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Google June 2026 Android Update Patches 124 Flaws, One Actively Exploited
Google on Monday released patches for 124 security vulnerabilities impacting its Android operating system for the month of June 2026, including one high-severity flaw in the Framework component that has come under active exploitation. Tracked as CVE-2025-48595 (CVSS score: 8.4), the security flaw has been described as a case of privilege escalation without requiring any…
Global Security News
KDE Linux security audit cuts kernel modules and unused packages
KDE Linux, the in-progress operating system from the KDE community, removed several kernel modules and software packages after a security audit of the components shipped with the system. The work followed the discovery of multiple security issues in the upstream Linux kernel during the prior month. Kernel and module changes Three contributors examined insecure and…
AI, Global Security News, malware
Hackers hijack thousands of sites for ClickFix and FakeUpdate attacks
A threat actor tracked as DriveSurge has been operating large-scale malware distribution campaigns using ClickFix and FakeUpdates techniques on compromised sites. […]
AI, Europe, Global Security News, Government & Policy, Network Security, Russia
Netherlands Seizes 800 Servers, Arrests 2 for Aiding Cyberattacks
Authorities in the Netherlands have arrested the co-owners of two related Internet hosting companies for operating IT infrastructure used by Russia to carry out cyberattacks, influence operations and disinformation campaigns inside the European Union. The two men were the focus of a 2025 KrebsOnSecurity story about how their hosting companies had assumed control over the…
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Suspected KimWolf botnet admin arrested over DDoS-for-hire operation
U.S. and Canadian authorities arrested and charged a Canadian man accused of operating the KimWolf DDoS botnet, a service linked to attacks that infected more than one million devices worldwide. Jacob Butler, 23, of Ottawa, Canada, also known online as “Dort,” was arrested in Canada under an extradition warrant after U.S. prosecutors charged him with…
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US and Canada arrest and charge suspected Kimwolf botnet admin
U.S. and Canadian authorities arrested and charged a Canadian man with operating the KimWolf distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) botnet, which infected nearly two million devices worldwide. […]
AI, Global Security News
Kimwolf DDoS Botnet Operator Arrested in Canada Over DDoS-for-Hire Attacks
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Thursday announced the arrest of a Canadian man in connection with allegedly operating a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) botnet known as Kimwolf. In tandem, Jacob Butler (aka Dort), 23, Ottawa, Canada, has been charged with offenses related to the development and operation of the botnet. Kimwolf is assessed to…
AI, Apps, Europe, Global Security News, Government & Policy, Network Security
Alleged Kimwolf Botmaster ‘Dort’ Arrested, Charged in U.S. and Canada
Canadian authorities on Wednesday arrested a 23-year-old Ottawa man on suspicion of building and operating Kimwolf, a fast spreading Internet-of-Things botnet that enslaved millions of devices for use in a series of massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks over the past six months. KrebsOnSecurity publicly named the suspect in February 2026 after the accused launched a…
AI, Exploits, Global Security News, Network Security, privacy
Apple Patches Everything, (Mon, May 11th)
Apple today released its typical feature update across it’s operating systems (iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS, vision OS). With this update, Apple patched 84 different vulnerabilities. Updates are available for the “26” series of operating systems, as well as for the previous “18” version of iOS/iPadOS, and two versions back for macOS (version 14 and…
AI, Global Security News, Government & Policy
Helping North Korean IT remote workers is becoming a fast track to prison
Two U.S. nationals were sentenced to 18 months in prison for operating “laptop farms” that helped North Korean IT workers gain employment at nearly 70 American companies, generating more than $1.2 million for Pyongyang’s government. Although Matthew Issac Knoot of Nashville, Tennessee, and Erick Ntekereze Prince of New York were sentenced in separate cases, both…
AI, Cloud Security, Global Security News
Transilience AI unveils Security Operating System for cloud remediation
Transilience AI has announced the general availability of its Full Stack Security Operating System for the cloud, platform designed to solve one of enterprise security’s most persistent challenges: bridging the gap between detection and remediation. New platform replaces fragmented tool sprawl with an agent-powered, human-guided second brain, moving security posture from Detected to Eliminated. Cloud…
