A Chinese-speaking cybercrime group has expanded its targeting to the European space, deploying previously undocumented malware and the Atlas backdoor. […]
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Meta adds stricter guardrails for teen feeds
Meta has expanded its Teen Accounts 13+ content settings globally on Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger. The safeguards are designed to help young users see age-appropriate content by default. The company also introduced Limited Content on Instagram for parents seeking stricter restrictions. Meta plans to roll out the feature on Facebook and Messenger later this year.…
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RSA extends passwordless authentication to Linux environments
RSA has expanded its passwordless authentication capabilities to Linux environments, advancing its goal of delivering secure, password-free access for every user in every environment. Linux is ubiquitous in enterprise infrastructure, powering servers, developer workstations, and critical operational environments across industries from financial services to government. Despite its reach, Linux users have historically been underserved by…
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ExtraHop, Ignition Bring Agentic SOC Push to North America
ExtraHop, a modern network detection and response (NDR) provider, has expanded its partnership with Ignition, operating under Exclusive Networks, in North America. Providing the ‘definitive’ intelligence layer for SOCs According to ExtraHop, the expanded partnership with Exclusive Networks will make its NDR platform “more accessible than ever,” giving organizations real-time network traffic insights to strengthen…
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Tamnoon introduces skill-based AI orchestration for autonomous cloud defense
Tamnoon has expanded its AI engine, Tami, into a skill-based orchestrator that generates customer-specific remediation skills tailored to each enterprise environment. Trained on more than 6 million real cloud fixes across 800+ accounts, Tami coordinates specialized AI skills to safely and autonomously address every class of cloud risk. Two new skills are available, Remediation Confidence…
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GitLab 19.0 adds AI workflows, secrets management, and self-hosted model support
GitLab released GitLab 19.0 with expanded secrets management, agentic merge request workflows, improved CI pipeline visibility, support for self-hosted open-source models, and supply chain visibility enhancements. Engineering organizations shipping more code than ever are confronting the AI Paradox firsthand, as the surrounding workflows for securing credentials, reviewing and merging changes, enforcing pipeline standards, and running…
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AI Agents Are Creating a New Cybersecurity Blind Spot
The cybersecurity industry has spent years focusing on visibility. Dashboards expanded. Detection tooling improved. Telemetry volumes exploded. Yet one of the biggest emerging risks in 2026 is not hidden malware or an unknown zero-day. It is the rapid deployment of AI agents that organisations barely understand, cannot fully inventory, and often cannot meaningfully govern. AI…
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Google is turning Android Studio into a policy watchdog
Google has expanded Play Policy Insights in Android Studio to help developers catch policy issues while coding, including warnings for common problems such as missing login credentials. Later this year, developers who connect their Play developer account directly to Android Studio will receive tailored insights. By leveraging SDK Index, a searchable list of Android SDKs…
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groundcover expands its observability platform with enhanced Synthetic Monitoring and RUM
groundcover has expanded its capabilities with new and enhanced offerings across Synthetic Monitoring and Real User Monitoring (RUM). These innovations give engineering teams greater visibility into the user experience, from proactive testing to real-world session insights, while keeping data securely within their own cloud environments. “Modern observability isn’t just about infrastructure, it’s about understanding the…
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Google’s Android Apps Get Public Verification to Stop Supply Chain Attacks
Google has announced expanded Binary Transparency for Android as a way to safeguard the ecosystem from supply chain attacks. “This new public ledger ensures the Google apps on your device are exactly what we intended to build and distribute,” Google’s product and security teams said. The initiative builds upon the foundation of Pixel Binary Transparency,…
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The infrastructure gap behind global payments
GUEST OPINION: Global commerce has expanded at speed, but the systems that move money across borders have not kept pace. Transactions may appear instant at the surface, yet behind them sits a network still dealing with cost, delay and fragmentation. For businesses operating across markets, the underlying architecture increasingly determines whether payments are approved, delayed…
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Aptori expands its platform with autonomous offensive testing to reduce security bottlenecks
Aptori has expanded its Runtime-Driven Validation Platform with autonomous offensive testing capabilities to address the growing gap between code output and security team capacity. By moving beyond passive scanning to active validation, the platform helps organizations identify, validate, and fix vulnerabilities at the pace of development. As AI-assisted coding increases development velocity, traditional point-in-time security…
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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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Salesforce and Google Cloud Enable AI Agents to Act Across Both Platforms with Deep Context and End-to-End Workflows
Google Cloud and Salesforce today announced an expanded partnership that will enable AI agents to execute end-to-end workflows across both platforms by solving the long-standing challenge of fragmented data and disconnected systems.
