The China-linked cybercrime group behind the use of income tax-related phishing lures targeting Indian taxpayers, tax professionals, and corporate finance teams has been observed using a sophisticated crypter service called Cruciferra. According to a new analysis by Proofpoint, Cruciferra has been utilized by various unrelated cybercriminal threat clusters to deliver a wide array of remote
Big Tech isn’t buying the AI future with profits. It’s buying it with payroll. Related: Microsoft normalizes credential exposure The verdict is in. Wall Street hates the tradeoff. Roytburg Fortune’s Eva Roytburg laid it out last week in a piece on Big Tech’s AI spending. AI has pushed the biggest companies on earth into spending…
Spring Boot exposes the endpoint “/actuator/heapdump” to collect debug information. By default, the endpoint will return a file heapdump.hprof, which includes a binary heapdump that can be used to analyze the current state of the application. Non-Java readers may be familiar with a similar concept, core dumps, which are produced by binaries to expose a memory…
Halcyon’s latest quarterly ransomware report showed that while ransomware attacks are declining, obfuscation techniques are getting harder to fight against
I have sat in on a version of the same incident post-mortem in three sectors over the past two years. The script does not vary much. At 4:47 a.m. on a Saturday, an on-duty SOC analyst sees a ransomware payload spreading across three servers in the data center. The playbook says isolate. They hit the…
A pivot to the kind of business bolstering Wall Street titans can help regional players weather rising yields.
In this post, I will discuss why longer passwords are better and other online banking security tips. According to the 2025 Global Digital Report, the Philippines now ranks first globally in the regular use of online financial services, with the vast majority of internet users actively managing money through digital platforms each month. That level…
In cybersecurity, defenders sometimes naively assume that threat actors operate from secure, resilient infrastructures insulated from the very chaos they inflict on others. The 2026 compromise of Klue challenges that assumption. What began as a software-as-a-service supply chain breach evolved into an exceptional case in which a second criminal group claimed to have compromised the…
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged fresh malicious cyber activity by a threat actor with ties to East Asia targeting government entities in the Middle East. The intrusions have resulted in the deployment of previously unreported malware families dubbed TELESHIM, MIXEDKEY, and BINDCLOAK, according to Zscaler ThreatLabz. The cybersecurity firm said it detected the campaign earlier this…
GitHub has announced a new cooldown mechanism in Dependabot, allowing the tool to wait at least three days after a release is published before opening a pull request. “The cooldown configuration option in the dependabot.yml still controls the behavior, though, so you can choose a different cooldown parameter that fits your project,” the Microsoft-owned subsidiary…
7AI, an organization dedicated to making AI agents work for security teams, announced the 7AI Alliance Partner Program, a new ecosystem model, while adding Zachary Kilpatrick as Senior Vice President, Global Alliances to lead the program worldwide. 7AI formalizes partner-first global strategy This new program brings solution providers, systems integrators, service providers, technology alliance partners,…
Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Don’t get fooled by TikTok resin art scams Call of Duty Mobile scam uses fake free points to steal player accounts OpenAI’s agent escaped its sandbox during a security test Google wants to store a selfie video of your face Beyond the Play Store: How Android threats really spread Millions…
CISOs have quietly become their organizations’ de facto chief resilience officers as the role has evolved from its primary prevention roots to now include greater emphasis on incident response and business resiliency and recovery. “Any experienced CISO who’s come up through the ranks of IT has that operational mindset, which is about uptime,” says John…
Six in ten Australians act on products they see on social media, forcing brands to rethink discovery, trust and conversion
On paper, AI projects often sound easy — automate a process, launch a chatbot, maybe build a prediction model, then the job’s done. But then reality sets in.
A new report links 148 ransomware attacks to Italian organizations in H1 2026, with manufacturing the most targeted sector. Six months, 148 confirmed ransomware claims against Italian targets, and one sector taking the brunt of it. That’s the headline number from a new semi-annual tracker compiled by ransomNews under its RedACT project, which pulls together…
Artificial intelligence and network infrastructure are becoming inseparable pillars of modern business, each amplifying the value of the other.
