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Coralogix Lands $200M to Scale AI-Era Observability Platform
Coralogix, a data and AI observability platform provider, has raised $200 million in Series F funding. The round was led by Advent and CPPIB, with participation from Greenfield and Brighton Park Capital, bringing total funding in Coralogix to $550M. Coralogix raises new Series F funding According to the company, the Series F builds on the…
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Enterprise Spotlight: Rethinking cloud strategy in the age of AI
Cloud computing has reached a crossroads. The high cost and data sensitivity of AI workloads are raising the appeal of private clouds, even as neoclouds and sovereign clouds shake up the cloud provider landscape. New cyberthreats, shifting compute requirements, and management complexity are adding to cloud complications. Download the June 2026 issue of the Enterprise…
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Kyvos Exec: Semantic Layers are Critical for Enterprise AI
As enterprises move from AI experimentation to production deployments, questions around data consistency, governance, and scalability are becoming increasingly important. Many organizations have invested heavily in modern data platforms, yet AI systems still struggle to deliver reliable outcomes when business context is fragmented across tools and datasets. Pratik Jain, Senior Director of Technology at Kyvos…
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China Uses Dual-Method Cyberattack on Czech Orgs
China is stealing data from high-value targets via a sneaky, double-layer spear-phishing campaign that includes the Azureveil malware.
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How AI Could Improve Economic Policymaking
With so much data at its fingertips, artificial intelligence will allow more-informed interest-rate decisions and better economic modeling.
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Spanish police arrest individual in connection with data leak from state organizations
The arrested individual is accused of disseminating data from entities such as the State Attorney General’s Office, INCIBE, the National Police, the Civil Guard, and the National Security Council.
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Sensitive government personnel data posted online, Spanish police arrest suspect
The Spanish National Police arrested a man in Granada for allegedly leaking personal data belonging to members of several sensitive state institutions. According to police, the suspect published the information on multiple online platforms, exposing personnel associated with organizations including the National Cybersecurity Institute (INCIBE), the National Security Council, the National Police, the Civil Guard,…
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Ransomware leak posts show weekday peak, October spikes
The data analyzed by the Ransomnews Research Team indicates that ransomware operations largely follow a business week, with significantly fewer posts on Sundays compared to Mondays and Tuesdays.
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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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Snowflake Expands AWS Deal as Enterprise AI Demand Grows
Snowflake is committing $6 billion to AWS over multiple years as the cloud data company works to secure the compute capacity needed to support growing enterprise AI workloads. The expanded agreement deepens Snowflake’s long-running relationship with AWS and comes as the company reports stronger revenue growth tied to AI adoption. Revenue outlook improves as AI…
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Cops Are Spying on People Who Criticize AI Data Centers Online
Americans speaking out against artificial intelligence data centers on social media are falling under police surveillance, a confidential law enforcement bulletin obtained by The Intercept reveals. A fusion center in Philadelphia combed through spicy internet comments from AI critics and concluded there is a growing risk of physical violence against data centers from “domestic violent…
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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
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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…
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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.…
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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.
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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…
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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
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Carnival Data Breach Impacts Nearly 6 Million Customers
A data breach at Carnival Corporation has exposed the personal information of nearly six million individuals, showing the continued effectiveness of social engineering attacks against large enterprises. The company confirmed that threat actors gained access to portions of its network in Apr. 2026, resulting in the theft of customer data. “On April 14, 2026, the…
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BTMOB RAT Gives Criminals a Point-and-Click Kit to Take Over Your Android Phone
BTMOB sells Android full-device takeover as a kit, no coding needed. It steals data, records screens, and hands attackers remote control for $5,000 lifetime. Most Android malware requires at least some technical competence to deploy, but the BTMOB doesn’t. The developers sell it with a built-in APK builder that lets buyers generate new malicious apps,…
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Netskope extends data localization capabilities with NewEdge updates
Netskope has enhanced its NewEdge Network infrastructure, expanding data sovereignty capabilities to more regions than any other SASE cloud provider. The NewEdge Network architecture provides national data localization features that address requirements for network transport, data processing, and metadata governance in major regions worldwide, while enabling Netskope to extend this coverage to additional countries. The…
