Cato Networks announced a new capability that reduces time-to-protect for newly disclosed vulnerabilities to 45 minutes. The company attributes this reduction to the use of agentic threat research designed to accelerate protection against emerging exploits. Traditional appliance-based security depends on a slow customer-operated patching cycle: vendors develop protections, customers receive updates, teams test them, and…
AI, Global Security News
Hyland platform innovations focus on AI governance, context, and agent oversight
Hyland has unveiled platform innovations designed to move AI from experimentation to enterprise-wide adoption. Powered by the Content Innovation Cloud, these advancements transform governed enterprise content into trusted, actionable intelligence that accelerates business outcomes. To meet the demands of global organizations, Hyland announced the general availability of the Enterprise Context Engine and introduced industry-specific ontologies…
Cybersecurity, Europe, Global Security News
Infosecurity Europe: Tabletop Exercise to Test How CISOs Respond to Major Supermarket Cyber-Attack
Semperis is set to bring ‘Enter the War Room: A Tabletop Experience’ to Infosecurity Europe to help cybersecurity leaders prepare to face real incidents
Global Security News
Zero-Click pretalx XSS Flaw Lets Hackers Hijack Conference Organizer Accounts
pretalx XSS flaw lets attackers hijack conference organizer accounts, steal sessions, auto-accept talks, and demote admins. Patched in v2026.1.0.
AI, Exploits, Global Security News, Risk Management
Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management gets a smarter exposure score
Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management’s updated exposure score model adds vulnerability risk signals and asset context to help teams understand where risk is concentrated and which remediation actions are likely to have the greatest impact. The model is available in public preview. “The updated model addresses these customer pain points by combining vulnerability risk, exploitability signals,…
AI, Global Security News
Intel stakes new claim in physical AI with robotics chips
Intel is invading the physical AI space with a reentry into the robotics market it quit many years ago amid financial struggles. The robotics strategy is part of the company’s larger plan to establish AI on the “edge,” in which devices have the computing capability to run AI locally. Many devices lack AI capabilities and…
Cybersecurity, Exploits, Global Security News
Critical Windows Netlogon RCE flaw now exploited in attacks
The Centre for Cybersecurity Belgium (CCB), the country’s national authority for cybersecurity, warned on Friday that threat actors are now exploiting a recently patched critical Windows Netlogon vulnerability in attacks. […]
AI, Exploits, Global Security News
Horizon3.ai introduces Rapid Response to prioritize and verify vulnerability remediation
Horizon3.ai has introduced Rapid Response, a capability that helps organizations assess exposure to newly disclosed threats, prioritize remediation, and verify that vulnerabilities have been addressed. Security teams are inundated with vulnerability disclosures, threat intelligence feeds, exploit chatter, and vendor advisories, all demanding immediate attention. While tens of thousands of new vulnerabilities are disclosed each year,…
AI, Global Security News
How to Get the Most From Your Explainer Video Production Services
Video can simplify a hard offer, shorten sales conversations, and improve recall. Those gains depend on disciplined planning…
AI, Global Security News, Network Security
Webinar tomorrow: From alert to resolution in network incident response
Network incidents are often detected quickly, but investigations and coordination can delay resolution. Join our webinar tomorrow to learn how automation and AI-assisted workflows can help IT teams accelerate incident response. […]
AI, Apps, Exploits, Global Security News, Risk Management
Flowise’s MCP implementation can run ghost commands
Enterprises using the lightweight, open-source Flowise platform to power self-hosted AI workloads have a new near-max severity issue to worry about. Researchers at Obsidian Security have detailed a one-click remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability affecting self-hosted Flowise deployments through its implementation of Model Context Protocol (MCP) stdio servers. The problem is essentially a sandboxing failure…
Global Security News
Cisco Secure Access and Microsoft Purview Integration for Simplified Data Protection
Announcing the new integration between Cisco Secure Access and Microsoft Purview designed to provide unified DLP based on Purview policies that can be enforced locally and in the cloud within Cisco Secure Access.
