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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…
AI, APAC, Cloud Security, Compliance, Europe, Global Security News, Risk Management
Introducing the updated AWS User Guide to Governance, Risk, and Compliance for Responsible AI Adoption
The financial services industry (FSI) is using AI to transform how financial institutions serve their customers. AI solutions can help proactively manage portfolios, automatically refinance mortgages when rates decrease, and negotiate insurance premiums for customers. However, this adoption brings new governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) considerations that organizations need to address. To help FSI customers…
Europe, Global Security News, Government & Policy
KDE gets over €1 million investment to strengthen security and core infrastructure
European governments and public institutions have been shifting away from proprietary software for years, and the financial infrastructure supporting open-source alternatives is growing to match. Germany’s Sovereign Tech Fund announced today that it is investing more than €1 million in KDE, the open-source project behind the Plasma desktop environment and a broad range of Linux…
AI, Apps, Compliance, Data Breaches, Global Security News, Network Security, Risk Management
Banks Face a Growing AI Risk at the Database Layer
Financial institutions are rapidly deploying AI, but new research suggests many banks may be securing the wrong layer of the stack. Liquibase researchers warn that while organizations focus heavily on AI models and APIs, the database layer may be one of the most exposed parts of modern financial infrastructure. “Governance for agents has to move…
AI, Global Security News
Claude Mythos Fears Startle Japan’s Financial Services Sector
Global financial institutions are panicked over Anthropic’s new superhacker AI model. Cyber experts aren’t quite as worried.
Global Security News
Decoding Q1 2026’s $152.9 Billion Crypto Custody Concentration
Crypto Custody Concentration hits $152.9B as institutions shift to derivatives, consolidating capital on top exchanges amid Q1 market slowdown.
Global Security News
Celonis and ProcessLab launch home mortgages manager to speed up loan approvals process
Financial institutions will be able to approve home loan mortgages faster with Celonis and ProcessLab announcing the launch of its Home Mortgages Manager.
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Cyber-Attacks Surge 63% Annually in Education Sector
Quorum Cyber report finds higher and further education institutions experienced 63% increase in attacks over a year
AI, china, Cybersecurity, Global Security News, Government & Policy
China-Linked GopherWhisper Infects 12 Mongolian Government Systems with Go Backdoors
Mongolian governmental institutions have emerged as the target of a previously undocumented China-aligned advanced persistent threat (APT) group tracked as GopherWhisper. “The group wields a wide array of tools mostly written in Go, using injectors and loaders to deploy and execute various backdoors in its arsenal,” Slovakian cybersecurity company ESET said in a report shared…
AI, Apps, Exploits, Global Security News, Government & Policy, Network Security, Risk Management
GUEST ESSAY: Google’s 2029 deadline exposes readiness gap as move to quantum-safe crypto lags
For years, quantum risk was easy for most institutions to treat as premature: real in theory, urgent someday, but not yet an operational problem. That is no longer tenable. Related: AI spawns semantic attacks Two developments this month brought the shift into focus. Google Quantum AI published research suggesting the computing resources needed to break…
Global Security News, malware
JanelaRAT Malware Targets Latin American Banks with 14,739 Attacks in Brazil in 2025
Banks and financial institutions in Latin American countries like Brazil and Mexico have continued to be the target of a malware family called JanelaRAT. A modified version of BX RAT, JanelaRAT is known to steal financial and cryptocurrency data associated with specific financial entities, as well as track mouse inputs, log keystrokes, take screenshots, and…
Global Security News, Government & Policy
U.S. Public Sector Under Siege: Threat Intelligence for Q1 2026
The first quarter of 2026 has reinforced a hard truth: U.S. government agencies and educational institutions are operating in the most hostile cyber threat environment ever recorded.
Global Security News
Beyond the billion-dollar banking oversight: How process intelligence can surface vital warning signs
GUEST OPINION: When one of Australia’s Big Four financial institutions recently self-reported over $1 billion in potentially fraudulent loans, the industry’s focus immediately turned to the sophistication of the bad actors. But for those of us looking at the mechanics of global banking, the more pressing question isn’t how the documents were doctored, it’s how…
Global Security News
New PXA Stealer Malware Targets Banks, Uses Telegram to Exfiltrate Data
CyberProof researchers have detected a 10% surge in PXA Stealer attacks targeting financial institutions in Q1 2026. Learn…
AI, Global Security News
Operation DoppelBrand: Weaponizing Fortune 500 Brands
The GS7 cyberthreat group targets US financial institutions with near-perfect imitations of corporate portals to steal credentials and gain remote access.