Category: Global Security News

Compare 10 Power BI development companies for 2026, covering DAX, Microsoft Fabric, data engineering, security, compliance, AI, and enterprise BI project needs.

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JetBrains is warning of a critical authentication bypass vulnerability affecting TeamCity On-Premises that could be exploited to achieve remote code execution. […]

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A likely Iran-backed actor targeted more than 30 community water systems in Minnesota in a sobering reminder of rising threats to US critical infrastructure.

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Compare 7 enterprise IT asset management platforms for 2027, covering security, automation, cost, compliance, lifecycle tracking and business requirements.

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Okta announced Thursday it has signed a deal to buy Permiso Security, a cloud-based firm that tracks threats tied to human, machine, and AI-driven digital identities.  Permiso specializes in spotting risks after a user or system has already logged in, an area the industry refers to as identity threat detection and response. The company draws…

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The company is set to release an upgraded Siri assistant in the fall, and it continues to contend with higher component costs.

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Patched Azure Cosmos DB bug threatened Microsoft and customer databases.

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As federal enforcement tightens and states begin stepping in with their own cybersecurity mandates, water and wastewater utilities face a looming wave of hard compliance deadlines, compounded by recent cyber attacks on state water utilities. Key takeaways While the EPA’s national sanitary-survey mandate stalled in court, the agency is aggressively using existing authority, technical guidance,…

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Year-over-year revenue growth for Amazon Web Services came in at 37% for the second quarter as AI drives computing demand.

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A recent trip upstate revealed the benefits and limitations of running Android Auto in low- to no-signal areas.

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A myriad of software makes up the typical AI harness, and trust issues between the components can create concerning attack vectors.

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Brand impersonation now drives initial access, using fake sites and apps to deliver malware, making rapid takedowns essential to disrupt attacks. Attackers recently poisoned more than 700 websites, including sites run by Harvard, Oxford, and DuckDuckGo. They used a fake Cloudflare page to trick visitors into running a ClickFix attack that installed malware. Researchers tracing…

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With Chrome, Google pioneered the rapid release model for browser security. Now, Google says updates may need to change in the face of AI security analysis. According to the company, the number of bug fixes in Chrome releases has skyrocketed in recent months because AI is detecting so many flaws. We could be looking at…

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The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency published a guidebook for federal agencies Thursday to aid them on managing security risks with open-source software, touching on topics like patching and open-source AI models. An executive order President Joe Biden signed and that President Donald Trump amended ordered CISA and other agencies to issue open-source security recommendations…

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Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Google Chrome, the most severe of which could allow for arbitrary code execution. Successful exploitation of the most severe of these vulnerabilities could allow for arbitrary code execution in the context of the logged on user. Depending on the privileges associated with the user an attacker could then install…

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Threat actors with ties to North Korea have been attributed to a sophisticated macOS malvertising campaign that involves redirecting users to fake web pages displaying a full-screen non-existent update sequence to deliver malware as part of a new iteration of the long-running Contagious Interview campaign. The defining aspect of the attack is that bogus macOS…

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Amazon linked multiple high-profile open-source software supply chain attacks targeting the Node Package Manager (npm) ecosystem to North Korean hackers. […]

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Can the platform make the gap between what the organization claims and what the evidence supports visible before the response is sent?

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KKR sold private-equity investments to boost profits, while Blue Owl said investor withdrawals had bottomed out.

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OpenAI has revealed that the rogue AI agent involved in a recent breach of AI platform Hugging Face also accessed accounts belonging to four other publicly available services during the same incident. OpenAI said the AI agent used publicly exposed credentials to access four additional accounts across four publicly available services during the same incident…

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Broadcom has released security updates to fix five vulnerabilities in VMware vCenter, ESX, Workstation, and Fusion, including three critical flaws that allow attackers to bypass authentication, execute arbitrary code, or escape from a virtual machine to the host. […]

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Welcome to this week’s edition of the Threat Source newsletter.  For my fianceé’s 30th birthday, I took her on a weekend trip to Shenandoah National Park – a favorite of ours since we went to a wedding there several years back. We’ve done several incredible hikes over the years, but one in particular had always…

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CISOs urge resilience, supply chain security and simpler cyber rules.

