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Eurail data breach impacted 308,777 people

Hackers breached Eurail in Dec 2025, stole names and passport data, and exposed over 300,000 travelers’ personal information. Threat actors breached Eurail in December 2025 and stole names and passport numbers from its network. The company now notifies 308,777 people that attackers exposed their personal data, raising concerns about identity theft and misuse of sensitive…

Cloudflare ‘actively adjusting’ quantum priorities in wake of Google warning

Google’s accelerated post-quantum encryption deadline has spurred other leaders in the industry, including Cloudflare, to consider pushing forward their own plans. The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has set a 2030 deadline for depreciating legacy encryption algorithms ahead of their planned retirement in 2035. Late last month Google brought forward its own…

Siemens accelerates AI chip verification to trillion‑cycle scale with NVIDIA technology

 Siemens and NVIDIA have achieved a major verification breakthrough, capturing trillions of pre‑silicon design cycles in days using Siemens’ Veloce proFPGA CS combined with NVIDIA’s performance-optimized chip architecture Enables faster, more reliable AI/ML system-on-a-chip (SoC) development, giving NVIDIA’s teams confidence to run large workloads and optimize designs before first silicon 

$3.6 Million Crypto Heist Targets Bitcoin Depot

Attackers have stolen more than $3.6 million in Bitcoin from crypto ATM operator Bitcoin Depot after breaching its internal systems. The incident, disclosed in a recent regulatory filing, shows how quickly attackers can monetize access once inside corporate environments. The “unauthorized actor transferred approximately 50.903 Bitcoin from Company-controlled wallets, valued at approximately $3.665 million as…

Free OpenClaw Frameworks and Forks

Free Optional Frameworks and Forks To address OpenClaw’s massive 430,000+ line codebase, high resource consumption, and glaring security flaws, the community has rapidly developed several free, open-source alternatives. These frameworks are tailored to specific needs such as security, minimalism, and edge computing: Latest Security Issues in the OpenClaw Ecosystem The explosive growth of OpenClaw (formerly…

Nutanix Delivers Complete Platform for the Agentic AI Era

New capabilities for Agentic AI infrastructure will enable enterprises and neoclouds to optimise, govern, and accelerate Agentic AI use cases Growing ecosystem of infrastructure, cloud, and service providers empower customers with choice and control Expanded options to modernise virtual machines and containers leveraging server and storage investments help customers navigate a constrained hardware supply chain…

GigaOm names Nokia “Leader” and “Outperformer” in Data Center Switching for fifth straight year

Independent analysis highlights Nokia’s Data Center Fabric for innovation, performance and readiness for AI-scale infrastructure Nokia’s Data Center Fabric Solution earns top marks for AI capabilities, automation, and reliability Recognition highlights how Nokia is delivering secure and reliable solutions in data center networking where it has clear technology leadership

EngageLab SDK Flaw Exposed 50M Android Users, Including 30M Crypto Wallets

Details have emerged about a now-patched security vulnerability in a widely used third-party Android software development kit (SDK) called EngageLab SDK that could have put millions of cryptocurrency wallet users at risk. “This flaw allows apps on the same device to bypass Android security sandbox and gain unauthorized access to private data,” the Microsoft Defender

Protecting Cookies with Device Bound Session Credentials

Posted by Ben Ackerman, Chrome team, Daniel Rubery, Chrome team and Guillaume Ehinger, Google Account Security team Following our April 2024 announcement, Device Bound Session Credentials (DBSC) is now entering public availability for Windows users on Chrome 146, and expanding to macOS in an upcoming Chrome release. This project represents a significant step forward in…

Chrome, Vivaldi, and the challenge of changing browsers

Ahem: My fellow Android-appreciating organisms — I’ve got a confession. After the better part of two decades of personally using Google’s Chrome browser on both Android and every desktop computer I own, I’ve made the leap into the arms of a shiny new web-weaving seductress. Her name is Vivaldi. Yes, it feels like a mildly…

UAT-10362 Targets Taiwanese NGOs with LucidRook Malware in Spear-Phishing Campaigns

A previously undocumented threat cluster dubbed UAT-10362 has been attributed to spear-phishing campaigns targeting Taiwanese non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and suspected universities to deploy a new Lua-based malware called LucidRook. “LucidRook is a sophisticated stager that embeds a Lua interpreter and Rust-compiled libraries within a dynamic-link library (DLL) to download and

