If you thought that having companies trawling your social media, browsing history, and TV habits for behavioral clues was bad, sit tight. Meta is just getting started. Its Muse personal AI agent is taking surveillance to the next level. TIME magazine analyzed the software’s internal instructions and found that it maintains constantly updated dossiers on…

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CrowdStrike revealed that a Chinese-speaking hacker deployed agentic pentesting tool ARTEX and Claude to help breach data from South Korean financial firms

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AI agents are escaping sandboxes, misusing credentials and acting without authorization. This live dashboard tracks every reported incident on a horizontal timeline, with charts showing which AI companies and agents are involved, the techniques used and how they got in. It updates automatically as new events are added.

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The stock was down 18%, wiping out year-to-date gains after the biotech stopped a late-stage clinical trial of its Vyvgart drug due to lack of efficacy.

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A critical vulnerability affecting eight Atlassian products, including Jira and Confluence, is being exploited in the wild, said VulnCheck

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Cisco Talos identified an advanced persistent threat (APT) spear-phishing campaign against individuals affiliated with Taiwan research organizations. The operation leveraged legitimate public event themes and impersonated reputable academic and policy institutions to establish credibility.  The phishing emails exhibited highly consistent structure, rhetoric, and personalization patterns, suggesting the threat actor likely used AI-assisted content generation to…

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“AI-analysis evasion” encapsulates the real-world techniques malware authors are developing in attempt to obstruct or defeat any layers of automated AI analysis.  This technique is cheap to add but inconsistently impactful — the best techniques steered the outcome in the attacker’s favor in about 35% of test runs. Further, it must always be plaintext and…

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TRex Bio and Retension Pharmaceuticals are set to continue the industry’s public debut rebound.

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Europol and US Government Accountability Office urge faster transition to post-quantum cryptography

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ESET Research catalogs the changes of UAC-0099’s MATCHBOIL downloader from 2024 to 2026

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The FBI and Secret Service are warning Fortigate admins that their systems are still being targeted

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Threat intelligence on its own is only data. Its value depends on how effectively SOC teams can turn it into action. Simply put, this was the premise of our recent webinar. The SOC and business impact of threat intelligence depends largely on how quickly analysts can use it to validate threats, make confident decisions, and…

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Security awareness programs can report who completed training, clicked a simulation, or passed a quiz. Those metrics provide useful evidence of participation and practice. They offer less insight into whether employees can recognize and respond to a real phishing threat when it reaches their inbox, whether that is days or months later. Cofense’s Beyond Human…

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The Surface Laptop Ultra is an AI powerhouse, with Nvidia’s new RTX Spark chip and up to 128GB of unified memory – and it’s priced for power users.

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According to the 2026 villa cost guide from LC Interiors, villa renovation cost in Dubai runs from AED 400,000 for a mid-range full renovation of a 5-bedroom villa to past AED 1.5 million for a luxury fit-out. The kitchen, the bathrooms and custom joinery drive the spread. Quotes go wrong when they skip waterproofing, prep…

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Microsoft’s Twitter account, with its 13 million followers, was hijacked by a paperclip. There was no ransomware or data theft, just Clippy, a dodgy crypto coin, and a corporate apology that wasn’t from Microsoft either. Meanwhile, UK losses from hacked email and social media accounts have rocketed by 417%, as scammers pose as your friends…

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This post shows you how to configure an AI model to perform structured, evidence-based vulnerability triage with the consistency of a seasoned security analyst. You’ll learn the design decisions behind five configuration sections that enforce structural verification, evidence-based scoring, and infrastructure-aware prioritization across every analysis session. Our companion post—Building your AI vulnerability harness—covered the architecture;…

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Vulnerability scanners produce findings faster than manual triage can process them. Your developers ship more code with more dependencies, and the volume of candidate findings grows with it. Many findings a scanner produces are unlikely to be exploited. The ones that matter need to reach an engineer fast, with enough evidence that they can act…

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Does AI use help or hurt feedback at work? Here’s what one survey found.

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In the wake of an agentic attack against its own Medicare systems, Australia’s government is feeling out what regulations might look like for frontier AI companies.

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The Citizen Lab’s Ron Deibert warns the US government is pushing for pervasive surveillance and says certain technology executives are all too happy to help.

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Anthropic has merged Project Glasswing into a tiered access program for its advanced cyber LLMs, including Opus, Sonnet, and Mythos.

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Autonomous agents also tried to abuse other websites and services hosted by the foundation, using them as proxies for unauthorized activities.

