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War-Driven Outages Put MSP Data Center Strategies at Risk

Data centers are no longer insulated from geopolitical conflict, and MSPs are starting to feel the impact. Recent attacks tied to escalating tensions between Iran, the U.S., and Israel have disrupted cloud infrastructure in the Middle East, forcing hyperscalers to shift workloads and exposing new risks to uptime, supply chains, and service agreements. For managed…

ShinyHunters claims the hack of the European Commission

The European Commission has allegedly been breached by ShinyHunters, with reported data dumps including content from mail servers. The European Commission has allegedly been breached by ShinyHunters, with reported data dumps including content from mail servers and internal communications systems. The cybercrime group added the Commission to its Tor data leak site, claiming the theft…

European Commission data stolen in a cyberattack on the infrastructure hosting its web sites

The European Commission is continuing to investigate the theft of data from its cloud infrastructure earlier this week. On Thursday, the Commission revealed there had been an attack on its Europa.eu platform, offering few details, then, on Friday, security news site Bleeping Computer reported that the attack had involved the compromise of an account or…

Iranian hackers, Handala, claim to compromise FBI Director Kash Patel’s personal data

Iranian hackers claimed Friday to have compromised the personal data of FBI Director Kash Patel, and the bureau confirmed that it knew of the targeting of Patel’s personal email. The government-connected hacking group, Handala, previously claimed credit for hacking medical device maker Stryker, a boast that threat researchers considered credible. “All personal and confidential email…

Researchers uncover WebRTC skimmer bypassing traditional defenses

Researchers found a new skimmer using WebRTC to steal and send payment data, bypassing traditional security controls. Sansec researchers discovered a new payment skimmer that uses WebRTC data channels instead of typical web requests to load malicious code and exfiltrate stolen payment data. “What sets this attack apart is the skimmer itself. Instead of the usual…

Smashing Security podcast #460: Never knock on the door of a nuclear submarine base and ask for a selfie

A disgruntled data analyst decides that the best response to losing his contract is to steal the entire company payroll database and demand $2.5 million in Bitcoin – signing his extortion emails from a company called “Loot.” Meanwhile, two people drive up to the entrance of the UK’s nuclear submarine base at Faslane and politely…

DataBahn brings AI-driven intelligence into the security pipeline

DataBahn.ai has announced Autonomous In-Stream Data Intelligence (AIDI), a new operating model for security data pipelines in which data is continuously interpreted, validated, and acted on in real time as it flows. Building on its AI-native foundation, DataBahn advances the pipeline from intelligent data preparation to an active system of in-stream decision-making, enabling organizations to…

WebRTC Skimmer Bypasses CSP to Steal Payment Data from E-Commerce Sites

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new payment skimmer that uses WebRTC data channels as a means to receive payloads and exfiltrate data, effectively bypassing security controls. “Instead of the usual HTTP requests or image beacons, this malware uses WebRTC data channels to load its payload and exfiltrate stolen payment data,” Sansec said in a report…

Never knock on the door of a nuclear submarine base and ask for a selfie

A disgruntled data analyst decides that the best response to losing his contract is to steal the entire company payroll database and demand $2.5 million in Bitcoin – signing his extortion emails from a company called “Loot.” Meanwhile, two people drive up to the entrance of the UK’s nuclear submarine base at Faslane and politely…

Recent Navia data breach impacts HackerOne employee data

A Navia breach exposed personal data of nearly 300 HackerOne employees after attackers compromised the benefits provider. HackerOne revealed that a data breach at Navia Benefit Solutions exposed the personal information of nearly 300 of its employees. The incident stems from an attack on the third-party benefits provider, highlighting how breaches at external partners can…

Cybercrime group Lapsus$ claims the hack of pharma giant AstraZeneca

Cybercrime group Lapsus$ claims it hacked AstraZeneca, stealing 3GB of data including credentials, code, and employee information. The Lapsus$ group claims it breached AstraZeneca, stealing about 3GB of sensitive data. The alleged leak includes credentials, tokens, internal code repositories (Java, Angular, Python), and employee information, though the company has not yet confirmed the breach. Even…

Data breach at Dutch Ministry of Finance impacts staff following cyberattack

Dutch Ministry of Finance disclosed a data breach affecting some employees following a cyberattack, investigation is ongoing. The Dutch Ministry of Finance disclosed a cyberattack detected on March 19 after a third-party alert. Attackers breached some internal systems, the incident impacted a “portion of the employees”. Authorities are still investigating the incident and its full…

Mimecast expands Incydr with runtime data security for AI and human risk

Mimecast has announced a major expansion of its Incydr offering with new data security capabilities and a preview of the Agent Risk Center. These enhancements deliver runtime data security through a unified approach to detect, govern, and remediate data exposure in real time, whether driven by employees or agents acting on their behalf. Eighty percent…

