Cyber insurance coverage is slowly changing, and some policies may not provide coverage for social engineering attacks like ClickFix.
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Infosecurity Europe: Vulnerability Management Innovator Konvu Wins Cyber Startup Award
Inaugural Infosecurity Europe Cyber Startup Award Winner Impresses Panel with Ability Help Prioritize Vulnerabilities in AI era
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Infosecurity Europe: How to Get Boards to Prioritize Cyber Risk Quantification
Cybersecurity leaders major companies discuss how they got support from the board on cyber risk
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DOD wants to integrate cyber in all operations, and integrate security into AI
The Pentagon is focusing on integrating cyber into all its operations, and wants to make sure it integrates security into artificial intelligence usage from the outset, the Defense Department’s top cyber policy official said Tuesday. Recent conflicts have made clear how important cyber is, said Katherine Sutton, assistant secretary for cyber policy and principal cyber…
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Infosecurity Europe: Cybersecurity Teams Which Don’t Leverage AI are “Doomed to Fail”
Humans still need to be part of cyber defense, but refusing to deploy AI is no longer optional against AI-enhanced cyber threats, warns Dataminr’s Joe Slowik
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Diligent automates cyber risk assessments and reporting
Diligent has announced Diligent Cyber Risk Management, an agentic solution designed to help organizations manage cybersecurity risk in a business context. Available in summer 2026, the platform reduces cyber risk assessment work from weeks to hours and links cyber threats to strategic objectives, critical business processes, and board-level oversight, helping organizations prioritize security investments based…
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Digital Intelligence Lab launches observatory to connect cyber events with geopolitical context
The DIL Observatory maps cyber incidents, including ransomware attacks, data breaches, and cyber militia activity, alongside their geopolitical and social contexts.
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Dutch authorities disrupt massive botnet of 17 million devices
The operation, a collaboration between Dutch police and the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), targeted servers hosted by a local provider.
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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
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GCHQ announces AI-powered cyber shield to protect UK infrastructure
GCHQ director Anne Keast-Butler revealed plans for a new national cyber defense capability that will integrate advanced AI into machine-speed cyber defense systems.
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Asia’s Cyber Insurance Market Shows Signs of Life
The cyber insurance industry has made relatively weak inroads into Asia due to a a variety of factors, but that could be changing.
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Dutch police disrupts botnet composed of 17 million devices
The Dutch National Police and the country’s National Cyber Security Center (NCSC) have taken offline 200 servers controlling a botnet of 17 million devices, the law enforcement agency announced on Thursday. The investigation was launched after the NCSC received a report by a security researcher, and showed that the botnet consisted of at least 17…
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DIL Observatory: when the World Escalates, the Underground Responds
Digital Intelligence Lab (DIL) launches an observatory for reading cyber events as what they actually are: signals of a broader social and geopolitical reality. The timing rarely lies, and the connection between real-world events and cyber activity is no longer a theoretical framework. It is a documented pattern, traceable across months and geographies. This new…
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AI Is Reshaping the Future of Cyber Resilience
Cyber resilience has been a core focus in cybersecurity for years. During my recent conversation with Brandon Willitts, Director of Product Management for Cyber Resilience at Everpure, it became clear that artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly changing how organizations approach resilience strategies. According to Willitts, AI is not creating entirely new security problems as much…
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Focus on Cyber Insurance: How Quantifying Risk Is Reshaping Security
In this latest installment of the Reporters’ Notebook video series, we discuss how cyber insurance is forcing organizations to quantify risk, what’s covered (and what’s not), and why this could be the best thing to happen to cybersecurity.
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Oil shipments, drone makers, and a poisoned code library targeted in recent APT campaigns
Geopolitical pressure drove much of the state-sponsored cyber activity recorded between October 2025 and March 2026, according to ESET’s latest APT Activity Report. Espionage groups aligned with China, North Korea, Russia, and Iran adjusted their targets to match the economic and security concerns of their governments. Attack sources (Source: ESET) “In Asia, the campaigns primarily…
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XM Cyber enhances identity risk visibility with continuous exposure management capabilities
XM Cyber has announced platform enhancements aimed at helping organizations reduce identity risk, compounded by AI-enabled attackers. According to Gartner, “By 2028, 70% of CISOs will use identity visibility and intelligence capabilities to shrink the IAM attack surface, reducing the risks of credential compromise.” Excessive permissions are a leading technique used in breaches and a…
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Canvas attack aftermath: What risks come next?