TrendAI™, the global AI security leader and enterprise business unit of Trend Micro, has appointed Richard Harrison as its Global Vice President of AI Security.
VAST AI Operating System and AMD EPYC™ CPUs, AMD Instinct™ GPUs and AMD Pensando™ Pollara 400 AI NICs deliver breakthrough inference performance and efficiency for AI clouds,…
The planned investment could pave the way for a broader multibillion-dollar push into AI infrastructure in South Korea.
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After a year of holding back on new hires, companies from tech and transportation to defense now say they need more people to work alongside AI.
An introduction to Sophos CISO Advantage, the new, differentiated way to align cybersecurity outcomes with business value — coming in October.
Project would be one of the largest AI computing hubs and involve power controlled by the U.S. government.
Picking a Flutter partner in Europe can look straightforward at first. The studio seems capable, the portfolio checks out, and the rate feels reasonable. However, problems…
ESAFENET’s CDG showed up in our data before. The company focused on secure document management and data leakage prevention solutions. The “CDG” stands for “Content Data Guard”, and the product appears to be mostly targeting the Chinese market [1]. Sadly, like so many security products, it suffers from basic security vulnerabilities like SQL Injection, XSS,…
GitHub and PyPI (Python Package Index) have introduced a time-based mechanism in the Dependabot dependency management tool to protect against supply-chain attacks and to limit their impact. […]
Security Affairs Malware newsletter includes a collection of the best articles and research on malware in the international landscape Malware Newsletter UAC-0145 Primary Compromise Vectors as of July 2026 SleeperGem: Compromised git_credential_manager, Dendreo, and fastlane RubyGems Drop a Persistent Backdoor AgentBaiting: How 800+ Fake AI Skills and MCP Servers Delivered Malware Chaos ransomware’s msaRAT: Living…
The Origin Energy breach down here in Aus is all over the news this week, and as with many breaches, it’s multi-faceted. You’ve got them leading with “don’t worry, your credit card is fine”, the hacker leading with “they didn’t respond when I tried to report it”, and now news that the two parties have…
In Part 3 of this exploration of AI ethics, we bring this topic closer to home: How can we use the power of AI to strengthen human trust and character?
AI companies play a cat-and-mouse game, trying to boost the capabilities of their creations while scrambling to block answers to dangerous queries.
Steam discussion forums are being abused in ClickFix attacks that pretend to be fixes for game and computer problems but actually infect devices with cryptominers. […]
US agencies warn Iran-linked actors are targeting internet-exposed water and energy control systems, risking disruption. Federal agencies updated their cybersecurity advisory this week: Iran-linked actors are inside American water and energy control systems, and they’re not just looking around. They’re changing things. The updated advisory from CISA, the FBI, NSA, and the Department of Energy…
A malvertising operation dubbed SourTrade is making victims’ browsers build the final Windows executable themselves, using a legitimate Bun runtime as its base instead of serving one complete malicious file from a fixed URL. Confiant, which detailed the campaign on July 23, 2026, said it has operated since late 2024 and impersonated TradingView, Solana, and…
Origin Energy confirmed a data breach after a hacker claimed to have stolen data from 2 million customers and threatened to leak it. Origin Energy disclosed a cyberattack that exposed customer data after a hacker claimed to have stolen records belonging to 2 million customers and threatened to publish them. An alleged hacker calling themselves…
A massive malvertising campaign is using fake Solana, Luno, and TradingView webpages with malicious JavaScript that instructs browsers to assemble malware directly in memory. […]
Threat actors are using email addresses exposed in data breaches leaked by the ShinyHunters extortion group to send sextortion emails demanding $2,000 in Bitcoin. […]
Learn why cyber security matters in the field of education in this post. Cyber security refers to the practice of defending computers, servers, mobile devices, electronic systems, networks, and data from digital attacks, damage, or unauthorized access. Today, cyber security has become a critical concern for various industries. In the field of education, where technology’s…
Security firms ThreatBook and Imperva say attackers are targeting a critical flaw in Fastjson, Alibaba’s JSON library for Java. In affected Spring Boot applications, a malicious JSON request can execute code without authentication, with the privileges of the Java process. Tracked as CVE-2026-16723, the vulnerability carries an Alibaba-assigned CVSS score of 9.0. The confirmed chain…
Banana Gun’s Telegram trading bot went live on Stable, the stablecoin Layer 1 backed by Bitfinex, on 24 July 2026, and gas on that chain is paid in USDT rather than a volatile native token. If you have ever watched a sniper bot fail because a separate gas token ran dry mid trade, this launch…
Cryptocurrency may be highly volatile, but it’s currently a trendy investment opportunity. Many of the most widely used digital currencies, including Bitcoin and Ethereum, are experiencing similar cycles of low value followed by rapid appreciation. Many seasoned investors have been betting on cryptocurrency for years, but how can someone new to the industry participate? Here…
Plus, the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner got a do-over and companies have begun pumping the brakes on AI spending.
