Organizations that run DavMail to bridge standard mail clients to Microsoft Exchange or Office 365 received an update this week. Version 6.6.0 addresses a code-scanning alert tied to a regex vulnerability, adjusts OAuth redirect handling to match a recent Microsoft change, and ships fixes across IMAP, SMTP, CalDAV, and CardDAV subsystems. A regex replacement closes…
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Basic-Fit hack exposes data of up to 1 million members
Basic-Fit, a European gym chain, disclosed that hackers breached one of its internal systems, exposing members’ personal data in several countries. The company operates more than 2,150 clubs in 12 countries under two brands, with more than 5.8 million members. “The unauthorised access was detected by our system monitoring processes and was stopped within minutes…
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China-linked cloud credential heist runs on typos and SMTP
China-aligned hackers have deployed a Linux-based ELF backdoor to steal cloud credentials at scale from workloads across AWS, GCP, Azure, and Alibaba Cloud environments. According to Breakglass Intelligence findings, the backdoor uses a “zero-detection” technique, employing SMTP port 25 as a covert command-and-control (C2) channel to harvest cloud provider credentials and metadata. “A selective C2…
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DataVisor brings conversational AI agents to fraud and AML operations
DataVisor has announced Vera, a suite of conversational AI agents designed to combat financial crime. Vera enables institutions to manage risk using natural language, allowing teams to issue instructions that AI agents execute across the fraud and AML lifecycle. By reducing manual workflows, the platform supports a more efficient and adaptive operating model for modern…
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Booking.com data breach: Customer reservation data exposed
“Unauthorized third parties may have been able to access certain booking information associated with your reservation,” email alerts sent out by Booking.com over the weekend warn. The online travel agency did not say which system(s) were accessed by the unauthorized third parties nor explained the scope of the incident. They only said that they “recently…
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Binary Defense expands NightBeacon with threat-aligned Detection Coverage Index
Binary Defense has announced the launch of NightBeacon Detect, a new module within NightBeacon, the company’s AI-driven SOC platform. The first capability released is Detection Coverage Index, a confidence-based view of how well an organization is covered against specific threat actors, their tactics, techniques, and sub-techniques, and how that coverage changes over time. NightBeacon Detect…
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Booking.com Confirms Data Breach as Hackers Access Customer Details
Booking.com confirms a data breach exposing customer details to hackers. No payment data accessed, but users face risk of targeted phishing scams now!
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When Trust Becomes a Weapon: Google Cloud Storage Phishing Deploying Remcos RAT
Modern phishing campaigns increasingly abuse legitimate services. Cloud platforms, file-sharing tools, trusted domains, and widely used SaaS applications are now part of the attacker’s toolkit. Instead of breaking trust, attackers borrow it. This shift creates a dangerous asymmetry. Security controls often whitelist or inherently trust these services, while users are far less likely to question them. The…
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ShinyHunters claim the hack of Rockstar Games breach and started leaking data
Leak of 8.1GB data tied to Rockstar Games includes anti-cheat code, game data, analytics and more, reportedly exposed by ShinyHunters. An 8.1GB data leak reportedly linked to Rockstar Games has surfaced, with files shared by ShinyHunters after being obtained via Anodot. The dataset includes anti-cheat source code, player analytics, game assets, Zendesk support tickets and…
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GUEST ESSAY: Google’s 2029 deadline exposes readiness gap as move to quantum-safe crypto lags
For years, quantum risk was easy for most institutions to treat as premature: real in theory, urgent someday, but not yet an operational problem. That is no longer tenable. Related: AI spawns semantic attacks Two developments this month brought the shift into focus. Google Quantum AI published research suggesting the computing resources needed to break…
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Mirax Android RAT Turns Devices into SOCKS5 Proxies, Reaching 220,000 via Meta Ads
A nascent Android remote access trojan called Mirax has been observed actively targeting Spanish-speaking countries, with campaigns reaching more than 220,000 accounts on Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and Threads through advertisements on Meta. “Mirax integrates advanced Remote Access Trojan (RAT) capabilities, allowing threat actors to fully interact with compromised devices in real