The compromise of student data turned a cyber mom into a cyber mama bear Categories: Sophos Insights Tags: cyberattack, ShinyHunters, GOLD CRYSTAL, Canvas
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XM Cyber expands platform to enforce least-privilege access
XM Cyber Inc. announced an expansion of its platform with new capabilities designed to help enterprises enforce least-privilege access across Active Directory, Microsoft Entra, and multicloud environments.
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68% of UK Firms Plan to Increase Cyber Spending as AI Risks Rise
UK firms plan higher cyber spending as AI adoption raises security concerns
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The NSA, ‘Mythos’ and the quiet emergence of AI cyber doctrine
For most of my career running security operations, the shape of cyber conflict has been defined by who could move faster than the other side. Faster at identifying a vulnerability, faster at patching, faster at detecting, faster at responding. The last few months have made me reevaluate that framing. Speed still matters. It just no…
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White House charts new course for federal agencies and cybersecurity logging
The White House has updated rules for federal agencies to keep logs of significant cyber activities in their networks, touting it as a measure to cut back on red tape and focus on how cybersecurity risks have evolved. The Office of Management and Budget memorandum, released Friday, replaces a 2021 memo signed by then-President Joe…
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When ransomware shutters the ER, cyber resilience can help teams mitigate the damage
Here’s five ways to implement a cyber resilience plan well before a medical facility experiences a crisis.
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What happens when security teams inherit identity
At the Span Cyber Security Arena conference, I sat down with Eric Woodruff, Chief Identity Architect at Semperis, to talk about how organizations perceive identity and the challenges those perceptions create for security. He shared his perspective on where organizations struggle with identity, why identity platforms can become difficult to manage, how phishing-resistant authentication is…
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Boards want cyber risk in dollars, not CVE counts
In this Help Net Security video, Ziv Levi, SVP of Technology at CYE, explains why translating cyber risk into dollars is one of the most pressing tasks for security leaders. Boards and executives want cyber exposure described in business terms, not technical jargon. Levi walks through a three-step financial translation framework. First, identify business exposure…
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Processes and Culture Top Reasons Behind Data Breaches
Government leaders revealed that, in spite of state laws meant to improve cyber hygiene, an analysis of incidents showed issues persist and visibility falls short.
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7 hard truths security pros should know: 2026 DevOps Threats Report
In 2025, trusted Git hosting platforms became a playground for cyber criminals. This is the main conclusion from the latest “DevOps Threat Unwrapped Report 2026” by GitProtect. If you want to effectively counter attacks targeted at your code (and business), you need security measures, good practices, and knowledge. Strengthen your organization’s security posture. Learn about…
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AI Raises the Bar on Vulnerability Awareness and Secure-by-Design Software
AI-powered vulnerability scanning leaves no excuse for unpatched bugs as the EU Cyber Resilience Act pushes firms toward secure-by-design software
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NCSC Publishes Guidance on Securing Agentic AI Use
The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre is helping organizations to understand agentic AI security risks
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Pre-Stuxnet Fast16 Malware Tampered with Nuclear Weapons Simulations
A new analysis of the Lua-based fast16 malware has confirmed that it was a cyber sabotage tool designed to tamper with nuclear weapons testing simulations. According to Broadcom-owned Symantec and Carbon Black teams, the pre-Stuxnet tool was engineered to corrupt uranium-compression simulations that are central to nuclear weapon design. “Fast16’s hook engine is selectively interested…
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Illicit Enterprise: An Anatomy of the Modern Underground Phishing Marketplace
Just as cyber threats have grown more complex and foreboding, the underground phishing marketplace which makes such attacks possible has profoundly evolved. No longer a Craigslist-styled hodgepodge of products and services, marketplace forums have emerged as complete criminal ecosystems that function as not only distribution points for resources, but as labor exchanges to recruit and…
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EU’s Cyber Resiliency Act will put IT leaders to the test
Unlike most cyber security regulations, the EU’s Cyber Resilience Act is about product safety rather than processes or certification, extending the CE mark from the physical side of products to software, firmware, backend services, and anything with a network connection. It encodes existing best practices, enforces minimum product support lifecycles, and could mean developing stronger…
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AI cyber capability is speeding past earlier projections
