Shadow AI used to mean employees pasting things they shouldn’t into ChatGPT. It now means something bigger: employees building full applications with AI, wiring them into production systems, and publishing them on the open internet. Without Security or IT in the loop. The artifact moved from a prompt to a product. The risk surface moved…
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Employees are unknowingly inviting tech support impersonators into firms, says FBI
Online or telephone IT support scams have been tricking employees into downloading or clicking on malware for years. But according to the FBI, one group that targets US-based law firms has recently found success in person, by convincing firms to allow a supposed IT support person into the building, where they insert a storage device…
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Iranian threat group targets US aviation sector with AI-assisted ‘MiniFast’ backdoor
Career-themed phishing lures targeted employees of US domestic airlines during Operation Epic Fury.
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Top 5 Phishing-Driven Social Engineering Attacks on Companies in 2026
Your employees are not falling for “bad grammar” phishing anymore. They are being pulled into fake Microsoft logins, banking pages, AI tool instructions, real OAuth flows, and event invitations that look close enough to daily work to pass without alarm. For CISOs, that is the real social engineering problem in 2026: attacks are no longer…
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5 Steps to Managing Shadow AI Tools Without Slowing Down Employees
Many employees already use shadow AI tools at work without security review. Adaptive Security breaks down how teams can build practical AI governance without adding friction for employees. […]
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Workday: AI is Faster, but Making Work Busier
Workday recently released new research that found that while employees are using AI in their work, the technology’s impact is limited, as it has made them busier. Workers report more time connecting systems as AI adoption expands According to the report, titled “The Copy/Paste Economy: Why Task-Oriented AI is Failing the Enterprise,” 8 in 10…
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OpenAI confirms security breach in TanStack supply chain attack
OpenAI says two employees’ devices were breached in the recent TanStack supply chain attack that impacted hundreds of npm and PyPI packages, causing the company to rotate code-signing certificates for its applications as a precaution. […]
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Tech Can’t Stop These Threats — Your People Can
Security controls can do only so much. Here are four attacks where your employees are usually your first, and only, line of cyber defense.
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How a Job at OpenAI Became the Greatest Lottery Ticket of the AI Boom
Employees waited two years to sell their shares. Then, the company let them unload $30 million.
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For Palantir, AI Is a Product, a Punching Bag—and a Problem
As Chief Executive Alex Karp derides “slop,” investors and some employees see a real threat of the company ceding business to AI models.
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One in Eight Workers Has Sold Their Corporate Logins
Cifas says that 13% of employees admit selling company credentials to a former colleague
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Coinbase to Slash 14% of Workforce as Part of Restructuring
The crypto exchange said it was laying off 700 employees as part of a restructuring effort to trim costs and streamline operations.
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The Back Door Attackers Know About — and Most Security Teams Still Haven’t Closed
Every AI tool, workflow automation, and productivity app your employees connected to Google or Microsoft this year left something behind: a persistent OAuth token with no expiration date, no automatic cleanup, and in most organizations, no one watching it. Your perimeter controls don’t see it. Your MFA doesn’t stop it. And when an attacker gets…
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US ransomware negotiators get 4 years in prison over BlackCat attacks
Two former employees of cybersecurity incident response companies Sygnia and DigitalMint were sentenced to four years in prison each for targeting U.S. companies in BlackCat (ALPHV) ransomware attacks. […]
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Behind Meta’s Huge Layoffs Is a Relentless Shift Toward AI
As the company envisions smaller teams and supersmart agents, some employees are wondering how they fit in.
