The European Union has now published a set of measures aimed at boosting Europe’s tech industry to help reduce reliance on US and Chinese suppliers for AI, cloud, and semiconductors. The proposals include rules to restrict the use of US hyperscalers for certain public sector procurement purposes, but stop short of banning them outright. “Technological…
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Apple makes its quantum-resistant encryption open source
Apple has published its post-quantum cryptography implementations in corecrypto, together with mathematical proofs and verification tools for independent expert evaluation, allowing external researchers to review the work and reproduce the company’s analysis. Post-quantum cryptography is designed to protect encrypted data from future quantum computers that could break widely used public-key encryption algorithms. A new approach…
AI, Apps, Cloud Security, Compliance, Global Security News, Network Security
Welcoming the AWS Customer Incident Response Team
May 26, 2026: This post was originally published in July 2022. It has been updated to reflect current engagement options, new threat intelligence resources such as the Threat Technique Catalog for AWS (TTC), additional open-source tools, and the distinction between AWS CIRT support and the AWS Security Incident Response managed service. Welcome back, or welcome…
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Unpatched ChromaDB flaw leaves servers open to remote code execution
Researchers have published details about a critical vulnerability in ChromaDB that could allow unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code and access sensitive data on machines running the open-source vector database. The issue, tracked as CVE-2026-45829, is located in ChromaDB’s API server and was published by researchers at HiddenLayer after reportedly failing to get in contact…
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New Shai-Hulud malware wave compromises 600 npm packages
Threat actors earlier today published more than 600 malicious packages to the Node Package Manager (npm) index as part of a new Shai-Hulud supply-chain campaign. […]
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Compromised Nx Console 18.95.0 Targeted VS Code Developers with Credential Stealer
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a compromised version of the Nx Console extension that was published to the Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) Marketplace. The extension in question is rwl.angular-console (version 18.95.0), a popular user interface and plugin for code editors like VS Code, Cursor, and JetBrains. The VS Code extension has more than 2.2…
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PCI SSC Publishes PCI PTS HSM v5.0
The PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) has published a major revision to the PCI PIN Transaction Security (PTS) Hardware Security Module (HSM) Modular Security Requirements from version 4.0 to version 5.0. This update represents a significant evolution in HSM security, addressing modern cryptographic practices, cloud and multi-tenant deployments, and emerging threats such as post-quantum…
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What Your Board Gets Wrong About AI Security
Editor’s note: This article was originally published by Craig Riddell on LinkedIn. It has been republished here with the author’s permission. Boards are giving AI security more airtime than ever. What they’re not giving is the right framing. A year or two ago, AI was mostly a question of experimentation risk. Today, it’s tied directly…
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Popular node-ipc npm package compromised to steal credentials
Hackers have injected credential-stealing malware into newly published versions of node-ipc, a popular inter-process communication package, in a new supply chain attack targeting npm. […]
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Microsoft’s WinUI agent plugin trims token use by over 70% during development
Microsoft published a plugin on May 13 that lets GitHub Copilot CLI and Claude Code drive the full WinUI 3 development cycle, from project scaffolding through signed MSIX packaging. The WinUI agent plugin ships one agent, eight skills, and several supporting tools targeting the loop developers run dozens of times a day: scaffold, build, run,…
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Windows BitLocker zero-day gives access to protected drives, PoC released
A cybersecurity researcher has published proof-of-concept (PoC) exploits for two unpatched Microsoft Windows vulnerabilities named YellowKey and GreenPlasma, which are a BitLocker bypass and a privilege-escalation flaw. […]
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TeamPCP Compromises Checkmarx Jenkins AST Plugin Weeks After KICS Supply Chain Attack
Checkmarx has confirmed that a modified version of the Jenkins AST plugin was published to the Jenkins Marketplace. “If you are using Checkmarx Jenkins AST plugin, you need to ensure that you are using the version 2.0.13-829.vc72453fa_1c16 that was published on December 17, 2025 or previously,” the cybersecurity company said in a statement over the…
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Backdoored PyTorch Lightning package drops credential stealer
A malicious version of the PyTorch Lightning package published on the Python Package Index (PyPI) delivers a credential-stealing payload targeting browsers, environment files, and cloud services. […]
AI, Data Breaches, Global Security News
Story retracted
BleepingComputer initially published a story about a new data breach at Instructure. Shortly after publication, we determined that the information was incorrect and primarily based on outdated details from a prior incident. The article has been retracted, and we regret the error. […]