ChatGPT, the famous artificial intelligence chatbot that allows users to converse with various personalities and topics, has connectivity issues worldwide. […]
Pressure is building in Washington to rein in AI, while the industry fights over who should hold the leash.
Security researcher Yuhang Wu at depthfirst has published a working proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit that executes commands as git on an unpatched self-managed GitLab 18.11.3 server. An ordinary authenticated user triggers it by committing two crafted Jupyter notebooks and requesting their diff. The chain needs no administrator rights, continuous integration (CI) runner access, victim interaction
Somewhere between “the pilot project worked” and “we’re now running production workloads across three states,” most enterprise IT teams hit the same wall. The private cloud…
Two of the president’s priorities—cutting prices for U.S. consumers and increasing domestic semiconductor production—come into conflict.
Latest launch for experimental rocket is first since Elon Musk’s rocket company went public in historic IPO.
The U.S. Justice Department is prosecuting an American man for allegedly providing U.S. border authorities with a passcode that wiped the contents of his phone, a case believed to be the first of its kind in the United States where federal prosecutors have charged someone for the alleged destruction of data using a “duress” password,…
The Hacker News disclosed that the threat actors behind the Golden Chickens malware-as-a-service (MaaS) ecosystem have resurfaced with four new malware families, indicating that the operators are showing no signs of stopping despite extensive public disclosures into their inner workings.
The long-held belief that cloud infrastructure is borderless and inherently resilient is being challenged by a new class of systemic threats.
A popular Vatican website and mobile app, ‘Click to Pray,’ was found to be leaking the names and email addresses of hundreds of thousands of its users.
The cybersecurity landscape continues to expand with increasing risks for governments, businesses and consumers.
The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) issued an alert regarding a new ‘zero-click’ threat campaign orchestrated by Russian state-backed hackers targeting organizations across critical sectors, according to a recent report by IT Pro.
GitHub is launching a two-tier bug bounty program starting July 27, 2026, in response to an increase in low-quality, AI-generated vulnerability reports.
Coverage from Bleeping Computer indicates that an Illinois man has been sentenced to 76 months in prison for hacking into the Snapchat accounts of over 750 women.
An open-source AI assistant named Hermes was used in a cyberattack targeting Thailand’s Ministry of Finance, compromising sensitive personnel data and internal systems.
The United States will deny visas to foreign nationals involved in cybercrime, with potential extensions to their immediate families, according to a recent report by The Register.
As detailed in Bleeping Computer, Europol announced a significant operation targeting “The Com,” a decentralized network of violent extremist groups responsible for disseminating harmful online content.
Escalating threats are forcing boards to prioritize security, but communication gaps persist. Boards and security teams each say they need more support to bridge the divide.
