world conditions. Barbaccia said his direct exposure to Mythos has been limited to evaluations and benchmarking…
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Feuding Ransomware Groups Leak Each Other’s Data
When 0APT and KryBit attacked each other, they exposed infrastructure and operational data, giving defenders rare insight into ransomware operations.
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Struggling to Manage Multiple Screens – Here’s a Smarter Approach
Managing multiple screens across locations shouldn’t drain your team’s time and patience. Discover practical strategies to simplify multi-display management today. You walk into your office on Monday morning, coffee in hand, and three different people hit you with bad news. The lobby screen is frozen. The break room display is showing last month’s menu. The…
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Vidar Rises to Top of Chaotic Infostealer Market
The malware has filled the gap created by last year’s law enforcement takedowns of Lumma and Rhadamanthys.
Data Breaches, Global Security News
Video service Vimeo confirms Anodot breach exposed user data
Vimeo has disclosed that data belonging to some of its customers and users has been accessed without authorization following the recent breach at the Anodot data anomaly detection company. […]
AI, Apps, Cloud Security, Exploits, Global Security News, Risk Management
What the March 2026 Threat Technique Catalog update means for your AWS environment
The AWS Customer Incident Response Team (AWS CIRT) regularly encounters patterns that repeat across their engagements when helping customers respond to security incidents. We’re passionate about making sure that information is widely accessible so that everyone can improve their security posture and their organization’s resilience to disruption. The primary method we use to share this…
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Can Apple’s new CEO turn things around?
When Apple rolled out hardware chief John Ternus as the CEO to replace Tim Cook, the reaction was kind but muted. That’s because Ternus has said nothing yet to indicate he has a specific plan to position Apple for the future. (To be fair, he’s said next to nothing about anything — no easily found…
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Enterprises need to think beyond GPUs for agentic AI, analysts say
The ongoing shift from generative AI (genAI) to agentic AI provides an opportunity for enterprises to move to more nimble and less expensive forms of computing, according to analysts. Early AI models were largely built on expensive GPUs from Nvidia and AMD that offered raw processing power. But newer agentic AI tools, rooted in business…
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Researchers Discover Critical GitHub CVE-2026-3854 RCE Flaw Exploitable via Single Git Push
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a critical security vulnerability impacting GitHub.com and GitHub Enterprise Server that could allow an authenticated user to obtain remote code execution with a single “git push” command. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-3854 (CVSS score: 8.7), is a case of command injection that could allow an attacker with push access…
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ClickUp Data Leak Exposes Enterprise Emails for Over a Year
A hardcoded API key embedded in ClickUp’s public website has quietly exposed hundreds of corporate and government email addresses for more than a year. The flaw, first reported in early 2025, remained active as of April 2026 — allowing anyone to access sensitive data with a simple request and no authentication. “I went to http://clickup[.]com,…
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Infra + security: why more & more CISOs are starting to own infrastructure
Over the past year, I have started to see a growing trend that in more and more organizations, CISOs are taking ownership of infrastructure teams. Where CISOs aren’t directly taking over infrastructure teams, they are exerting more direct control over how infrastructure is designed and operated. Like many structural shifts in cybersecurity, this is developing…
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Modulus Labs Improves Global Payment Infrastructure Uptime with Datadog’s Centralized Monitoring and Security
Modulus Labs, Asia’s most versatile payment infrastructure for high-volume merchants and PayFacs, strengthens compliance, security, and uptime with centralized observability across PCI DSS–compliant cloud infrastructure
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Brazilian LofyGang Resurfaces After Three Years With Minecraft LofyStealer Campaign
A cybercrime group of Brazilian origin has resurfaced after more than three years to orchestrate a campaign that targets Minecraft players with a new stealer called LofyStealer (aka GrabBot). “The malware disguises itself as a Minecraft hack called ‘Slinky,’” Brazil-based cybersecurity company ZenoX said in a technical report. “It uses the official game icon to…
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Fleet hopes to be the MDM provider for the AI Era
Fleet, the independent, open-source, multi-platform MDM service, recently announced its new partner program for VARs and MSPs serving enterprise customers and recruited MobileIron co-founder Suresh Batchu to serve on the company’s board. With those moves in mind, I caught up with company CEO Mike McNeil to find out more about the Fleet’s plans. Given the company’s…
Europe, Global Security News, Network Security
Police arrest 10 suspected members of Black Axe cybercrime gang
A coordinated police operation in Switzerland has targeted suspected members of the Black Axe criminal network. On 28 April 2026, authorities carried out house searches across several Swiss cantons, leading to 10 arrests, including the Black Axe ‘Regional Head’ for Southern Europe. Most of those arrested are reported to be of Nigerian origin. The suspects…
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Pack2TheRoot: 12-Year-Old Linux PackageKit Flaw Enables Full Compromise
Security experts have found a high-severity flaw named Pack2TheRoot in PackageKit that allows hackers to gain full root access on multiple Linux distributions.