Apps, Global Security News, Risk Management
Cisco Secure Access and Island Browser Enable Zero Trust Everywhere
The integration between Cisco Secure Access and Island enterprise browser improves the user experience while reducing risk by connecting and protecting user access to private applications from unmanaged devices.
Endpoint, Global Security News
Finding what lives between the alerts: Announcing Cisco Talos Threat Hunting
Announcing Cisco Talos Threat Hunting expansion across Cisco Secure Endpoint, Cisco Secure Firewall, and Cisco Duo, delivered via Security in Cloud Control.
AI, Global Security News
From Log Flood to Threat Signal: Cisco and Splunk Bring Context to Modern Defense
Cisco is bringing more detailed visibility into Splunk across Cisco Firewall and Isovalent, helping teams act across hybrid environments with greater speed and confidence.
AI, Compliance, Europe, Global Security News, Network Security, Risk Management
IBM unveils tool to track sovereignty risks for cloud workloads
IBM has launched a tool designed to help customers assess cloud-sovereignty risks and meet regulatory compliance requirements. The Sovereignty Risk Profile launch comes as digital sovereignty becomes a higher priority for organizations concerned about where data is stored and processed. According to an IBM survey, 93% of executives believe sovereignty needs to be part of…
AI, Global Security News, Government & Policy
China-Aligned Groups Ramp Up Attacks: Dragon Weave Hits Czech Republic & Taiwan
A new cyber espionage campaign codenamed Operation Dragon Weave has been observed targeting officials and citizens in the Czech Republic and Taiwan to deliver an AdaptixC2 agent. According to Seqrite Labs, targets of the campaign include government, research, academic, technology, and financial services sectors. The activity entails distributing spear-phishing emails containing ZIP attachments
AI, Cybersecurity, Global Security News
Infosecurity Europe: AI SOCs Will Still Need SOC Analysts, Security Vendors Say
Top cybersecurity vendors said AI won’t replace entry-level – only routine ticket-taking and triage
AI, Cybersecurity, Global Security News
How NIST fumbled management of the National Vulnerability Database
A US federal watchdog has outlined how the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) failed to effectively manage the growing backlog of unprocessed cybersecurity vulnerabilities in the National Vulnerability Database (NVD). How the NVD crisis unfolded The NVD was established in 2005 and serves as a central repository for cybersecurity vulnerability data. When security…
Global Security News
Microsoft confirms outage affecting MFA, My Sign-Ins platform
Microsoft is working to address an ongoing incident preventing customers from setting up multi-factor authentication (MFA) or accessing the My Sign-Ins platform. […]
AI, Cybersecurity, Endpoint, Exploits, Global Security News, malware
CVE-2026-8732: The WP Maps Pro Flaw That Lets Anyone Create a WordPress Admin Without a Password
CVE-2026-8732 in WP Maps Pro lets unauthenticated attackers create WordPress admin accounts. 2,858 attacks blocked in 24 hours. WP Maps Pro plugin allows WordPress site owners to embed Google Maps and OpenStreetMap with markers, listings, and location search. It’s a store locator tool. Unremarkable. The plugin is installed on over 15,000 websites, according to sale…
Compliance, Cybersecurity, Global Security News
The Security Growth Platform: Why MSPs Are Moving Beyond vCISO Tools
Three years ago, the practical question for an MSP building a cybersecurity practice was which “vCISO platform” to buy. The term was good shorthand for the work at the time: assessments, advisory, reporting, maybe a compliance module bolted on the side. The work has since outgrown the descriptor. A Security Growth Platform is the more…
AI, Global Security News
How to defend at machine speed: A post-LLM era playbook
AI-era attacks now move at machine speed, forcing defenders to rethink validation and response.