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Hitachi Vantara Releases FY2025 Sustainability Report, Highlighting Leadership in Energy-Efficient Infrastructure for AI-Driven Workloads
GUEST RESEARCH: Annual report details advancements in sustainable data infrastructure, including expanded lifecycle design initiatives, governance improvements and energy-efficient systems for AI workloads
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More Attack Context for Faster Triage, Response, and Hunting. Now Available to Every SOC
ANY.RUN has expanded access to Threat Intelligence capabilities for SOC and MSSP teams, backed by live attack data from 15,000 organizations. Here’s how your team can test TI’s impact on triage quality, response speed, and threat hunting workflows. See How Threat Intelligence Accelerates Your SOC ANY.RUN now offers 20 premium requests in Threat Intelligence Lookup and YARA Search as part of the Free plan. You can get immediate threat context for over 40 types…
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COO Mark Cree Outlines Scale Computing’s Edge Platform Push
Scale Computing used its Platform//2026 Summit to position its expanded edge computing platform alongside new partner growth opportunities as it looks to move beyond its roots in virtualization. In an interview at the event, President and COO Mark Cree outlined how the company is evolving into a full-stack edge provider spanning compute, networking, security, and…
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Axonius updates Asset Cloud with AI, exposure management, and asset trust standard
Axonius has expanded its Asset Cloud with AI-powered remediation in Axonius Exposures, added support for IoT and OT environments via Axonius Cyber-Physical Assets, and introduced a new data trust standard with Axonius Verified Assets. “Security environments have grown more distributed, more dynamic, and more complex, and when teams can’t fully understand their environment, they simply…
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Celonis and Oracle expand collaboration to power Enterprise AI and accelerate IT modernisation
Celonis and Oracle have expanded their long-standing collaboration opening up additional features to joint customers.
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Gmail’s end-to-end encryption comes to mobile, no extra apps required
Google has expanded Gmail client-side encryption to Android and iOS devices, allowing users to engage with their organization’s most sensitive data on mobile devices while ensuring data remains compliant with sovereignty and compliance requirements. This feature is available for Enterprise Plus users with the Assured Controls or Assured Controls Plus add-on. Composing a E2EE message…
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Apple Expands iOS 18 Security Updates Amid DarkSword Threat
iOS/iPadOS 18.7.7 updates expanded to protect older devices from DarkSword web exploit kit
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Apple Expands iOS 18.7.7 Update to More Devices to Block DarkSword Exploit
Apple on Wednesday expanded the availability of iOS 18.7.7 and iPadOS 18.7.7 to a broader range of devices to protect users from the risk posed by a recently disclosed exploit kit known as DarkSword. “We enabled the availability of iOS 18.7.7 for more devices on April 1, 2026, so users with Automatic Updates turned on can automatically receive important security
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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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Coro automates security operations with end-to-end threat detection and response
Coro has expanded AI-driven security operations capabilities that automate the full lifecycle of threat detection and response, enabling organizations to identify, investigate, and remediate security incidents without manual intervention. The announcement builds on Coro’s intrinsic use of AI across its platform and introduces deeper automation across security workflows, including cross-module response actions and SOC-level task…
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Straiker enables visibility and runtime protection for enterprise AI agents
Straiker has launched Discover AI and expanded Defend AI to secure coding agents, productivity agents, and custom-built agent platforms. Agents are operating across enterprise systems with broad access, growing autonomy, and zero security oversight. That’s why Straiker built Discover AI and Defend AI: to give security teams visibility into what agents are running and protection…
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Intezer AI SOC removes MDR limits with autonomous triage and optimization
Intezer has expanded capabilities in its AI SOC platform designed for teams who have outgrown their traditional managed detection and response (MDR) services. Internal SOC teams can now focus on supervising outcomes rather than grinding through alerts, with Intezer providing autonomous triage and investigation, continuous optimization for their SIEM and EDR detection rules and expert…
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Blumira enhances EDR and ITDR to speed up threat detection and containment
Blumira has announced the release of expanded endpoint detection and response (EDR) and identity threat detection and response (ITDR) capabilities in its platform. Security teams on Blumira Respond and Automate editions can now contain active threats by isolating compromised endpoints, stopping malicious processes, and locking out attackers across Microsoft 365 and Active Directory, without ever…
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Commvault Launches Commvault Cloud in New Zealand to Advance Data Sovereignty and Cyber Resilience
Expanded availability of Commvault Cloud in New Zealand also helps customers in-region meet high availability and latency sensitive application requirements
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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…
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Blue Yonder expands agentic AI and mobile experiences for industry-specific supply chain execution
Blue Yonder today announced an expanded set of AI agents and role-specific mobile applications for its end-to-end planning and execution solutions. These updates to its Cognitive Solutions are built around real customer use cases and feedback to help businesses make smarter, faster, more accurate decisions and boost supply chain resilience.
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YouTube draws a line on deepfakes involving politicians and journalists
With deepfakes becoming more common, YouTube has expanded access to its AI-driven likeness detection system to a pilot group of government officials, journalists and political candidates. The step follows an earlier rollout of the tool to creators in the company’s Partner Program. AI video tools are easy to access, and the content they produce keeps…
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Altis appoints Luke Best to lead South Australia growth as data and AI demand surges
COMPANY ANNOUNCEMENT: Australian-owned expert data consultancy Altis Consulting has expanded into South Australia, responding to strong and growing demand for modern data and AI capabilities across the state.
