Big tech firms continue to push back against fines levied for alleged violations of European data protection law, in what could be a harbinger for AI regulations to come. While lawyers and experts quizzed by CSO broadly argue that big tech firms contesting data protection rules isn’t a particular cause for concern, the more widespread…
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AI, Global Security News, Government & Policy, Risk Management
To pay, or not to pay: 58% of CISOs say they would pay the ransom for their data
If you were hit by ransomware tomorrow, would you pay to get your data back? That’s what more than half of CISOs in a recent survey said their organization would do. It’s a situation more companies are going to face in future. “Attacks are increasing and continuing to increase,” said Christy Wyatt, CEO of security…
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Microsoft testing adjustable taskbar, Start menu in Windows 11
Microsoft has finally brought back the resizable taskbar and Start menu to Windows 11 in the latest preview version rolling out to Insiders in the Experimental channel. […]
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FCC Softens Ban on Foreign-Made Routers
The Federal Communications Commission eased some restrictions and pushed back deadlines for foreign router manufacturers, but the ban is still in place.
AI, china, Cybersecurity, Endpoint, Europe, Exploits, Global Security News, Government & Policy, Network Security, Risk Management
Ivanti customers confront yet another actively exploited zero-day
Attackers are hitting Ivanti customers yet again — circling back to a common target and consistently susceptible vendor in the network edge space — by exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in one of the company’s most besieged products. Ivanti warned customers that attackers have successfully exploited CVE-2026-6973, an improper input validation defect in Ivanti Endpoint Manager…
Global Security News, Risk Management
From Stuxnet to ChatGPT: 20 News Events That Shaped Cyber
As part of Dark Reading’s 20th anniversary celebration, its staff looks back on 20 of the biggest newmaking events from the past two decades that shaped our industry and the risk landscape for today’s security teams.
AI, Global Security News, Government & Policy
Australia is edging back into a familiar fight – The Albanese government’s draft legislation for a 2.25% levy on large digital platforms
Australia is edging back into a familiar fight and this time, Canberra is making it clear it has learned from the last round. The Albanese government’s draft legislation for a 2.25% levy on large digital platforms is being framed as an “incentive”, but let’s not kid ourselves: this is a sharpened version of the News…
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Elon Musk Is an Underdog in His $180 Billion Fight Against OpenAI
The lawsuit seeks to oust Sam Altman and claw back billions, testing legal theories about nonprofit governance.
AI, Data Breaches, Global Security News
Bluesky Back Online After DDoS Attack, as Iran-Linked 313 Team Takes Credit
Bluesky is back online after a roughly 24-hour DDoS attack disrupted services, with the Iran-linked 313 Team claiming responsibility and no data breach reported.
Global Security News, Venture
Weekly Update 500
Looking back at this milestone video, it’s the audience question towards the end I liked most: “are you happy”? Charlotte and I have chosen a path that’s non-traditional, intense and at times, pretty stressful. There’s no clear delineation of when work starts and ends, no holidays where we don’t work, nor weekends, birthdays or Christmases.…
AI, Global Security News
Marc Benioff Says the Software Bears Are All Wrong About Salesforce
“People think we have our back against the wall,” but customers aren’t replacing its offerings with AI, the CEO says.
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How NIST’s Cutback of CVE Handling Impacts Cyber Teams
Industry and ad hoc coalitions appear poised to help fill the gap created by NIST’s decision to cut back on CVE data enrichment.
AI, Apps, Cybersecurity, Global Security News, Risk Management
Insurance carriers quietly back away from covering AI outputs
Several major insurance carriers have begun to back away from providing cybersecurity and other insurance to companies using AI to run internal processes, insiders say. While there’s no standard response to customer use of AI in the insurance market, many carriers are now quietly declining to write policies for claims related to AI-generated outputs in…
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TSMC Shows Where AI Demand is Headed
Plus, Meta bounces back while Anthropic fuels bug armageddon
Global Security News
Google to penalize sites that hijack the back button
Google is broadening its spam policies to crack down on “back button hijacking,” a deceptive practice where websites interfere with browser navigation, blocking users from returning to the page they came from. Instead, users are usually redirected to pages they have not visited or are shown unsolicited recommendations or ads. “Back button hijacking interferes with…
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⚡ Weekly Recap: Fiber Optic Spying, Windows Rootkit, AI Vulnerability Hunting and More
Monday is back, and the weekend’s backlog of chaos is officially hitting the fan. We are tracking a critical zero-day that has been quietly living in your PDFs for months, plus some aggressive state-sponsored meddling in infrastructure that is finally coming to light. It is one of those mornings where the gap between a quiet shift and a…
Global Security News
Anthropic in Talks to Invest $200 Million in New Private-Equity Venture
General Atlantic, Blackstone, and Hellman & Friedman are among the private-equity firms in discussions to back the project.
