The WeedHack malware is distributed through malicious Minecraft-related mods, clients, and utilities promoted via YouTube and search engine poisoning.
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FIRESIDE CHAT: Deepfakes exploit human emotion, making employee reflex training essential
The wire transfer went through. The CFO on the video call looked right, sounded right, and gave the authorization — except there was no CFO on that call. Related: The industrializing of identity fraud Corporate deepfake attacks of that kind, executives impersonated to authorize fraudulent wire transfers, accounted for roughly $550 million of the $2.19…
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From Fake Purchase Orders to Remote Access: Analyzing the JS.MonoGlyphRAT Threat to US Enterprises
A previously unidentified cyberattack is quietly spreading through US businesses — and most security tools are not catching it. Researchers at ANY.RUN have identified a new backdoor called JS.MonoGlyphRAT, an advanced piece of malware delivered as an ordinary-looking JavaScript file disguised as a purchase order, quote, or business proposal. Once an employee opens the file,…
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What One Predator Case Can Reveal About an Online Platform’s Safety Gaps
When a predator contacts a child through an online platform, the details of how it happened often expose…
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How to Get a Reddit API Key in 2026: Step-by-Step Guide
Getting a Reddit API key starts with creating an application through Reddit’s developer portal and understanding how its…
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Websites can spy on user activity by analyzing SSD behavior
Websites have spent years collecting information about visitors through browser fingerprinting, tracking scripts, and other techniques designed to identify devices and monitor behavior. Researchers have demonstrated another method that relies on something most users would never expect a website to observe: activity on their SSD (Solid-State Drive), the storage device where applications and files are…
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Silent Ransom Group Targets Law Firms With IT Impersonation Attacks
Silent Ransom Group is escalating attacks on U.S. law firms by posing as IT staff through phishing emails, phone calls, and in-person visits. The group, also tracked as Luna Moth, Chatty Spider, and UNC3753, is focusing on data theft and extortion rather than traditional ransomware encryption, making its activity more difficult for organizations to detect…
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How cybersecurity firms took down Glassworm botnet in one shot
Glassworm infected developers through poisoned tools and packages until a coordinated takedown killed all four of its C2 channels at once. On May 26, 2026, at 14:00 UTC, CrowdStrike Counter Adversary Operations team, working with Google and the Shadowserver Foundation, killed all four command-and-control channels of the Glassworm botnet at the same time. The timing…
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North Korea’s Lazarus Group uses new RemotePE malware against financial targets
RemotePE is deployed through a multi-stage attack chain involving two loaders, DPAPILoader and RemotePELoader.
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Ghost CMS vulnerability exploited in large-scale campaign
The vulnerability, identified as CVE-2026-26980, affects Ghost versions 3.24.0 through 6.19.0, allowing unauthenticated attackers to steal admin API keys.
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Three-Quarters of Firms Knowingly Ship Vulnerable Code
AI risks threaten to permeate supply chains through unvetted code and unaudited suppliers
Data Breaches, Global Security News
GitHub Breach: TeamPCP Steals 3,800 Repositories via VS Code Extension
GitHub Breach: TeamPCP stole 3,800 internal repositories through a malicious VS Code extension and is now selling the data online for $95,000.
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Discord rolls out end-to-end encryption on voice, video calls
Discord announced that all voice and video calls through the communication platform are now protected by default with end-to-end encryption (E2EE). […]
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MY TAKE: AI agents force a rethink of enterprise service lines as vendors move up the tech tack
ORLANDO — Companies are pulling AI agents into their daily operations through a dozen side doors. Related: SaaS and AI agents converge One of them was in focus at KB4-CON, KnowBe4’s annual customer conference at the Marriott World Center here last week. The Clearwater, Fla.-based cybersecurity training vendor used the conference to lay out a…
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How to Reduce Phishing Exposure Before It Turns into Business Disruption
What happens when a phishing email looks clean enough to pass through security, but dangerous enough to expose the business after one click? That is the gap many SOCs still struggle with: the attacks that leave teams unsure what was exposed, who else was targeted, and how far the risk has spread. Early phishing detection…
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Secret Memos, Frantic Texts and Juicy Confessions From the OpenAI-Musk Trial
We sifted through evidence and testimony to figure out how billionaires Elon Musk, Sam Altman and Greg Brockman ended up in a courtroom.