ZeroTier Quantum brings quantum-resistant security to high-performance global networking

ZeroTier has launched ZeroTier Quantum, a software-defined networking platform designed for data center–level performance and built with quantum-resistant cryptography aligned with NIST and NSA CNSA 2.0 standards. Organizations operate far beyond network boundaries, autonomous devices, machines, vehicles, agents, and infrastructure span continents, oceans, and remote environments, constantly transmitting sensitive data that must stay secure. At…

Streamline physical security to enable data center growth in the era of AI

AI is the new space race for data centers, and consistency at speed is the rocket fuel that colocation and hyperscale providers need to reach orbit. Everything you already know about physical security still applies but it won’t matter unless you have the right plan and partnerships in place to scale without sacrificing quality. Growth…

Relyance AI’s Lyo addresses data security gaps in autonomous systems

Relyance AI has announced the commercial availability of Lyo, an autonomous data defense engineer that monitors and secures how AI agents interact with enterprise data. Lyo emerges at an inflection point for the cybersecurity industry as autonomous AI agents spread across enterprise environments, gaining access to sensitive data, triggering workflows, provisioning infrastructure, and calling APIs…

Informatica Expands Microsoft Collaboration with Open Mirroring Support for Microsoft Fabric and Geographic Expansion for Microsoft Azure Point-of-Delivery

COMPANY ANNOUNCEMENT:  Informatica from Salesforce, a leader in AI-powered enterprise cloud data management, today announced deeper integration with Microsoft at the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference in Atlanta. The announcement includes general availability of support for Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) for Microsoft Fabric Open Mirroring, as well as the launch of a new Microsoft Azure-based IDMC point-of-delivery…

‘CanisterWorm’ Springs Wiper Attack Targeting Iran

A financially motivated data theft and extortion group is attempting to inject itself into the Iran war, unleashing a worm that spreads through poorly secured cloud services and wipes data on infected systems that use Iran’s time zone or have Farsi set as the default language. Experts say the wiper campaign against Iran materialized this…

Proofpoint unifies email, data, and AI security to reduce enterprise blind spots

Proofpoint has unveiled innovations across its Collaboration Security and Data Security portfolios, strengthening protection for the agentic workspace, where people and AI agents interact across communication and data environments to execute business-critical work. As organizations deploy AI assistants and autonomous agents, they are delegating authority at scale. AI systems now draft communications, access sensitive data,…

Navia data breach impacts nearly 2.7 Million people

Navia Benefit Solutions data breach exposed 2.7M people after attackers accessed systems from December 2025 to January 2026. Navia Benefit Solutions disclosed a data breach affecting 2,697,540 individuals. The company detected suspicious activity on January 23, 2026 and quickly launched an investigation to assess the incident. Navia Benefit Solutions is a U.S.-based company that provides…

DarkSword emerges as powerful iOS exploit tool in global attacks

DarkSword, a new iOS exploit kit, is used by multiple actors to steal data in campaigns targeting Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Malaysia, and Ukraine. Lookout Threat Labs discovered a new iOS exploit kit called DarkSword that has been used since late 2025 by multiple threat actors, including surveillance vendors and likely nation-state actors. The toolkit enables…

DarkSword iOS Exploit Kit Uses 6 Flaws, 3 Zero-Days for Full Device Takeover

A new exploit kit for Apple iOS devices designed to steal sensitive data from is being wielded by multiple threat actors since at least November 2025, according to reports from Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG), iVerify, and Lookout. According to GTIG, multiple commercial surveillance vendors and suspected state-sponsored actors have utilized the full-chain exploit kit,…

Boomi, a 12X Leader, Positioned for Ability to Execute in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Integration Platform as a Service

COMPANY NEWS:  Boomi, the data activation company, today announced it has been recognised as a Leader and positioned highest for Ability to Execute in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS). This marks the 12th consecutive time Boomi has been named a Leader – the longest recognised vendor in the report’s…

Product Walkthrough: How Mesh CSMA Reveals and Breaks Attack Paths to Crown Jewels

Security teams today are not short on tools or data. They are overwhelmed by both.  Yet within the terabytes of alerts, exposures, and misconfigurations – security teams still struggle to understand context:  Q: Which exposures, misconfigurations, and vulnerabilities chain together to create viable attack paths to crown jewels? Even the most mature security teams can’t…

BlackHawk Data introduces CloudSight for continuous security auditing

BlackHawk Data announced the launch of CloudSight, a continuous auditing and monitoring platform designed to help organizations maximize the security, performance, and visibility of their Cloudflare environments. As Cloudflare adoption continues to grow across enterprises, many organizations struggle to maintain visibility across their zones, DNS configurations, security rules, and performance settings. Industry estimates show that…

Robotic surgery firm Intuitive reports data breach after targeted phishing attack