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Americans sentenced for running ‘laptop farms’ for North Korea
Two U.S. nationals were sentenced to 18 months in prison each for operating so-called laptop farms that helped North Korean IT workers fraudulently obtain remote employment at nearly 70 American companies. […]
AI, Endpoint, Global Security News
Tanium Atlas aims to accelerate threat response in the AI era
Tanium announced Tanium Atlas, an autonomous operating system (OS) that gives a single IT or security operator the data, guidance and reach to accomplish what once required an entire team – moving from intent to outcome in a single, governed experience. Tanium Atlas is built on an endpoint data foundation that is complete, high-fidelity, real-time…
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Canada’s first SMS blaster case leads to three arrests
Canadian law enforcement arrested three men who face 44 charges for operating an SMS blaster device that mimicked a legitimate cellular tower. The device was operated from vehicles, allowing it to move throughout the Greater Toronto Area and operate in multiple locations. When a phone connects to an SMS blaster, the user receives fraudulent text…
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Canada arrests three for operating “SMS blaster” device in Toronto
Canadian authorities have arrested three men for operating an “SMS blaster” device that pretends to be a cellular tower to send phishing texts to nearby phones. […]
AI, Compliance, Cybersecurity, Global Security News
25 open-source cybersecurity tools that don’t care about your budget
Regardless of the operating system you use, managing secrets, apps, cloud, compliance, and security operations can be overwhelming. The free, open-source tools presented in this article can help you detect threats, increase visibility, enforce controls, and investigate and respond to incidents throughout the development and operational lifecycle. Allama: Open-source AI security automation Allama is an…
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Spain dismantles major $4.7M manga piracy platform, arrests four
The Spanish police have dismantled the largest Spanish-language manga piracy platform, operating since 2014, with millions of monthly users from around the globe. […]
AI, Compliance, Cybersecurity, Exploits, Global Security News, malware, Network Security, Risk Management, Venture
The AI era demands a different kind of CISO
Many security leaders are still operating with frameworks built for a different era. For years, success was measured by fixed checkpoints, such as passing audits, closing vulnerabilities, and maintaining compliance. Those markers still have value, but they were designed for a threat landscape that moved in predictable, linear ways. Today, that landscape is shifting in…
AI, Global Security News, privacy
Apple Intelligence flaw kept stolen tokens reusable on another device
Apple claims that Apple Intelligence, a GenAI service provided on its operating systems, is designed with an extra focus on user security and privacy through a two-stage authentication and authorization system using anonymous access tokens. However, researchers from The Ohio State University have identified vulnerabilities in this design, demonstrated on macOS 26.0 (Tahoe), that allow…
AI, Exploits, Global Security News, Network Security, Risk Management
Patch Tuesday, April 2026 Edition
Microsoft today pushed software updates to fix a staggering 167 security vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and related software, including a SharePoint Server zero-day and a publicly disclosed weakness in Windows Defender dubbed “BlueHammer.” Separately, Google Chrome fixed its fourth zero-day of 2026, and an emergency update for Adobe Reader nixes an actively exploited…
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The fully free Linux OS Trisquel gets a major update with version 12.0 Ecne
Trisquel GNU/Linux, a free operating system aimed at home users, small enterprises, and educational centers, released version 12.0. The release, codenamed Ecne, is declared production-ready and builds on the previous version, Aramo, with changes to packaging, the kernel, security, and available software. APT 3.0 and repository format changes Ecne ships with APT 3.0, which brings…
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Customer Science Appoints James Johnstone as Chief Operating Officer
COMPANY ANNOUNCEMENT: Inaugural Chief Operating Officer Appointment Will Support Company’s Goals for International Expansion into the UK and US Markets
AI, Global Security News, Network Security
Nutanix Debuts NKP Metal for Bare-Metal Kubernetes Environments
Nutanix has recently announced the introduction of NKP Metal, extending the Nutanix operating model and Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP) solution to support Kubernetes deployments directly on bare-metal infrastructure. Why organizations deploying Kubernetes workloads require unique performance capabilities According to Nutanix, running Kubernetes on bare metal delivers performance and flexibility that many modern workloads require, particularly…