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Cisco Talos’ Vulnerability Discovery & Research team recently disclosed vulnerabilities in Adobe, Apple, Foxit Reader, and Microsoft. The vulnerabilities mentioned in this blog post have been patched by their respective vendors, in adherence to Cisco’s third-party vulnerability disclosure policy.  For Snort coverage that can detect the exploitation of these vulnerabilities, download the latest rule sets…

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Security alerts rarely arrive one at a time. A single alert can cause a spike across the environment, requiring a human analyst to decide which alerts are related and what they mean. When multiple arrive at the same time, it can quickly overwhelm even a seasoned security analyst. Enter the alert paradox. Now, our built-in,…

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If you’ve ever wondered whether your background qualifies you for a career in cybersecurity, you’re not alone — and you’re probably more prepared than you think. My name is Shannon Brazil, and I work in security communications at Amazon Web Services (AWS). I have been in the security space for over a decade, and my…

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  Welcome to our podcast series, Coffee with the Council. I’m Alicia Malone, Director of Communications and Public Relations for the PCI Security Standards Council. Recently, the Council published its newest standard, the Key Management and Operations, or KMO Standard. But what exactly is KMO, and how does it fit into the Council’s portfolio of…

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Our industry is now split into two cohorts – AI skeptics and AI enthusiasts. I get to spend plenty of time with people from both of these camps. Each side has its own merits and its own pretty solid arguments. All that said, I have recently come to the conclusion that both AI skeptics and…

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OTCC urged CISA to mandate baseline security requirements for federal operational technology

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A teenager from Amman, Jordan suspected of leading the prolific data theft and extortion group ShinyHunters has been detained and is reportedly cooperating with the FBI to identify other members of the hacking gang. KrebsOnSecurity has learned that the suspect, who uses the hacker handle “Rey,” was detained as ShinyHunters was in the process of…

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Google has published security fixes for Android. The October updates are available for Android operating system versions 14, 15, 16, 16-qpr2, and 17 where “qpr” stands for Quarterly Platform Release. QPRs are interim updates Google pushes out between major yearly cycles. These Android security bulletins contain valuable information for Android users. The updates are important…

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Barracuda finds phishing emails designed to manipulate both human users and AI assistants

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A Group-IB researcher has found the Telegram account linked to the unauthorized ASOS customer notification previously engaged in gaming-item trading

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In August, the Malwarebytes research team reported on a new malicious turnkey kit that makes it possible for almost anyone to launch a sophisticated online scam. The kit was not simply a fake website. It bundled the command center, victim tracking, and administrative tools into a ready-to-use package, reducing the technical knowledge needed to operate…

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A Yubico survey identified a significant gap between awareness and adoption of secure methods of authentication in enterprises

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For some time now, the cybersecurity community has seen examples of autonomous agents, built inside AI labs, attacking public infrastructure (to name a few, Hugging Face, DSEWiki, and RubyGems). Of course, frontier labs have built-in security to prevent these attacks from occurring, but every now and then, the training or prompting appears to be insufficient…

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September 2026 saw 181 confirmed cyber incidents, roughly one every four hours. Cybercrime drove 73.8% of attacks and espionage 19.1%. Malware led the techniques with 53 campaigns, ahead of Remote Code Execution with 32. More than a quarter of breaches started with an exploited public-facing application, and the United States was the most targeted country…

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September 2026 recorded 182 cyber incidents, and Cyber Crime drove roughly three in four of them (73.9%). Malware was the top attack vector at 27.8%, exploitation of public-facing applications led initial access at 28.9%, and Information & Communication was the most targeted sector. Explore the full statistics, from the daily trend to the geographic distribution.

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Ethical hackers have already found 32 zero days in various products at Pwn2Own Ireland

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A plausible-sounding sponsorship offer could mask an attempt to compromise your Google account

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A breach of 8.8 million citizens on the Danish Central Register of Persons (CPR) occurred via third-party access

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US SOC teams are under pressure to detect and contain threats faster, but the real challenge is often not a lack of security solutions. It’s the growing amount of alerts, fragmented investigation data, evasive attack techniques, and the time analysts spend connecting the dots. As attacks become harder to validate and easier to hide inside…

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By: Kahng An, Intelligence Team Cofense Intelligence has been tracking a series of email campaigns that target the accommodation industry with fake guest complaints or reviews that deliver blockchain technology-abusing malware. These emails appear to likely be a continuation of a prior series of predominantly Booking.com-spoofing emails that were seen delivering various remote access trojans…

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

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Active Directory defenses must combine identity fundamentals, telemetry, and rapid response as attackers reach the environment’s first breach attempt within a median of 11 hours.