AI, Apps, Cybersecurity, Endpoint, Exploits, Global Security News, malware, Network Security, Risk Management
Windows 11 Smart App Control explained
In the ever-evolving cybersecurity landscape, Microsoft has introduced various new features in Windows 11 designed to protect users from modern workplace threats. Among such features, Smart App Control (SAC) changes how Windows devices handle, and occasionally block, unwanted or potentially malicious applications. But what exactly is Smart App Control? How does it work, who benefits…
AI, Global Security News
FSB Group Gamaredon Hides Worm in Windows Data Streams
FSB-linked Gamaredon concealed a fileless worm in NTFS data streams to spy on Ukraine targets
AI, Global Security News
Microsoft fixes KB5089549 Windows security update install issues
Microsoft has resolved a known issue causing installation failures and 0x800f0922 errors when deploying the May 2026 Windows 11 security update (KB5089549). […]
AI, Global Security News, malware
Fake Purchase Order Emails Spread Fileless PureLogs Malware via RAR Archives
Hackers are using fake purchase order emails and process hollowing to deploy fileless PureLogs malware to steal Windows users’ browser, crypto, and Discord data.
Global Security News, Network Security
Dragos acquires Phosphorus to secure extended operational technology
Dragos has acquired Phosphorus, extending the Dragos Platform to protect billions of connected devices embedded across critical infrastructure and other operational networks. Operational environments have outgrown traditional OT boundaries. Power grids, pipelines, manufacturing facilities, and data centers now depend on an increasingly diverse mix of connected devices and digital systems. Traditional and non-traditional assets alike…
AI, Cybersecurity, Global Security News
Election threats are focused on campaign systems, not voting machines
Cybersecurity threats to the 2026 midterm elections are targeting the accounts and platforms that campaigns, donors and voters use to communicate, according to a security report released Monday by Check Point Software Technologies. So far in this election cycle, threats are not aimed at voting machines or ballot-counting systems. Instead, threat actors are going after…
AI, Exploits, Global Security News, Network Security, Risk Management
CIFSwitch, a Linux Root Bug Hidden in Plain Sight for 19 Years
CIFSwitch is a 19-year-old Linux logic bug turning forged CIFS auth keys into root. Affects Mint, CentOS, Rocky, Kali, SLES. CIFSwitch stands apart from typical privilege escalation vulnerabilities because of how it was discovered. Asim Manizada, a security engineer at SpaceX, didn’t find it by auditing source code the old-fashioned way. He built an AI-powered…
Exploits, Global Security News, Network Security
Hackers are exploiting Palo Alto GlobalProtect VPN authentication bypass (CVE-2026-0257)
Authentication bypass vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-0257) in Palo Alto Networks’ firewalls that the company disclosed on May 13 have been targeted in “limited exploit attempts”. “Across multiple customers, Rapid7 observed successful exploitation via authentication probes using forged cookies, but the appliance accepted the cookie without a full VPN session being established in 8 out of 10 impacted…
AI, Cybersecurity, Global Security News
OpenAI Codex Authentication Tokens Stolen in codexui-android npm Supply Chain Attack
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new malicious supply chain campaign that’s targeting developers using OpenAI Codex through a legitimate-looking remote web UI. The tool, named codexui-android, is advertised on GitHub and npm as a remote web UI for OpenAI Codex, attracting over 29,000 weekly downloads. The package is still available for download from…
AI, Global Security News, malware
Attackers Abuse Shared Content for ChatGPT Phishing Campaign
Push Security says threat actors are delivering malware hosted on chatgpt.com/s/ domain
Global Security News
Helping defense’s use of AI catch up with offense, cost of the vulnpocalypse, news – Evan Powell – ESW #461
Exploits, Global Security News
Critical WP Maps Pro Flaw Actively Exploited to Create Admin Accounts
Threat actors are attempting to actively exploit a critical security flaw impacting WP Maps Pro, a WordPress plugin that has had over 15,000 sales on the Envato Market, to create malicious administrator accounts on susceptible sites. WP Maps Pro allows site owners to embed customizable Google Maps and OpenStreetMap with markers, listings, and advanced location…
AI, Global Security News