AI, Global Security News, privacy, Risk Management, Venture
8 advanced ways Vivaldi boosts your productivity
Switching browsers is almost akin to switching to a new operating system — or, for a more physical analogy, moving into a completely new office where everything’s unfamiliar. Most of us spend so much time in our browsers and handle so much work in that environment that in many ways, the browser essentially is the…
AI, Endpoint, Global Security News
Multi-OS Cyberattacks: How SOCs Close a Critical Risk in 3 Steps
Your attack surface no longer lives on one operating system, and neither do the campaigns targeting it. In enterprise environments, attackers move across Windows endpoints, executive MacBooks, Linux infrastructure, and mobile devices, taking advantage of the fact that many SOC workflows are still fragmented by platform. For security leaders, this creates a
AI, Global Security News, Network Security
Tails 7.6 ships automatic Tor bridge retrieval and a new password manager
Tails 7.6 is out, and for users operating on networks that block Tor, the most consequential addition is built-in bridge retrieval. The Tor Connection assistant can now detect when a direct connection to Tor is restricted and automatically request bridges suited to the user’s region. The request goes through the Tor Project’s Moat API, and…
AI, Global Security News
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…
AI, Cloud Security, Global Security News
Who owns AI agent access? At most companies, nobody knows
AI agents are operating across production enterprise environments at scale, and the identity infrastructure managing their access has not kept up with their deployment. A January 2026 survey of 228 IT and security professionals, conducted by the Cloud Security Alliance, finds that the majority of organizations have AI agents active in core systems, with fragmented…
AI, Exploits, Global Security News, Network Security
Apple Patches (almost) everything again. March 2026 edition., (Wed, Mar 25th)
Apple released the next version of its operating system, patching 85 different vulnerabilities across all of them. None of the vulnerabilities are currently being exploited. The last three macOS “generations” are covered, as are the last two versions of iOS/iPadOS. For tvOS, watchOS, and visionOS, only the current version received patches. This update also includes the…
AI, Exploits, Global Security News, Network Security, Risk Management
AI is breaking traditional security models — Here’s where they fail first
Traditionally, enterprise security operating models operated a fixed and regular cycle: Findings surfaced through periodic scans, security teams triaged results and remediation followed through ticket-based workflows. It was almost an SOP of sorts; the accountability existed, but it was often implicit and fragmented. The remediation would travel across tools, teams and handoffs rather than designed…
Endpoint, Global Security News, Risk Management
Your security stack looks fine from the dashboard and that’s the problem
One in five enterprise endpoints is operating outside a protected and enforceable state on any given day, according to device telemetry collected across tens of millions of corporate PCs. That figure, drawn from Absolute Security’s 2026 Resilience Risk Index, has barely moved in a year, even as organizations continue to add security tools and increase…
AI, Apps, Global Security News
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…
AI, Compliance, Cybersecurity, Global Security News
Summit Holdings Debuts “MSP as a Service” Operations Model
Summit Holdings is introducing a new MSP-as-a-Service (MSPaaS) operating model to help managed service providers scale faster and improve profitability amid mounting industry pressures. The offering combines white-labeled operational support with integrated tooling, allowing MSPs to expand service delivery and recurring revenue without adding internal headcount. The move comes as many MSPs face growing cybersecurity…
AI, Apps, Cybersecurity, Endpoint, Global Security News, Network Security, Risk Management
Runtime: The new frontier of AI agent security
AI agents are already operating inside enterprise networks, quietly doing some of the work employees once handled themselves — writing code, drafting emails, retrieving files, and connecting to internal systems. Sometimes they also make costly mistakes. At Meta, an employee asked an AI assistant to help manage her inbox. It deleted it instead. At Amazon,…
Global Security News
Why the next generation of PC platforms matters for Australia’s distributed workforce
Australian organisations are operating in a more demanding technology environment than ever. Hybrid work is now standard, cyberattacks are becoming more sophisticated and many businesses, particularly SMBs, are running lean IT teams. At the same time, employees expect fast, reliable and secure devices that can support increasingly complex digital workloads.