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Trial Begins Between Elon Musk and Sam Altman for the Future of OpenAI
Opening statements have begun in a trial offering differing views of Musk’s early financial support of OpenAInand its conversion to a for-profit company.
Cybersecurity, Global Security News
Is Your MacBook’s Fan Loud? Here are Some Fixes!
Is your MacBook’s fan loud? In this post, I will show you some fixes. When you use your MacBook, there are times when you hear the fan being too loud and out of control. If that’s the case, then you need to figure out ways to solve the issue fast. The good thing with this…
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Access control with IAM Identity Center session tags
As organizations expand their Amazon Web Services (AWS) footprint, managing secure, scalable, and cost-efficient access across multiple accounts becomes increasingly important. AWS IAM Identity Center offers a centralized, unified solution for managing workforce access to AWS accounts. It simplifies authentication, enhances security, and provides a seamless user sign-in experience to AWS services across diverse environments.…
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Microsoft and OpenAI’s Split May Help Both
Plus, China scuttles Meta’s acquisition and tech layoffs proliferate.
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Rep. Delia Ramirez takes over as top House cybersecurity Dem
Illinois Rep. Delia Ramirez is taking over as the top Democrat on the House Homeland Security panel’s cybersecurity subcommittee, replacing former Rep. Eric Swalwell after his resignation. Committee Democrats approved the change Tuesday at a meeting prior to a “shadow hearing” without the GOP majority, focused on protecting elections from Trump administration interference. Ramirez first…
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Google Clears Pentagon to Use AI Tools in Classified Settings
Tech giant added language to contract to say its AI wasn’t intended for domestic mass surveillance or fully autonomous weapons.
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US reportedly charges Scattered Spider hacker arrested in Finland
A 19-year-old dual United States and Estonian citizen arrested in Finland earlier this month faces federal charges in the U.S. alleging he was a prolific member of the notorious Scattered Spider hacking collective. […]
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ShinyHunters claims it stole 1.4 million records from Udemy
The ShinyHunters group claims it has breached the Udemy, one of the world’s largest online learning platforms. According to Have I Been Pwned, the leaked dataset contained 1.4 million unique email addresses of customers and instructors, along with names, physical addresses, phone numbers, employer information, and instructor payout methods, including PayPal, cheque, and bank transfer.…
Global Security News
Coffee with the Council Podcast: Stronger Together – The Value of Participating with PCI SSC
Hello everyone, and welcome to our podcast series, Coffee with the Council. I’m Mark Meissner, Senior Vice President for Education and Engagement at the PCI Security Standards Council. Today I’m joined by a panel of current Principal Participating Organizations, or PPOs. The Principal PO program is one of three levels of participation with the…
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Medtronic Confirms Data Breach After ShinyHunters Claims
Medtronic confirms IT breach as ShinyHunters claims millions of records accesseda
Global Security News
Sound and Style Combined: DJI Mic Mini 2 Delivers Upleveled Audio and All-In-One Storage
Going Beyond Sound, DJI’s Compact Wireless Microphone Features Colourful Front Covers To Match Any Style
AI, Global Security News
The best way for small business owners to produce marketing videos on a tight budget
GUEST OPINION: Running a small business means wearing every hat, including the one labelled “marketing director.” Video content drives engagement across nearly every platform, but hiring videographers, animators, and editors quickly drains operating budgets. Many entrepreneurs end up posting infrequently or skipping video entirely, missing massive opportunities for customer connection.