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Analysis of a Year of Files Uploaded to DShield Sensors, (Wed, May 27th)
Using the data collected over the past year and using Kibana these two ES|QL query to summarize the data, this shows the list of the most uploaded threat to two DShield sensors (local and cloud) over the past year. I have sorted the activity by months that shows the evolution of files uploaded to the sensors…
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Carnival Data Breach Exposes Personal Data of Nearly 6 Million Customers
Carnival disclosed a data breach affecting nearly 6 million people after hackers used social engineering to access employee accounts. Carnival Corporation is notifying nearly 6 million people after a data breach exposed personal information. According to the notification shared with the Maine Attorney General’s Office, the total number of persons affected is 5,995,277. The company said…
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All major AI models violate EU regulations — study
T All of the big AI models violate EU rules on AI and data protection to varying degrees, according to the nonprofit research foundation Aithos. Aithos tested the models using its own tool, LARA (Legal Assessment for Real-world Agents), which simulates real-world situations where AI assistants may find themselves in legally questionable situations, according to…
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Cybercriminals sail away with data from 6 million Carnival customers
Carnival Corporation, one of the world’s largest cruise operators, confirmed a data breach weeks after the ShinyHunters hacking group claimed it had stolen millions of customer records. Carnival acknowledged a phishing incident involving a single employee account and stated that it was investigating the scope of the unauthorized activity. “On April 14, 2026, the company’s…
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How SIEM helps MSPs reduce noise and stop threats faster
MSPs don’t lack security data. They struggle to separate real threats from alert noise. Kaseya explains how SIEM helps MSPs improve visibility, reduce fatigue, and respond faster. […]
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MyPillow listed on ransomware gang’s leak site, but denies it has been breached
A notorious ransomware gang claims to have stolen MyPillow’s private data, but CEO Mike Lindell calls it a politically motivated “hit job.” With the countdown ticking toward a massive dark web leak, who is telling the truth? Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
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Qumulo NeuralProtect uses AI to detect and stop ransomware before encryption
Qumulo has unveiled Qumulo NeuralProtect, a ransomware resilience solution built to protect data at the storage layer by detecting and stopping threats before data is encrypted, corrupted, or lost. Integrated directly into the Qumulo Data Platform, NeuralProtect inspects every file at the precise point-of-write using a series of AI-driven analysis models to detect both known…
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Carnival Cruise confirms data breach affecting nearly 6 million people
Carnival Corporation, the world’s largest cruise line operator, has confirmed a data breach affecting nearly 6 million people claimed by the ShinyHunters extortion gang in April 2026. […]
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Big Subsidies for Google, Limited Water for Locals: The Dilemma of AI in India
Developing-world nations are offering billions of dollars in incentives for U.S. data centers, but locals say the cost is too high.
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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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FBI warns US-based law firms to be on the lookout for cybercrime group that steals data in person
Silent Ransom Group, a long-running data extortion operation, continues to hit U.S.-based law firms by impersonating IT support and, in some cases, visiting victims in person to gain physical access to computers, the FBI said in an alert Tuesday. The closed group, which likely operates from Russia and emerged in 2022 after Conti disbanded, has…
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Can Big Data Predict Market Movements Accurately?
Can Big Data predict markets? Learn how AI, investor behavior, and digital signals shape modern forecasting across stocks and crypto trends.
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The LA Metro Attack Wasn’t Hacktivism. It Was a State Operation With a Costume On.
Iran’s “hacktivist” group Ababil of Minab, which hit LA Metro and wiped terabytes of data, is forensically linked to Iran’s intelligence service MOIS. In late March, a group calling itself Ababil of Minab posted videos and screenshots online claiming it had broken into the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, wiped hundreds of terabytes of…
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Jetico expands BestCrypt Data Shelter with zero-trust file access controls
Jetico has announced the extension of BestCrypt Data Shelter to include centrally managed enterprise data access control for sensitive files. The solution allows security teams to define and enforce policies governing which applications, processes and users can access protected files. This default-deny model aligns with zero-trust security principles. “Organizations have made significant progress in encrypting…
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DSPM buyer’s guide: Top 10 data security posture management tools
Data security posture management (DSPM) explained Data security posture management (DSPM) tools help security teams examine their entire data environment to find shadow data, reducing the risk of data loss. Tracking down sensitive data across both cloud and on-premises systems can be vexing. Each environment presents its own challenges. Given the dynamic and ephemeral nature…
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ShinyHunters extorts Charter Communications after data breach
The incident came to light after Charter was listed on ShinyHunters’ data leak site, where the group claimed to have stolen 40 million records.