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Analysis of 216M Security Findings Shows a 4x Increase In Critical Risk (2026 Report)
OX Security recently analyzed 216 million security findings across 250 organizations over a 90-day period. The primary takeaway: while raw alert volume grew by 52% year-over-year, prioritized critical risk grew by nearly 400%. The surge in AI-assisted development is creating a “velocity gap” where the density of high-impact vulnerabilities is scaling faster than
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Secretary Mullin must help finish the job: Urge the Senate to confirm Plankey
On March 23, the Senate confirmed Senator Markwayne Mullin as the next homeland security secretary, marking an important step in strengthening leadership during a critical moment for our nation’s security. But only half of the job is done. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the federal government’s main civilian cyber defense agency, still lacks…
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AI Security Institute Advocates Security Best Practices After Mythos Test
The AISI has issued its judgement on Anthropic’s Mythos Preview model
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AI adoption is outpacing the safeguards around it
AI is becoming part of professional and private life, reaching mainstream adoption faster than the personal computer or the internet. These systems are tested in reasoning, safety, and real-world tasks, but the reliability of those measurements remains uncertain. The 2026 AI Index from Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence outlines the broader environment around this…
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Attackers target unpatched ShowDoc servers via CVE-2025-0520
A critical RCE flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-0520, in ShowDoc is being actively exploited, putting unpatched servers at serious risk. A critical remote code execution flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-0520 (CVSS score of 9.4), affecting ShowDoc is under active exploitation in the wild. ShowDoc is an online tool that helps IT teams share documents and improve collaboration…
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Attackers target unpatched ShowDoc servers via CVE-2025-0520
A critical RCE flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-0520, in ShowDoc is being actively exploited, putting unpatched servers at serious risk. A critical remote code execution flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-0520 (CVSS score of 9.4), affecting ShowDoc is under active exploitation in the wild. ShowDoc is an online tool that helps IT teams share documents and improve collaboration…
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How AI is transforming threat detection
Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping how security teams detect and hunt cyber threats by helping analyze vast volumes of security data, uncovering subtle signs of malicious activity, and identifying potential attacks faster than traditional tools or human analysts alone. Analyst firm Gartner expects that by 2028, 50% of threat detection, investigation, and response (TDIR) platforms…
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The AI inflection point: What security leaders must do now
AI is no longer a speculative topic for security leaders. It has moved from experimentation to implementation, and increasingly, to measurable production impact. Over the past year, my conversations with CISOs have shifted. The question is no longer whether AI belongs in cybersecurity; it’s about deploying it responsibly, strategically and at scale. For security leaders,…
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108 Malicious Chrome Extensions Steal Google and Telegram Data, Affecting 20,000 Users
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new campaign in which a cluster of 108 Google Chrome extensions has been found to communicate with the same command-and-control (C2) infrastructure with the goal of collecting user data and enabling browser-level abuse by injecting ads and arbitrary JavaScript code into every web page visited. According to Socket, the extensions are…
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U.S. CISA adds Adobe, Fortinet, Microsoft Exchange Server, and Microsoft Windows flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Adobe, Fortinet, Microsoft Exchange Server, and Microsoft Windows flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added Apple, Laravel Livewire and Craft CMS flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. Below are the flaws added to the catalog: CVE-2026-34621 Adobe Acrobat…
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Fake Claude AI installer abuses DLL sideloading to deploy PlugX
Fake Claude website impersonates Anthropic and delivers PlugX RAT via ZIP download using DLL sideloading. A fake website impersonating Anthropic’s Claude service was found distributing the PlugX remote access trojan, according to Malwarebytes. The rogue site abuses the chatbot’s popularity to trick users into downloading a ZIP archive presented as a “pro version” installer. The…
