GCHQ director Anne Keast-Butler revealed plans for a new national cyber defense capability that will integrate advanced AI into machine-speed cyber defense systems.
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AI hiring monoculture is delivering racial bias at scale
A research project examining AI-driven recruitment hires across the US has revealed a systemic racial bias. Researchers from Stanford University found a startling pattern of racial disparities when looking at the interview offers resulting from 4 million job applications submitted to 156 employers. The situation is aggravated by the “monoculture” in AI hiring software: More…
AI, APAC, china, Compliance, Cybersecurity, Data Breaches, Endpoint, Exploits, Global Security News, malware, Network Security, privacy, Risk Management, Russia
AI-Driven Threats, Critical Vulnerabilities, and Supply Chain Breaches Define the Week in May 2026
Major Threats & Vulnerabilities AI-Powered Cyberattacks and Exploits The 2026 Verizon DBIR revealed that vulnerability exploitation has surpassed credential abuse as the leading breach vector, accounting for 31% of incidents. The report highlights how generative AI is accelerating attack automation and expanding third-party risk exposure, particularly among SMBs facing ransomware threats. Microsoft Defender vulnerabilities are…
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Apple blocked over $11 billion in App Store fraud in 6 years
Apple revealed that it blocked over $11 billion in fraudulent App Store transactions over the last six years, more than $2.2 billion in potentially fraudulent App Store transactions in 2025 alone. […]
Global Security News, Government & Policy
Processes and Culture Top Reasons Behind Data Breaches
Government leaders revealed that, in spite of state laws meant to improve cyber hygiene, an analysis of incidents showed issues persist and visibility falls short.
AI, Global Security News, Network Security
Six new dnsmasq vulnerabilities open the door to DNS cache poisoning, local root
Recent disclosures have revealed that open-source networking tool dnsmasq is grappling with a serious set of vulnerabilities. The problems span memory safety and input validation, with researchers identifying heap buffer overflows, heap corruption, and code execution bugs among the issues. Taken together, the security flaws open the door to various attacks: poisoning cached DNS entries,…
AI, Compliance, Global Security News, Network Security, Risk Management
Microsoft warns of global campaign stealing auth tokens from 35K users
Microsoft revealed a phishing campaign hitting 35,000 users in 26 countries, stealing login tokens via fake code-of-conduct emails and legit services. Microsoft disclosed a major phishing campaign that targeted over 35,000 users across 26 countries in mid-April 2026. Attackers used fake “code of conduct” emails sent through legitimate platforms to trick recipients into visiting bogus…
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Wiz ZeroDay.Cloud Event Reveals 20-Year-Old PostgreSQL Vulnerabilities
Researchers revealed 20-year-old PostgreSQL flaws at Wiz ZeroDay.Cloud event, exposing critical bugs in pgcrypto and prompting urgent patches for database security.
AI, Exploits, Global Security News, Network Security, Risk Management
AI agents can bypass guardrails and put credentials at risk, Okta study finds
An AI agent that revealed sensitive data without being asked. An agent that overruled its own guardrails. Another that sent credentials to an attacker via Telegram, because it forgot it wasn’t supposed to do so after a reset. It’s no secret that AI agents have huge potential, balanced by equally big risks. What’s becoming apparent,…
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AI agents can bypass guardrails and put credentials at risk, Okta study finds
An AI agent that revealed sensitive data without being asked. An agent that overruled its own guardrails. Another that sent credentials to an attacker via Telegram, because it forgot it wasn’t supposed to do so after a reset. It’s no secret that AI agents have huge potential, balanced by equally big risks. What’s becoming apparent,…
Cybersecurity, Global Security News, malware
FIRESTARTER Backdoor Hit Federal Cisco Firepower Device, Survives Security Patches
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has revealed that an unnamed federal civilian agency’s Cisco Firepower device running Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) software was compromised in September 2025 with malware called FIRESTARTER. FIRESTARTER, per CISA and the U.K.’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), is assessed to be a backdoor designed for remote access…
AI, Global Security News, Government & Policy
NASA Employees Duped in Chinese Phishing Scheme Targeting U.S. Defense Software
The Office of Inspector General (OIG) of the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has revealed how a Chinese national posed as a U.S. researcher as part of a spear-phishing campaign to obtain sensitive information from the space agency, as well as from government entities, universities, and private companies, in violation of export control…
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‘Zealot’ Shows What AI’s Capable of in Staged Cloud Attack
The proof of concept revealed AI-based attacks unfold too fast for human defenders to respond, and that AI evinced more autonomous behavior than expected.