AI cyber capability is improving faster than expected, with newer models surpassing earlier projections, according to the UK government’s AI Security Institute (AISI). AISI measures AI cyber capability using “time horizon benchmarks”, which estimate how long AI systems can complete cybersecurity tasks autonomously compared to human experts. “In February 2026, we estimated that frontier models’…
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Acronis Launches Cyber Frame IaaS Platform for MSPs
The cyber protection company wants to give MSPs and cloud providers a way to run infrastructure on their own terms, without the vendor lock-in hangover. Acronis on Wednesday unveiled Cyber Frame, a new hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) and infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) platform built specifically for service providers tired of being squeezed by legacy virtualization costs and hyperscaler…
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CISA’s AI SBOM guidance pushes software supply-chain oversight into new territory
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and its G7 cyber agency partners have released a list of minimum elements for an AI software bill of materials, a move that could help CISOs assess the security and provenance of AI systems entering enterprise environments. The guidance extends traditional SBOM concepts into AI by calling…
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Why Canadian Telecom Providers Are Prime Targets for Cyberattacks
Canadian telecom providers face mounting cyber threats from ransomware, SIM swapping, data breaches, and nation-state attacks targeting critical infrastructure.
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FIRESIDE CHAT: Cyber insurers deepen SMB security role as supply chain attacks spread
The cyber insurance industry set out to manage financial risk. Along the way, it has quietly became the security operations provider for a significant share of American small businesses. An $11 billion acquisition agreement announced earlier this year suggests it intends to stay in that role. Related: No easy AI security fixes I sat down…
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Huntress and Acrisure Launch Streamlined Cyber Insurance Program
Huntress has collaborated with Acrisure to launch a new cyber insurance program that gives businesses a faster, simpler path to protection against cybersecurity risks. The program offers eligible organizations access to unique Cyber or Tech Errors and Omissions (Tech E&O) insurance policies with no deductible, through a streamlined application process that reduces the complexity typically…
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WannaCry, the ransomware attack that changed the history of cybersecurity
WannaCry showed how unpatched flaws and leaked cyber tools can cripple global systems, reshaping cybersecurity defenses worldwide. In memory of the day the digital world was shaken, but learned to fight back. The WannaCry ransomware attack represents one of the most significant events in recent cybersecurity history, not only for its global scale but also…
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Hackers Use AI for Exploit Development, Attack Automation
Cyber adversaries have long used AI, but now attackers are using large language models to develop exploits and orchestrate complex attacks.
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Australia warns of ClickFix attacks pushing Vidar Stealer malware
The Australian Cyber Security Center (ACSC) is warning organizations of an ongoing malware campaign using the ClickFix social engineering technique to distribute the Vidar Stealer info-stealing malware. […]
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Deepfakes Are Exposing Gaps in Cyber Insurance Policies
Deepfakes are creating new cybersecurity risks that many organizations — and their cyber insurance policies — may not be fully prepared to address. As attackers increasingly use AI-generated voice, video, and identity impersonation in fraud and ransomware attacks, cybersecurity experts warn businesses must reassess both security strategies and cyber insurance coverage. During a recent Channel…
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Video: Deepfake Defense May Become a Core MSP Service
Deepfakes are moving from viral novelty to real-world cyber threat. In this episode of Channel Insider: Partner POV, host Katie Boso speaks with Daniel Elliott, CEO of Delta Bear, about how AI-powered impersonation attacks are targeting businesses, why legacy security tools may fall short, and how MSPs and MSSPs can build new services around deepfake…
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NCSC Warns of an AI-Fuelled “Vulnerability Patch Wave”
The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre is urging organizations to prepare for glut of new software updates
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Cyber Security Management vs Traditional IT Security Approaches
We will compare cyber security management vs traditional IT security approaches in this post. The digital world has changed so much in the last decade that the methods used to protect it have required a total structural overhaul. In the early days of office networks, security was a set of digital locks managed by the…
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Educational tech firm Instructure data breach may have impacted 9,000 schools
Instructure, maker of the Canvas learning platform, is investigating a cyber incident that exposed users’ personal data. Instructure is a U.S.-based educational technology company best known for developing Canvas, one of the world’s most widely used learning management systems (LMS). The U.S. firm confirrmed a cybersecurity incident that exposed users’ personal information. The company is working with external…