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Cyber-Inspekteur: Hybride Attacken nehmen weiter zu
Deutschland ist im Visier staatlicher Hacker. Mdisk – shutterstock.com Hybride Attacken auf kritische Infrastruktur in Deutschland und Bundeswehr-Truppen im Ausland nehmen weiter zu. Spätestens seit 2022 sei ein spürbarer Zuwachs zu verzeichnen, sagte der Bundeswehr-Inspekteur Cyber- und Informationsraum, Vizeadmiral Thomas Daum, bei einem Pressetermin bei der Nato-Cyberabwehrübung «Locked Shields» im niederrheinischen Kalkar. Cyber-Angriffe gegen die Bundeswehr…
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Nvidia’s Stephen Jones on the toolkit powering GPUs: ‘A wild ride’
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang often shares the story of hand-delivering an AI supercomputer to OpenAI in 2016, back before it was the hotshot company it’s become in recent years. A key ingredient in the box was Nvidia’s CUDA toolkit, which helped turn OpenAI’s experiments into a foundation for modern AI applications. Huang credits the software…
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Weekly Update 499
I’m starting to become pretty fond of Bruce. Actually, I’ve had a bit of an epiphany: an AI assistant like Bruce isn’t just about auto-responding to tickets in an entirely autonomous manner; it’s also pretty awesome at responding with just a little bit of human assistance. Charlotte and I both replied to some tickets today…
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Agentic AI memory attacks spread across sessions and users, and most organizations aren’t ready
In this Help Net Security interview, Idan Habler, AI Security Researcher at Cisco, breaks down a threat most security teams haven’t named yet: agentic memory as an attack surface. Habler walks through MemoryTrap, a disclosed and remediated method to compromise Claude Code’s memory, showing how a single poisoned memory object can spread across sessions, users,…
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RapidScale Set to Announce New Partner Program
RapidScale, a managed cloud services organization, has announced its new partner program to change how it engages with the channel. The Ascend Partner Program is a tiered initiative that accelerates RapidScale’s new solutions-led go-to-market approach and partners’ role as strategic advisors. The program is designed to empower partners to capture a greater share of customer…
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UJET Launching New Channel-Led Global Sales Motion With Google Cloud
UJET, an innovator in AI-powered contact centers, has announced it will launch a new managed service offering and a strategic sales motion with Google Cloud. The Google Cloud CCaaS by UJET offering brings Google Cloud’s enterprise-grade agentic AI, CX, and contact center solutions to the small- to medium-sized business (SMB) and mid-market sectors through AVANT’s…
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Review: The Psychology of Information Security
Security controls fail when they are designed without regard for the people who must use them. That is the central argument of Leron Zinatullin’s second edition, and it is an argument he builds methodically across 17 chapters that draw from organizational psychology, change management, and usability research. About the author Leron Zinatullin is the CISO…
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29 million leaked secrets in 2025: Why AI agents credentials are out of control
AI agents need credentials to work. They authenticate with LLM platforms, connect to databases, call SaaS APIs, access cloud resources, and orchestrate across dozens of external services. Every integration point requires an identity. Most organizations are handling this badly, and the evidence is in the code. GitGuardian’s State of Secrets Sprawl Report found 28,649,024 new…
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Zero trust at year two: What nobody planned for
In this Help Net Security video, Jim Alkove, CEO of Oleria, walks through where zero trust programs typically stand one to two years in. Most organizations have made gains in endpoint security and network segmentation, but identity remains the stubborn problem. Identity sprawl, legacy system exceptions, and workforce friction each contribute to stalls that few…
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Cybersecurity jobs available right now: April 14, 2026
Cyber Security Engineer/Application Security Specialist Tecnots | India | On-site – View job details As a Cyber Security Engineer/Application Security Specialist, you will integrate security into the SDLC, perform application security reviews, and support secure APIs, authentication, and data protection. You will embed security into CI/CD pipelines using SAST and DAST, enforce secure coding practices,…
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AI Is Finding Bugs That Hackers Can Exploit. Get Ready for Bugmageddon.
The White House and industry leaders are racing to fix vulnerabilities, which AI models such as Anthropic’s Mythos can discover with frightening speed.