Inside the FBI’s router takedown that cut off APT28’s ‘tremendous access’

The recent FBI-led operation to knock Russian government hackers off routers sought to topple an especially insidious and threateningly contagious cyberespionage campaign, top bureau cyber official Brett Leatherman told CyberScoop. Researchers, along with U.S. and foreign government agencies, revealed details of the campaign this week by which APT28 — also known as Forest Blizzard or…

Cato Networks Joins Westcon-Comstor’s AWS Marketplace Program

Global IT distributor Westcon-Comstor has announced that Cato Networks, a provider of Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) solutions, is joining its AWS Marketplace program. Launched in 2024, the distributor program helps partners close deals faster and reduce the procurement friction in AWS Marketplace. Adding Cato Networks to the program is meant to unlock “new growth…

Claude Managed Agents bring execution and control to AI agent workflows

Anthropic’s Claude Managed Agents are a suite of composable APIs for building and deploying cloud-hosted agents at scale, handling sandboxed code execution, checkpointing, credential management, scoped permissions, and end-to-end tracing for you. Developers can define tasks, tools, and permissions within a managed environment, while the platform handles execution and state management. The product is currently…

Adobe Acrobat Reader Zero Day Exploited in Active PDF Attacks

Attackers have been exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Acrobat Reader for months, using malicious PDF files to silently steal data and potentially take over victim systems. Active since at least Dec. 2025, the campaign highlights how a seemingly routine document can serve as an effective entry point for system compromise. This exploit “allows the…

113,000 explicit prompts from AI girlfriend platform exposed, many linked to user IDs

MyLovely.AI, an AI girlfriend platform, suffered a data breach that exposed over 100,000 users. MyLovely.AI allows people to create personalized not safe for work (NSFW) content and engage in real-time conversations with AI-generated companions, often involving highly personal prompts and interactions. According to Have I Been Pwned, the breach exposed email addresses, user-created prompts, links…

Masjesu botnet targets IoT devices while evading high-profile networks

Masjesu is a stealthy DDoS-for-hire botnet targeting IoT devices, active since 2023 and designed to stay hidden by avoiding high-profile networks. Masjesu is a stealthy botnet active since 2023, advertised as a DDoS-for-hire service. It targets IoT devices like routers and gateways, spanning multiple architectures. Designed for persistence, it executes carefully, avoiding high-profile IP ranges…

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Datto RMM Exploited in Phishing Attack, Researchers Warn

Security researchers have uncovered an active phishing campaign that abuses Datto’s remote monitoring and management platform, CentraStage, as a command-and-control channel, giving attackers full interactive control over compromised systems while flying under the radar of traditional security defenses. Phishing campaign delivers remote access trojan via fake files The campaign, tracked by the Fortra Intelligence and…

Claude helps researcher dig up decade-old Apache ActiveMQ RCE vulnerability (CVE-2026-34197)

In the latest demonstration of how AI assistants can help with bug hunting, Horizon3.ai researcher Naveen Sunkavally used Claude to unearth CVE-2026-34197, a remote code execution vulnerability in Apache ActiveMQ that’s been introduced in the codebase 13 years ago. The vulnerability was patched in late March 2026 and there’s currently no indication that it is…

Mallory brings contextual threat intelligence to security operations

Mallory is launching an AI-native threat intelligence platform, purpose-built to answer the questions CISOs and their teams are asking every day: What are the real threat vectors for our organization? What’s actually exploitable in our environment right now? What should we proactively fix? The platform monitors thousands of threat sources, contextualizes them against your actual…

ThreatsDay Bulletin: Hybrid P2P Botnet, 13-Year-Old Apache RCE and 18 More Stories

Thursday. Another week, another batch of things that probably should’ve been caught sooner but weren’t. This one’s got some range — old vulnerabilities getting new life, a few “why was that even possible” moments, attackers leaning on platforms and tools you’d normally trust without thinking twice. Quiet escalations more than loud zero-days, but the kind that matter more…

US court refuses to stay Pentagon’s ‘supply-chain risk’ blacklisting of Anthropic

A federal appeals court in Washington has refused to suspend the Pentagon’s supply-chain risk designation against Anthropic, leaving defense contractors with conflicting legal signals over whether they can continue using Claude, and putting the ruling at odds with a separate federal court that reached the opposite conclusion last month. “The equitable balance here cuts in…

