Russia’s FSB claims foreign intelligence planted malware on senior officials’ phones to intercept calls and activate cameras. No technical evidence, no country named. On June 2, 2026, Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) published a statement claiming it had uncovered and documented a large-scale foreign intelligence operation targeting the mobile devices of senior Russian officials. The…
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AI, Global Security News, privacy, Risk Management
Turns out the C-suite loves shadow AI
Senior decision-makers are the heaviest users of unapproved AI tools, and they continue using them despite being aware of the security and privacy risks linked to shadow AI, according to TrustedTech’s Shadow AI in the Workplace report. The study found that 65% of decision-makers use shadow AI, compared with 31% of employees below decision-maker level.…
AI, Apps, Compliance, Global Security News, privacy, Risk Management
TrustedTech: Executives Drive Shadow AI Risk in Enterprises
TrustedTech has released new research indicating that senior leaders are among the biggest sources of shadow AI risk within organizations, with executives using unapproved AI tools at significantly higher rates than lower-level employees. The Irvine, California-based Microsoft cloud solutions and IT modernization provider said its global and U.S. data points to a growing gap between…
AI, Cybersecurity, Global Security News
AI is speeding up nation-state cyber programs
Im this Help Net Security interview, Kaja Ciglic, Senior Director, Cybersecurity Policy and Diplomacy at Microsoft, discusses how nation-state cyber programs have changed over three years. Cyber has become a core instrument of state power, integrated with military, economic, and diplomatic tools. Ciglic argues that responses like sanctions and indictments need broader strategies, including conditional…
AI, APAC, Data Breaches, Global Security News, Network Security
‘Scattered Spider’ Member ‘Tylerb’ Pleads Guilty
A 24-year-old British national and senior member of the cybercrime group “Scattered Spider” has pleaded guilty to wire fraud conspiracy and aggravated identity theft. Tyler Robert Buchanan admitted his role in a series of text-message phishing attacks in the summer of 2022 that allowed the group to hack into at least a dozen major technology…
AI, Global Security News
Why manual certificate management is running out of time
In this video, John Murray, Senior Vice President of Sales at GlobalSign, explains what’s changing in the certificate industry and what companies need to do about it. Certificate validity periods are shrinking, which means companies will need to rotate certificates far more often than before. Small and mid-sized businesses are the most exposed. Smaller teams,…
AI, Global Security News, Risk Management
How Mimecast brings enterprise-grade email protection to API deployment
In this Help Net Security video, Andrew Williams, Senior Product Manager at Mimecast, walks through the company’s API-based email security protection for Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace environments. The video covers a core problem: AI-generated phishing and business email compromise are slipping past native Microsoft 365 controls. According to Mimecast’s State of Human Risk report,…
AI, Global Security News
New Phishing Platform Used in Credential Theft Campaigns Against C-Suite Execs
A large-scale credential theft campaign targeting senior executives has been linked to a previously unknown automated phishing platform called Venom
APAC, Global Security News
iManage announces senior appointments and a promotion to support and accelerate business growth across APAC
iManage, the company dedicated to Making Knowledge Work, today announced senior new hires and a promotion to support and accelerate business growth across APAC.
AI, Global Security News
Bits AI Security Analyst Reduces Threat Investigation Time by up to 98%
New AI agent automates investigations with senior SOC analyst expertise at machine scale and speed to deliver accurate, fully explained verdicts that dramatically reduce remediation times
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Are nations ready to be the cybersecurity insurers of last resort?
A senior member of the Cyber Monitoring Center (CMC), an organization formed last year to monitor, define and classify cyber events impacting UK organizations, this week questioned whether a £1.5 billion (about $2 billion) government loan guarantee provided to Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) should have happened in the first place. Speaking at an event hosted…
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StorMagic Adds Scott Mann to Drive Channel Growth
StorMagic has appointed Scott Mann as global senior vice president of sales as partners and customers reassess virtualization strategies amid rising VMware costs and ongoing hardware refresh pressures. The move comes as enterprises navigating infrastructure upgrades face a higher total cost of ownership, prompting increased interest in alternative virtualization platforms, particularly in edge and distributed…
AI, Compliance, Data Breaches, Europe, Global Security News, Risk Management
The True Cost of Cyber Downtime: A UK Board-Level Briefing
Written by Sean Tilley, Senior Sales Director EMEA at 11:11 Systems Cyber downtime carries measurable financial consequences, and those consequences are becoming clearer with each major incident. Research from 11:11 Systems shows that 78% of European organisations report losses of up to $500,000 per hour following a cyber-related outage, while 6% face costs exceeding £1 million per…
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Microsoft shuffles more of its senior leadership
The senior leadership shuffle at Microsoft continued on Tuesday when company CEO Satya Nadella announced that the company is unifying the commercial and consumer Copilot systems in a new division overseen by Jacob Andreou. Andreou, former CVP of product and growth at Microsoft AI, will oversee a division that Nadella, in an internal advisory, said…
AI, Exploits, Global Security News
Why phishing still works today
In this Help Net Security video, Gal Livschitz, Senior Penetration Tester at Terra Security, explains how phishing has evolved and why employees still fall for it. He outlines how phishing now uses HTTPS, branded pages, and lookalike domains, making attacks harder to spot. He highlights communication overload as a key weakness that attackers exploit. Livschitz…
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Tech leaders discuss success in leadership today
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY: In celebration of International Women’s Day, we speak to senior female leaders in technology, marketing, advertising, data and AI , illustrating how governance, finance, marketing, and people strategy together determine whether AI becomes a durable enterprise capability.
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Workers, bosses, disagree on whether AI will create jobs
Senior executives see AI adoption leading to job cuts, while workers say it will increase employment, according to a new survey published by the US National Bureau of Economic Research. Amid so much speculation about the impact of the new technology, NBER’s study is tantalizingly titled “Firm data on AI” — but the data, which…
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How Pixel and Android are bringing a new level of trust to your images with C2PA Content Credentials
Posted by Eric Lynch, Senior Product Manager, Android Security, and Sherif Hanna, Group Product Manager, Google C2PA Core At Made by Google 2025, we announced that the new Google Pixel 10 phones will support C2PA Content Credentials in Pixel Camera and Google Photos. This announcement represents a series of steps towards greater digital media transparency:…
AI, Global Security News, Government & Policy
Tracking the Cost of Quantum Factoring
Posted by Craig Gidney, Quantum Research Scientist, and Sophie Schmieg, Senior Staff Cryptography Engineer Google Quantum AI’s mission is to build best in class quantum computing for otherwise unsolvable problems. For decades the quantum and security communities have also known that large-scale quantum computers will at some point in the future likely be able to…