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Funlab Simplifies Global Operations with Dayforce
COMPANY ANNOUNCEMENT: Funlab employees across Australia, New Zealand, and U.S. are now live on the Dayforce AI-powered people platform
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Meta to track employee keystrokes, screen activity to train AI agents
Meta plans to track US employees’ mouse movements, clicks, keystrokes, and screen activity to train workplace AI agents, according to Reuters, offering an early look at how far major tech companies may go to build systems that can automate knowledge work. The company plans to do so through a tool called Model Capability Initiative, or…
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AI is finally delivering productivity — for remote employees
The productivity gains from AI are so great, companies can lay off thousands of employees and still get the same amount of work done — right? Or maybe it’s the opposite: despite all the hype, any supposed AI productivity boom is a mirage, causing employees, even developers, to experience heavier workloads. At the moment, the…
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Workplace stress in 2026 is still worse than before the pandemic
Roughly 40% of employees worldwide said they experienced a lot of stress during the previous day, according to Gallup’s State of the Global Workplace 2026 report, a figure that has remained above pre-pandemic levels for several years. Daily anger stood at 22% globally, sadness at 23%, and loneliness at 22%. Together, these numbers point to…
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Microsoft: Canadian employees targeted in payroll pirate attacks
A financially motivated threat actor tracked as Storm-2755 is stealing Canadian employees’ salary payments after hijacking their accounts in payroll pirate attacks. […]
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Poisoned “Office 365” search results lead to stolen paychecks
A financially motivated hacking group is targeting Canadian employees with a sophisticated campaign designed to covertly redirect their salary payments into attacker-controlled bank accounts, Microsoft researchers discovered. SEO poisoning and malvertising + phishing + AiTM The group, which Microsoft tracks as Storm-2755, begins by poisoning search engine results and running malicious ads against generic queries…
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The Hidden Security Risks of Shadow AI in Enterprises
As AI tools become more accessible, employees are adopting them without formal approval from IT and security teams. While these tools may boost productivity, automate tasks, or fill gaps in existing workflows, they also operate outside the visibility of security teams, bypassing controls and creating new blind spots in what is known as shadow AI. While similar to…
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Cybercriminals take aim at Hasbro, weeks of recovery ahead
Hasbro, an American toy maker with more than 5,000 employees, confirmed a cyberattack and proactively took certain systems offline. The intrusion was detected on March 28, and the company promptly activated its incident response protocols. The company said the investigation is ongoing with support from third-party cybersecurity professionals as it works to determine the scope…
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The Playbook That Elon Musk Relies On to Make His Wild Ideas Work
Musk’s five-step algorithm gets Tesla and SpaceX employees to achieve stretch goals and innovate, and it’s sure to come in handy in his push to build the world’s largest AI chip factory.
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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…
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How android work profiles reduce data leakage on BYOD devices
GUEST OPINION: Bring-your-own-device (BYOD) programs give employees the freedom to carry a single smartphone, but they also open the door to unintentional data spills. When business email, files, and chat histories intermingle with vacation photos and social apps, the boundary between corporate and personal information blurs.
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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…
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HackerOne discloses employee data breach after Navia hack
Bug bounty platform HackerOne is notifying hundreds of employees that their data was stolen after attackers hacked Navia, one of its U.S. benefits administrators. […]
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Mazda discloses security breach exposing employee and partner data
Mazda Motor Corporation (Mazda) announced that information belonging to its employees and business partners had been exposed in a security incident detected last December. […]
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The phone call is the new phishing email
Voice-based phishing, a form of social engineering where attackers call employees or IT help desks under false pretenses in an attempt to gain access to victim networks, surged in 2025, Mandiant said Monday in its annual M-Trends report. These points of intrusion, which have been a hallmark of attacks attributed to members of the cybercrime…
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Zluri addresses expanding identity attack surface across SaaS, cloud, and AI
Enterprise identity is undergoing a fundamental shift. Employees are no longer the only identities operating inside organizations. Service accounts, machine identities, application integrations, and AI agents now interact with enterprise systems at scale, accelerating the growth of non-human identities and expanding the identity attack surface across SaaS applications, cloud infrastructure, and on-premises systems. To address…
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Servers With Nvidia Chips Were Smuggled Into China, U.S. Indictment Says
Super Micro Computer placed two employees on leave and fired a contractor after charges of diverting U.S.-assembled servers to China, violating export control laws.
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CISOs rethink their data protection strategies
Scott Kopcha witnessed what CISOs everywhere are seeing: employees eager to use artificial intelligence, whether through public models or custom AI tools, accessing company data at a breathtaking rate and volume. Kopcha already had a mature data protection strategy in place; as a law firm, his organization had a long history of safeguarding sensitive data.…
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Australian startup Hootnotes eyes global opportunity in visual collaboration
Australian startup Hootnotes is tapping into the growing number of employees working remotely with a collaborative workspace platform designed to simplify how teams organise ideas and projects.
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Australian startup Hootnotes eyes global opportunity in visual collaboration
Australian startup Hootnotes is tapping into the growing number of employees working remotely with a collaborative workspace platform designed to simplify how teams organise ideas and projects.
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Shadow AI is everywhere. Here’s how to find and secure it.
Shadow AI is quietly spreading across SaaS environments as employees adopt new AI tools without IT oversight. Nudge Security explains how security teams can discover AI apps, monitor usage, and govern risky AI activity. […]
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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…
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Starbucks discloses data breach affecting hundreds of employees
Starbucks has disclosed a data breach affecting hundreds of employees after threat actors gained access to their Starbucks Partner Central accounts. […]
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Iran-Linked Hacktivists Claim Wiper Attack on Stryker Systems
A cyberattack has disrupted global operations at medical technology manufacturer Stryker, forcing employees in multiple countries offline and cutting access to core corporate systems. The incident, which began March 11, triggered widespread outages across the company’s Microsoft environment and left staff temporarily unable to access internal applications and devices. “When a company the size of…
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Attackers Don’t Just Send Phishing Emails. They Weaponize Your SOC’s Workload
The most dangerous phishing campaigns aren’t just designed to fool employees. Many are designed to exhaust the analysts investigating them. When a phishing investigation takes 12 hours instead of five minutes, the outcome can shift from a contained incident to a breach. For years, the cybersecurity industry has focused on the front door of phishing…
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Anthropic’s Standoff With the Pentagon Shakes Up AI Talent Race
A dispute over how AI can be used by the military shows top employees are looking for more than just nine-figure pay packages.