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Owl IRD enables one-way forensic data transfer for incident response teams
Owl Cyber Defense has announced the launch of its Incident Response Diode (IRD), a pocket-sized protocol filtering diode (PFD) designed for incident response and forensics teams. The Owl IRD was developed to help users securely move evidence from compromised endpoints into trusted analysis environments without adding risk. The Owl IRD will be made available to…
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AI speeds flaw discovery, forcing rapid updates, UK NCSC warns
The UK cyber agency NCSC warns AI is speeding up vulnerability discovery, likely causing a “patch wave” of urgent software updates to fix exposed flaws. The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) warns that AI is rapidly accelerating the discovery of software vulnerabilities, increasing the risk of large-scale exploitation. CTO Ollie Whitehouse says skilled attackers…
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OpenAI To Extend Cyber Program to Government Agencies
OpenAI announced its intention to expand the Trusted Access for Cyber program for cyber defenders at the federal, state and local government levels
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Spotting third-party cyber risk before attackers do
In this Help Net Security video, Jeffrey Wheatman, SVP and Cyber Strategist at Black Kite, discusses how organizations can identify and manage third-party cyber exposures before attackers exploit them. He argues that businesses should move beyond a data-loss mindset toward one centered on resilience, meaning keeping operations running when vendors or partners get hit. Wheatman…
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Digital attacks drive a new wave of cargo theft, FBI says
The FBI warns of rising cyber cargo theft, with hackers targeting brokers and carriers. Experts say digital attacks are replacing traditional cargo theft. The FBI has issued a Public Service Announcement (PSA) about a surge in cyber-enabled cargo theft, with hackers increasingly targeting brokers and carriers. This trend confirms earlier findings from Proofpoint and alerts…
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CISA and Partners Publish Zero Trust Guidance For OT Security
A new CISA‑led guide explains how zero‑trust security can be applied to operational technology, balancing cyber defence with safety and system availability
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UK: Education Sector Faces Surge in Cyber Breaches Despite Stable National Threat Levels
The British public education sector has faced the nation’s most dramatic increase in cyber breach prevalence over the past year
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Claude Mythos Fears Startle Japan’s Financial Services Sector
Global financial institutions are panicked over Anthropic’s new superhacker AI model. Cyber experts aren’t quite as worried.
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No Metrics Are Better Than Bad Metrics in the SOC, Says NCSC
The National Cyber Security Centre has warned against measuring SOCs with ticket-based metrics
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Utilities Tech Supplier Itron Discloses Cyber-Attack, Operations Unaffected
Itron confirmed a cyber incident but does not believe it is likely to have a material impact on the company
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Semperis Expands Purple Knight to Strengthen Identity Security in Line with Five Eyes Guidance
Semperis, the identity-driven cyber resilience and crisis response company, today announced expanded capabilities for Purple Knight, its free, community-driven Active Directory and Entra ID security assessment tool helping organisations strengthen identity security in line with guidance from the Five Eyes Alliance, of which Australia is a key member.
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Scattered Spider co-conspirator pleads guilty
Another member of the notorious Scattered Spider gang of cyber criminals has pleaded guilty in a US court, and will be sentenced later this year. Tyler Buchanan pleaded guilty in a Florida court to conspiring with others to hack into companies’ computer systems with the intent of stealing at least $8 million in virtual currency.…
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Users advised to drop passwords and make room for passkeys
In a decisive move that could reshape how users log in online, the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is urging consumers to abandon passwords in favour of passkeys, positioning them as the future of authentication. “Passkeys should become consumers’ first choice for logging into digital services,” NCSC said. Overhauling decades of security guidance, the agency…
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China-linked threat actors use consumer device botnets to evade detection, warn UK and partners
UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) warns China-linked hackers use hijacked devices as proxy networks to hide activity and evade detection. UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and global partners warn that China-linked threat actors now rely on large proxy networks built of hacked consumer devices. Groups control routers, cameras, video recorders, and NAS systems…
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Tropic Trooper APT Takes Aim at Home Routers, Japanese Targets
The Chinese state-sponsored cyber threat is known for moving fast and trying odd attack vectors; now it’s branching out in tools, victimology, and TTPs.