Global Security News
Amazon and U.S. Postal Service Reach Delivery Deal
The e-commerce giant, under a new plan, will cut back the packages it ships through USPS by 20%, less than the proposal the sides had discussed earlier.
Global Security News
This Engineer Wants to Make Computer Chips on the Moon
Atsuyoshi Koike, the public face of Japan’s effort to muscle back into the semiconductor industry it used to dominate, first needs to prove he can make them on earth.
AI, APAC, Data Breaches, Global Security News, Government & Policy
Medtech giant Stryker says it’s back up after Iranian cyberattack
Medtech company Stryker says it’s back to being “fully operational,” three weeks after it became the most prominent victim to date of Iranian hackers, who said they attacked the Michigan-based company in retaliation over the conflict with the United States and Israel. A March 11 wiper attack from the pro-Palestinian, Iranian government-connected group Handala damaged…
AI, Cybersecurity, Data Breaches, Global Security News
Smashing Security podcast #461: This man hid $400 million in a fishing rod. Then it vanished
A cannabis-growing, beekeeping, gyrocopter-flying Irishman invested his drug money in Bitcoin back in 2011 – and now sits on a fortune worth $400 million. There’s just one small problem: the access codes were tucked inside his fishing rod case, which has mysteriously vanished. Or has it? Because this week, one of his frozen wallets suddenly…
AI, Compliance, Cybersecurity, Data Breaches, Endpoint, Global Security News, Network Security, privacy
This man hid $400 million in a fishing rod. Then it vanished
A cannabis-growing, beekeeping, gyrocopter-flying Irishman invested his drug money in Bitcoin back in 2011 – and now sits on a fortune worth $400 million. There’s just one small problem: the access codes were tucked inside his fishing rod case, which has mysteriously vanished. Or has it? Because this week, one of his frozen wallets suddenly…
AI, china, Europe, Global Security News, Government & Policy, malware, Russia
European-Chinese geopolitical issues drive renewed cyberespionage campaign
A Chinese cyberespionage group has shifted its gaze back to Europe after years of focusing on other parts of the world, Proofpoint research published Wednesday found. The surge began in mid-2025, with a bevy of issues bubbling up between China and Europe, the company said. Proofpoint labels the government-linked group TA416, but other companies track…
AI, Cybersecurity, Global Security News
What Happens When AI Agents Go Rogue?
Cybersecurity takes a back seat in AI race, while OpenAI makes a tough call with Sora
AI, Global Security News
A cunning predator: How Silver Fox preys on Japanese firms this tax season
Silver Fox is back in Japan, spoofing tax and HR emails timed to the one season when no one thinks twice about opening them
AI, Data Breaches, Exploits, Global Security News, Risk Management
The insider threat rises again
Insider threats are coming back in a consequential way. According to the State of Human Risk Report from Mimecast, 42% of organizations have experienced an increase in malicious insider incidents over the past year, with 42% also reporting a rise in negligent incidents for the first time. The report further found that organizations experienced an…
Global Security News
ThreatsDay Bulletin: FortiGate RaaS, Citrix Exploits, MCP Abuse, LiveChat Phish & More
ThreatsDay Bulletin is back on The Hacker News, and this week feels off in a familiar way. Nothing loud, nothing breaking everything at once. Just a lot of small things that shouldn’t work anymore but still do. Some of it looks simple, almost sloppy, until you see how well it lands. Other bits feel a…
AI, Exploits, Global Security News
Millions of UK firms on alert after Companies House data exposure
Companies House, the UK’s official company registry, said its WebFiling service is back online after being shut down on Friday to fix a security issue that may have exposed the personal data of millions of firms. An investigation indicates the flaw was likely introduced during an October 2025 update. According to Companies House, only users…
AI, Global Security News, malware, Network Security
PhantomRaven returns to npm with 88 bad packages
Last year’s “PhantomRaven” supply-chain campaign is back, with security researchers uncovering 88 new malicious packages in what they describe as the second, third, and fourth waves of the operation. According to Endor Labs findings, the newly discovered packages were published between November 2025 and February 2026, with 81 of them still available on npm along…
Global Security News, malware, Russia
Russian Threat Actor Sednit Resurfaces With Sophisticated Toolkit
After several years of using simple implants, the Russia-affiliated actor is back with two new sophisticated malware tools.