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Anthropic’s Mythos signals a structural cybersecurity shift
Over the past week, reaction to Anthropic’s Glasswing disclosure has split along familiar lines. At one end: alarm over an AI system capable of autonomously identifying and exploiting vulnerabilities. At the other: dismissive hot takes, arguing there is nothing new here. A more grounded view comes from a new briefing by the Cloud Security Alliance…
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This Booking.com Breach Could Expose Your Travel Plans
Booking.com has disclosed a security incident involving unauthorized access to customer reservation data, prompting the company to reset reservation PINs tied to affected bookings. The activity, described as “suspicious access” to a subset of reservation records, did not expose payment card data but surfaced a category of information that, from an operational security standpoint, is…
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European Gym giant Basic-Fit data breach affects 1 million members
Dutch fitness giant Basic-Fit announced that hackers breached its systems and gained access to information belonging to a million of its customers. […]
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Sam Altman Attack Suspect Had ‘Anti-AI’ Document with CEO Names, Authorities Say
A Texas man is accused of throwing an incendiary device at Altman’s home and targeting OpenAI’s San Francisco headquarters.
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Here’s how cyber heavyweights in the US and UK are dealing with Claude Mythos
A joint report from the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), the SANS Institute and the Open Worldwide Application Security Project (OWASP) concludes that in the near term, organizations are “likely to be overwhelmed” by threat actors using AI to find and exploit vulnerabilities faster than defenders can patch them. While those organizations can use AI tools…
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CSA: CISOs Should Prepare for Post-Mythos Exploit Storm
Security experts warn of an “AI vulnerability storm” triggered by the introduction of Anthropic’s Claude Mythos in a new paper from the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA).
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OpenAI’s Mac apps needs an update thanks to the Axios hack
OpenAI updated its security certificates and is requiring all macOS users to update to the latest versions after determining its products, along with many others, were impacted by a widespread supply-chain attack that briefly infected a popular open-source library in late March, the company said in a blog post Friday. The artificial intelligence vendor said…
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OpenAI Rotates macOS Certificates Following Axios Supply Chain Breach
OpenAI rotates macOS certificates after downloading a compromised Axios version, urging users to update apps before revoked certificates are blocked in May 2026.
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The French government eyes alternatives to Windows
The French government has decided to reduce its dependence on US technology companies in light of the growing divide between the US and the EU. The Direction interministérielle du numérique (DINUM), an agency responsible for digitalization issues, has announced that it will soon replace Windows with a Linux-based operating system. Previously, the French government had…
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Hackers access Booking.com user data, company secures systems
Hackers accessed some Booking.com user data, including names, emails, phone numbers, and booking details. The issue is now contained. Booking.com warned that hackers may have accessed customer data linked to travel reservations. Exposed details could include names, email addresses, phone numbers, and information shared with accommodations. Booking.com is one of the world’s leading online travel agencies…
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Your Employees Aren’t Ready For AI — And It’s A Problem
Forrester’s AIQ Reveals Severe Gaps In Employee Readiness For AI
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Project Glasswing Shows That AI Will Break The Vulnerability Management Playbook
Anthropic, along with 11 other companies, recently announced Project Glasswing — an initiative that aims to secure software in the wake of advances in AI capabilities, most notably Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview frontier model.
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OpenAI rotates macOS certs after Axios attack hit code-signing workflow
OpenAI is rotating potentially exposed macOS code-signing certificates after a GitHub Actions workflow executed a malicious Axios package during a recent supply chain attack. […]
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Amazon Leo introduces gigabit-speed antenna for commercial aviation
The Amazon Leo Aviation Antenna will deliver reliable internet connectivity to airline passengers and crew with up to 1 Gbps download and 400 Mbps upload speeds.
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Commvault Introduces Innovations to Advance Secure, Controlled Agentic Transformation in the Enterprise
Next-generation AI capabilities will leverage Commvault Cloud to safely activate AI and build agentic workflows with trusted data, governance, and recovery.