AI, Global Security News, malware
Fresh Wave of GlassWorm VS Code Extensions Slices Through Supply Chain
Attackers continue to scale a campaign to seed Open VSX with seemingly benign VS Code extensions that spread self-propagating malware.
AI, Global Security News, Risk Management
GIGABYTE Launches MO27Q28GR OLED Gaming Monitor in Australia, the Only Brand Offering Both Glossy and Matte 4th Gen WOLED Options
GIGABYTE, the world’s leading computer brand, announces today the MO27Q28GR, a 27-inch QHD gaming monitor featuring a glossy OLED panel, is now available in Australia. Building on the success of the MO27Q28G, this new variant expands the lineup to offer greater flexibility for gamers and creators. With both glossy and matte options available, GIGABYTE becomes…
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Checkmarx confirms LAPSUS$ hackers leaked its stolen GitHub data
Application security company Checkmarx has confirmed that the LAPSUS$ threat group leaked data stolen from its private GitHub repository. […]
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Fusion Signage achieves ISO 27001 certification and hits 20,000 user licence milestone
In what is turning out to be a month of major achievements Fusion Signage, often referred to as Australia’s user-friendliest digital signage software, has officially achieved ISO 27001 certification and hit their 20,000 user licence milestone all in the same week. Fusion Signage MD James Ingram ISO 27001 is the leading international standard for information security…
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UiPath advances AI-driven enterprise operations with Databricks and expands partnership with Deloitte
UiPath (NYSE: PATH), a leader in agentic business orchestration, has announced that it is a validated technology partner of Databricks, the Data and AI company. This partnership introduces tailored integrations designed to bring intelligence, automation, and AI together to power the next generation of intelligent business operations.
Global Security News
VECT 2.0 Ransomware Irreversibly Destroys Files Over 131KB on Windows, Linux, ESXi
Threat hunters are warning that the cybercriminal operation known as VECT 2.0 acts more like a wiper than a ransomware due to a critical flaw in its encryption implementation across Windows, Linux, and ESXi variants that renders recovery impossible even for the threat actors. The fact that VECT’s locker permanently destroys large files rather than…
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Guardz Warns MSPs of Cloud Ransomware and BEC Risks
Today, cybersecurity firm Guardz released its 2026 State of MSP Threat Report, a deep dive into how Artificial Intelligence and identity-first attacks have completely flipped the script for MSPs and the small businesses they protect. The report reveals that AI has officially killed the obvious phishing email. Gone are the days of spotting a scam…
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LogicMonitor defines the autonomous IT era with AI that sees, reasons, and acts
COMPANY NEWS: Unified platform delivers complete visibility, contextual AI, and governed action across the digital environment.
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Signal Phishing Campaign Targets German Officials in Suspected Russian Operation
Suspected Russian phishing via Signal targeted German officials, exploiting trust to access accounts and sensitive political communications. A new wave of cyber operations targeting European political leadership is once again highlighting how modern espionage increasingly relies on deception rather than technical exploits. Recent investigations by German authorities point to a large-scale phishing campaign conducted via…
Global Security News
Lotto New Zealand successfully rolls out a ‘once-in-a-generation’ gaming system replacement
Lotto New Zealand, provider of safe gaming such as Lotto, Powerball and Instant Kiwi, has successfully rolled out a major ‘once-in-a-generation’ replacement of its gaming systems with a new core platform from Scientific Games.