NVIDIA goes open source with a big batch of physical AI agent tools
NVIDIA just dropped a big batch of open-source “physical AI” skills and tools, and they’re designed to make a roboticist’s life a whole lot easier. The idea? Take the messy, complicated work behind robots, self-driving cars, vision AI, and industrial digital twins, and break it into bite-sized tasks that AI agents can actually run themselves.…
AI, Cybersecurity, Exploits, Global Security News, Network Security, Risk Management
U.S. CISA adds Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-0257 (CVSS score of 7.8), to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. Palo Alto Networks addressed the vulnerability CVE-2026-0257 on May…
Exploits, Global Security News, Network Security
Palo Alto Warns High-Severity Bug Is Being Actively Exploited
A vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks’ PAN-OS software is being exploited in attacks
AI, Data Breaches, Global Security News, Government & Policy, Network Security, privacy, Risk Management
1,000 Data Breaches Later, the Disclosure Lag is Worse Than Ever
Today, I loaded the 1,000th data breach into Have I Been Pwned. Reflecting on that milestone number, I pondered how to mark the occasion in writing, and what immediately came to mind was a very simple question: why is it still needed? Especially considering the emergence of privacy regulations such as GDPR and CCPA in…
AI, Global Security News
Infosecurity Europe: OWASP Forms New Agentic Research Council
OWASP’s new Agentic Research Council will aim to connect academic work to operational realities on agentic AI security
AI, Global Security News
DNS-AID lets AI agents find and verify each other through DNS
AI agents run across many platforms, and each one needs a way to locate and confirm the identity of the others it works with. The Linux Foundation’s DNS-AID project gives them that capability through the Domain Name System, the same address lookup system that has directed internet traffic for decades. The project lets AI agents…
AI, Exploits, Global Security News, Network Security, Risk Management
Asimily turns device risk into automated network policy
Asimily has launched Segmentation Orchestration, enabling connected-device risk intelligence to flow directly into enforceable network policy without manual translation. No other platform combines full asset visibility, vulnerability prioritization, and segmentation orchestration in a single system. “AI has exploded the volume and sophistication of network attacks against connected devices, and security teams are discovering that visibility…
AI, Apps, Exploits, Global Security News, Government & Policy, Network Security, privacy, Risk Management
The Pentagon Finally Admits That Location Data Is a Battlefield Problem
The Pentagon confirmed adversaries are using commercial location data to track U.S. troops, exposing risks tied to smartphones and ad-tech networks. For years, security researchers, privacy advocates, and intelligence analysts have been warning about the same thing: smartphone location data isn’t just an advertising product. It’s surveillance infrastructure that anyone with enough money can access.…
AI, Compliance, Cybersecurity, Exploits, Funding, Global Security News, Government & Policy, Risk Management
6 critical security gaps every CISO must address
CISOs acknowledge that no organization is completely safe, but many also admit their security measures aren’t where they’d like them to be. One-third of CISOs surveyed for Proofpoint’s 2025 Voice of the CISO Report said the data within their organization is not adequately protected, and 58% said their organizations were unprepared to respond to a…
AI, Compliance, Global Security News
Data discovery gaps that catch enterprises off guard
In this interview with Help Net Security, Avani Desai, CEO at Schellman, talks about the gap between what organizations think they know about their data and what discovery scans turn up. She shares stories of shadow data in abandoned cloud storage, post-merger surprises where duplicated datasets slowed integration, and why synthetic data is overmarketed while…
Global Security News
Nvidia Introduces First PCs Designed for AI Agents
The chip giant will work with manufacturers including Dell, Lenovo and HP to make the laptops, designed to support agentic computing.
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Cybersecurity’s Evolution: Two Decades of Progress
Explore the remarkable transformation of cybersecurity over the past 20 years, highlighting key innovations and the evolving threat landscape.