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Cisco Targets AI Trust with Galileo Deal
If the original Galileo spent his time figuring out how things move and fall, Cisco is now tackling a version of that problem in AI, trying to understand how these systems behave once set loose. The company announced plans to acquire Galileo Technologies, an AI observability startup focused on helping enterprises monitor and evaluate how…
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77% of global enterprises shift AI strategies from efficiency to growth
GUEST RESEARCH: Nearly half of business leaders expect more than 15% revenue uplift from AI within 10 years Agentic AI is emerging as a priority with 35% of organisations calling it a top focus
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Humanforce Launches Humanforce Connect, the First Operating System for Frontline and Flexible Work
Humanforce, a leading global provider of intelligent, AI-driven human capital management (HCM) solutions for frontline workforces, today announced the launch of Humanforce Connect, the first frontline and flexible workforce management operating system.
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Apple preps for the face race
As growth in the smartphone market slows, Apple, Meta, and others see a new product opportunity in smart glasses — and Apple is reportedly preparing to enter the face race. It’s important to set expectations for new products. The smart glasses Apple is working on now won’t be augmented reality glasses in the same sense as…
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Mailbox Rule Abuse Emerges as Stealthy Post-Compromise Threat
Attackers are abusing Microsoft 365 mailbox rules to hide activity, exfiltrate data and retain access after account compromise, researchers warn
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FBI and Indonesian Police Dismantle W3LL Phishing Network Behind $20M Fraud Attempts
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), in partnership with the Indonesian National Police, has dismantled the infrastructure associated with a global phishing operation that leveraged an off-the-shelf toolkit called W3LL to steal thousands of victims’ account credentials and attempt more than $20 million in fraud. In tandem, authorities detained the alleged developer, who has&
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Ping Identity Appoints Antony Collins as Regional Vice President, APJ Channels and Alliances
COMPANY ANNOUNCEMENT: Collins to accelerate partner-led growth across Asia Pacific and Japan as organisations secure identity in the AI era
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Celonis and Oracle expand collaboration to power Enterprise AI and accelerate IT modernisation
Celonis and Oracle have expanded their long-standing collaboration opening up additional features to joint customers.
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Nearmap Defines the Future of Property Intelligence to Help Organisations See Truth, Assess Risk, and Act with Certainty
Nearmap unifies capture, AI analytics, and materials intelligence – bringing the full property intelligence value chain into one proprietary platform
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Hackers hijacked CPUID downloads, served STX RAT to victims
If you tried to download software from CPUID’s website late last week, you might have downloaded malware instead. “Investigations are still ongoing, but it appears that a secondary feature (basically a side API) was compromised for approximately six hours between April 9 and April 10, causing the main website to randomly display malicious links (our…
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Scans for EncystPHP Webshell, (Mon, Apr 13th)
Last week, I wrote about attackers scanning for various webshells, hoping to find some that do not require authentication or others that use well-known credentials. But some attackers are paying attention and are deploying webshells with more difficult-to-guess credentials. Today, I noticed some scans for what appears to be the “EncystPHP” web shell. Fortinet wrote about…
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Solving Tech Debt Unlocks 3x Digital Revenue Boost for Australia’s AI Leaders, Finds New Research
Latest research reveals technical debt blocks AI success in Australia, but cohort of leaders is overcoming it to unlock AI and drive three times more digital revenue than peers
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Aura Business Debuts BYOD Security Solution for MSPs
AI-powered online safety platform Aura has introduced a new business security solution to help shrink the unmanaged device gap that exists in today’s security stacks. The new identity-centric bring your own device solution built for MSPs Aura Business for MSPs is a new identity-centric BYOD security solution designed to protect businesses and employees. It allows…
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$12 million frozen, 20,000 victims identified in crypto scam crackdown
More than $12 million has been frozen, and over 20,000 victims have been identified in an international law enforcement operation targeting cryptocurrency and investment scammers. Authorities also uncovered more than $45 million in suspected cryptocurrency fraud losses worldwide. One UK victim identified during the operation is thought to have lost more than £52,000 to the…
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Critical flaw in Marimo Python notebook exploited within 10 hours of disclosure
A critical pre-authentication remote code execution vulnerability in Marimo, an open-source Python notebook platform owned by AI cloud company CoreWeave, was exploited in the wild less than 10 hours after its public disclosure, according to the Sysdig Threat Research Team. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-39987 with a severity score of 9.3 out of 10, affects…
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Preparing for Post-Quantum Cryptography: The Secure Firewall Roadmap
Cisco Secure Firewall’s post-quantum cryptography roadmap: what’s available today, what’s coming, and how to start planning.