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TD SYNNEX Adds BCM One Voice and UCaaS Services
TD SYNNEX is adding more communications firepower to its partner ecosystem through a new partnership with BCM One, bringing voice, network services, and white-label UCaaS into the mix. Through the agreement, partners can now offer Pure IP’s global voice and network services alongside SkySwitch’s white-label UCaaS platform. It makes it much easier to integrate communications…
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TrickMo Variant Routes Android Trojan Traffic Through TON
ThreatFabric finds new TrickMo Android banking trojan variant routing C2 through The Open Network
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Hackers abuse Google ads for GoDaddy ManageWP login phishing
A phishing campaign delivered through Google sponsored search results is targeting credentials for ManageWP, GoDaddy’s platform for managing fleets of WordPress websites. […]
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ShinyHunters’ Instructure Canvas LMS and Vimeo Breaches Impact Millions of Users
ShinyHunters breached Instructure and Vimeo, exposing millions of student and user records through direct and supply chain attacks.
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Your work apps are quietly handing 19 data points to someone
Office work in 2026 runs through a stack of mobile apps that sit on the same phones people use for banking, messaging family, and tracking their location. Ten of the most common workplace apps in use across U.S. companies, including Gmail, Microsoft Teams, Zoom Workplace, Slack, and Notion, account for more than 12.5 billion downloads…
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Level Up Your Payment Security Expertise with PCI SSC Knowledge Training
Give your team the insight and confidence to work effectively with assessors through Knowledge Training. These courses are designed to help learners speak the same language as the assessor, confidently guide their organization through assessments and any pre-planning, and effectively collaborate alongside the assessor during an assessment. When teams are aligned, assessments run more…
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Level Up Your Payment Security Expertise with PCI SSC Knowledge Training
Give your team the insight and confidence to work effectively with assessors through Knowledge Training. These courses are designed to help learners speak the same language as the assessor, confidently guide their organization through assessments and any pre-planning, and effectively collaborate alongside the assessor during an assessment. When teams are aligned, assessments run more…
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Google brings instant email verification to Android, no OTP needed
Google has introduced cryptographically verified email credentials for Android through the Credential Manager API. This API aligns with the W3C Digital Credential API standard. It provides a unified way for apps to request and retrieve user credentials for authentication and authorization. “By integrating the new verified email via the Credential Manager API, you can reduce…
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GitLab Collaborates with AWS to Bring Agentic DevSecOps to Enterprise Teams Using Their Existing Amazon Bedrock Accounts and Spend
COMPANY NEWS: Customers can route GitLab Duo Agent Platform inference through Amazon Bedrock models already running in their AWS accounts without new vendor onboarding or model endpoints. GitLab Credits purchased through AWS Marketplace count toward existing AWS spending commitments. GitLab’s Bring Your Own Model (BYOM) capability for Self-Managed customers lets teams connect their self-hosted AI…
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Vercel’s security breach started with malware disguised as Roblox cheats
Vercel customers are at risk of compromise after an attacker hopped through multiple internal systems to steal credentials and other sensitive data, the company said in a security bulletin Sunday. The attack, which didn’t originate at Vercel, showcases the pitfalls of interconnected cloud applications and SaaS integrations with overly privileged permissions. An attacker traversed third-party…
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New CGrabber and Direct-Sys Malware Spread Through GitHub ZIP Files
Hackers spread CGrabber and Direct-Sys malware through GitHub ZIP files, bypassing security tools to steal passwords, crypto wallets, and user data.