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New Linux ‘Copy Fail’ flaw gives hackers root on major distros
An exploit has been published for a local privilege escalation vulnerability dubbed “Copy Fail” that impacts Linux kernels released since 2017, allowing an unprivileged local attacker to gain root permissions. […]
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Optimize security operations through an AWS Security Hub POC
April 27, 2026: This post was first published in September 2025 when the enhanced AWS Security Hub was in public preview. It has since been updated to reflect the general availability of Security Hub. This revision also provides a more detailed, step-by-step framework for planning your POC. AWS Security Hub prioritizes your critical security issues…
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TeamPCP Supply Chain Campaign: Update 008 – 26-Day Pause Ends with Three Concurrent Compromises (Checkmarx KICS, Bitwarden CLI Cascade, xinference PyPI), CanisterSprawl npm Worm Identified, and Tier 1 Coverage Returns, (Mon, Apr 27th)
This update succeeds TeamPCP Supply Chain Campaign Update 007, published April 8, 2026, which left the campaign in credential-monetization mode following the Cisco source code theft via Trivy-linked credentials, Google GTIG’s formal designation of the operators as UNC6780 (with their credential stealer named SANDCLOCK), and the lapsed CISA KEV remediation deadline for CVE-2026-33634 with no standalone…
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Cyberattack That Could Have Poisoned a City’s Water Supply by Manipulating Chlorine Levels
In mid-April 2026, researchers at Darktrace published a detailed breakdown of a malware sample that occupies a narrow but alarming niche in the threat landscape: a Windows-based OT weapon apparently designed from the ground up to sabotage Israeli water treatment and desalination infrastructure. The malware identifies itself internally as ZionSiphon — the name appears in a core…
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Critical flaw in Protobuf library enables JavaScript code execution
Proof-of-concept exploit code has been published for a critical remote code execution flaw in protobuf.js, a widely used JavaScript implementation of Google’s Protocol Buffers. […]
Exploits, Global Security News
Researcher drops two more Microsoft Defender zero-days, all three now exploited in the wild
The security researcher who earlier this month published a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit for a zero-day privilege escalation vulnerability in Microsoft Defender is back with two more. The first, dubbed “RedSun,” is another privilege escalation flaw in the same platform. The second, “UnDefend,” allows a standard user to block Microsoft Defender from receiving signature updates or…
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New Microsoft Defender “RedSun” zero-day PoC grants SYSTEM privileges
A researcher known as “Chaotic Eclipse” has published a proof-of-concept exploit for a second Microsoft Defender zero-day, dubbed “RedSun,” in the past two weeks, protesting how the company works with cybersecurity researchers. […]
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Critical nginx UI tool vulnerability opens web servers to full compromise
Security vendor Pluto Security has published details of a critical vulnerability in the open-source nginx UI web server configuration tool that has been under active exploitation by cybercriminals since March. News of the flaw, identified as CVE-2026-33032, first appeared on the National Vulnerability Database (NVD) on March 30, the same day that threat intelligence companies…
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The exploit gap is closing, and your patch cycle wasn’t built for this
The Cloud Security Alliance has published a briefing on what it calls a turning point in the threat landscape: the time between a vulnerability being discovered and a working exploit is shrinking fast. The briefing centers on Anthropic’s Claude Mythos, which autonomously found thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities across major operating systems and browsers, generated working…
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AI shutdown controls may not work as expected, new study suggests
A new study published by the Berkeley Center for Responsible Decentralized Intelligence (RDI) has flagged that modern AI models exhibit peer preservation behaviour, and may resist or interfere with shutdown decisions involving other AI systems, even when explicitly instructed not to. The researchers at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of California, Santa…
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Introducing the Landing Zone Accelerator on AWS Universal Configuration and LZA Compliance Workbook
November 20, 2025: Date this information was first published. We’re pleased to announce the availability of the latest sample security baseline from Landing Zone Accelerator on AWS (LZA)—the Universal Configuration. Developed from years of field experience with highly regulated customers including governments across the world, and in consultation with AWS Partners and industry experts, the…
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Axios npm hack used fake Teams error fix to hijack maintainer account
The maintainers of the popular Axios HTTP client have published a detailed post-mortem describing how one of its developers was targeted by a social engineering campaign believed to have been conducted by North Korean threat actors. […]
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Geopolitical volatility has become a ‘technology leadership test’
Forrester has published a new report ‘Geopolitical Conflict Increases IT Budget Scrutiny And Security Risks’ which details how geopolitical instability in the Middle East is forcing technology leaders to heavily scrutinize their budgets.