AI, Compliance, Cybersecurity, Global Security News, Risk Management
EU organizations buckle under rising compliance pressure
Cybersecurity governance in the EU is shifting under expanding frameworks such as NIS2 and DORA, while AI raises new questions for security teams. What the future brings is hard to predict, and organizations must find a way to cope. Antonija Vojnović, Governance, Risk and Compliance Department Manager at Span, spoke with Help Net Security at…
AI, Global Security News
OWASP Agent Memory Guard: Stop AI agents from being weaponized through their own memory
AI agents keep memory across sessions. Conversation history, vector stores, scratchpads, and RAG indexes persist between runs, and anything written into that store becomes a privileged input the agent reads back later. An attacker who plants text in the wrong field can override an agent’s instructions, pull out user data, or steer future tool calls,…
Global Security News
Nvidia Introduces First PCs Designed for AI Agents
The chips giant will work with manufacturers including Dell, Lenovo and HP to make the laptops, designed to support agentic computing.
AI, Global Security News, Risk Management
Governing shadow AI without killing innovation
In this Help Net Security video, Alan Snyder, CEO at NowSecure, talks about governing shadow AI without stopping innovation. He frames the problem as two opposing forces. Companies need to adopt AI fast because attackers and competitors will outpace them otherwise, but they also need to do it safely. Snyder argues the pressure to move…
AI, Global Security News, privacy, Risk Management
145 AI laws passed in 2025 and privacy teams aren’t catching a break
145 AI-related laws were enacted by state legislatures in 2025, and more than 1,000 additional bills were introduced or revised, according to DataGrail’s Privacy and AI Trends Report 2026. Average cost of manual data subject request management (Source: DataGrail) Shadow AI risks Of the 2,400 popular business software providers that advertised AI capabilities, 63.6% did…
Data Breaches, Global Security News
Weekly Update 506
I’m finding it quite fascinating to watch the current spate of ShinyHunters breaches and dumps. There’s the obvious criminality of it all, but then there’s also the response from organisations (or lack thereof, as it relates to disclosure to victims), the appearance and disappearance of victims on their dark web site, the speculation around payments…
AI, Cybersecurity, Global Security News, Risk Management
Press Release: CSO30 ASEAN & Hong Kong Awards 2026 open for nominations
>The CSO30 ASEAN & Hong Kong Awards return in 2026, as an important moment to recognise the cybersecurity leaders and teams who are making resilience measurable across the region. In a landscape shaped by rapid threat evolution, board-level scrutiny and rising expectations of business continuity, these awards spotlight the people and programmes that are turning…
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ISC Stormcast For Monday, June 1st, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9952, (Mon, Jun 1st)
(c) SANS Internet Storm Center. https://isc.sans.edu Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.
AI, Global Security News, malware, Network Security
Unidentified RAT pushes NetSupport RAT, (Mon, Jun 1st)
Introduction This diary provides indicators from an unidentified RAT infection on Wednesday 2026-05-27 that was followed by a malicious NetSupport Manager RAT package. This originated from the SmartApeSG ClickFix campaign. I still don’t know the name of the initial RAT, but it has consistently been generating encoded (not HTTPS/SSL/TLS) traffic to a command and control…
AI, Global Security News
Pwn2Own Berlin 2026: On the Ground With TrendAI™ ZDI’s Biggest AI Showdown Yet
47 zero-days fell at Pwn2Own Berlin 2026 for US$1,298,250 in payouts. TrendAI™ was on the ground all three days — here’s what we saw.
AI, Cybersecurity, Exploits, Global Security News, Network Security
CVE-2026-0257: Rapid7 Caught Attackers Abusing Forged VPN Cookies Against Multiple Customers
CVE-2026-0257 lets attackers forge Palo Alto GlobalProtect auth cookies and bypass VPN login. Exploitation confirmed since May 17. Palo Alto Networks addressed the vulnerability CVE-2026-0257 on May 13. Two weeks later, cybersecurity firm Rapid7 confirmed active exploitation across multiple customer environments. The flaw impacts the GlobalProtect portal and gateway components of Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS…
Global Security News
YARA-X 1.17.0 Release, (Sun, May 31st)
YARA-X’s 1.17.0 release brings 5 improvements (several performance improvements) and 1 bugfix. Didier Stevens Senior handler blog.DidierStevens.com (c) SANS Internet Storm Center. https://isc.sans.edu Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.