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UK’s NCSC calls passkeys the default, says passwords are no longer fit for the purpose
The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is recommending passkeys as the default authentication method for businesses to offer consumers, citing industry progress that now makes them a more secure and user-friendly alternative to passwords. In a blog post published this week, the agency said passkeys can now be recommended to both the public and…
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Offer customers passkeys by default, UK’s NCSC tells enterprises
The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is recommending passkeys as the default authentication method for businesses to offer consumers, citing industry progress that now makes them a more secure and user-friendly alternative to passwords. In a blog post published this week, the agency said passkeys can now be recommended to both the public and…
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Offer customers passkeys by default, UK’s NCSC tells enterprises
The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is recommending passkeys as the default authentication method for businesses to offer consumers, citing industry progress that now makes them a more secure and user-friendly alternative to passwords. In a blog post published this week, the agency said passkeys can now be recommended to both the public and…
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UK warns of Chinese hackers using proxy networks to evade detection
The United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC-UK) and international partners warned that China-nexus hackers are increasingly using large-scale proxy networks of hijacked consumer devices to evade detection and disguise their malicious activity. […]
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If cyber espionage via HDMI worries you, NCSC built a device to stop it
A new cybersecurity device developed by the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) should be a helpful solution for protecting governments and businesses from malicious activity carried through display connections. Called SilentGlass, the plug-and-play tool is designed to protect HDMI and DisplayPort links from potential cyberattacks. The NCSC warns that monitors are an attractive target for…
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Cyber-Attacks Surge 63% Annually in Education Sector
Quorum Cyber report finds higher and further education institutions experienced 63% increase in attacks over a year
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Logically CEO on Cyber Risk, AI, and MSP Strategy
How should MSPs talk to the board about cyber risk? In this episode of Channel Insider: Partner POV, Katie Bavoso speaks with Logically CEO Joshua Skeens about cybersecurity as a board-level issue, brand protection, security tool sprawl, best-of-breed vs. consolidation strategies, and why 2026 could be the year of AI disappointment. Timestamps00:00 Intro00:40 Meet Logically…
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Check Point to Integrate AI Defense Plane with Google Cloud to Help Secure AI Agents with Integrated Discovery, Governance, and Runtime Protection
Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ: CHKP), a pioneer and global leader of cyber security solutions, today announced that it will serve as a launch partner with Google Cloud to integrate Check Point’s AI Defense Plane with Google Cloud’s Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform. The integration will combine centralised agent control with contextual intelligence and real-time…
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UK Pledges £90m for Cybersecurity and Pushes for ‘Resilience Pledge’
UK unveils £90m cybersecurity funding at CYBERUK to boost SME resilience, promote Cyber Essentials and a new Cyber Resilience Pledge, sparking industry debate
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NFC tap-to-pay gets tapped by hackers
Cyber crooks are abusing a trojanized Android payment application to steal near field communication (NFC) data and PINs, enabling cloning of payment cards and draining victim accounts. According to ESET researchers, a new variant of the NGate malware has been infused into the HandyPay NFC-relay application to transfer NFC data to the attacker’s device and…
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UK Faces a Cyber ‘Perfect Storm’ Driven by Tech Advances and Nation State Threats, NCSC Warns
The convergence of global tensions and rapid technological change is driving a new era of cyber risk, the NCSC warns
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Shadow AI, deepfakes, and supply chain compromise are rewriting the financial sector threat playbook
Financially motivated attacks continued to drive the bulk of cyber incidents against banks, insurers, and payment processors in 2025. Approximately 90% of breaches affecting financial institutions carried a financial motive, with data breaches accounting for roughly 64% of incidents and ransomware making up the remaining 36%. The average cost of a data breach in the…
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NCSC Outlines Coordinated Plan to Boost NHS Cyber Resilience
