When done correctly, regulations can help companies restore operations quickly and maintain trust after a breach.

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A Bulgarian national has been charged with stealing $290,000 in government-seized cryptocurrency while serving 121 months in prison for helping launder millions stolen from American fraud victims. […]

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A new multi-purpose backdoor allows cyber threat actors to conduct both quiet espionage activity and destructive wiping operations

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Researchers at Ledger’s Donjon security team have shown that a precisely timed laser pulse, aimed at the chip inside a Tangem crypto wallet card, can reset the card’s password to anything the attacker picks. No old password. No backup card. Once it is reset, whoever did it controls the wallet and can move the coins out. This is…

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Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have failed to block a proposal extending the mass scanning of private communications, a measure they have previously rejected twice. This time too, more votes were cast against the proposal than in favor, but due to the absence of numerous MEPs on the eve of the summer recess, the…

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China launched and partially recovered a rocket, a milestone for Beijing’s space program as it competes with the U.S. and Elon Musk’s SpaceX.

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It’s the end of the road for yet another facet of Exchange Server, Microsoft’s on-premises email and calendar system. The stripped-down version of its web client, Outlook Web App (OWA) Light, is being retired, forcing those Exchange Server users still using it to adopt the standard Outlook Web App instead. “OWA Light was created for…

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Security company CrowdStrike has identified five new prompt injection techniques that could leave enterprises at risk. Prompt injections attacks exploit the growing use of AI within organizations . They work by tricking LLMs into accepting instructions that a human operator would recognize as dubious. The five new types of attack that CrowdStrike has added to…

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Details have emerged about three now-patched security flaws in the OpenClaw personal artificial intelligence (AI) assistant that, if successfully exploited, could enable credential theft, privilege escalation, and arbitrary code execution on the host. A brief description of the high-severity vulnerabilities is as follows – GHSA-hjr6-g723-hmfm (CVSS score: 8.8) – An operating system

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French AI company Mistral claims its latest AI model offers a more efficient way to train and operate robots. The model, Robostral Navigate, can guide a robot through plain language instructions, using a single RGB camera to find its way. Mistral said that this was a radical departure from most other models, which rely on…

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Researchers at the AI Now Institute developed a proof-of-concept exploit showing common AI tools used for security could backfire

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Microsoft published new research on GigaWiper, a modular Golang backdoor for Windows that combines robust remote access with multiple ways to permanently destroy systems and data. GigaWiper is a Windows backdoor that Microsoft has observed in intrusions since October 2025. Rather than being a single-purpose wiper, it’s an operational platform that blends command‑and‑control (C2), data…

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Former ransomware negotiator Angelo Martino gets 70 months in prison for helping BlackCat extort US victims and misuse confidential client data in cyberattacks.

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The China-linked cybercrime group known as Silver Fox has been attributed to a new Rust-based remote access trojan (RAR) called MODBEACON. Chinese cybersecurity company QiAnXin said that while the threat cluster may appear like a low-sophistication, high-activity operation that propagates malware via counterfeit installers using SEO poisoning techniques, it belies their true organizational

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Apple has agreed to buy up to $30 billion-worth of additional chips and other wireless components from Broadcom over the next few years. The new agreement could lead to Broadcom making up to 15 billion more chips in the US, and enable it to modernize its manufacturing facilities in Fort Collins, Colorado, where it will…

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Globant recently signed an agreement with AI giant Anthropic, bringing Latin America-based provider into the Anthropic Partner Program and expanding how the companies work together for mutual customers. In this interview with Channel Insider’s Victoria Durgin, Globant SVP of Digital Innovation Augstin Huerta discusses the company’s AI PODS model, how it manages token costs for…

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GodDamn ransomware uses remote desktop application to secretly move around networks and drop the malicious PoisonX kernel driver

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Incode has launched On-Device Age Estimation, an age verification capability that performs age estimation and liveness detection directly on the user’s device, without transmitting facial data off the device. The company’s age estimation models are now available to run entirely on-device. The solution combines on-device age estimation with deepfake and spoofing detection. More than 30…

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3M Command strips are incredibly useful, if you use them right. These tips can turn ‘it fell off the wall’ into ‘it’s still there’ years later.