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7 Candy AI Alternatives Compared: Better Chatbot Companions and Pricing
Candy AI rocketed to roughly 35 million monthly visits in 2025, proving there’s real appetite for an anything-goes AI girlfriend experience. Yet many users feel the sugar-high crash: conversations flatten after a dozen lines, memory resets around the 15-message mark, and add-on charges for photos or voice push real costs far beyond the $13.99 base…
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Ping Identity Warns of Emerging Authorisation Risks as AI Agents Scale Across Enterprises
COMPANY NEWS: New KuppingerCole Analysts research, commissioned by Ping Identity, defines how enterprises can govern AI agents at runtime to close emerging authorization gaps
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Sevii unveils Cyber Swarm Defense Mode to stop AI-driven attacks at scale
Sevii has unveiled a new capability designed to stop high-volume, AI-powered cyberattacks at machine speed and scale, without the burden of unpredictable AI token costs. Sevii’s Cyber Swarm Defense Mode (CSD) addresses a critical gap created by AI, namely the inability to sustain cyber performance and cost efficiency during large-scale, AI-driven attack swarms. As technologies…
AI, china, Data Breaches, Global Security News, Network Security
Alleged Chinese hacker extradited to US over cyberattacks targeting COVID-19 research
Chinese national Xu Zewei was extradited from Italy to the United States to face charges tied to an alleged cyber espionage campaign that breached thousands of computers worldwide. Xu is charged alongside Zhang Yu, who remains at large. According to court documents, officers of China’s Ministry of State Security (MSS), including its Shanghai State Security…
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GitLab Deepens Integration with Anthropic’s Claude Models to Accelerate Secure Software Development
COMPANY NEWS: AI agents in GitLab Duo Agent Platform can now call Anthropic’s newest Claude models, with every action governed by GitLab’s existing compliance, audit, and policy framework; no separate governance layer required. Enterprises can access Claude models, including the newly released Claude Opus 4.7, through GitLab via Google Cloud and AWS Bedrock to route…
Global Security News
Stablecoins: Always-On Money Needs Always-On Controls
Stablecoins are becoming the money layer for the always-on economy.
AI, Global Security News
Intel and FPT Collaborate to Advance AI-Driven Autonomous Factories with Digital Manufacturing Platforms
The collaboration brings together Intel’s advanced factory simulation and AI optimisation technologies with FPT’s digital manufacturing platforms to improve throughput, reduce bottlenecks, and accelerate the transition toward autonomous factory operations.
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Cequence Agent Personas bring granular control and governance to enterprise AI agents
Cequence Security has announced the general availability of Agent Personas in Cequence AI Gateway. These capabilities give enterprises granular, infrastructure-level control over what AI agents can do, down to individual tool calls, closing a critical privilege gap that identity alone cannot address. As organizations deploy AI agents to connect to enterprise applications via the Model…
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Shadow AI is Creating New Security Blind Spots for Australian Organisations
GUEST OPINION: Employees are increasingly using artificial intelligence (AI) tools at work, often without formal approval or oversight. A Gartner survey of cybersecurity leaders revealed that 69% of organisations suspect or have evidence that employees are using prohibited public GenAI. This ‘shadow AI’ is emerging as a new source of risk for Australian organisations, as sensitive…
AI, Apps, Global Security News
HTTP Requests with X-Vercel-Set-Bypass-Cookie Header, (Tue, Apr 28th)
This weekend, we saw a few requests to our honeypot that included an “X-Vercel-Set-Bypass-Cookie” header. A sample request: GET / HTTP/1.1 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/124.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/avif,image/webp,*/ *;q=0.8 Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5 Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br Cache-Control: no-cache Pragma: no-cache Connection: keep-alive X-Vercel-Set-Bypass-Cookie: samesite-none-secure Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1 X-Forwarded-From: 21.235.92.139 X-Real-Iphone: 21.235.92.139 Referer: [redacted, same…
AI, Global Security News, Network Security