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Google’s guarantees of power and lease obligations would help the developer secure financing for the 1.6-gigawatt Texas project.

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Attackers continue to leverage AI to target our edge appliances – so why hasn’t the industry built-in AI into those devices yet?

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Jscrambler launched its Unified Client-Side Security Platform, introducing a new approach to securing applications and customer data where AI-powered risks increasingly operate: inside the browser. “AI didn’t create browser risk—it dramatically accelerated it,” said Rui Ribeiro, CEO and Co-Founder of Jscrambler. “Today, software compromise and AI-driven data harvesting occur simultaneously inside the browser, yet most…

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Amazon Inspector is an automated vulnerability management service that continually scans Amazon Web Services (AWS) workloads for software vulnerabilities. The vulnerability management capabilities of Amazon Inspector are powered by an asset inventory engine known as the Amazon Inspector SBOM Generator (inspector-sbomgen), a standalone command-line tool that produces a software bill of materials (SBOM) from container…

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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is pushing back on claims that the AI company supports banning open-weight models, arguing instead that policymakers should focus on the technologies and capabilities that make advanced AI systems potentially dangerous. The clarification follows Anthropic’s decision not to sign an industry letter backed by Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta and other technology companies…

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Google has expanded the use of AI in Chrome’s security workflow, using it to find vulnerabilities, triage bug reports, generate patches, and review code to shorten the time between discovering software flaws and delivering security updates. “Historically, triaging a single security report took anywhere from 5 to 30 or more minutes, and relied primarily on…

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Google says artificial intelligence is dramatically increasing the number of security vulnerabilities it can find and fix in Chrome, with more than 1,000 security bugs patched across the browser’s two most recent releases as it expands its use of AI. […]

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Oracle and Google Cloud are expanding their AI partnership to bring Gemini models into Oracle AI Agent Studio, Fusion Applications and NetSuite, giving partners more options for building AI agents and automating enterprise workflows. The integration will let developers select Google’s models for specific business use cases while helping customers balance performance, governance and cost…

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Russia has charged Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov with aiding terrorism and placed him on an international wanted list, escalating its pressure on the messaging platform. The Federal Security Service (FSB) alleges that Telegram became a channel for crime and other operations linked to Ukrainian intelligence because the platform failed to stop such activity. …

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Security experts have been sounding the alarm for years about the risks of using generic TV boxes that promise unlimited content streaming for a one-time fee, warning that they secretly rent the user’s Internet connection out to strangers. But a groundbreaking new analysis finds these devices also routinely spoof themselves as mobile phones clicking ads…

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Residential security company Brinks Home has disclosed that hackers breached some of its systems and are threatening to leak allegedly stolen data. […]

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The AI Capability Verification Matrix will help test claims critical to the purchase decision

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Decoys may be the best defense against fast-moving autonomous AI attacks.

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Microsoft is expanding its artificial intelligence portfolio into cybersecurity with the launch of a new agentic cybersecurity platform alongside its first AI model built specifically to find software vulnerabilities. Announced Monday, Project Perception and MAI-Cyber-1-Flash are designed to help security teams identify vulnerabilities, prioritize risks, and respond to cyber threats faster by using AI agents…

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Apple may be moving faster than expected in its modem development work, and Qualcomm’s latest comments suggest that shift is already reshaping the iPhone supply chain.  Qualcomm overnight said supply constraints are shrinking some of its Apple business faster than anticipated. “It’s availability of supply,” CEO Cristiano Amon told Reuters. While he wasn’t specific, that likely reflects…

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When you’re setting up a new PC or looking for an app you already know, the Microsoft Store is often the easiest place to start. It’s built into Windows and lets you find, install, and update apps in one place. Malwarebytes for Windows is now available there too.  Malwarebytes for Windows is still available from…

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Threat actors are impersonating IT support staff in Microsoft Teams calls to gain remote access to corporate devices and deploy Chaos ransomware in attacks targeting North American organizations. […]

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Almost all field service organizations use AI, and revenue gains in key areas offer insights for professionals in other business functions.