AI, Global Security News, Risk Management
27,000-Download Codex UI Tool Secretly Stole OpenAI Refresh Tokens
A malicious Codex UI npm package with 27,000 weekly downloads was caught exfiltrating OpenAI refresh tokens, exposing developers to account takeover risks.
AI, Europe, Exploits, Global Security News, malware, Network Security
SECURITY AFFAIRS MALWARE NEWSLETTER ROUND 99
Security Affairs Malware newsletter includes a collection of the best articles and research on malware in the international landscape Malware Newsletter Ghost CMS Mass Compromised via CVE-2026-26980, Now Fueling ClickFix Attacks TrapDoor Crypto Stealer Supply Chain Attack Hits 34 Packages and Hundreds of Versions Across npm, PyPI, and Crates.io RemotePE: The Lazarus RAT that lives…
AI, Cybersecurity, Data Breaches, Europe, Exploits, Global Security News, Government & Policy, malware, Network Security, Politics, privacy, Risk Management, Russia
Security Affairs newsletter Round 579 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION
A new round of the weekly Security Affairs newsletter has arrived! Every week, the best security articles from Security Affairs are free in your email box. Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press. ShinyHunters Leaks Charter Communications Data, Potentially Impacting 5 Million Customers Signal Phishing Campaign Targets Journalists and…
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Top Stocks and Daily News Report for Saturday, May 23, 2026: AI Gathered Analysis
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here are the top cybersecurity news stories for today (May 31, 2026)
🔴 Critical Zero-Day Vulnerabilities
Global Security News
WP Maps Pro bug exploited to create admin accounts on WordPress sites
Hackers are targeting WordPress websites running a vulnerable version of the WP Maps Pro plugin, which allows creating rogue administrator accounts without authentication. […]
AI, Global Security News
Tokenmaxxing Maxes Out
Plus, AI topples a 80 year-old math problem, the Brockmans sit for an interview and physical AI gets its due.
Global Security News, Network Security
Dutch Authorities Dismantle Botnet Linked to 17 Million Infected Devices
Dutch authorities have announced the takedown of a botnet that enslaved millions of infected devices, including computers, tablets, smartphones, and IoT devices, to carry out malicious attacks. The bot network, per the Dutch Politie and the National Cyber Security Center (NCSC), consisted of at least 17 million infected devices. More than 200 servers located in…
Global Security News
The Messy Reality of Building an Empire in Space
Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk both faced challenges this past week in the race to make their sci-fi dreams a reality.
AI, Exploits, Global Security News
Week in review: Infostealer dropped via FortiClient EMS flaw, exploited Trend Micro Apex One flaw
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: Coinflow CISO on crypto payments security under AI pressure Crypto payment firms sit near the top of the target list for advanced persistent threat groups, and the workload on their security leaders keeps growing. Malcolm Portelli, CISO at Coinflow, runs…
AI, Global Security News
The High-Stakes Hunt for the Next Amazon in the AI Haystack
With AI winners and losers changing places so quickly, it isn’t just about where to invest, but also when.
AI, Europe, Global Security News, Network Security
SoftBank to Plow $52 Billion Into French Data Centers
SoftBank is promising to spend at least $52 billion on building a network of massive data centers in France, helping advance Europe’s goal of tech independence with what would be the continent’s largest AI infrastructure project.
Data Breaches, Exploits, Global Security News, Network Security
Palo Alto GlobalProtect VPN auth bypass flaw now exploited in attacks
Palo Alto Networks is warning that hackers are now exploiting a PAN-OS GlobalProtect authentication bypass flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-0257, in attacks attempting to breach corporate networks. […]
AI, Global Security News
Fake Anthropic Sites Deliver Fileless Infostealer to Claude Code Users
Fake Anthropic websites are being used to target Claude Code users with a fileless infostealer campaign that steals browser credentials and evades detection.