The National Cyber Security Centre has shared an update of its resilience-building efforts for the NHS
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How Addressing Cloud Misconfigurations Disrupts the Cyber Kill Chain
In this post, I will show you how addressing cloud misconfigurations disrupts the cyber kill chain. Cloud environments offer speed and flexibility, but they introduce new risks. One common issue is misconfiguration. Small mistakes, such as overly broad access permissions or publicly exposed resources, can open the door to attackers. These gaps sometimes go unnoticed…
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Executive orders likely ahead in next steps for national cyber strategy
National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross expects more executive orders coming from the White House as part of implementing the national cybersecurity strategy, he said Wednesday. Staffers on Capitol Hill and others in the cyber world have been awaiting the implementation guidance the Trump administration had proclaimed would come to accompany the strategy published last month.…
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OpenAI expands Trusted Access for Cyber program with new GPT 5.4 Cyber model
OpenAI said it is expanding its Trusted Access for Cyber program to “thousands of individuals and organizations,” who will use the company’s technology to root out bugs and vulnerabilities in their products. The program will also incorporate GPT 5.4 Cyber, a new variant of ChatGPT that OpenAI says is specifically optimized for cybersecurity tasks. OpenAI’s…
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The need for a board-level definition of cyber resilience
Cyber resilience has become a critical governance concern as organizations face increasingly complex and costly cyber threats. However, recent research reveals that the concept of cyber resilience remains inconsistently defined across regulatory frameworks and in some cases presents contradictory guidance to cross-sector and multinational organizations. This conceptual fragmentation poses a systemic risk for top management…
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5 trends defining the future of AI-powered cybersecurity
The new N-able and Futurum Report reveals how AI is reshaping cyber resilience as it accelerates both business innovation and adversarial tradecraft. Attackers are scaling their operations with unprecedented speed, leveraging automation to bypass traditional defenses. For IT security leaders and MSP owners, the days of relying on static, perimeter-based security are over. To stay…
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Space Force official touts AI’s impact on cyber compliance
Seth Whitworth, who is both acting Associate Deputy Chief of Space Operations for Cyber and Data and acting chief information security officer, said he believes AI tools are shifting the way defenders review cyber risk, both for individual systems and more holistically throughout an enterprise. In particular, Large Language Models can be used to systematically…
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How AI is transforming threat detection
Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping how security teams detect and hunt cyber threats by helping analyze vast volumes of security data, uncovering subtle signs of malicious activity, and identifying potential attacks faster than traditional tools or human analysts alone. Analyst firm Gartner expects that by 2028, 50% of threat detection, investigation, and response (TDIR) platforms…
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Cybersecurity jobs available right now: April 14, 2026
Cyber Security Engineer/Application Security Specialist Tecnots | India | On-site – View job details As a Cyber Security Engineer/Application Security Specialist, you will integrate security into the SDLC, perform application security reviews, and support secure APIs, authentication, and data protection. You will embed security into CI/CD pipelines using SAST and DAST, enforce secure coding practices,…
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UK Cyber Security Council Launches Associate Cyber Security Professional Title
The UK Cyber Security Council has unveiled a new Associate Cyber Security Professional title aimed at supporting early‑career cybersecurity professionals
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White House Races to Head Off Threats From Powerful AI Tools
Group led by National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross aims to identify security vulnerabilities before models from Anthropic, OpenAI are released.
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Russia’s Forest Blizzard Nabs Rafts of Logins Via SOHO Routers
Heard of fileless malware? How about malwareless cyber espionage? Russia’s APT28 is spying on global organizations by modifying just one DNS setting in vulnerable routers.
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LevelBlue research finds CTOs push for enterprise alignment as human factors undermine cyber resilience
GUEST RESEARCH: New report finds 75 per cent of CTOs say unclear ownership impairs cyber resilience strategy.