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The post We know how to protect our troops from telecom attacks. We’re just not doing it. appeared first on CyberScoop.

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Cybersecurity researchers at Wiz found CosmosEscape in Azure’s Gremlin API, exposing a master key that could access any Cosmos DB account. Microsoft fixed it, with no customer impact found.

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American semiconductor company Analog Devices announced that an unauthorized party accessed some of its systems and exfiltrated certain files. […]

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Novee announced the expansion of its AI penetration testing platform to mobile applications. With this addition, Novee becomes the industry’s first complete AI pentesting platform across the modern application attack surface, providing continuous, autonomous coverage. The platform tests web apps and APIs, along with desktop, AI and LLM-enabled applications. Novee transforms mobile pentesting from a…

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A 41-year-old Ghanaian national was sentenced to 85 months in prison for stealing more than $10 million from mostly older, lonely and vulnerable victims via romance scams, the Justice Department said Tuesday.  Derrick Van Yeboah was a longtime and high-ranking member of a criminal organization primarily based in Ghana linked to more than $100 million…

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A Russia-aligned threat actor known as TA488 has launched a new campaign exploiting a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Microsoft Outlook Web Access (OWA).  The campaign demonstrates increasingly sophisticated techniques for compromising organizations through what researchers describe as “half-click” attacks.  Key takeaways of the TA488 Outlook Web Access attack TA488 is exploiting CVE-2026-42897 in Microsoft…

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Brad Blakestad, director of the National Quantum Coordination Office, emphasized that quantum technology is not monolithic, encompassing computing, sensing, and networking, each with distinct components and multiple modalities within computing alone.

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Cryptomining crew abandoned root to impersonate low-privileged Linux users and evade SOC alerts

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Attackers rarely stop after gaining initial access. Huntress analyzes a real-world intrusion to show how threat actors establish persistence, disable defenses, and reshape compromised systems, and why defenders must investigate the original entry point rather than simply remove the malware. […]

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AiTM phishing is now the top entry point into law firms, with identity behind 56% of threats

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The proposed Enhancing K-12 Cybersecurity Act, co-sponsored by Senators Mark Warner and Marsha Blackburn, would allocate $20 million over two years to fund several key initiatives.

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The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC), together with Utah and California, has filed a lawsuit against telehealth provider Hims & Hers. The FTC alleges that the company shared consumers’ sensitive health information with third‑party advertising platforms despite promising strong privacy protections. Hims & Hers is a telehealth and digital health platform that connects users with…

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The line between physical security, cybersecurity, privacy and reputation management is dissolving. A data leak can surface a home address. Related: Defending the CEO attack vector A breached account can put an executive’s family in physical danger. The threats don’t stay in their lanes. That’s the terrain Chuck Randolph, Jonathan Wackrow and Fred Burton map…

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A now-patched vulnerability in Azure Cosmos DB could have let an attacker escape the service’s Gremlin query sandbox and obtain full read and write access to databases across customer tenants, according to Wiz. Wiz, which codenamed the chain CosmosEscape, said the exploit chain began with a crafted query against a Gremlin database controlled by the…

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AI agents are now being allowed to create business records, approve transactions, and execute financial workflows. ERP security firm Pathlock says most organizations don’t know if that is all they are doing. The company’s 2026 AI Governance Gap Report found that 79% of organizations do not have a dedicated AI governance team, despite AI agents…

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A security researcher has demonstrated how Microsoft Copilot for Word can be tricked into spreading a self‑propagating prompt‑injection “AI worm.” The attack silently alters documents and embeds its own hidden instructions into newly created files, allowing it to spread through normal document-sharing workflows without macros or traditional malware. The technique allows an attacker to hide…

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A security researcher has demonstrated how Microsoft Copilot for Word can be tricked into spreading a self‑propagating prompt‑injection “AI worm.” The attack silently alters documents and embeds its own hidden instructions into newly created files, allowing it to spread through normal document-sharing workflows without macros or traditional malware. The technique allows an attacker to hide…

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Can Google Earth’s new AI accurately redesign homes, recreate history, and imagine the future? I tested Nano Banana across several locations, and the results ranged from useful to gloriously absurd.