Manhattan Associates and Genuine Parts Company Go Live with Next-Generation Warehouse Management System in Brisbane
Manhattan Associates Inc. (NASDAQ: MANH) and Genuine Parts Company (GPC) have announced the successful go-live of Manhattan Active® Warehouse Management at GPC’s Brisbane distribution centre. The go-live represents the culmination of a large-scale program to modernise GPC’s DC operations, replacing different legacy systems and manual processes with a unified, cloud-native platform designed to improve visibility,…
AI, Global Security News, Risk Management
NowSecure MARI gives enterprises evidence-based visibility into third-party mobile app risk
NowSecure has announced Mobile App Risk Intelligence (MARI), new capabilities that give enterprises evidence-based visibility into third-party mobile apps, as hidden AI features, opaque code, and unseen data flows create a growing governance gap. Employees are adopting mobile apps faster than security teams can evaluate them, and many of those apps now include AI components,…
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Microsoft to deprecate legacy TLS in Exchange Online starting July
Microsoft says it will start blocking legacy TLS connections for POP and IMAP email clients in Exchange Online starting in July 2026. […]
Global Security News
Ransomware Turf War as 0APT and KryBit Groups Trade Blows
Ransomware groups 0APT and KryBit have doxxed each other online
AI, Exploits, Global Security News
Critical Cursor bug could turn routine Git into RCE
Security researchers have disclosed a high-severity vulnerability affecting the Cursor IDE, allowing arbitrary code execution on a developer’s machine through a seemingly routine repository interaction. According to findings by AI pentesting platform Novee Security, once a developer cloned and interacted with a malicious repository, the IDE’s AI agent could trigger embedded Git logic, resulting in…
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Inside an OPSEC Playbook: How Threat Actors Evade Detection
Threat actors are now publishing structured OPSEC playbooks to stay undetected. Flare reveals how these guides outline layered infrastructure, identity separation, and long-term evasion strategies. […]
Global Security News
Chinese National Extradited Over Silk Typhoon Cyber Campaign
Extradition links alleged MSS-directed hacker to Silk Typhoon and COVID-19 espionage
AI, Global Security News, Risk Management
The metrics killing your SOC, and what to use instead
Security operations centres risk being rendered entirely ineffective if organizations measure them using the wrong performance indicators, according to Dave Chismon, CTO for Architecture at UK’s National Cyber Security Centre. Ticket-based metrics miss the point Evaluating ones’ SOC using the same ticket-based metrics applied to IT service desks can actively work against its core purpose:…
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US state privacy fines reached $3.425 billion in 2025
State privacy regulators across the United States collected $3.425 billion in privacy-related fines from companies in 2025. Gartner said the upward trend is expected to accelerate through 2028. Annual cumulative fines stood at $1.827 billion in 2024, putting the 2025 result at nearly double the previous year’s level. Gartner derived the estimate by compiling and…
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Phishing-to-RMM Attacks: The Remote Access Blind Spot CISOs Can’t Ignore
CISOs are under pressure to prove that their security programs can detect threats early, reduce business risk, and support fast, confident response. But that becomes harder when attackers stop relying on obviously malicious tools. In recent phishing-to-RMM campaigns observed by ANY.RUN analysts, threat actors are using fake Microsoft, Adobe, and OneDrive pages to deliver legitimate…
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AI-Era Threats Spread Beyond Email Into SaaS, Collaboration Apps, and AI Assistants
Global Security News
From DMV to Wallet: Understanding Verifiable Digital Credential Issuance
In our last post in this series, we compared two credential formats that shape the digital identity ecosystem: ISO/IEC 18013-5 and -7 mobile documents (mdocs) and W3C Verifiable Credentials (VCs). Both formats define how a credential is structured and shared, but neither can function without an issuance process. This blog post explores what it takes…
AI, Global Security News, Network Security
AI-Ready, Simpler, and More Secure WAN: Cisco SD-WAN Innovations
Explore what’s new in Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN 26.1.1, simplifying SASE adoption, enabling AI-ready networking, and streamlining operations.