AI, Apps, Exploits, Global Security News, Network Security
Microsoft Patch Tuesday, March 2026 Edition
Microsoft Corp. today pushed security updates to fix at least 77 vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and other software. There are no pressing “zero-day” flaws this month (compared to February’s five zero-day treat), but as usual some patches may deserve more rapid attention from organizations using Windows. Here are a few highlights from this…
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What cybersecurity actually does for your business
The ability to continue operating safely in an unsafe environment where competitors cannot is a competitive advantage that is rarely measured or discussed
AI, Endpoint, Global Security News, Network Security
2026 Browser Data Reveals Major Enterprise Security Blind Spots
The browser is becoming the operating system for modern work, yet many enterprises still treat it as an extension of network or endpoint security. Keep Aware’s 2026 State of Browser Security Report shows 41% of employees used AI web tools while browser-based phishing, extensions, and social engineering drive new security blind spots. […]
Exploits, Global Security News
Bruteforce Scans for CrushFTP , (Tue, Mar 3rd)
CrushFTP is a Java-based open source file transfer system. It is offered for multiple operating systems. If you run a CrushFTP instance, you may remember that the software has had some serious vulnerabilities: CVE-2024-4040 (the template-injection flaw that let unauthenticated attackers escape the VFS sandbox and achieve RCE), CVE-2025-31161 (the auth-bypass that handed over the…
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VAST Data and TwelveLabs partner to ‘expand video intelligence for the World’s largest and most secure video archives’
At VAST Forward 2026, VAST Data, the AI Operating System company, and TwelveLabs, which develops video foundation models that enable advanced video intelligence, have announced a partnership “to help organisations see, hear and reason across massive video content archives and sensitive data environments beyond public cloud deployments”.
AI, Global Security News
Ukrainian man pleads guilty to running AI-powered fake ID site
A Ukrainian man has pleaded guilty to operating OnlyFake, an AI-powered website that generated and sold more than 10,000 photos of fake identification documents to customers worldwide. […]
Global Security News, Network Security
Critical Juniper Networks PTX flaw allows full router takeover
A critical vulnerability in the Junos OS Evolved network operating system running on PTX Series routers from Juniper Networks could allow an unauthenticated attacker to execute code remotely with root privileges. […]
Europe, Global Security News, Network Security
International operation dismantles fraud network, €400,000 seized
A coordinated international operation supported by Eurojust dismantled a fraudulent call centre operating from three offices and targeting citizens throughout Europe. Authorities arrested 11 suspects and seized more than €400,000 in cash. Initial investigations identified victims in Latvia and Lithuania who lost over €160,000, with more people believed to have fallen for the fake investment…
AI, Global Security News
Securonix shifts security operations to measurable AI-driven productivity
Securonix announced Sam, the AI SOC Analyst, and the Securonix Agentic Mesh, introducing a new operating model for security operations that scales analyst productivity, governs AI in production, and delivers board-ready outcomes. At a time when security operations are overwhelmed by alert volume, analyst shortages, and rising SIEM costs, Securonix is shifting the conversation from…
AI, Apps, Exploits, Global Security News, Network Security, privacy
Apple Patches Everything: February 2026, (Wed, Feb 11th)
Today, Apple released updates for all of its operating systems (iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS, and visionOS). The update fixes 71 distinct vulnerabilities, many of which affect multiple operating systems. Older versions of iOS, iPadOS, and macOS are also updated.
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Patch Tuesday, February 2026 Edition
Microsoft today released updates to fix more than 50 security holes in its Windows operating systems and other software, including patches for a whopping six “zero-day” vulnerabilities that attackers are already exploiting in the wild. Zero-day #1 this month is CVE-2026-21510, a security feature bypass vulnerability in Windows Shell wherein a single click on a…
AI, Global Security News, Government & Policy, Network Security
Asian State-Backed Group TGR-STA-1030 Breaches 70 Government, Infrastructure Entities
A previously undocumented cyber espionage group operating from Asia broke into the networks of at least 70 government and critical infrastructure organizations across 37 countries over the past year, according to new findings from Palo Alto Networks Unit 42. In addition, the hacking crew has been observed conducting active reconnaissance against government infrastructure associated with…
Global Security News
Myriota appoints George Kanuck as Chief Operating Officer to ‘drive global growth and operational excellence’
Satellite IoT connectivity company Myriota has appointed George Kanuck as Chief Operating Officer “to propel the company’s global growth strategy”.