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SILVER SPRING, Md., Oct. 6, 2026, CyberNewswire — Aembit, the identity control plane for AI agents, today announced support for securing personal agents’ access to enterprise environments, available immediately to existing customers at no additional cost. As personal agents, such as Meta Muse and OpenAI Dots, move into workplace use, they can gain access to…

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Find insight on Sanofi, CSL, Shionogi and more in the latest Market Talks covering the Health Care sector.

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Threat actors are now hiding payloads by using DNS TXT records and browser cache pre-fetching, making it tougher to spot early attack stages.

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A study of 2.5 million devices across 50 healthcare organizations suggests the sector has a long way to go in getting ready for the post-quantum cryptography era.

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In cloud-centered environments, establishing trust between workloads is fundamental to securing machine-to-machine communication. Traditional approaches such as API keys, shared secrets, and static service account credentials weren’t designed for the scale and ephemeral nature of cloud workloads. This drives an organizational need to shift from long-term, static credentials to short-lived cryptographic workload identities. Organizations are…

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The situation illustrates a trend toward using AI and deterministic validation to identify flaws and exploitability, and provide a risk assessment.

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In this video interview, Nick Kakolowski, senior director for CISO research at IANS, talks AI: budgets, ROI, and changes inside security teams.

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Not quite an EDR-killer, but the proof-of-concept cyber technique creates a silent virus detection gap while service runs normally, no exploit required.

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You’re building a data agent that lets business users ask questions about lakehouse data in natural language. You’ve already built governance policies that control who can access which datasets. The challenge is making the agent respect those rules without rebuilding them in your application code. When a user asks a question, the agent maps it…

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AI tools let non-technical employees build workplace apps in minutes with natural language prompts. While these AI-generated apps boost productivity, they can create severe security and data risks. As Cybersecurity Awareness Month kicks off, we’re sharing how Tenable adopted a structured governance framework that allows our “citizen coders” to build secure and compliant apps with…

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ClickFix sites stage a VBScript payload in the browser cache to bypass the Run dialog’s length limit

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Nikkei says two employee cloud accounts were accessed, with one used to send 9,000 phishing emails

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The IBM subsidiary has also announced its Lightwell Clearinghouse is now available to all customers

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Editor’s note: This research was conducted by Himanshu Anand, an independent cybersecurity researcher (follow Himanshu on X). During Cybersecurity Awareness Month, ransomware remains one of the clearest examples of how a cyber incident can become a business continuity issue. IronChain shows why. It puts business-critical data at risk of permanent loss and can bring operations…

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The cybersecurity market is often making it tougher for SMBs to keep threats at bay

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As AI models become more capable, they uncover more security vulnerabilities and identify increasingly sophisticated paths to exploit them, raising the bar for how quickly defenders must respond. Security teams now face more potential vulnerabilities than their existing processes were designed to handle — each requiring investigation, reproduction, and a repair that must be tested…

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The Linux backdoor exploits 24 known flaws to compromise IoT devices and uses legitimate public STUN servers to obscure communications.

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An emerging threat group known as TA419 established seemingly legitimate professional relationships with AI policy experts working for US think tanks, universities, and legal organizations.

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Welcome to the PCI Security Standards Council’s blog series, The AI Exchange: Innovators in Payment Security. This special, ongoing feature of our PCI Perspectives blog offers a resource for payment security industry stakeholders to exchange information about how they are adopting and implementing artificial intelligence (AI) into their organizations.  

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For the latest discoveries in cyber research for the week of 5th October, please download our Threat Intelligence Bulletin. TOP ATTACKS AND BREACHES Arizona’s state court system has suffered a phishing-led cyberattack after an employee clicked a malicious link. Attackers copied backup files containing protective-order records and more than 150,000 Foster Care Review Board reports…

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AI-powered attacks are fast, relentless, and automated. How security teams can keep up is top of mind, according to the latest Dark Reading reader poll.

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For small businesses who are often confronted with limited resources, knowing how to get started and where to find support with planning, implementing, or evaluating a cybersecurity risk management strategy can be challenging — sometimes making cybersecurity feel like an insurmountable hurdle. However, there is good news. Many non-profit organizations across the United States have…

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A live view of the month’s vetted cyber incidents, updated as new events are confirmed. Explore the timeline, filter by attack type, and see motivations, techniques, initial access methods, targeted sectors and target countries on an interactive map.