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Rockstar Games receives “pay or leak” warning after cyberattack
Rockstar Games, the developer behind titles such as Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption, has confirmed a cyberattack claimed by hacking group ShinyHunters, which says it accessed the company’s Snowflake environment and obtained data. The attackers exploited Anodot, a third-party SaaS platform used for cloud cost monitoring and analytics, as the entry point and…
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Seven IBM WebSphere Liberty flaws can be chained into full takeover
Security researchers are warning of a set of flaws affecting IBM WebSphere Liberty, a lightweight, modular Java application server, that can be chained into a full server compromise. The flaws, a total of seven, that led to the ultimate compromise of the server were initiated by a newly discovered pre-authentication issue in the platform’s SAML…
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iPhone forensics expose Signal messages after app removal in U.S. case
An FBI case in Texas shows Signal messages can still be recovered from iPhones even after app uninstall, via system artifacts, challenging privacy assumptions. The recent revelations about FBI forensic access to Signal messages on an iPhone have reignited a long-standing misunderstanding about mobile privacy: the belief that disappearing messages and encrypted apps guarantee that…
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How to build your own AI agents with Google Workspace Studio
The great hope for AI agents is that they will automate many of the repetitive tasks office workers perform, such as writing and emailing weekly project updates. These tools combine rules-based automation with generative AI models to perform a series of tasks that make up a workflow. In this vein, Google late last year announced…
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Meta Expected to Unseat Google as World’s Largest Digital-Ad Player
The owner of Instagram and Facebook has fueled growth with new advertising products and AI.
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Citizen Lab: Webloc tracked 500M devices for global law enforcement
Citizen Lab reported that law enforcement used the surveillance tool Webloc to track up to 500M devices via ad data globally. A report by Citizen Lab revealed that law enforcement agencies in the U.S., Hungary, and El Salvador used a surveillance tool called Webloc to track devices via advertising data, potentially affecting up to 500…
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Alleged German DDoS-for-Hire Kingpin Behind Fluxstress Caught in Thailand
Alleged German cybercrime figure behind Fluxstress and Neldowner arrested in Thailand after years running global DDoS-for-hire services across countries.
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Siemens expands Industrial Automation DataCenter with edge AI and cybersecurity
Siemens will present the next generation of its Industrial Automation DataCenter, a custom-configured data center for IT needs in production, expanding its turnkey solution into an AI-ready platform. Structure of the Siemens Industrial Automation DataCenter and its Remote Industrial Operations Services (Source: Siemens AG) In partnership with NVIDIA and in collaboration with Palo Alto Networks,…
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UK Cyber Security Council Launches Associate Cyber Security Professional Title
The UK Cyber Security Council has unveiled a new Associate Cyber Security Professional title aimed at supporting early‑career cybersecurity professionals
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North Korea’s APT37 Uses Facebook Social Engineering to Deliver RokRAT Malware
The North Korean hacking group tracked as APT37 (aka ScarCruft) has been attributed to a fresh multi-stage, social engineering campaign in which threat actors approached targets on Facebook and added them as friends on the social media platform, turning the trust-building exercise into a delivery channel for a remote access trojan called RokRAT. “The threat actor used…
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CISOs tackle the AI visibility gap
Dale Hoak found himself asking a question that has become familiar to CISOs through the decades: What am I missing? More specifically, Hoak, CISO at software firm RegScale, was wondering what he might be missing around his company’s AI deployments. “The business was moving so fast in using AI, so initially we had some visibility…
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Iran-linked group Handala claims to have breached three major UAE organizations