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Charter confirms data breach after ShinyHunters extortion threat
U.S. telecommunications giant Charter Communications has confirmed it suffered a data breach after the ShinyHunters extortion group threatened to leak stolen data unless a ransom is paid. […]
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How Varonis Atlas integrates Claude Compliance API for AI governance
AI governance requires visibility into how AI tools interact with enterprise data. Varonis explains how its Atlas platform uses Claude Compliance API data to help monitor usage, investigate risk, and support compliance. […]
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Personal information of 185,000 people exposed after cyberattack on 7-Eleven
Data belonging to about 185,000 people was exposed following a cyberattack on convenience store chain 7-Eleven that was later claimed by the ShinyHunters extortion gang, according to Have I Been Pwned. The exposed information includes email addresses, names, physical addresses, dates of birth, and phone numbers, while a small number of records also contained additional…
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Third-Party Cyberattack Impacts Patient Information at The Oncology Institute
The Oncology Institute disclosed a data breach tied to a third-party vendor, potentially exposing patient information after a 2025 cyberattack. The Oncology Institute has confirmed that patient information was impacted in a cybersecurity incident involving a third-party software provider. The healthcare network first disclosed the security breach in November 2025 while the vendor’s investigation was…
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340 Million OnlyFans Profiles Allegedly Rebuilt from Leaks
A hacker is selling a 340M-strong OnlyFans-linked dataset built by correlating old breaches and public data, not by hacking OnlyFans directly. A threat actor is adverertising a purported database containing data of 340 million OnlyFans users, but the available evidence points to something less dramatic than a direct breach. According to HackRead, which reported the…
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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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Why pure extortion is replacing traditional ransomware
Ransomware gangs are shifting from encryption to pure extortion, focusing on stolen data, reputational pressure, and stealthier attacks. Ransomware groups are quietly changing strategy in 2026. Instead of encrypting systems and causing immediate disruption, many attackers are now focusing on pure extortion: stealing sensitive data and threatening to leak it publicly if victims refuse to…
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Data Sanitization Challenges Are Increasing in the AI Era
Data sanitization has long played an important role in protecting sensitive information, but growing data volumes and stricter compliance requirements are making secure end-of-life data management more critical than ever. The 2026 State of Data Sanitization Report by Blancco highlights growing concerns among organizations regarding data privacy, regulatory pressure, and end-of-life device management. The report…
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Verizon DBIR: Healthcare Fends Off Increased Social Engineering Attacks
Ransomware and vendor breaches persist, but the 2026 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) highlights how evolving social engineering tactics make the sector more vulnerable.
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CVE-2026-45585: YellowKey BitLocker Bypass Exposes Encrypted Data on Windows Devices
BitLocker is designed to protect data at rest even when a device is lost, stolen, or powered off, which is why a bypass against that trust model draws immediate attention. The CVE-2026-45585 vulnerability, publicly referred to as YellowKey, is a Windows security feature bypass flaw that Microsoft says can let an attacker with physical access…
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Fake Gemini and Claude Code Sites Spread Infostealers Through SEO Poisoning
The infostealer payload in this campaign collect a vast amount of data, from collaboration authentication keys to cryptocurrency wallets
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2026 Verizon DBIR: The New Era of Cyber Threats
The 2026 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) paints a clearer picture of today’s cybersecurity landscape: attackers are moving faster, artificial intelligence is accelerating cybercrime, and organizations continue to struggle with foundational security practices. Key Takeaways from the 2026 Verizon DBIR Report Vulnerability exploitation (31%) overtook credential abuse (13%) as the top initial access vector…
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Police seize “First VPN” service used in ransomware, data theft attacks
A virtual private network service called ‘First VPN,’ used in ransomware and data theft attacks, has been taken offline in a joint international law enforcement operation. […]
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Grafana Labs Says Code Breach Stemmed from TanStack Attack
Grafana Labs has confirmed a recent data breach was caused by the TanStack supply chain attack
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Most dark web activity revolves around a handful of topics
Dark web activity often becomes visible during marketplace seizures, major data leaks, or sudden spikes in criminal activity. Those events can create an impression of an ecosystem where attention shifts quickly and new trends regularly replace old ones. A six-year dataset covering more than 25,000 dark web sites tracked what people discussed in underground forums…
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GitHub Confirms Breach, 4K Internal Repos Stolen
Open source software giant GitHub confirmed a data breach this week involving the theft of thousands of repos. One threat actor — TeamPCP — took credit.
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How Much Do You Know About Data Centers? Take Our Quiz
Where are data centers concentrated in the U.S.? How much water and electricity do they consume? It’s time to test your knowledge.