AI, Global Security News, Network Security
Vercel Finds More Compromised Accounts in Context.ai-Linked Breach
Vercel on Wednesday revealed that it has identified an additional set of customer accounts that were compromised as part of a security incident that enabled unauthorized access to its internal systems. The company said it made the discovery after expanding its investigation to include an extra set of compromise indicators, alongside a review of requests…
AI, Apps, Exploits, Global Security News
Microsoft issues out-of-band patch for critical security flaw in update to ASP.NET Core
Developers are advised to check their applications after Microsoft revealed that last week’s ASP.NET Core update inadvertently introduced a serious security flaw into the web framework’s Data Protection Library. Microsoft describes the issue as a “regression,” coding jargon for an update that breaks something that was previously working correctly. In this case, what was introduced…
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Ivanti Neurons AI automates IT operations, reducing manual work and security risk
Ivanti has revealed new solution capabilities, focusing on enabling autonomous IT operations and organizations to secure their environments more efficiently at scale. With these advancements, Ivanti enables IT and security operations to detect, decide, and act autonomously without sacrificing trust, governance, or control. AI capabilities and the threat landscape are changing quickly, and IT and…
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Prompt injection turned Google’s Antigravity file search into RCE
Security researchers have revealed a prompt injection flaw in Google’s Antigravity IDE that could be weaponized to bypass its sandbox protections and achieve remote code execution (RCE). The issue came from Antigravity’s ability to allow AI agents to invoke native functions, like searching files, on behalf of the user. Designed to kill complexity, the feature…
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LIFTWOMEN® announces finalists for Angel Grant, further strengthening cross-border innovation
COMPANY NEWS: LIFTWOMEN® has revealed the top eight finalists for its LIFT Angels Grant, a groundbreaking initiative supporting women-led businesses across Asia and Australia. In partnership with AsiaPay Capital, this year’s grant is bigger than ever, offering a total of $20,000 in matched funding to the winners to further help them launch and grow ventures that…
Cybersecurity, Global Security News
108 malicious Chrome extensions caught stealing Google and Telegram data from 20,000 users
Cybersecurity researchers have revealed that 108 malicious Google Chrome extensions have been quietly stealing user credentials, hijacking Telegram sessions, and injecting unwanted ads and scripts into browsers – all reporting back to the same central point. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Global Security News, Risk Management
Claroty advances CPS security with Visibility Orchestration in xDome
Claroty has revealed new Visibility Orchestration capabilities in its Saas offering Claroty xDome, transforming visibility from a vague concept into a quantifiable measurement that proves the value of a strong CPS protection program. Visibility Orchestration elevates organizations across the industrial, healthcare, commercial, and public sectors to a high-fidelity understanding of their CPS environments, enabling measurable,…
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Iran‑Backed Threat Actors Hit US CNI Providers via Internet‑Facing OT Assets
CISA has revealed Iranian attacks causing disruption and financial loss at US critical infrastructure firms
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$285 Million Drift Hack Traced to Six-Month DPRK Social Engineering Operation
Drift has revealed that the April 1, 2026, attack that led to the theft of $285 million was the culmination of a months-long targeted and meticulously planned social engineering operation undertaken by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) that began in the fall of 2025. The Solana-based decentralized exchange described it as “an attack six months in the
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Fortinet BIG-IP Vulnerability Reclassified as RCE, Under Exploitation
CVE-2025-53521 was initially disclosed in October as a high-severity denial-of-service (DoS) flaw, but new information has revealed the bug is actually much more dangerous.