Iran-linked group Handala claims to have breached three major UAE organizations, Dubai Courts, Dubai Land Department, and Dubai Roads & Transport Authority The group Handala claimed a major cyberattack against the UAE, targeting Dubai Courts Department, Dubai Land Department, and Dubai Roads and Transport Authority. They alleged destroying 6 petabytes of data and stealing 149 TB…
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Adobe Summit 2026: How Adobe hopes to redesign marketing and creativity with AI
Adobe Summit serves as a platform for Adobe to introduce new services, capabilities, and enhancements to its portfolio of creative and marketing software and services. The 2026 edition kicks off live in Las Vegas on April 20, with a virtual event running alongside it. The company has long been a name to watch as a…
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CPUID watering hole attack spreads STX RAT malware
Threat actors compromised the CPUID website and spread STX RAT through fake CPU-Z and HWMonitor downloads. Attackers breached the website CPUID and replaced download links for CPU-Z and HWMonitor with malicious files for several hours. Users who downloaded them got infected with the STX RAT, giving attackers remote access to their systems. The short attack…
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TekStream CEO on Expanding Student-Staffed SOCs Nationwide
TekStream is expanding its student-staffed security operations center (SOC) program nationwide, positioning the model as a dual solution to cybersecurity talent shortages and rising demand for U.S.-based managed security services. We spoke with TekStream CEO Rob Jensen about how the provider continues to build on the program’s early success with LSU. Inside TekStream’s public-private SOC…
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AI Memory Shortage Disrupts MSP Pricing and Channel Deals
The global memory shortage is no longer just about finding chips; it’s about finding partners you can trust. What began as a straightforward supply-and-demand crunch has morphed into something messier for managed service providers and IT resellers. Vendors are rewriting the rules of engagement mid-game, eliminating long-standing partner protections and reserving the right to change…
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OpenAI Revokes macOS App Certificate After Malicious Axios Supply Chain Incident
OpenAI revealed a GitHub Actions workflow used to sign its macOS apps, which downloaded the malicious Axios library on March 31, but noted that no user data or internal system was compromised. “Out of an abundance of caution, we are taking steps to protect the process that certifies our macOS applications are legitimate OpenAI apps,” OpenAI said in a…
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ZeroID: Open-source identity platform for autonomous AI agents
ZeroID is an open-source identity platform that implements an identity and credentialing layer specifically for autonomous agents and multi-agent systems. The attribution problem The core issue ZeroID targets is attribution in agentic workflows. When an orchestrator agent spawns sub-agents to carry out parts of a task, each sub-agent may call APIs, write files, or execute…
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Why manual certificate management is running out of time
In this video, John Murray, Senior Vice President of Sales at GlobalSign, explains what’s changing in the certificate industry and what companies need to do about it. Certificate validity periods are shrinking, which means companies will need to rotate certificates far more often than before. Small and mid-sized businesses are the most exposed. Smaller teams,…
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Bringing governance and visibility to machine and AI identities
In this Help Net Security interview, Archit Lohokare, CEO of AppViewX, explains how the rise of AI marked a turning point where machine and AI agent identities began converging into a single problem. Drawing on his experience across IBM and CyberArk, he describes the shift from human-driven systems to autonomous machines. Lohokare also shares how…
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Marimo RCE Flaw Exploited Within Hours of Disclosure
A vulnerability in the open-source Marimo Python notebook platform is already being actively exploited, underscoring how quickly attackers can turn newly disclosed flaws into real-world attacks. Less than 10 hours after public disclosure, threat actors developed a working exploit and began targeting exposed systems. “Within 9 hours and 41 minutes of the vulnerability advisory’s publication,…
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AI Is Using So Much Energy That Computing Firepower Is Running Out
AI companies are rationing their offerings and products, rankling users—a warning sign for a boom that depends on rapid adoption.