Weak at the seams

Before I ever held a security title, I was a software engineer implementing vertically integrated automation systems for industrial manufacturing, warehouse-scale conveyor networks, robotic material handling, physical infrastructure controlled by software on increasingly connected networks. I learned early that tightly coupled systems produce tightly coupled failures. When a single software fault could halt a distribution…

GrafanaGhost Flaw Allows Silent Data Exfiltration

A vulnerability called GrafanaGhost allows attackers to quietly extract sensitive data from Grafana environments without user interaction or traditional compromise techniques.  Discovered by researchers at Noma Security, the flaw highlights how AI-driven features can introduce new, difficult-to-detect attack paths in widely used platforms. “Across ForcedLeak, GeminiJack, DockerDash, and now GrafanaGhost, we keep seeing the same…

Don’t just fight fraud, hunt it

Our nation has entered a new fraud arms race fueled by AI. With billions of dollars in fraud losses mounting in both the private and public sectors, it’s clear the old ways of deterring fraud aren’t working. That’s why we need a new playbook that starts with understanding how fraudsters operate, evolving our defenses, and…

OPSWAT adds predictive AI engine to MetaDefender for pre-execution threat detection

OPSWAT has announced OPSWAT Predictive Alin AI, its first proprietary AI-based threat detection engine for the MetaDefender Platform. This AI-based innovation introduces a new category of capability within the MetaDefender Platform, a high-confidence predictive layer that works alongside existing detection and prevention engines to assess malicious intent before execution, driving greater efficiency across the platform.…

How Phishing Is Targeting Germany’s Economy: Active Threats from Finance to Manufacturing

Germany’s economy is a precision machine: finance fuels it, manufacturing builds it, telecom connects it, IT optimizes it, and healthcare sustains it. The country sits at the crossroads of industrial power and digital transformation, making it irresistibly attractive to attackers. In this article, we explore real-world attacks targeting five critical German industries, analyzed by ANY.RUN’s analysts using Interactive…

Acrobat Reader zero-day exploited in the wild for many months

Unknown attackers have exploited a zero-day Adobe Acrobat Reader vulnerability since November 2025 and possibly even earlier, security researcher Haifei Li has discovered. PDF files carry the exploit Haifei Li is one of the creators of EXPMON, a sandbox-based cybersecurity system for detecting advanced file-based exploits. It does so by analyzing suspicious files submitted through…

Intruder expands cloud security with agentless container image scanning

Intruder has announced the release of Container Image Scanning, a new upgrade to its cloud security capabilities that automatically scans container images for vulnerabilities, granting customers actionable insight into container risk without deploying and maintaining scanning agents across their estates. Leveraging existing integrations with major cloud providers, Intruder supports Amazon Web Services Elastic Container Registry,…

Adobe Reader Zero-Day Exploited via Malicious PDFs Since December 2025

Threat actors have been exploiting a previously unknown zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Reader using maliciously crafted PDF documents since at least December 2025. The finding, detailed by EXPMON’s Haifei Li, has been described as a highly-sophisticated PDF exploit. The artifact (“Invoice540.pdf”) first appeared on the VirusTotal platform on November 28, 2025. A second 

Bitter-Linked Hack-for-Hire Campaign Targets Journalists Across MENA Region

An apparent hack-for-hire campaign likely orchestrated by a threat actor with suspected ties to the Indian government targeted journalists, activists, and government officials across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), according to findings from Access Now, Lookout, and SMEX. Two of the targets included prominent Egyptian journalists and government critics, Mostafa

Advenica’s File Scanner Kiosk scans USB media for malware

Advenica announced the File Scanner Kiosk, a system that scans USB media for malware and helps businesses reduce infection risk. With the reliance on external media for file transfers, organisations face increased vulnerability to malware. The File Scanner Kiosk addresses this challenge by providing an automated, reliable, and efficient way to scan USB media for…

The alleged breach of China’s National Supercomputing Center can have serious geopolitical consequences

A hacker allegedly stole 10+ PB of sensitive military and aerospace data from China’s National Supercomputing Center, risking national security. A massive alleged breach has hit China’s National Supercomputing Center (NSCC) in Tianjin. A hacker claims to have exfiltrated over 10 petabytes of highly sensitive data, including military, aerospace, and missile-related information. The facility supports…