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Grafana breach caused by missed token rotation after TanStack attack
The Grafana data breach was caused by a single GitHub workflow token that slipped through the rotation process following the TanStack npm supply-chain attack last week. […]
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Agent AI is Coming. Are You Ready?
New Industry Data Just Released Suggests Not. On May 19th, 2026, Orchid Security released the results of our Identity Gap: Snapshot 2026. Among the findings, “identity dark matter” (the unseen, unmanaged elements of identity) now overshadows the visible elements 57% vs. 43%. And it couldn’t have occurred at a worse time, with enterprises embracing Agent…
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Verizon DBIR: Vulnerability Exploits Overtake Credentials as Top Access Vector
Verizon DBIR finds 31% of data breaches began with software flaws last year
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Verizon DBIR: Enterprises Face a Dangerous Vulnerability Glut
Verizon’s “2026 Data Breach Investigations Report” (“DBIR”) finds that exploits are now involved in 31% of initial access for breaches, while patching lags too far behind the bad guys.
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Microsoft Self-Service Password Reset abused in Azure data theft attacks
A threat actor targeting Microsoft 365 and Azure production environments is stealing data in attacks that abuse legitimate applications and administration features. […]
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Cato Networks Adds Cyera DSPM Integration to XOps
Cato Networks has integrated Cyera’s Data Security Posture Management capabilities into Cato XOps, giving enterprise security teams more context around sensitive data when detecting, investigating, and responding to threats. The integration, announced May 19, embeds Cyera’s data intelligence into Cato XOps, Cato’s combined XDR and AIOps solution. The companies said the goal is to help…
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Agentic AI Accelerates Software Builds and Mobile App Attacks
Digital.ai data reveals 87% of apps were attacked over the past year
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AI infrastructure is cracking under sovereignty demands
AI deployments are moving into environments with tighter controls around data, infrastructure, and system operations. Organizations are building AI systems across multiple providers, platforms, and computing environments while managing governance, security, and compliance obligations within defined boundaries. NTT DATA’s 2026 Global AI Report A Playbook for Private and Sovereign AI examined these conditions in more…
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The American Rebellion Against AI Is Gaining Steam
Booed commencement speakers, blocked data centers, plummeting poll numbers: The fast-growing industry has a faster-growing crisis.
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Secure, Fast, Reliable: The Best Cloud Storage Providers for Businesses in 2026
This guide is for IT leaders, business owners, and operations teams looking to improve data security, collaboration, and file management in 2026. It covers the best cloud storage providers for businesses and the key features to consider when selecting a secure, scalable, and reliable storage solution. Key Points of Our 2026 Cloud Storage Provider Evaluation…
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The Gentlemen Ransomware Gang Hit by Internal Breach, Operations Exposed
The Gentlemen ransomware gang suffered an internal breach in May 2026, exposing victim data, affiliate activity, and backend operations.
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Weekly Update 504
It’s a hot topic, the old “pay or don’t pay” for hackers not to leak your data. Since recording this a few days ago, we’ve had Grafana go with the “no pay” approach, and I’ve seen a raft of commentary around other companies reaching “agreements”, which is a much politer way of saying “we paid…
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Critical ‘Claw Chain’ Vulnerabilities Put Thousands of OpenClaw AI Servers at Risk
Critical Claw Chain vulnerabilities in OpenClaw expose thousands of AI servers to data theft, backdoors, and admin-level attacks globally this week. .
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What Will Travel Look Like in 20 Years?
Plus, how tech giants are pushing to build data centers in space and why people are whispering at work.
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HYCU aiR detects insider risk and AI activity from backups
HYCU has announced HYCU aiR (AI Resilience), an AI-native solution that turns backup data across dozens of applications into a live and actionable intelligence for security, compliance, and IT teams. aiR lets organizations search, query, and run purpose-built agents to surface insider risk, sensitive data exposure, identity drift, and AI agent activity, using their backup…
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Graphon Says Its ‘Intelligence Layer’ Will Lighten the Load on AI Models
CEO Arbaaz Khan says the company’s approach analyzes the relationships between pieces of data more efficiently and cheaply than large language models do.