AI, Cybersecurity, Europe, Global Security News, Government & Policy, Politics, Risk Management
Anthropic’s US gov’t lawsuit says federal action “unprecedented and unlawful”
Anthropic on Monday fought back against the US federal government’s determination that it is a supply chain risk, suing the feds and arguing to a California federal judge that the government is being inconsistent and contradictory. “The Constitution confers on Anthropic the right to express its views—both publicly and to the government—about the limitations of…
AI, Global Security News, Risk Management
Pentagon Designates Anthropic Supply Chain Risk Over AI Military Dispute
Anthropic on Friday hit back after U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth directed the Pentagon to designate the artificial intelligence (AI) upstart as a “supply chain risk.” “This action follows months of negotiations that reached an impasse over two exceptions we requested to the lawful use of our AI model, Claude: the mass domestic surveillance…
AI, Exploits, Global Security News, Russia
Quick Howto: Extract URLs from RTF files, (Mon, Feb 9th)
Malicious RTF (Rich Text Format) documents are back in the news with the exploitation of CVE-2026-21509 by APT28. The malicious RTF documents BULLETEN_H.doc and Consultation_Topics_Ukraine(Final).doc mentioned in the news are RTF files (despite their .doc extension, a common trick used by threat actors). Here is a quick tip to extract URLs from RTF files. Use the following…
AI, Exploits, Global Security News, Russia
Quick Howto: Extract URLs from RTF files, (Mon, Feb 9th)
Malicious RTF (Rich Text Format) documents are back in the news with the exploitation of CVE-2026-21509 by APT28. The malicious RTF documents BULLETEN_H.doc and Consultation_Topics_Ukraine(Final).doc mentioned in the news are RTF files (despite their .doc extension, a common trick used by threat actors). Here is a quick tip to extract URLs from RTF files. Use the following…
AI, Exploits, Global Security News, Russia
Quick Howto: Extract URLs from RTF files, (Mon, Feb 9th)
Malicious RTF (Rich Text Format) documents are back in the news with the exploitation of CVE-2026-21509 by APT28. The malicious RTF documents BULLETEN_H.doc and Consultation_Topics_Ukraine(Final).doc mentioned in the news are RTF files (despite their .doc extension, a common trick used by threat actors). Here is a quick tip to extract URLs from RTF files. Use the following…
AI, Artificial Intelligence, Global Security News
AI has taken over customer service – but companies could soon regret the shift
Many companies and organizations have in recent years cut back on the number of employees dedicated to support issues, believing that AI solutions can handle this task for more efficiently. But Gartner Research is now saying demand for support from real people is likely to increase as early as next year — because customers prefer…
AI, API security, Cybersecurity, Endpoint, Global Security News, Risk Management
2025 in Review: A Year of Smarter, Context-Aware API Security
As the year draws to a close, it’s worth pausing to look back on what has been an extraordinary year for Wallarm and, more importantly, for the businesses we protect. If 2024 was about laying the groundwork (tracking API sessions to understand behavioral attacks), then 2025 was the year we built upon that foundation, turning…
AI, API security, Cybersecurity, Endpoint, Global Security News, Risk Management
2025 in Review: A Year of Smarter, Context-Aware API Security
As the year draws to a close, it’s worth pausing to look back on what has been an extraordinary year for Wallarm and, more importantly, for the businesses we protect. If 2024 was about laying the groundwork (tracking API sessions to understand behavioral attacks), then 2025 was the year we built upon that foundation, turning…
AI, API security, Cybersecurity, Endpoint, Global Security News, Risk Management
2025 in Review: A Year of Smarter, Context-Aware API Security
As the year draws to a close, it’s worth pausing to look back on what has been an extraordinary year for Wallarm and, more importantly, for the businesses we protect. If 2024 was about laying the groundwork (tracking API sessions to understand behavioral attacks), then 2025 was the year we built upon that foundation, turning…
AI, API security, Cybersecurity, Endpoint, Global Security News, Risk Management
2025 in Review: A Year of Smarter, Context-Aware API Security
As the year draws to a close, it’s worth pausing to look back on what has been an extraordinary year for Wallarm and, more importantly, for the businesses we protect. If 2024 was about laying the groundwork (tracking API sessions to understand behavioral attacks), then 2025 was the year we built upon that foundation, turning…