Patch windows collapse as time-to-exploit accelerates

The gap between vulnerability disclosure and exploitation is drastically decreasing, putting security teams’ patching practices on notice. According to Rapid7’s latest Cyber Threat Landscape Report, confirmed exploitation of newly disclosed high- and critical-severity vulnerabilities (CVSS 7-10) increased 105% year to 146 in 2025, up from 71 in 2024. Moreover, the median time from vulnerability publication…

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Weak at the seams

Before I ever held a security title, I was a software engineer implementing vertically integrated automation systems for industrial manufacturing, warehouse-scale conveyor networks, robotic material handling, physical infrastructure controlled by software on increasingly connected networks. I learned early that tightly coupled systems produce tightly coupled failures. When a single software fault could halt a distribution…

Internet-Exposed ICS Devices Raise Alarm for Critical Sectors

Exposed ICS devices and insecure protocols like Modbus increase risks to critical infrastructure, enabling disruption, data access, and potential sabotage. Malware targeting industrial control systems (ICS) poses a serious risk to critical infrastructure, with threats like Stuxnet, Industroyer, Triton, Havex, and BlackEnergy already demonstrating the ability to disrupt operations, cause outages, and even inflict physical…

Phishers sneak through using GitHub and Jira’s own mail delivery infrastructure

Attackers are abusing the notification systems of SaaS platforms like GitHub and Jira to send phishing and spam emails, Cisco Talos researchers are warning. “Because the emails are dispatched from the platform’s own infrastructure, they satisfy all standard authentication requirements (SPF, DKIM, and DMARC), effectively neutralizing the primary gatekeepers of modern email security,” they note.…

Prompt injection tags along as GenAI enters daily government use

Routine use of GenAI has moved into daily operations in state and territorial government environments, placing new security risks within common workflows. A Center for Internet Security (CIS) report, Prompt Injections: The Inherent Threat to Generative AI, identifies prompt injection as a persistent concern tied to that adoption. Adoption expands exposure Use of AI tools…

Video: SotaTek US CEO on AI Infrastructure Mistakes MSPs Must Fix

In this Channel Insider Partner POV episode, Katie Bavoso sits down with MK Tong, CEO of SotaTek USA, to break down why infrastructure—not AI models—is the real bottleneck for enterprise success. As AI workloads grow more complex, many organizations are rushing deployments without rethinking their infrastructure strategy. Tong shares where companies go wrong, how infrastructure…

Questions raised about how LinkedIn uses the petabytes of data it collects

Through LinkedIn’s more than one billion business users, the Microsoft unit has access to a vast array of personally-identifiable information, including data that could identify religious and political positions. What is less clear is what LinkedIn does with all of that data. A small European company that sells a browser extension to leverage different aspects…

Questions raised about how LinkedIn uses the petabytes of data it collects

Through LinkedIn’s more than one billion business users, the Microsoft unit has access to a vast array of personally-identifiable information, including data that could identify religious and political positions. What is less clear is what LinkedIn does with all of that data. A small European company that sells a browser extension to leverage different aspects…

Smashing Security podcast #462: LinkedIn is spying on you, and you agreed to nothing

LinkedIn has been secretly scanning your browser for over 6,000 installed extensions — on every single click you make. It can tell if you’re job hunting, what religion you are, and whether you have ADHD. And none of this is mentioned anywhere in their privacy policy. Meanwhile, California’s crypto millionaires are learning that no amount…

iTWire TV: HPE’s April Neoh on AI Bias, Trust, and Why the Scales Still Aren’t Balanced

GUEST INTERVIEW: April has spent roughly 20 years in tech. She’s watched the suits get replaced by suits wearing sneakers. She’s seen decisions go from months-long deliberation cycles to minimum viable products shipped at pace. And now, as Account Executive for High Performance Computing and AI at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, she’s watching AI reshape the…

LinkedIn is spying on you, and you agreed to nothing

LinkedIn has been secretly scanning your browser for over 6,000 installed extensions — on every single click you make. It can tell if you’re job hunting, what religion you are, and whether you have ADHD. And none of this is mentioned anywhere in their privacy policy. Meanwhile, California’s crypto millionaires are learning that no amount…