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European Commission Confirms Cloud Data Breach
The European Commission has revealed details of a data breach impacting its AWS infrastructure
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Tenable Hexa AI automates exposure management and security workflows
Tenable has revealed Tenable Hexa AI, the agentic AI engine of the Tenable One Exposure Management Platform that automates security workflows and transforms exposure intelligence into coordinated action to reduce cyber risk. AI-powered cyberattacks, rapid vulnerability discovery and the explosion of AI-driven tools are expanding the attack surface faster than security teams can keep up.…
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OpenAI’s Foundation play reframes the AI roadmap for IT leaders
OpenAI’s non-profit arm has revealed its plans to tackle “humanity’s hardest problems.” The OpenAI Foundation has announced a sweeping range of investment and research goals, from building safeguards around how AI behaves in the wild to pushing for shared data ecosystems and funding disease research. The stated roadmap could serve as a blueprint for how…
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Astrix advances AI agent security platform to govern shadow and enterprise agents
Astrix Security has revealed a major expansion of its AI agent security platform, covering every layer where AI agents operate in the enterprise: from managed AI platforms to shadow deployments running on managed devices, detecting both agent existence and unauthorized access to enterprise resources, and enforcing policy over what agents are allowed to do. AI…
Endpoint, Global Security News, malware
54 EDR Killers Use BYOVD to Exploit 34 Signed Vulnerable Drivers and Disable Security
A new analysis of endpoint detection and response (EDR) killers has revealed that 54 of them leverage a technique known as bring your own vulnerable driver (BYOVD) by abusing a total of 34 vulnerable drivers. EDR killer programs have been a common presence in ransomware intrusions as they offer a way for affiliates to neutralize…
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Versa Secure Enterprise Browser delivers browser-native security for enterprise apps
Versa has revealed early access to Versa Secure Enterprise Browser, a new browser-native security capability within the VersaONE Universal SASE Platform that protects employees, contractors, and partner users as they access web, SaaS, and enterprise AI applications by enforcing security, access, and data protection policies directly within the browser session. The browser has become the…
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Marquis: Ransomware gang stole data of 672K people in cyberattack
Marquis, a Texas-based financial services provider, revealed this week that a ransomware gang stole the data of over 670,000 individuals in an August 2025 cyberattack that also disrupted operations at 74 banks across the United States. […]
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Backslash adds cross-product support to secure AI skills in developer environments
Backslash Security has revealed new cross-product support for agentic AI Skills within its platform, enabling organizations to discover, assess, and apply security guardrails to Skills used across AI-native software development environments. The developer ecosystem of AI-powered coding agents and tools is rapidly expanding with new extensibility layers, including Skills, Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, prompt…
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Graylog advances explainable AI and automated workflows for faster threat detection
Graylog has revealed advances in explainable AI and automated investigation workflows that help small-to-mid-sized security teams detect threats faster, investigate with confidence, and cut the manual documentation work that consumes analyst time. “Lean security teams don’t have the luxury of analyst bench depth or months of automation tuning,” said Andy Grolnick, CEO of Graylog. “Every…
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Druva connects identity data and behavior to restore access after attacks
Druva has revealed Druva Identity Resilience, adding support for Okta and Microsoft Active Directory alongside Microsoft Entra ID. Druva Identity Resilience delivers unified protection, cyber recovery, and threat detection and response in a single SaaS platform, bringing disparate identity providers together so security and IT teams can restore trusted access through one coordinated process. Identity-driven…
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ClickFix Attack Targets Devs with MacSync Malware via Fake Claude Tools
Cybersecurity researchers at 7AI have revealed a new Claude Fraud campaign in which hackers use fake AI extensions and Google ads to steal data from tech professionals.
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Officials worry Salt Typhoon apathy is killing momentum for tougher telecom security rules
Two years ago, it was revealed that Chinese hackers had compromised at least ten U.S. telecoms, giving them broad access to phone data affecting nearly all Americans. Since then, public officials charged with responding to the campaign and bolstering the nation’s cyber defenses have reported a common problem. Many of their constituents struggle to understand…
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Fake LinkedIn Interview Used by Lazarus Hackers to Target AllSecure CEO
Researchers at AllSecure have revealed how North Korean hackers from the Lazarus Group used a fake LinkedIn job interview and deepfake technology to target their CEO.