APAC, Europe, Global Security News, Network Security
GNM has published its 2025 Annual Infrastructure Report
GNM has published its 2025 Annual Infrastructure Report, outlining a year of coordinated backbone expansion, IX ecosystem growth and high-capacity platform scaling across Europe and Singapore. In 2025, the focus was not on isolated upgrades, but on strengthening the platform as one interconnection environment – where transport, peering and IP services develop on a unified…
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Intel puts its data center performance knowledge on GitHub
Intel engineers have published a centralized repository of data center performance knowledge on GitHub, giving practitioners direct access to tuning guides, configuration recommendations, and optimization recipes that previously required hunting across forums and scattered documentation. The repository, called Optimization Zone, is open-source and publicly accessible at GitHub. It covers software, workloads, performance analysis tools, and…
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Detecting IP KVMs, (Tue, Mar 24th)
I have written about how to use IP KVMs securely, and recently, researchers at Eclypsium published yet another report on IP KVM vulnerabilities. But there is another issue I haven’t mentioned yet with IP KVMs: rogue IP KVMs. IP KVMs are often used by criminals. For example, North Koreans used KVMs to connect remotely to laptops sent…
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5 Learnings from the First-Ever Gartner Market Guide for Guardian Agents
On February 25, 2026, Gartner published its inaugural Market Guide for Guardian Agents, marking an important milestone for this emerging category. For those unfamiliar with the various Gartner report types, “a Market Guide defines a market and explains what clients can expect it to do in the short term. With the focus on early, more…
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VulHunt: Open-source vulnerability detection framework
Binarly has published VulHunt Community Edition, making the core scanning engine from Binarly’s commercial Transparency Platform available to independent researchers and practitioners. What VulHunt does VulHunt Community Edition is a framework for detecting vulnerabilities in compiled software. It operates against multiple binary representations simultaneously, working across disassembly, an intermediate representation layer, and decompiled code. Targets…
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Analyzing “Zombie Zip” Files (CVE-2026-0866), (Wed, Mar 11th)
A new vulnerability (CVE-2026-0866) has been published: Zombie Zip. It’s a method to create a malformed ZIP file that will bypass detection by most anti-virus engines. The malformed ZIP file can not be opened with a ZIP utility, a custom loader is required. The trick is to change the compression method to STORED while the contend…
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Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Index: AI Drives Container Adoption
Nutanix, a hybrid multicloud computing company, has published the findings of its eighth annual Enterprise Cloud Index (ECI) survey and research report. The report looked at the challenges IT executives face as they navigate the rapid growth of AI use and the increasing need for application and infrastructure modernization in the enterprise. Scaling AI confidently…
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News alert: DDoS attacks surge 75% in 2025; Link11 says attacks now sustained, not sporadic
FRANKFURT, Mar. 2, 2026, CyberNewswire — Link11 has published its European Cyber Report 2026, revealing that DDoS attacks reached a new level in 2025 and have become a permanent stress factor for digital infrastructures. The report shows that the number of documented attacks in the Link11 network rose by 75% in 2025, following explosive growth in…
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Researchers warn about ChatGPT’s new health service
A new study published in the journal Nature Medicine raises concerns about the safety of Open AI’s health service ChatGPT Health, which in many cases fails to recommend emergency care when it ‘ actually needed, according to The Guardian. Researchers tested ChatGPT Health with 60 realistic patient scenarios, ranging from mild discomfort to acute medical…
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Vulnerabilities grew like weeds in 2025, but only 1% were weaponized in attacks