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HYCU Launches New Capability for Backup Data Use
HYCU, a SaaS data protection company, is launching aiR (AI Resilience), a new capability inside the HYCU R-Cloud platform. The new capability turns backup data into a live intelligence layer for security, compliance, and risk teams. AI Resilience solution leverages backup records to observe AI use It takes the backup records organizations have of who…
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Smashing Security podcast #467: How ShinyHunters hacked the world’s biggest universities
Welcome to the largest educational data breach in history – affecting nearly 9,000 institutions, every Ivy League university, and 30 million students mid-finals. When Canvas’s parent company refused to pay and announced they had deployed “security patches” instead, the hackers were less than impressed. So they came back through the cat flap. Meanwhile, a famous…
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West Pharmaceutical says hackers stole data, encrypted systems
West Pharmaceutical Services disclosed that it was the target of a cyberattack that resulted in data exfiltration and system encryption. […]
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Canvas Owner Reaches Agreement With Cybercriminals After Ransomware Attack
Instructure says it reached an agreement with ShinyHunters over the Canvas breach data
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Global Cyber Agencies Issue New SBOMs for AI Guidance to Tackle AI Supply Chain Risks
The G7 Cybersecurity Working Group releases new SBOM for AI guidance, outlining seven key data clusters to boost transparency and security across AI supply chains
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Hackers accessed BWH Hotels reservation system for months
BWH Hotels says hackers accessed guest reservation data, including names and contacts, for over six months across multiple hotel brands. BWH Hotels disclosed a data breach, with threat actors having had access to guest reservation data for more than six months. The incident exposed names and contact details of an undisclosed number of guests. BWH…
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Škoda warns of customer data breach after online shop hack
Škoda Auto, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Volkswagen Group, has disclosed a data breach after attackers hacked its online shop and stole the personal information of an undisclosed number of customers. […]
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Veeam Intelligent ResOps unifies data context and recovery
Veeam Software announced Veeam Intelligent ResOps, a new solution that unifies data context and recovery operations. As agentic AI accelerates change at machine speed, Intelligent ResOps gives teams the insight they need into their data to quickly understand impact and recover precisely – without broad rollbacks when something happens. When insights are disconnected from recovery,…
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ANY.RUN & Elastic Security: Bring Threat Intelligence into Detection and Investigation Workflows
Security teams don’t lack data. They lack timely, usable intelligence. Analysts spend too much time validating indicators, switching between tools, and figuring out what actually matters. This introduces delays and puts organizations at risk of a missed incident. ANY.RUN solves this by bringing real-time, behavior-validated threat intelligence from ANY.RUN integrated into Elastic Security, where SOC and MSSP teams detect emerging cyberattacks earlier and respond faster without…
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South Staffordshire Water Fined £1m After Data Breach
The ICO has fined South Staffordshire Water nearly £1m for a series of data protection failings
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Poor security left hackers inside water company network for nearly two years
The UK’s data protection regulator, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), fined South Staffordshire Water’s parent company £963,900 over security failures linked to a cyberattack that exposed the personal data of 633,887 people. According to the ICO, the South Staffordshire breach began in September 2020 with a phishing email that tricked an employee into opening a…
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Zara Data Breach Impacts Nearly 200,000 Customers
ShinyHunters gets away with emails and other data on 200,000 Zara customers
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RansomHouse says it breached Trellix and exposes internal systems
RansomHouse claimed responsibility for the Trellix breach, adding the security firm to its Tor data leak site and sharing screenshots of internal systems. The RansomHouse ransomware group has claimed responsibility for the recent cyberattack on cybersecurity firm Trellix. To support its claims, the gang published screenshots allegedly showing access to internal Trellix services. In early…
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ShinyHunters claims nearly 9,000 schools affected by Canvas data breach
The post ShinyHunters claims nearly 9,000 schools affected by Canvas data breach appeared first on CyberScoop.