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Behind the Mythos hype, Glasswing has just one confirmed CVE
Efforts to cut through the buzz surrounding Anthropic’s Mythos are emerging. As OpenAI moves to counter the hype around it with its own cybersecurity model, VulnCheck is reporting that the model’s publicly attributable output amounts to just one confirmed CVE. While Project Glasswing, the controlled access program for Mythos, promises a powerful offensive capability, gated…
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Command integrity breaks in the LLM routing layer
Systems that rely on LLM agents often send requests through intermediary routing services before reaching a model. These routers connect to different providers through a single endpoint and manage how requests are handled. This layer can influence what gets executed and what data is exposed. A recent study examined 28 paid routers and 400 free…
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Secure AI agent access patterns to AWS resources using Model Context Protocol
AI agents and coding assistants interact with AWS resources through the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Unlike traditional applications with deterministic code paths, agents reason dynamically, choosing different tools or accessing different data depending on context. You must assume an agent can do anything within its granted entitlements, whether OAuth scopes, API keys, or AWS Identity…
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GitLab Collaborates with Google Cloud to Bring Agentic DevSecOps to Enterprise Teams Using Vertex AI
COMPANY NEWS: AI agents in GitLab Duo Agent Platform can now call foundation models through Vertex AI, including Gemini models, with agent actions governed by GitLab’s built-in compliance and audit controls. Organisations can run GitLab’s AI Gateway on Google Cloud with no separate AI infrastructure to provision or manage. Customers with Google Cloud commitments can…
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Zero trust at year two: What nobody planned for
In this Help Net Security video, Jim Alkove, CEO of Oleria, walks through where zero trust programs typically stand one to two years in. Most organizations have made gains in endpoint security and network segmentation, but identity remains the stubborn problem. Identity sprawl, legacy system exceptions, and workforce friction each contribute to stalls that few…
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CPUID watering hole attack spreads STX RAT malware
Threat actors compromised the CPUID website and spread STX RAT through fake CPU-Z and HWMonitor downloads. Attackers breached the website CPUID and replaced download links for CPU-Z and HWMonitor with malicious files for several hours. Users who downloaded them got infected with the STX RAT, giving attackers remote access to their systems. The short attack…
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AI agent intent is a starting point, not a security strategy
In this Help Net Security video, Itamar Apelblat, CEO of Token Security, walks through findings from the company’s research, which shows that 65% of agentic chatbots have never been used yet still hold live access credentials. He explains why organizations treat AI agents more like quick experiments than governed identities, and why that creates risks…
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Questions raised about how LinkedIn uses the petabytes of data it collects
Through LinkedIn’s more than one billion business users, the Microsoft unit has access to a vast array of personally-identifiable information, including data that could identify religious and political positions. What is less clear is what LinkedIn does with all of that data. A small European company that sells a browser extension to leverage different aspects…
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Questions raised about how LinkedIn uses the petabytes of data it collects
Through LinkedIn’s more than one billion business users, the Microsoft unit has access to a vast array of personally-identifiable information, including data that could identify religious and political positions. What is less clear is what LinkedIn does with all of that data. A small European company that sells a browser extension to leverage different aspects…
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Social engineering attacks on open source developers are escalating
North Korean hackers spent weeks socially engineering an Axios maintainer through a fake Slack workspace, a cloned company identity, and a fabricated Microsoft Teams call that tricked him into installing a RAT posings as a software update. They used the access they gained to inject malware into npm packages downloaded 100+ million times a week.…
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AI-enabled device code phishing campaign exploits OAuth flow for account takeover
A phishing campaign that bypasses the standard 15-minute expiration window through automation and dynamic code generation, leveraging the OAuth Device Code Authentication flow to compromise organizational accounts at scale, has been observed by the Microsoft Defender Security Research team. The campaign uses AI-assisted infrastructure and end-to-end automation. Attack overview Device Code Authentication is a legitimate…
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Comp AI: The open-source way to get compliant with SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA and GDPR
Getting a startup through a SOC 2 audit has long meant months of manual evidence collection, policy writing, and repeated back-and-forth with auditors. A growing number of compliance platforms have moved to automate parts of that process, and Comp AI is now doing it with an open-source codebase that organizations can inspect, modify, and self-host.…
Global Security News, Risk Management
Cashflow-Driven Scores vs. Traditional Credit Scores
Credit scoring is going through an important shift. For decades, lenders leaned on the same basic logic. Look at a person’s borrowing history, measure past repayment behavior, and turn that record into a three-digit summary of risk. That system brought speed and consistency to lending, but it also left obvious gaps. A borrower can pay…
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Amazon and U.S. Postal Service Reach Delivery Deal
The e-commerce giant, under a new plan, will cut back the packages it ships through USPS by 20%, less than the proposal the sides had discussed earlier.
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8 ways to be more productive in Windows 11
You’ve probably spent a lot of time through the years gathering productivity tips for your favorite applications — after all, that’s where you get most of your work done. If you’re like most people, though, you’ve managed to find your way around Windows 11 but figured there’s not much you can do to improve your productivity in…
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Residential proxies make a mockery of IP-based defenses
Attack traffic moved through ordinary home and mobile connections in ways that limited the usefulness of IP reputation on its own. GreyNoise observed 4 billion malicious sessions during a 90-day period and described activity that appeared indistinguishable from normal user traffic at the network level. Residential proxies routed traffic through consumer broadband, mobile data, and…
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HYCU Expands R-Shield With Halcyon Ransomware Defense
HYCU has expanded its R-Shield cyber resilience platform through a new integration with Halcyon, adding advanced ransomware prevention and data exfiltration protection. The update aims to address persistent gaps in enterprise security strategies, particularly the fragmentation of tools that limits organizations’ ability to detect, stop, and recover from modern ransomware attacks across hybrid and multi-cloud…
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Attack on axios software developer tool threatens widespread compromises
A hacker briefly delivered malware this week through a popular open-source project for software developers that has an estimated 100 million weekly downloads, raising the possibility of compromises spreading widely through a supply-chain attack. Axios is a JavaScript client library used in web requests. The unknown attacker hijacked the npm account — npm being a…
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Amazon sends AI agents into pen testing and DevOps
Amazon’s latest AI capabilities bring on-demand penetration testing through the AWS Security Agent, alongside the AWS DevOps Agent. “These agents are changing the way we secure and operate software. AWS Security Agent compresses penetration testing timelines from 2-6 weeks to 1-2 days. AWS DevOps agent gives teams 3–5x faster incident resolution so they can spend…
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TrendAI™ Research at RSAC 2026: Advancing Defense Across AI‑Driven and Cyber‑Physical Threats
TrendAI™ Research explored agentic AI cybercrime and EV infrastructure security through two research sessions at RSAC™ 2026.