Intuitive suffered a phishing attack leading to a data breach exposing customer, employee, and corporate information. Intuitive is an American company that designs, manufactures, and sells robotic systems for minimally invasive surgery. Its most well-known products include the da Vinci Surgical System for general surgery and the Ion endoluminal system for precise procedures inside the…

AI Flaws in Amazon Bedrock, LangSmith, and SGLang Enable Data Exfiltration and RCE

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new method for exfiltrating sensitive data from artificial intelligence (AI) code execution environments using domain name system (DNS) queries. In a report published Monday, BeyondTrust revealed that Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter’s sandbox mode permits outbound DNS queries that an attacker can exploit to enable interactive shells

Druva Adds Identity Resilience for Okta, AD, and Entra ID

Druva, a data security company, has announced that Druva Identity Resilience now supports Okta and Microsoft Active Directory, in addition to Microsoft Entra ID.  Druva Identity Resilience delivers unified protection, cyber recovery, and threat detection and response within a SaaS platform, bringing disparate identity providers together so security and IT teams can restore trusted access…

Microsoft zeroes in on AI-driven data risks in Fabric

New Microsoft Purview innovations for Microsoft Fabric help organizations secure data and accelerate AI adoption. The updates focus on identifying risks, preventing data oversharing, and strengthening governance and data quality across the data estate. Integration between Microsoft Purview and Microsoft Fabric delivers unified data security and governance, enabling protection of sensitive data, maintaining visibility across…

Cybersecurity jobs available right now: March 17, 2026

Application Security DevSecOps Specialist NTT DATA | Italy | On-site – View job details As an Application Security DevSecOps Specialist, you will integrate security into CI/CD pipelines using tools such as SAST, DAST, SCA, secret scanning, and container scanning to ensure secure software delivery. You will conduct code security reviews, triage findings, and collaborate with…

Data mining? Old servers could become new source of rare earths

The retirement of old server equipment from data center facilities could become an opportunity for enterprises to generate revenue, instead of being an often costly recycling expense. Last year Western Digital announced it was experimenting with new ways to extract valuable rare earth elements and metals from obsolete servers from Microsoft’s US data centers, as…

Starbucks HR Portal Breach Exposes Employee Information

Starbucks has disclosed a data breach affecting hundreds of employees after attackers accessed internal HR accounts through phishing websites impersonating the company’s employee portal.  This incident exposed sensitive personal and financial information, raising concerns about potential identity theft and fraud. “The investigation has determined that an unauthorized third party accessed certain Starbucks Partner Central accounts…

AI Agent Safety Checklist

As organizations rapidly adopt AI agents to automate workflows, summarize data, and assist decision-making, security and governance teams face a new challenge: how to deploy AI safely without introducing unmanaged risk.  Unlike traditional SaaS tools, AI agents can interpret, generate, and act on data dynamically — often across multiple systems. That makes oversight, scope control,…

Zscaler enhances data sovereignty controls with regional processing and logging

Zscaler has expanded its data sovereignty capabilities globally, powered by the Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange cloud security platform. For global enterprises, the conflict between protecting data and enabling cross-border collaboration is a major compliance and business challenge to growth. Zscaler already operates 160+ data centers and is present in most countries. Its architecture is based…

Fortanix helps enterprises build resilience with multi-sourced quantum entropy

Fortanix announced a new multi-sourced quantum entropy capability within Fortanix Data Security Manager (DSM), enabling enterprises to diversify encryption key generation at the origin of trust. Through partnerships with Qrypt and Quantum Dice, Fortanix integrates independent, physics-based quantum entropy sources directly into its key management workflows, enabling compliance requirements that require multiple entropy sources and…

Attackers exploit FortiGate devices to access sensitive network information

Attackers are exploiting FortiGate devices to breach networks and steal configuration data containing service account credentials and network details. SentinelOne researchers warn that attackers are exploiting vulnerabilities or weak credentials in FortiGate devices to gain initial access to corporate networks. Once inside, they extract configuration files that may contain service account credentials and information about…

Ericsson US confirms breach after third-party provider attack

Ericsson US reports a data breach after attackers hacked a service provider, exposing employee and customer information. Ericsson Inc., the U.S. branch of the Swedish telecom giant, disclosed a data breach after a service provider was hacked. The attack compromised the personal information of an unspecified number of employees and customers. “On April 28, 2025,…

Cognizant’s TriZetto Provider Solutions data breach impacted over 3.4 million patients

A breach at Cognizant’s TriZetto Provider Solutions exposed sensitive health data belonging to more than 3.4 million patients. A data breach at Cognizant’s TriZetto Provider Solutions exposed sensitive information belonging to more than 3.4 million patients. At this time, no ransomware group has claimed responsibility for the attack yet. TriZetto Provider Solutions is a healthcare…