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The Zimbra security team urged customers to patch a critical vulnerability affecting the Classic Web Client used to access the Zimbra Collaboration suite. […]

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A cybercrime crew left one of its own servers wide open on the internet for three weeks, and it exposed the operation’s inner workings: the hacking tools, the activity logs, and target lists naming more than 1.4 million websites. Far fewer were actually broken into, but the exposed files showed researchers how a mass site-hacking…

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Mule betting or third-party betting account scams are a form of money mule scam where criminals recruit or coerce people into opening gambling accounts in their own name. The criminals then use those accounts to place bets to help launder money and obscure the source or ownership of funds. The UK Gambling Commission describes “mule”…

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GodDamn, a rebrand of Beast and Monster ransomware, leverages AnyDesk for remote access.

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An RIAA-led coalition of groups representing music labels and artists says fans want transparency.

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Researchers ran 281 of the most popular free VPN apps on the Google Play Store through a new testing system and found that many fail at the basics people install a VPN for, i.e., keeping their traffic private and secure. The apps flagged with at least one problem have been installed more than 2.4 billion…

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Updating Chrome is becoming an almost daily task lately. But it’s too important to ignore. On Wednesday, July 8, Google released another Chrome update, just one day later after the previous one. Between them, the two updates fixed 27 security vulnerabilities, including two critical flaws that could be exploited to compromise Chrome. Google says both…

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A threat actor has been targeting organizations spanning multiple sectors with voice-based fake security requests that prompt Microsoft 365 users to enroll a new Entra passkey with an aim to carry out data extortion attacks. The threat actor, tracked by Okta under the moniker O-UNC-066, has deployed a panel-controlled phishing kit that’s capable of targeting…

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Researchers uncovered 222 GitHub repositories spreading malware through fake Go packages, delivering loaders, stealers, RATs, and cryptominers. Socket’s security research team started with the investigation of a single malicious Go module: github[.]com/kaleidora/dnsub-scanning-tool, which presented itself as a DNS and subdomain scanning utility. Pulling on that thread exposed something significantly larger: a network of 222 confirmed…

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Meta has unveiled Muse Spark 1.1, saying the frontier AI model rivals leading LLMs on coding, computer use, and agentic AI benchmarks while undercutting OpenAI and Anthropic on API pricing, potentially lowering the cost of deploying AI agents in enterprises. Meta unveiled Muse Spark 1.1 on Thursday, pairing frontier-model performance with aggressive pricing in a…

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The bloc’s regulator said the tech giant may be in breach of its digital rules, opening the door to heavy fines.

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Mission Cloud, a CDW company, is seeing enterprise AI conversations shift from experimental proof-of-concept work to production-ready deployments tied to business outcomes, according to President Ted Stuart. Stuart said Mission Cloud, now operating as CDW’s dedicated AWS practice for private-sector customers, has completed more than 400 AI projects and is increasingly working with customers who…

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You’d think keeping tabs on your contacts would be about the simplest and most straightforward task imaginable in our modern connected world — wouldn’t you? I sure would. But as I’ve learned over the years, that perfectly understandable instinct couldn’t be more inaccurate. Effectively wrangling your contacts on Android and keeping ’em manageable, organized, and…

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Microsoft has said the volume of Windows security updates is set to grow as it uses AI to find new bugs

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London, United Kingdom, 10th July 2026, CyberNewswire

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A former ransomware negotiator was sentenced to nearly six years for secretly helping BlackCat extort victims while betraying his clients. A U.S. court sentenced former ransomware negotiator Angelo Martino, 41, to 70 months in prison for conspiring with the BlackCat ransomware gang. While negotiating on behalf of five victims, he secretly shared confidential information about…

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OpenAI is sharpening its enterprise AI strategy with the launch of ChatGPT Work, a new agentic platform designed to automate workplace tasks, alongside the broader rollout of its GPT-5.6 models, which the company says deliver stronger performance at lower operating costs. According to the company, ChatGPT Work can operate across applications and files, execute long-running…

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NHS tells staff they could face prison for “inappropriate” access to patients’ medical records

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Microsoft is warning defenders about a new backdoor that blurs the line between espionage malware and wipers. In a technical analysis published on Thursday, Microsoft Threat Intelligence detailed GigaWiper, a Golang-based implant first observed in October 2025 intrusions that combines remote administration capabilities with multiple disk-wiping and ransomware routines. Rather than building a new destructive…