AI, Compliance, Global Security News
LogicMonitor Adds AI-Driven Remediation to IT Platform
LogicMonitor is moving past the era of simple alerts. The tech company announced a massive expansion to its unified platform today, aiming to solve the “noise” problem that has plagued IT departments for years. By combining visibility, AI reasoning, and automated action, the company is pitching a new operating model where the system doesn’t just…
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Why Secure Data Movement Is the Zero Trust Bottleneck Nobody Talks About
Every security program is betting on the same assumption: once a system is connected, the problem is solved. Open a ticket, stand up a gateway, push the data through. Done. That assumption is wrong. It is also a major reason Zero Trust programs stall. New research my team just published puts numbers on it. The…
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How Omnivore kept 985 Coles Liquor stores running through Christmas without a hitch
Coles Liquor needed to process hundreds of thousands of on-demand delivery orders across nearly a thousand stores over the busiest trading period of the year. The system connecting those stores to Uber Eats and DoorDash had to work perfectly, every time, in under 2 seconds. That’s the job Omnivore took on. And it pulled it off.
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The most dangerous AI problem isn’t risk, it’s resistance – so SAS VP Reggie Townsend wants to make governance irresistible
SAS VP of AI ethics, governance, and social impact Reggie Townsend took to the stage at SAS Innovate 2026 today, but he didn’t start by speaking about technology. He started with culture. He put to the audience why governance exists, despite that many today see it as friction. That’s a problem he determined himself to…
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New Linux FIRESTARTER Backdoor Targets Cisco Firepower Devices
CISA and NCSC warn that FIRESTARTER, a Linux-based backdoor, targets Cisco Firepower devices, evades patches, and enables persistent access even after firmware updates.
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Xiaomi releases MIT‑licensed MiMo models for long‑running AI agents
Xiaomi has released and open-sourced MiMo-V2.5 and MiMo-V2.5-Pro under the MIT License, giving developers another potentially lower-cost option for building AI agents that can run longer tasks such as coding and workflow automation. Both models support a 1-million-token context window, the company said. MiMo-V2.5-Pro is designed for complex agent and coding tasks, while MiMo-V2.5 is…
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Microsoft fixes Entra ID flaw enabling privilege escalation
Microsoft fixed a Microsoft Entra ID flaw where the Agent ID Administrator role could enable privilege escalation and account takeover. Microsoft addressed a flaw in Microsoft Entra ID that could let attackers take over service accounts. The issue involved the Agent ID Administrator role, which manages AI agent identities and access, and could be abused…
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Critical Unpatched Flaw Leaves Hugging Face LeRobot Open to Unauthenticated RCE
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a critical security flaw impacting LeRobot, Hugging Face’s open-source robotics platform with nearly 24,000 GitHub stars, that could be exploited to achieve remote code execution. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-25874 (CVSS score: 9.3), which has been described as a case of untrusted data deserialization stemming from the use…
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Canada’s first SMS blaster case leads to three arrests
Canadian law enforcement arrested three men who face 44 charges for operating an SMS blaster device that mimicked a legitimate cellular tower. The device was operated from vehicles, allowing it to move throughout the Greater Toronto Area and operate in multiple locations. When a phone connects to an SMS blaster, the user receives fraudulent text…
Global Security News, Risk Management
Why Unofficial Download Sources Are Still a Security Risk in 2026
Security Risk in 2026: why unofficial download sources still put users at risk, and how to verify safe, official install paths before installing software.