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A critical vulnerability in the open-source AI agent platform Ruflo could allow unauthenticated attackers to take control of enterprise AI environments by exploiting an exposed Model Context Protocol (MCP) bridge, according to research published by Noma Security. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-59726 and dubbed RufRoot, carries a maximum CVSS score of 10.0 and affects Ruflo…

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Running low on hard disk space or just want to get rid of junk files? The free BleachBit utility can easily handle that assignment. Here’s why it beats Storage Sense.

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Technology customers increasingly expect partners to support complex, multi-vendor environments, but a new Global Technology Distribution Council (GTDC) report finds a substantial gap between those expectations and current channel capabilities. According to the GTDC research, conducted with Channelnomics, 76% of customers consider multi-vendor systems support critical, while only 22% believe their IT partners can provide…

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The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), together with its co-authoring partners, has released the 2026 Minimum Elements for a Software Bill of Materials (SBOM), replacing the 2021 guidance published by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA). An SBOM is a list of the components that make up a software package and their…

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The tender will support up to seven AI facilities in an effort to build out the bloc’s tech capabilities.

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Technology spend and risk intelligence organization Flexera recently announced that Mike Jerich has taken over as CEO. Jerich currently serves as the organization’s President and will maintain both roles. Jerich succeeds Jim Ryan, who will transition to Vice Chairman of Flexera’s Board of Directors and support Flexera’s long-term strategy and growth. This move comes as…

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Check Point researchers detail phishing attack as an example of attackers dropping fake Microsoft login pages in favor of abusing Microsoft’s legitimate authentication infrastructure

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Hidden instructions in a Word document can make Microsoft 365 Copilot rewrite figures in a report, then copy the same instructions into the finished file. Håkon Måløy disclosed the technique on July 28, 144 days after reporting it to Microsoft. In his proof of concept, the internally generated file triggered the same behavior when it…

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Rising memory and storage prices are creating new cost, availability, and architecture challenges for IT solution providers as AI infrastructure demand outpaces the industry’s ability to add supply. Channel Insider spoke with Eric Herzog, CMO of Infinidat, a Lenovo company, and Brendan Lynch, the CEO of Eastern Computer Exchange, about what the market pressures mean…

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Orca Security has announced two new AI-powered capabilities: Orca AI AppGen Security, which discovers and secures AI applications built outside the development pipeline on AI-powered platforms like Claude, Supabase, and Lovable, and AI Code Security Auditor, which delivers deep AI-driven static analysis for code developed within traditional pipelines. The capabilities extend the Orca Platform to…

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Network firewalls are the workhorses of modern cybersecurity. They are trusted to protect the network, blocking malicious traffic and preventing intrusions and breaches. And for decades, network security teams have built controls around a relatively stable model: users connect to applications, applications exchange data, and security tools inspect packets, protocols, and destinations. Firewalls

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There is a story about online school that much of the public still believes: it was an emergency measure.

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Attackers are moving away from fake Microsoft login pages in favor of abusing Microsoft’s own authentication system, letting phishing campaigns slip past the warning signs employees are trained to spot, according to Check Point. Between June 25 and the second week of July, researchers found over 200 phishing emails targeting around 120 organizations in a…

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Digital document verification in businesses with global coverage of clients and an immense network of AI models brings forth nothing but accuracy and speed. The divergence from conventional methods of authenticating a client’s ID by corporate and the financial sector so far has made commendable improvements in the business cycle of organizations.  Successful enterprises in…

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In this post, I will answer the question – what is an OGG file type and give you a complete guide. If you ever downloaded an audio file that is music, a podcast or a game, then most likely you encountered an OGG File extension. While MP3 is still the most well-known audio format on…

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All right, quiz time: In a single sentence, can you tell me exactly what Google Voice does? It’s a question even the most giddy Google-appreciating geeks struggle to answer succinctly — and for normal, non-tech-obsessed Homo sapiens, the answer typically falls somewhere between “Huh?” and “Wait, is that the same thing as gChat?” Really, it’s…

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Hugging Face and OpenAI revealed further details on the agent’s 4.5-day attack campaign.

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