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Microsoft uncovered GigaWiper, a modular Go backdoor combining three malware families with espionage, remote control, and destructive wiping features. In October 2025, Microsoft’s threat intelligence team identified destructive wiping activity inside compromised environments and traced it to a previously unknown piece of malware they’re now calling GigaWiper. The malicious code is written in Go, it…

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A former employee of cybersecurity incident response company DigitalMint was sentenced to 70 months in prison for targeting U.S. companies in BlackCat (ALPHV) ransomware attacks. […]

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A 41-year-old former ransomware negotiator has been sentenced to nearly six years (i.e., 70 months) in prison in the U.S. for their role in conspiring with the now-defunct BlackCat ransomware operators to extort multiple victims and working with two other cybersecurity professionals to target additional victims in 2023. In a sentencing memorandum, federal prosecutors described…

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Workato has announced two new capabilities for Agent Studio: Headless API and Agent Guardrails. Headless API lets Genies, Workato’s AI agents built on Agent Studio, be embedded into any business application surface, on web, mobile, or inside another agent’s own environment. Agent Guardrails are configurable to the business and ensure that wherever a Genie is…

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Every serious software product runs on code that someone else wrote and released for free. A web service leans on a cryptography library, a data pipeline pulls in a parser, and a mobile app ships a handful of small utilities that one person maintains in spare time. All of it carries the same label. A…

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Check Point Software CTO Jonathan Zanger met with CSO Spain during the software company’s Engage 2026 user conference last week in Paris. At the event, Check Point executives and representatives discussed how the company is dealing with various types of threats, how it is adopting AI securely, and how Check Point and others can leverage AI…

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Microsoft is recommending that organizations shorten Windows update deployment timelines, warning that advances in AI are reducing the time attackers need to identify and exploit vulnerabilities after security updates are released. The company says organizations should reassess how quickly they roll out monthly security updates, particularly on devices where shorter deployment windows can be implemented…

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In this Help Net Security video, Anastasia Tikhonova, Global Threat Research Lead at Group-IB, explains how to operationalize software supply chain risk. Instead of filing an SBOM away as a compliance document, she argues teams should use it every day for vulnerability triage, vendor access reviews, identity monitoring, and incident response. Drawing on Group-IB’s High-Tech…

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Accounts receivable teams at large companies spend hours each day matching incoming bank payments to invoices by hand. When those payments sit unmatched for days, cash flow suffers and days sales outstanding climbs. The same pattern repeats across blocked invoices, purchase order approval holds, month-end close, and intercompany reconciliations in almost every industry. Built-in ERP…

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Passwords remain part of many workforce authentication flows in financial organizations, making phishing and credential theft major identity security risks, according to a new Secret Double Octopus report. Key challenges preventing universal implementation of phishing-resistant MFA (Source: Secret Double Octopus) Workforce authentication trends Banks and financial organizations use a mix of authentication methods, combining phishing-resistant…

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Western biotechs get a new playbook with tighter controls to stay ahead of China’s “fast follower” pharmaceutical pipeline.

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Powertec Telecommunications is proud to announce that it has once again been recognised by Nextivity as its Top APAC Distribution Partner of the Year, marking the fourth…

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A former ransomware negotiator for DigitalMint was sentenced to 70 months in jail for deceiving his employer’s clients and conspiring with ransomware affiliates to extort a combined $75.3 million from five U.S. companies he was entrusted to aid during their moments of extreme crisis, the Justice Department said Thursday.  Angelo John Martino III shared confidential…

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Sophos’ first ever recognition as a Customers’ Choice for Email Security.

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AWS MCP Server using the same credentials and sign-in methods that you already use for connecting to the AWS Management Console or AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) through a familiar browser-based experience powered by industry-standard OAuth. This new sign-in path supports AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) federation, AWS IAM Identity Center, and root…

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A security hole within AI dev tools has allowed attackers to escape sandboxes by misleading the humans in the loop who were supposed to knowingly approve the tool’s actions, according to cybersecurity research firm Wiz. “We discovered GhostApproval, a systematic vulnerability pattern affecting six of the top AI coding assistants: Amazon Q Developer, Anthropic Claude…

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The head of artificial general intelligence won’t return from extended medical leave, a major leadership change as the AI giant prepares to go public.

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