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N-able’s Anomaly Detection feature identifies credential-based threats
N-able expanded its Anomaly Detection capabilities in Cove Data Protection to combat the surge in identity-driven cyberattacks targeting backup environments. The new functionality delivers real-time alerts when suspicious or unauthorized changes to backup policies are detected, giving customers an early warning system against the credential-based tactics attackers use to disable or corrupt backups before deploying…
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Boost Mobile rings in expanded Supercars partnership for 2026 and beyond
Supercars and Boost Mobile have confirmed an expanded multi-year partnership through to 2028, with Boost Mobile retaining naming rights to Pole Award, Gold Coast 500 and Official Telco Partner of the Supercars Championship – and a new Boost Mobile Race Radio and Motorsport Technical Team partnership has been introduced!
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Veza expands platform with AI Access Agents for enterprise identity governance
Veza expanded its platform with Veza Access Agents, a set of purpose-built AI agents designed to automate complex identity and access governance tasks for enterprises. Veza also announced advancements to its AI Agent Security product, providing organizations with deeper visibility into agent risks and greater control over third-party AI agents, large language models (LLMs), AI…
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Commvault Intros Bi-Directional Integration with CrowdStrike
Commvault, a unified resilience platform provider, has announced an expanded integration with CrowdStrike that delivers bi-directional visibility between Commvault Cloud and CrowdStrike Falcon Next-Gen SIEM. The collaboration is designed to help security and IT teams verify backup integrity, enabling faster, safer, and better-informed recovery decisions. Making informed, trusted recovery decisions According to Commvault, the integration…
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Apple blocks 18+ app downloads in select markets
Apple has introduced expanded age assurance tools to help developers comply with regulations taking effect in Brazil, Australia, Singapore, Utah, and Louisiana. The updates, available in beta, expand the Declared Age Range API and related App Store systems. Age-based download restriction As of February 24, 2026, Apple began blocking users from downloading apps rated 18+…
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Lenovo expands ThinkEdge portfolio with new AI-driven edge systems
Lenovo expanded its ThinkEdge portfolio with a new generation of AI-driven edge computing solutions, including the compact and reliable ThinkEdge SE10n Gen 2, the AI-ready ThinkEdge SE30n Gen 2, the AI-powerhouse ThinkEdge SE60n Gen 2, and Lenovo’s first industrial all-in-one (AIO) Panel PC, the ThinkEdge SE50a. As enterprises push intelligence closer to operations to improve…
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VIDEO: Telstra Bets Big on AI and Infrastructure as Half-Year Profits Surge – But the Real Battle is Over Spectrum
Australia’s largest telco delivered strong earnings growth, an expanded buyback, and a vision for AI-powered networks – while warning Canberra that a $1.3 billion spectrum pricing gap could reshape what consumers pay for mobile.
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Malwarebytes brings Scam Guard to desktop with real-time scam protection
Malwarebytes has expanded the availability of its scam detection tool Scam Guard to desktop for both Windows and Mac. The free scam protection tool provides real-time feedback on scams, threats and malware alongside digital safety recommendations. Scams have become a global crisis, draining $442 billion from consumers over the past year, according to GASA’s Global…
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SmartBear Expands Carahsoft Partnership for Public Sector
SmartBear has expanded its partnership with Carahsoft Technology Corp. to strengthen its public sector go-to-market strategy and deepen engagement with the government-focused channel ecosystem, the companies announced Tuesday. The expanded agreement positions Carahsoft as SmartBear’s Master Government Aggregator, giving federal, state, and local agencies simplified access to SmartBear’s software quality and application visibility portfolio through…
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Google Search introduces new ways to remove sensitive personal information and explicit images
Google expanded its “Results about you” tool to give users more control over sensitive personal information and added a way to request removal of non-consensual explicit images from Search. Manage and limit sensitive personal information in Search Users can request the removal of Search results that contain sensitive personal information, such as driver’s license numbers,…
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GitHub enables multi-agent AI coding inside repository workflows
GitHub has expanded Agents HQ, enabling AI coding agents such as GitHub Copilot, Claude by Anthropic, and OpenAI Codex to execute development tasks directly within GitHub and developer editors while preserving repository context, session history, and review workflows. Copilot Pro+ and Copilot Enterprise developers can start agent sessions from GitHub, GitHub Mobile, and Visual Studio…
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HPE and NVIDIA push secure AI factories with sovereign-ready designs and new Grenoble lab
HPE has expanded its NVIDIA AI Computing by HPE portfolio with new “secure AI factory” building blocks, including a planned AI Factory Lab in Grenoble, France, aimed at helping customers validate sovereign and compliant AI deployments – a theme that’s resonating well beyond Europe as governments and regulated industries tighten requirements around data residency and…