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Zara data breach exposed personal information of 197,000 people
Hackers who gained access to the databases of Spanish fast-fashion retailer Zara stole data belonging to more than 197,000 customers, according to data breach notification service Have I Been Pwned. […]
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Canvas Breach Disrupts Schools & Colleges Nationwide
An ongoing data extortion attack targeting the widely-used education technology platform Canvas disrupted classes and coursework at school districts and universities across the United States today, after a cybercrime group defaced the service’s login page with a ransom demand that threatened to leak data from 275 million students and faculty across nearly 9,000 educational institutions.…
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SAS’ Alyssa Farrell on Data Management, Quantum, and AI Positioning
During SAS’s Innovate 2026 event recently, SAS announced it would refresh its SAS Data Management portfolio, a cloud-native offering built on the SAS Viya data and AI platform. Among the new and expanded capabilities are AI-ready data management, governance by design, agentic AI and copilots, and cloud-native analytics acceleration. “A modern data platform is not…
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Legacy Security Tools Are Failing Data Protection, Capital One Software Report Finds
Traditional network security tools are undermining data protection, with Forrester and Capital One Software research warning AI adoption is impossible without rethinking data security
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CloudZ RAT Abuses Windows Phone Link to Steal OTPs
A malware campaign is exploiting a built-in Windows feature to intercept sensitive data — without ever touching the victim’s phone. Cisco Talos researchers identified the CloudZ remote access trojan (RAT) using a custom plugin to monitor Microsoft’s Phone Link application and potentially capture SMS-based one-time passwords (OTPs). “MFA bypass is becoming a bigger and bigger…
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Vimeo confirms breach via third-party vendor impacts 119K users
Hackers stole data of 119,000 Vimeo users in April. The breach, linked to a third‑party vendor, exposed personal details. Vimeo confirmed a data breach after the ShinyHunters gang stole personal information of 119,000 users in April 2026. According to Have I Been Pwned, the attackers accessed user data through a compromise at Anodot, a third‑party…
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FTC to ban data broker Kochava from selling Americans’ location data
The FTC will ban data broker Kochava and its subsidiary, Collective Data Solutions (CDS), from selling location data without consumers’ explicit consent to settle charges alleging that it sold precise geolocation data collected from hundreds of millions of mobile devices. […]
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SAS’ John Carey on Partnerships and Human-Centric AI
As data and AI company SAS hits its 50th anniversary, the organization is meeting the moment by continuing to strengthen partnerships while positioning itself around human-centric, responsible AI. During SAS Innovate 2026, Channel Insider sat down with John Carey, VP, Global Channels, SAS, to discuss partnerships, lessons learned, and the future of AI adoption. How…
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Trellix discloses data breach after source code repository hack
Cybersecurity firm Trellix disclosed a data breach after attackers gained access to “a portion” of its source code repository. […]
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Why data centers now belong on the critical infrastructure list
Missile and drone attacks that took out cloud data centers in the Middle East underscored a critical vulnerability in the modern economy: reliance on digital infrastructure that sustains competitive advantage and operational continuity for corporations, nations, and militaries. The outages and downstream disruption were a preview of a new form of strategic and operational risk.…
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Introducing Wallarm Middle East Cloud: Built for Data Residency Compliance
As API and AI adoption grows across the Middle East, so do the expectations around how data is handled. For many organizations operating in this region, it’s not just about securing applications. It’s about doing it in a way that keeps data in-country and aligned with local requirements. Today, we’re introducing the Wallarm Middle East…
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15-year-old detained over massive data breach at French government agency
French authorities have detained a 15-year-old suspected of involvement in a data breach at France Titres, the government agency responsible for issuing official documents. “Between 12 and 18 million data records were reportedly being offered for sale on cybercriminal forums by a hacker known as “breach3d,“ the Paris Prosecutor’s Office said in a press release.…
AI, Global Security News
Instructure confirms data breach, ShinyHunters claims attack
Educational tech giant Instructure has confirmed that data was stolen in a cyberattack, with the ShinyHunters extortion gang claiming responsibility. […]
Cybersecurity, Data Breaches, Global Security News
Controlling Data Breach And The Use Of DRM For Document Security
This post will reveal how to control the aftermath of a data breach by using DRM for document security. Gathering physical and digital evidence to correlate data from multiple sources to piece together a data breach incident is crucial in evaluating how and when the incident occurred. The evidence can show if someone had infiltrated…
AI, Exploits, Global Security News, Network Security, Risk Management
AI agents can bypass guardrails and put credentials at risk, Okta study finds
An AI agent that revealed sensitive data without being asked. An agent that overruled its own guardrails. Another that sent credentials to an attacker via Telegram, because it forgot it wasn’t supposed to do so after a reset. It’s no secret that AI agents have huge potential, balanced by equally big risks. What’s becoming apparent,…
AI, Exploits, Global Security News, Network Security, Risk Management
AI agents can bypass guardrails and put credentials at risk, Okta study finds
An AI agent that revealed sensitive data without being asked. An agent that overruled its own guardrails. Another that sent credentials to an attacker via Telegram, because it forgot it wasn’t supposed to do so after a reset. It’s no secret that AI agents have huge potential, balanced by equally big risks. What’s becoming apparent,…