AI, Apps, Data Breaches, Endpoint, Exploits, Global Security News, malware, Network Security, Risk Management, Russia
Coruna iOS Exploit Kit Compromises Thousands of iPhones
An iOS exploit framework has revealed how advanced mobile attack tools can move rapidly from surveillance operations to espionage and financial crime. Google’s Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) identified Coruna, a powerful exploit kit containing 23 vulnerabilities across five exploit chains that were used to compromise thousands of iPhones throughout 2025. “The core technical value of…
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14 old software bugs that took way too long to squash
In 2021, a vulnerability was revealed in a system that lay at the foundation of modern computing. An attacker could force the system to execute arbitrary code. Shockingly, the vulnerable code was almost 54 years old — and there was no patch available, and no expectation that one would be forthcoming. Fortunately, that’s because the…
AI, Data Breaches, Endpoint, Exploits, Global Security News, Network Security
Who is the Kimwolf Botmaster “Dort”?
In early January 2026, KrebsOnSecurity revealed how a security researcher disclosed a vulnerability that was used to build Kimwolf, the world’s largest and most disruptive botnet. Since then, the person in control of Kimwolf — who goes by the handle “Dort” — has coordinated a barrage of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS), doxing and email flooding attacks…
AI, Exploits, Global Security News
900+ Sangoma FreePBX Instances Compromised in Ongoing Web Shell Attacks
The Shadowserver Foundation has revealed that over 900 Sangoma FreePBX instances still remain infected with web shells as part of attacks that exploited a command injection vulnerability starting in December 2025. Of these, 401 instances are located in the U.S., followed by 51 in Brazil, 43 in Canada, 40 in Germany, and 36 in France.…
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Microsoft Finds “Summarize with AI” Prompts Manipulating Chatbot Recommendations
New research from Microsoft has revealed that legitimate businesses are gaming artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots via the “Summarize with AI” button that’s being increasingly placed on websites in ways that mirror classic search engine poisoning (AI). The new AI hijacking technique has been codenamed AI Recommendation Poisoning by the Microsoft Defender Security Research Team. The…
AI, Compliance, Cybersecurity, Data Breaches, Europe, Global Security News
Hackers sell stolen Eurail traveler information on dark web
Eurail B.V. revealed that traveler data were stolen in a recent security breach, and are now being sold on the dark web. Eurail B.V. confirmed that the traveler data stolen in a breach earlier this year is now being offered for sale on the dark web. The company disclosed the development as part of its…
Data Breaches, Global Security News
Odido Breach Impacts Millions of Dutch Telco Users
Dutch telco Odido has revealed a major data breach impacting over six million customers
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China-Linked UNC3886 Targets Singapore Telecom Sector in Cyber Espionage Campaign
The Cyber Security Agency (CSA) of Singapore on Monday revealed that the China-nexus cyber espionage group known as UNC3886 targeted its telecommunications sector. “UNC3886 had launched a deliberate, targeted, and well-planned campaign against Singapore’s telecommunications sector,” CSA said. “All four of Singapore’s major telecommunications operators (‘telcos’) – M1, SIMBA Telecom, Singtel, and
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SolarWinds Web Help Desk Exploited for RCE in Multi-Stage Attacks on Exposed Servers
Microsoft has revealed that it observed a multi‑stage intrusion that involved the threat actors exploiting internet‑exposed SolarWinds Web Help Desk (WHD) instances to obtain initial access and move laterally across the organization’s network to other high-value assets. That said, the Microsoft Defender Security Research Team said it’s not clear whether the activity weaponized recently
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Claude Opus 4.6 Finds 500+ High-Severity Flaws Across Major Open-Source Libraries
Artificial intelligence (AI) company Anthropic revealed that its latest large language model (LLM), Claude Opus 4.6, has found more than 500 previously unknown high-severity security flaws in open-source libraries, including Ghostscript, OpenSC, and CGIF. Claude Opus 4.6, which was launched on Thursday, comes with improved coding skills, including code review and debugging capabilities, along