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CSIRO’s role in supporting NASA’s Artemis II mission to the Moon
CSIRO is helping track NASA’s Artemis II mission through the antennas and facilities it operates across the nation.
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RSAC 2026: Fraud Becomes a CISO-Level Security Threat
At RSAC 2026, I sat down with Rod Schultz, CEO of Bolster AI, and one message came through loud and clear: fraud is no longer a side problem — it’s now a core cybersecurity issue. Over the past five years, the threat landscape has shifted dramatically, and much of that change is being driven by…
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AI frenzy feeds credential chaos, secrets spread through code, tools, and infrastructure
Code keeps moving through pipelines, and credentials continue to surface alongside it. GitGuardian’s State of Secrets Sprawl 2026 puts the count at 28.65 million new hardcoded secrets in public GitHub commits in 2025, extending a multi-year rise in exposed access keys, tokens, and passwords. Public and internal repositories that contain at least one secret (Source:…
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What the UK Cyber Security & Resilience Bill Means for Security Practitioners
The UK Cyber Security & Resilience Bill is progressing through Parliament Royal Assent expected later in 2026. The UK’s Cyber Security and Resilience Bill is working its way through Parliament, and if you haven’t started paying serious attention yet, now is the time. Introduced to the House of Commons in November 2025, the Bill represents…
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Firefox now has a free built-in VPN with 50GB monthly data limit
Mozilla released Firefox 149 with added privacy protection through a built-in VPN tool offering up to 50GB of monthly traffic. […]
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Rethinking Song Creation Through Language Driven Systems
In this post, I will talk about rethinking song creation through language driven systems. The first time I experimented with an AI Music Generator, it felt less like using software and more like having a conversation. Instead of arranging tracks or selecting plugins, I was describing intentions—tone, pacing, emotion. That experience highlighted a persistent issue…
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Cobalt adds continuous pentesting AI capabilities to scale offensive security and real-world risk
Cobalt has released new AI capabilities for continuous pentesting. Delivered through the Cobalt Offensive Security Platform, these next-generation components integrate AI with human pentesters and more than a decade of proprietary pentesting intelligence to accelerate the speed, scale, and depth of offensive security programs. Attackers are increasingly using AI to automate reconnaissance, vulnerability discovery, and…
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Vidar Stealer 2.0 Exploits GitHub, Reddit to Deliver Malware via Fake Game Cheats
The Vidar 2.0 infostealers is deployed through fake free game cheats on GitHub and Reddit
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Ransomware’s Opening Play: Target Identity First
For years, ransomware attacks followed a familiar script. Threat actors gained entry through a vulnerable server, a phishing email, or malicious software on an endpoint. Once inside, they moved laterally through the network, then encrypted systems and demanded payment. That playbook has changed. Today’s ransomware operators increasingly target identity infrastructure as their first objective. Active…
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Attack on Stryker’s Microsoft environment wiped employee devices without malware
The recent cyberattack on Stryker wiped tens of thousands of employee devices through its Microsoft environment, and systems are still offline. A recent cyberattack on medical technology giant Stryker targeted its internal Microsoft environment and remotely wiped tens of thousands of employee devices without using malware. The company confirmed that its medical devices were not…
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What to do in the first 24 hours of a breach
In this Help Net Security video, Arvind Parthasarathi, CEO of CYGNVS, walks through a 10-step process for handling a cybersecurity breach. The first five steps cover preparation: setting up an out-of-band communication platform, identifying internal stakeholders, selecting external providers like legal counsel and forensic firms, building cross-functional playbooks, and running tabletop exercises to test those…
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Fake scandal clips on Facebook bait victims into investment scams
Bitdefender researchers uncovered hundreds of scam campaigns promoted through Facebook ads that use fake news stories, celebrity impersonation, and redirect chains to funnel victims into investment fraud schemes. The activity ran through 310 malvertising campaigns distributed on Meta platforms from February 9 to March 5, 2026. The campaigns generated more than 26,000 ad sightings with…
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Google paid $17.1 million for vulnerability reports in 2025