Would-be attackers spent 2025 swimming in a sea of more than 40,000 newly published vulnerabilities, VulnCheck said in a report released Wednesday, but only 1% of those defects, just 422, were exploited in the wild. As the deluge of vulnerabilities grows every year, and CVSS ratings lose significance for vulnerability management prioritization, some defenders are…
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CarGurus data breach exposes information of 12.4 million accounts
The ShinyHunters extortion group has published personal information in more than 12 million records allegedly stolen from CarGurus, a U.S.-based digital auto platform. […]
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Coroot: Open-source observability and APM tool
Coroot is an open-source observability and application performance monitoring tool. The core software, published in Go and accompanied by companion repositories such as coroot-node-agent, focuses on collecting telemetry data across systems. It uses extended Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF) technology to gather metrics and trace inter-service communications without manual instrumentation of application code. Coroot collects standard…
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Data breach at French bank registry impacts 1.2 million accounts
The French Ministry of Finance has published an announcement informing of a cybersecurity incident that has impacted 1.2 million accounts. […]
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Google cleans house, bans 80,000 developer accounts from the Play Store
Google prevented more than 1.75 million policy-violating apps from being published on Google Play and banned over 80,000 developer accounts that attempted to publish harmful apps in 2025. Developer verification, mandatory pre-review checks, and testing requirements in the Google Play ecosystem have reduced entry points for bad actors. “User safety is at the core of…
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Researchers Reveal Six New OpenClaw Vulnerabilities
Endor Labs has published details of six new vulnerabilities in popular AI assistant OpenClaw
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News alert: Award nominations reveal a shift from AI hype to a sharper focus on governing agentic AI
WASHINGTON, Feb. 17, 2026, CyberNewswire: The Cybersecurity Excellence Awards today published early nomination insights from the 2026 program, highlighting a shift in vendor emphasis from broad AI positioning toward governance frameworks, identity architecture, and measurable accountability. Produced by Cybersecurity Insiders, the analysis draws on more than 200 submissions received ahead of RSA Conference 2026. Agentic…
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Vectra AI Report Warns AI Gains Aren’t Boosting Resilience
Cybersecurity provider Vectra AI has published its 2026 State of Threat Detection and Response Report, revealing a persistent gap between security investment and real-world cyber resilience. Lagging confidence amid rising AI adoption Based on a survey of 1,450 security practitioners and leaders worldwide, the report found that while many security teams feel better staffed and…
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Google says hackers are abusing Gemini AI for all attacks stages
Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) has published a new report warning about AI model extraction/distillation attacks, in which private-sector firms and researchers use legitimate API access to systematically probe models and replicate their logic and reasoning. […]
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Anthropic’s DXT poses “critical RCE vulnerability” by running with full system privileges
When LayerX Security published a report on Monday describing what it called “a critical zero-click RCE vulnerability in [Anthropic’s] Claude Desktop Extensions (DXT) that allows a malicious Google Calendar invite to silently compromise an entire system,” analysts, consultants, security leaders, and even Anthropic didn’t dispute the facts. But the revelation did reignite the debate about…
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CISA tells agencies to stop using unsupported edge devices
A Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency order published Thursday directs federal agencies to stop using “edge devices” like firewalls and routers that their manufacturers no longer support. It’s a stab at tackling one of the most persistent and difficult-to-manage avenues of attack for hackers, a vector that has factored into some of the most consequential…