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Identity Protection in the AI Era
Enterprises aiming to predict and mitigate human, machine, and AI‑agent risks at scale demand AI‑powered identity‑first security without compromise.
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The fully free Linux OS Trisquel gets a major update with version 12.0 Ecne
Trisquel GNU/Linux, a free operating system aimed at home users, small enterprises, and educational centers, released version 12.0. The release, codenamed Ecne, is declared production-ready and builds on the previous version, Aramo, with changes to packaging, the kernel, security, and available software. APT 3.0 and repository format changes Ecne ships with APT 3.0, which brings…
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Adobe fixes actively exploited Acrobat Reader flaw CVE-2026-34621
Adobe addressed a critical Acrobat Reader vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-34621, which is actively exploited to run malicious code. Adobe released emergency updates to address a critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-34621 (CVSS score of 8.6), in Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is being actively exploited. The flaw could allow attackers to execute malicious code on affected systems,…
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Australian Organisations Risk Overloading Frontline Operations as AI Meets Fragile Mobility Foundations, SOTI Research Warns
GUEST RESEARCH: As Australian organisations accelerate the adoption of AI-enabled and mobile-driven workflows, research from SOTI, suggests many frontline environments may not yet be resilient enough to support the next wave of automation without added operational risk. This comes as Australia’s labour productivity growth remains under sustained pressure, increasing reliance on technology to deliver efficiency gains…
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Responsible ESG AI enablement could become Australia’s next great export if we start now
GUEST OPINION: Logicalis Australia is calling for a shift in how Australia approaches artificial intelligence (AI), warning that the country risks missing a major global opportunity if it continues to focus primarily on policy and access to compute rather than infrastructure.
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Hitachi Vantara Named a Leader in 2026 GigaOm Radar for Object Storage for Strength in Storage Optimisation and Enterprise Scalability
COMPANY NEWS: Recognition highlights Virtual Storage Platform One Object’s role in helping organisations manage, protect and activate unstructured data for AI, analytics and modern applications
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OneQode, Hitachi Vantara & Cylix Form Strategic Alliance to Launch Sovereign AI Factory Initiative
Multimillion-dollar alliance to deploy sovereign-ready AI infrastructure across key global markets, with Australia, Japan, Malaysia and Singapore among the first
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Dynatrace to Acquire Bindplane to Establish Telemetry Pipelines for AI and Cloud‑Native Observability
COMPANY ANNOUNCEMENT: Combined platform will deliver an open-standards-based telemetry pipeline for logs, metrics, and traces, providing control from the edge through analytics
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What Your AI Knows About You
Plus, WSJ readers sound off on their EVs, what happened when a man fell in love with Gemini and AI companies that “come in peace.”
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ServiceNow moves beyond the sidecar AI era, giving customers a complete AI-native experience across all products and packages
New Context Engine provides the enterprise context to ground every decision made by AI agents.
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Agentic AI Goes Mainstream in the Enterprise, but 94% Raise Concern About Sprawl, OutSystems Research Finds
GUEST RESEARCH: New State of AI Development 2026 report shows how enterprises are exploring agentic AI, while navigating governance and security concerns
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Kaseya Expands AI Innovation with Silicon Valley R&D Hub to Accelerate Customer Outcomes
New investment strengthens Kaseya’s leadership in AI-driven IT operations and agentic automation
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Argon & Co Advances AI-Enabled Business Transformation Model, Promotes Four New Partners
Argon & Co, the global management consultancy specialising in operations strategy and transformation, is evolving its delivery model to embed data, digital capability and AI into end-to-end transformation, as organisations face increasing pressure to drive productivity, resilience and operational performance.
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Hackers claim control over Venice San Marco anti-flood pumps
Hackers breached Venice ’s San Marco flood system, claiming control of pumps and the ability to disable defenses and flood coastal areas. The technologies that govern the physical world are the quiet infrastructure of modern life. From energy grids to water systems, from factories to flood defenses, operational technology (OT) has long had one essential…