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It’s been nearly two months since the previous issue of Venture in Security, and since I posted much on LinkedIn. I didn’t plan for this break. Part of this was life, and the fact that building a company tends to consume all available time and mental capacity. But a much bigger part was that I…

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I’m in Denmark! Well, just, I’m now at Copenhagen airport ready to begin the long trek home, with the final event at GOTO now done and going just perfectly. This week, there are two ShinyHunters arrests in the news: Pepijn in the Netherlands and then Saif in Jordon. It’s an inevitable outcome, of course, and…

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Navigating the hidden fallout of autonomous frontier AI model incidents and what it means for enterprise defense.

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Google’s Gemini could soon access any file on your macOS device, open apps, browse the web, and perform actions without asking for permission every time. […]

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ShinyHunters hacker “Rey” was detained in Jordan and is reportedly cooperating with the FBI after the group claimed major FBI and corporate data breaches.

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A suspected ShinyHunters hacking group member known online as “Rey” has reportedly been detained in Jordan and is cooperating with the FBI to help locate other members of the extortion group. […]

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Jamf Threat Labs details CloudSyncD, a fake macOS Zoom installer that hides a phished password using invisible zero-width Unicode characters. Jamf Threat Labs found CloudSyncD while doing routine scanning on VirusTotal, buried inside a disguised Zoom client. They first spotted it on September 15, clearly still under construction, and within two days watched it move…

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An exercise in Indonesia offered a preview of the military’s high-tech future—and the kinks that still need ironing out.

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YARA-X’s 1.21.0 release brings 5 improvements and 4 bugfixes. One improvement is allowing stdin for CLI option –scan-list. This allows one to generate a list of folders to scan, and pass it via a pipe. Like this example (Windows) to scan all folders with “sample” in their name: dir /s /b /a:d c:*samples* | yr.exe…

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The U.K.’s domestic intelligence and security agency has warned that more than 100 academics have helped China boost its intelligence gathering efforts on behalf of Beijing’s state security service. In a “Security Service Espionage Alert” issued on September 30, 2026, MI5 said the “primary purpose of the China General Technology Research Institute (CGTRI) 中国通用技术研究院 is…

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The suspected China-linked threat actor known as Warlock is still continuing to weaponize Microsoft SharePoint vulnerabilities, likely both old and new, in attacks targeting organizations in Portuguese- and Spanish-speaking countries. The activity, observed by the Symantec and Carbon Black Threat Hunter Team, has hit critical infrastructure, government, and education organizations. “In the

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The Technical University of Denmark (DTU) says information belonging to up to 200,000 users may have been exposed after hackers accessed its identity and access management system and downloaded a large amount of data. […]

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Instant gratification from short video clips makes it hard for people—particularly kids—to understand how the present affects the future, according to a study.

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Dutch Institute for Vulnerability Disclosure was breached through two Zammad 0-days in an AI-powered attack that led to remote code execution and root access.

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Featuring: Cybersecurity is being reshaped by the expansion of cloud infrastructure, AI, distributed systems, and increasingly complex digital environments. As organizations manage more identities, devices, data, and internet-facing infrastructure, security is shifting toward continuous visibility, control, and the ability to respond to risk at scale. This report examines how core areas of

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Plus, the young traders cashing in on prediction markets, and how a Boeing 737 MAX survived a nosedive near the speed of sound.

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GitLab fixes critical AI Gateway flaw that could let authenticated Duo users escape a prompt sandbox and execute commands on self-hosted gateways. GitLab has released patches for a critical vulnerability in its AI Gateway, tracked as CVE-2026-90970 (CVSS score of 9.9), that could allow an authenticated user with access to the Duo Agent Platform to…

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Cisco Talos details UAT-11587, a China-linked group using the Antino backdoor and Microsoft 365 as cover to spy on Asian governments. Cisco Talos has been tracking a cluster of espionage activity since September 2025 that it calls UAT-11587, and by July 2026 the group had hit at least 16 government and policy organizations across eight…

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N0n is a newly-emerged cyber extortion gang. The group was first spotted in the middle of September 2026, and within days it had published on its dark web leak site details of what it claimed to be around a dozen victims. Since then, the tally has continued to grow. Read more in my article on…

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Cloud Native Compiler streams an application’s fully optimised compiled code to every new instance at start-up, slashing the warm-up tax

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Some iPhone 18 Pro Max phones on AT&T are stuck in SOS mode. Two updates can prevent it, but affected phones need replacing.

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Boomi’s recognition as a Leader in API management reflects its vision and execution

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Alexandr Wang drove Muse to the top of the charts, putting the company back in the AI race—even if he ruffled feathers inside the tech giant.

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