ASM platform failures occur because executives approve purchases based on discovery validation while discounting classification and routing gaps
Industry groups who spoke at town halls hosted by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency about a pending cyber incident notification regulation had a few consistent messages: We want this to apply to fewer of us. We don’t want to report to you on as many incidents. We want to give you less information when…
As organizations rapidly adopt artificial intelligence (AI), security teams are racing to understand how frontier AI models could reshape enterprise cyber risk. Rather than relying on theoretical scenarios, Zscaler spent 90 days using frontier AI models from Anthropic and OpenAI to assess dozens of real enterprise environments from an adversarial perspective. The results suggest that…
EU fined Google €890M under the DMA for favoring its own services and restricting Play Store competition, with AI search features also under scrutiny. The European Commission hit Google with two fines totalling €890 million on Thursday for violating the Digital Markets Act, one for giving its own services preferential placement in Google Search and…
OnTrac parcel delivery company is informing that hackers breached its corporate network and may have accessed personal details belonging to its customers. […]
When an administrator introduces a rule change in AWS Network Firewall and network connectivity is disrupted, pinpointing the cause requires inspecting multiple points in the traffic path. The firewall gives you stateless and stateful rule engines, domain rules, and routing to the firewall endpoint inside your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC). A network drop…
Botnets powered by residential proxy networks are proliferating, enabling cybercriminals of all types to evade detection by blending in with seemingly legitimate traffic, Lumen Technology’s Black Lotus Labs said in a report Friday. The global scale of botnets observed by Lumen is currently approaching 60 million victim IP addresses, Chris Formosa, senior lead information security…
The hacking of Hugging Face by a rogue OpenAI agent is significant, but unsurprising — and preventing the next AI model escape will be difficult, at best.
A threat actor used the open-source Hermes AI agent in unattended “YOLO” mode to automate post-exploitation activity during an alleged breach of Thailand’s Ministry of Finance. […]
Samsung just launched its latest lineup of phones, and Amazon has free gift card offers on every single one.
The White House is monitoring developments after OpenAI revealed earlier this week that one of the company’s AI systems went beyond its intended parameters during a security test and managed to hack into the infrastructure of the AI platform Hugging Face. According to Reuters, presidential technology advisor Michael Kratsios has been briefed on the incident.…
In this post, I will discuss luxury ORM Los Angeles and show you a realistic timeline for suppressing negative search results. In the high-stakes world of high-end commerce, your brand’s digital footprint is your most valuable asset. One disparaging article or a series of coordinated negative reviews can do more damage to your bottom line…
Dependency mapping focuses on what breaks, not what exists
Hackers are changing the DNS settings on Wi-Fi devices at hotels and conference centers to redirect users to fake Microsoft 365 login pages. […]
SSO failure modes create cascading authentication outages across connected services
House Armed Services Committee member urges faster cyber investments as China, Russia threats grow.
Anthropic’s latest Claude upgrade targets developers and enterprises with stronger coding, better reasoning efficiency, prompt-cache-friendly tool changes, and near-Fable performance at Opus pricing.
Recovery is only as fast as your understanding of what depends on what.
A recent uptick in lag and disconnects led me to reevaluate my home office setup. Here’s how I validated my solution.
Microsoft says a bug in its automated network maintenance request system caused Thursday’s massive outage by mistakenly removing IP routes from more devices than intended, disrupting Azure and Microsoft 365 services. […]
Attribute- and policy-based controls are makes minimum-necessary tractable without strangling care
Microsoft, along with more than two dozen tech companies, are pressing policymakers to support open-source AI systems and code across society, arguing that it will be a safer approach than attempting to restrict access or relying on a handful of closed, proprietary models. The open letter, posted Friday, draws parallels to the software industry of…
The North Korean threat actors behind the ClickFix-style campaigns that employ typosquatted Zoom and Microsoft Teams domains have been found to operate an active phishing kit to impersonate the videoconferencing platforms in social engineering campaigns designed to deliver malware. “BlueNoroff has operationalised trust abuse by combining compromised industry contacts, social engineering, wallet
Achieve digital autonomy in critical infra with a ‘logically air-gapped’ model using eBPF, Cilium, and Cisco for secure, compliant cloud-native operations.
Cybersecurity vendor Coro has appointed three executives to lead EMEA sales, product strategy, and research and development as the company pursues international and channel growth. New executives take charge of EMEA, product, and R&D Among the hires are: Ingo Schaefer as Vice President of Sales, EMEA Dor Avrahami as Vice President of Product Itzik Schacher…