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Microsoft Teams phishing targets employees with backdoors
Hackers contacted employees at financial and healthcare organizations over Microsoft Teams to trick them into granting remote access through Quick Assist and deploy a new piece of malware called A0Backdoor. […]
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ClickFix attackers using new tactic to evade detection, says Microsoft
Threat actors are trying a different tactic to sucker employees into falling for ClickFix phishing attacks that install malware, says Microsoft. Rather than asking potential victims to copy and paste a (malicious) command into the Run dialog, launched by hitting the Windows button plus the letter R, they are being told to use the Windows…
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ClickFix attackers using new tactic to evade detection, says Microsoft
Threat actors are trying a different tactic to sucker employees into falling for ClickFix phishing attacks that install malware, says Microsoft. Rather than asking potential victims to copy and paste a (malicious) command into the Run dialog, launched by hitting the Windows button plus the letter R, they are being told to use the Windows…
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AI-Driven Insider Risk Now a “Critical Business Threat,” Report Warns
Malicious insiders are using misusing AI for nefarious gain, while employees cutting corners also creates risk, warns Mimecast
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The Evangelist Teaching a 220-Year-Old Toothpaste Maker to Embrace AI
Colgate-Palmolive turns to Iraklis “Kli” Pappas to drive employees toward using AI for more than just polishing emails.
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What is digital employee experience — and why is it more important than ever?
On any given day, an organization’s employees might be using smartphones, laptops, desktop computers, tablets, a variety of cloud and networking services, a host of enterprise applications and mobile apps, and other digital tools. Many of them might be working remotely, and nearly all of them will be operating with tight security and data privacy…
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How Jack Dorsey Explained Cutting Almost Half of Block’s Staff
The tech entrepreneur said companies need flatter structures and fewer employees to thrive in the AI era.
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The farmers and the mercenaries: Rethinking the ‘human layer’ in security
There’s a phrase that’s become gospel in cybersecurity: “Employees are the last line of defense.” We’ve built an entire industry around it. Billions of dollars in security awareness programs, mandatory simulations and user-reporting workflows across endpoints, applications and collaboration tools. All predicated on a premise that sounds reasonable until you examine what we’re actually asking.…
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Japanese sex toys maker Tenga discloses data breach
Sex toy maker Tenga says a hacker accessed an employee’s email account, potentially exposing customer names, emails, and order details. TENGA Co., Ltd. is a Tokyo-based Japanese sexual wellness and lifestyle company known for its innovative adult products. It employs roughly 125–200 people worldwide across its Japan headquarters and international offices. Tenga operates in personal…
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The AI Gold Rush Is Breaking a Silicon Valley Taboo: Cashing Out Before the IPO
Companies from Stripe to OpenAI, Anthropic, Databricks and SpaceX are increasingly giving employees the ability to sell some of their shares.
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Pride Month Phishing Targets Employees via Trusted Email Services
Attackers are using Pride Month themed phishing emails to target employees worldwide, abusing trusted email platforms like SendGrid to harvest credentials.
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Over 1,000 Google employees demand the company cut ties with ICE
More than 1,000 Google employees have signed an open letter urging the company to sever its business ties with the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP), according to CNBC. In the letter, the employees condemn what they describe as escalating violence linked to federal immigration operations and refer to…
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Over 1,000 Google employees demand the company cut ties with ICE
More than 1,000 Google employees have signed an open letter urging the company to sever its business ties with the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP), according to CNBC. In the letter, the employees condemn what they describe as escalating violence linked to federal immigration operations and refer to…
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Over 1,000 Google employees demand the company cut ties with ICE
More than 1,000 Google employees have signed an open letter urging the company to sever its business ties with the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP), according to CNBC. In the letter, the employees condemn what they describe as escalating violence linked to federal immigration operations and refer to…
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AI has taken over customer service – but companies could soon regret the shift
Many companies and organizations have in recent years cut back on the number of employees dedicated to support issues, believing that AI solutions can handle this task for more efficiently. But Gartner Research is now saying demand for support from real people is likely to increase as early as next year — because customers prefer…