AI, Data Breaches, Europe, Global Security News, Network Security
ShinyHunters Leaks Charter Communications Data, Potentially Impacting 5 Million Customers
Cybercrime group ShinyHunters leaked data allegedly stolen from Charter Communications, exposing millions of customer records after a failed extortion attempt. The ShinyHunters extortion group has published data allegedly stolen from Charter Communications after the company apparently refused to pay a ransom. Charter Communications is one of the largest telecommunications companies in the United States. It…
AI, Global Security News
New CIFSwitch Linux flaw gives root on multiple distributions
A newly discovered local privilege escalation vulnerability dubbed ‘CIFSwitch’ in the Linux kernel could allow attackers to forge CIFS authentication key descriptions, abuse the kernel’s key request mechanism, and gain root privileges. […]
AI, Exploits, Global Security News, malware, Risk Management, Russia
Signal Phishing Campaign Targets Journalists and Activists to Steal Backup Recovery Keys
Attackers are texting Signal users posing as Support, asking for backup recovery keys. Once obtained, they can decrypt the entire message history, not just future chats. A phishing campaign is currently targeting Signal users with text messages that impersonate Signal Support and ask them to hand over their backup recovery key. The message looks urgent,…
AI, Cybersecurity, Exploits, Global Security News, malware, Network Security, Risk Management
Botnet of 17 Million Devices Dismantled in the Netherlands
Dutch authorities seized 200 servers running a 17-million-device botnet linked to proxy service Asocks. Dutch authorities have taken offline a massive botnet of at least 17 million devices and seized more than 200 servers at a local provider that supported the operation. Infected devices included computers, tablets, and smartphones. The action was carried out following…
AI, Cybersecurity, Exploits, Global Security News, malware, Network Security, Risk Management
Botnet of 17 Million Devices Dismantled in the Netherlands
Dutch authorities seized 200 servers running a 17-million-device botnet linked to proxy service Asocks. Dutch authorities have taken offline a massive botnet of at least 17 million devices and seized more than 200 servers at a local provider that supported the operation. Infected devices included computers, tablets, and smartphones. The action was carried out following…
Exploits, Global Security News, Network Security
PAN-OS GlobalProtect Authentication Bypass (CVE-2026-0257) Under Active Exploitation
Palo Alto Networks has warned that a recently disclosed medium-severity security flaw impacting PAN-OS and Prisma Access has come under active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-0257 (CVSS score: 7.8), refers to a case of authentication bypass that could be exploited by bad actors to set up VPN connections. “Authentication bypass vulnerabilities…
Global Security News
The Google Engineer Accused of Risking It All With an Insider Polymarket Bet
Michele Spagnuolo, the Google engineer accused of using company data to bet on Polymarket, had a long list of enviable accomplishments
Global Security News
Robotaxis Are Spreading Across the U.S.—and So Is the Backlash
As autonomous taxi services scale beyond Silicon Valley, new problems abound for cities.
AI, Global Security News
A Famous Math Problem Stumped Humans for 80 Years. AI Just Cracked It.
The math world is losing its mind over the new solution to an Erdős problem. This is what AI found, how we missed it—and why it matters.
AI, Apps, Global Security News, Government & Policy, malware, Network Security, Russia
Russia-aligned crime group Greyvibe extensively uses AI in attacks
Researchers have uncovered a previously undocumented Russian group that makes extensive use of large language models (LLMs) in its attacks against private, government, and military organizations in Ukraine. It uses a variety of attack vectors along with custom malware, with the goal of intelligence gathering for the ongoing war. Dubbed Greyvibe by researchers from WithSecure,…
Global Security News
The Billionaire Coding Genius Making the Tough Decisions at OpenAI
After years in the shadow of better-known co-founders, Greg Brockman is stepping into the spotlight. He and his wife Anna are also Silicon Valley super-donors.