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Iranian cyber activity hits US energy, water, and government networks
U.S. government agencies on Tuesday warned American organizations about ongoing cyber activity targeting OT and PLC devices, including those manufactured by Rockwell Automation and Allen-Bradley, across multiple critical infrastructure sectors. The activity has been attributed to Iranian-affiliated APT actors seeking to disrupt operations in the United States. Disruptions across critical sectors The advisory, issued by…
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Iran-Linked Hackers Disrupt U.S. Critical Infrastructure by Targeting Internet-Exposed PLCs
Iran-affiliated cyber actors are targeting internet-facing operational technology (OT) devices across critical infrastructures in the U.S., including programmable logic controllers (PLCs), cybersecurity and intelligence agencies warned Tuesday. “These attacks have led to diminished PLC functionality, manipulation of display data and, in some cases, operational disruption and financial
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Russian hackers hijack internet traffic using vulnerable routers
The Russian state cyber group APT28 has been compromising routers to hijack web traffic and spy on victims, the UK’s The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has warned. Attackers are exploiting vulnerable routers to alter DHCP and DNS settings, redirecting traffic through servers they control. “We assess that APT28 is almost certainly the Russian General…
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FortiClient EMS zero-day exploited, emergency hotfixes available (CVE-2026-35616)
Defused Cyber has spotted a critical Fortinet FortiClient Endpoint Management Server (EMS) zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2026-35616) being exploited in the wild. This time around, the confirmation of active exploitation came almost immediately from Fortinet, as well. “Fortinet has observed [CVE-2026-35616] to be exploited in the wild and urges vulnerable customers to install the hotfix for FortiClient…
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Bank Trojan ‘Casbaneiro’ Worms Through Latin America
Augmented Marauder’s multipronged banking-Trojan cyber campaigns are targeting Spanish speakers, evading detection, and replicating rapidly.
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Cyberattacks Intensify Pressure on Latin American Governments
Cyber threats across Latin America are increasingly targeting government systems, from disruptive attacks in Puerto Rico to a surge of probes against Colombia’s health sector.
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HYCU Expands R-Shield With Halcyon Ransomware Defense
HYCU has expanded its R-Shield cyber resilience platform through a new integration with Halcyon, adding advanced ransomware prevention and data exfiltration protection. The update aims to address persistent gaps in enterprise security strategies, particularly the fragmentation of tools that limits organizations’ ability to detect, stop, and recover from modern ransomware attacks across hybrid and multi-cloud…
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Major Cyber Attacks in March 2026: OAuth Phishing, SVG Smuggling, Magecart, and More
March 2026 brought a wave of cyber attacks that reflected how quickly modern threats can move from subtle early signals to serious business impact. ANY.RUN analysts identified and explored several major threats this month, exposing phishing campaigns, stealthy malware, payment-skimming activity, and resilient botnet infrastructure affecting organizations across industries. From Microsoft 365 token abuse and…
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Major Cyber Attacks in March 2026: OAuth Phishing, SVG Smuggling, Magecart, and More
March 2026 brought a wave of cyber attacks that reflected how quickly modern threats can move from subtle early signals to serious business impact. ANY.RUN analysts identified and explored several major threats this month, exposing phishing campaigns, stealthy malware, payment-skimming activity, and resilient botnet infrastructure affecting organizations across industries. From Microsoft 365 token abuse and…
Europe, Global Security News
Chinese Hackers Target European Governments in Espionage Campaigns
Chinese state-backed group TA416 had suspended its cyber espionage operations in Europe since 2023, noted Proofpoint
AI, Cybersecurity, Global Security News
TrendAI Insight: New U.S. National Cyber Strategy
TrendAI reviews the White House National Cyber Strategy, outlining six pillars to strengthen U.S. cybersecurity—from deterrence and regulation to federal modernization, critical infrastructure protection, AI leadership, and workforce development.
Global Security News
Cyber professionals urged to have their say on workforce future
Momentum is building behind efforts to strengthen Australia’s cyber workforce, with the consultancy – CyberPath: Paving the Way Forward for Cyber Professionals program with a national consultation series underway to help shape how the profession is recognised, supported and developed.
Global Security News
NCSC Urges Immediate Patching of F5 BIG-IP Bug
The National Cyber Security Centre wants UK firms to patch CVE-2025-53521
AI, Apps, Exploits, Global Security News, malware, Network Security
Application Control Bypass for Data Exfiltration, (Tue, Mar 31st)
In case of a cyber incident, most organizations fear more of data loss (via exfiltration) than regular data encryption because they have a good backup policy in place. If exfiltration happened, it means a total loss of control of the stolen data with all the consequences (PII, CC numbers, …). While performing a security assessment of a…