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6 Lessons Security Leaders Must Learn About AI and APIs
Most organizations treating AI security as a model problem are defending the wrong layer. Security teams filter prompts, patch jailbreaks, and tune model behavior, which is all necessary work, while the actual attack surface sits largely unexamined underneath. That surface is the API layer: the endpoints AI systems use to retrieve data, call tools, and…
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After Mythos: New Playbooks For a Zero-Window Era
When patching isn’t fast enough, NDR helps contain the next era of threats. If you’ve been tracking advancements in AI, you know the exploit window, the short buffer that organizations relied on to patch and protect after a vulnerability disclosure, is closing fast. Anthropic’s new model, Claude Mythos, and its Project Glasswing, showed that finding…
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The Role of Aggregated Liquidity in Modern Crypto Markets
Aggregated liquidity improves crypto trading by combining multiple sources, offering better rates, deeper markets, and more reliable execution across assets.
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Securing RAG pipelines in enterprise SaaS
In the enterprise SaaS space, AI agents are becoming an integral part of the SaaS product. To make these intelligent agents truly useful, they need contextual, customer-specific knowledge, something standard Large Language Models (LLMs), open source or otherwise, inherently lack since they are not trained on customer proprietary data. Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is the bridge…
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Microsoft: New Remote Desktop warnings may display incorrectly
Microsoft has confirmed a new issue causing newly introduced Windows security warnings to display incorrectly when opening Remote Desktop (.rdp) files. […]
AI, Global Security News
Chip Startup Aims to Shatter AI’s Dreaded Memory Wall
Huge AI models are overwhelming servers and leaving high-powered chips idle. Google and Meta veterans say they have the solution.
AI, Cybersecurity, Exploits, Global Security News
GUEST ESSAY: How augmented reality (AR) can turn building images into ad space with no control
Every major building in America has three things: a physical address, a legal owner, and an unmonitored attack surface. Related: Sam Altman’s quest to usurp the browswer That surface extends from the ground up through every floor, every facade, and into the airspace above — invisible, commercially exploited, and almost entirely ungoverned. It is the…
AI, Global Security News, Government & Policy, malware, Network Security
New Android spyware Morpheus linked to Italian surveillance firm
Osservatorio Nessuno uncovered Morpheus spyware spreading via fake Android apps to steal data, highlighting rising covert surveillance tools. The non-partisan, non-religious, nonprofit organization Osservatorio Nessuno exposed a new spyware called Morpheus, distributed through fake Android apps posing as updates. Once installed, it can steal extensive data from the infected devices. The report shows strong demand…
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Linux storage management tool Stratis 3.9.0 adds online encryption and cache-less pool startup
Stratis is a tool for configuring pools and filesystems with enhanced storage functionality within the existing Linux storage management stack. It focuses on a command-line interface, an API, and an automated approach to storage management. It builds on existing components, including device-mapper, LUKS, XFS, and Clevis. Stratis can configure encrypted or unencrypted storage pools with…
AI, Cybersecurity, Global Security News, Risk Management
What CISOs need to get right as identity enters the agentic era
Identity has always been central to security, but the proliferation of AI agents is rapidly changing the challenge of managing and securing identity, spurring CISOs to rethink their identity strategies — even how it is defined. “Identity is now both a control surface and an attack surface. We’ve had non-human identities as API keys, tokens,…
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Stopping AiTM attacks: The defenses that actually work after authentication succeeds
The security industry has spent years building better authentication. Longer passwords, second factors, hardware tokens. And attackers responded by moving past authentication entirely. Adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) phishing does not steal credentials and replay them. It sits between the user and the legitimate service, watches a real authentication succeed in real time, and walks away with the…
Data Breaches, Global Security News
French police arrest 21-year-old “HexDex” hacker over 100 alleged data breaches
A 21-year-old man suspected of conducting approximately 100 data breaches since late 2025 – including a hack of the French Ministry of National Education that exposed records on almost a quarter of a million employees – has been arrested at his home in western France. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security…