AI, Cybersecurity, Exploits, Global Security News, Risk Management
Microsoft and security researcher’s dueling posts about cybersecurity disclosures get nasty
Microsoft and a prominent cybersecurity researcher have gotten into a very public and rather personal exchange of unpleasantries about what responsible cybersecurity disclosures should mean in 2026. A cybersecurity researcher going by the name Nightmare Eclipse, who has disclosed several cybersecurity holes before patches were available, posted that he had tried to contact Microsoft officials…
AI, Exploits, Global Security News, Network Security, Risk Management
FIFA World Cup 2026: What Third-Party Domain Registrations Reveal About Emerging Risks
As excitement builds for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, cybercriminals and opportunistic domain registrants are also preparing for one of the world’s most watched sporting events. New research from CSC reveals a significant increase in third-party domain registrations containing FIFA-related keywords, highlighting how major global events create opportunities for fraud, brand abuse, and consumer deception.…
AI, Global Security News, Russia
AI helps Russian-speaking GreyVibe run five parallel attack chains on Ukrainian targets
Researchers say Russian-speaking group GreyVibe uses AI tools to scale cyberattacks on Ukraine.
Global Security News
Sidhe, GreyVibe, Claude, Lightwell, Eclipse, Kimsuky, Obscure Beliefs, Josh Marpet – SWN #585
AI, APAC, Compliance, Global Security News, Risk Management
Integris CEO on First Focus Acquisition, Global MSP Demand
Integris’ planned acquisition of First Focus is not just a geographic expansion play. According to founder and CEO Rashaad Bajwa, the deal gives the U.S.-based MSP a scaled platform in Australia and New Zealand at a time when SMB customers are beginning to ask harder questions about AI, data protection, and governance. First Focus expands…
Cybersecurity, Global Security News
Name That Toon: Mark of (Cybersecurity) Progress
As part of Dark Reading’s 20th anniversary package, we asked readers for a cybersecurity-related caption that captures their thoughts about the industry’s last two decades.
AI, Data Security, Global Security News
Dell’s Partner Program Shifts to Strategic Customer Outcomes
Dell Technologies recently introduced new enhancements to its partner program, including rebates and incentives to enhance customer outcomes. Launching in August 2026, the partner program refresh centers on differentiated rebates for strategic solutions; focuses accounts on incentives; and recognizes impact from advisory and systems integrator co-sell. During Dell Technologies World 2026, Channel Insider spoke with…
AI, Endpoint, Global Security News, privacy, Risk Management
Dell Experts Discuss the Future of Deskside AI
During Dell Technologies World 2026, much of the conversation centered on AI use amid the rapid emergence of agentic AI. In a conversation with Marc Hammons, Senior Distinguished Engineer at Dell Technologies, and Charlie Walker, Head of Dell Pro Precision at Dell Technologies, both emphasized how unexpectedly strong the demand and experimentation around AI have…
Global Security News
Key Questions to Ask When Evaluating an Identity and Access Management Vendor
Global Security News
How to Build an AI Governance Framework for Identity
Global Security News
SAML: How It Works, Common Misconfigurations, and Security Implications
Global Security News
Why IAM Matters: Benefits, Challenges, and Common Pitfalls
Global Security News
How to Evaluate and Select Identity and Access Management Tools
Global Security News
Identity-based attacks: how they work and how to defend against them
Global Security News
Non-Human Identities Are Outgrowing Your Governance Model
AI, Apps, Global Security News
AI PCs Raise New Refresh Cycle Questions for Partners
AI PCs are becoming a bigger part of enterprise refresh conversations as Dell, HP, Lenovo, and other major PC makers position AI-enabled devices as the next phase of workplace computing. For channel partners and MSPs, the shift creates a new advisory challenge: helping customers determine when local AI processing justifies a hardware upgrade, when traditional…