Google paid over $17 million to 747 security researchers who reported security bugs through its Vulnerability Reward Program (VRP) in 2025. […]
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BeatBanker malware targets Android users with banking Trojan and crypto miner
BeatBanker Android malware spreads through fake Starlink apps on websites imitating Google Play Store, hijacking devices, stealing credentials, and mining crypto. A new Android malware called BeatBanker spreads through fake Starlink apps distributed on websites posing as the Google Play Store. Once installed, it hijacks devices, steals login credentials, tampers with cryptocurrency transactions, and secretly…
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This spy tool has been quietly stealing data for years
ESET researchers have traced the resurgence of Sednit through a modern toolkit built around two complementary implants, BeardShell and Covenant, each relying on a separate cloud provider to ensure operational resilience. This dual-implant architecture has enabled sustained surveillance of Ukrainian military personnel since at least April 2024. The Sednit group itself was tied to Unit…
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Mimecast brings gateway-grade email security to API deployment
Mimecast has announced that its complete email security protection stack is now available through API deployment, eliminating a fundamental trade-off in the market. Standalone integrated cloud email security (ICES) solutions offered fast deployment but came at a cost: they were built primarily for targeted, sophisticated attacks and relied on native Microsoft or Google controls to…
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Massive GitHub malware operation spreads BoryptGrab stealer
Trend Micro found BoryptGrab stealer spreading through 100+ GitHub repositories, stealing browser data, crypto wallets, system information, and user files. Trend Micro uncovered a campaign distributing the BoryptGrab information stealer through more than 100 GitHub repositories. BoryptGrab is designed to collect browser and cryptocurrency wallet data, system details, and common files. Some variants also deploy…
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That attractive online ad might be a malware trap
Malware increasingly travels through the infrastructure that delivers online advertising. The Media Trust’s Global Report on Digital Trust, Ad Integrity, and the Protection of People describes a digital ad ecosystem where scam campaigns, malicious redirects, and malware delivery appear alongside marketing traffic. The financial impact of these threats continues to grow. Estimated consumer and business…
Global Security News
The Most Common Swap Scams in 2026, and How to Avoid Them
Swap scams target traders through fake DEX sites, token approvals, and phishing. Learn how to detect swap scams and protect funds before you swap now.
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Slipstream Cyber included on Atmos First Response and Remediation Panel
COMPANY NEWS : Strengthening rapid cyber incident response through coordinated technical forensics and legal advisory expertise.
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5 years of shifting cybersecurity behavior
Online security is built through routine decisions made across devices and accounts. People choose how to create passwords, how often to reuse them, and how much effort to invest in protecting personal data. The National Cybersecurity Alliance and CybSafe’s Oh, Behave! The Cybersecurity Attitudes and Behaviors Report: 2021–2025 follows those patterns over five years, drawing…
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6 Ways Agentic AI Changes How Systems Act and Adapt
Learn how agentic AI changes system behavior in production environments through supervised fine-tuning, structured oversight, and lifecycle governance to improve reliability, manage risk, and support accountable deployment.
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Motorola turns to GrapheneOS for smartphone security upgrade
Motorola is strengthening smartphone security through a long-term partnership with the GrapheneOS Foundation, a mobile security nonprofit that develops a hardened operating system based on the Android Open Source Project. GrapheneOS includes protections designed to reduce entire classes of vulnerabilities, strengthen app sandboxing and system boundaries, and limit the impact of common exploits while maintaining…
Data Breaches, Global Security News
Marquis v. SonicWall Lawsuit Ups the Breach Blame Game
When a company gets breached through a third-party security vendor, who should bear responsibility? For one FinTech company, the answer is the firewall provider.
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Boost Mobile rings in expanded Supercars partnership for 2026 and beyond
Supercars and Boost Mobile have confirmed an expanded multi-year partnership through to 2028, with Boost Mobile retaining naming rights to Pole Award, Gold Coast 500 and Official Telco Partner of the Supercars Championship – and a new Boost Mobile Race Radio and Motorsport Technical Team partnership has been introduced!
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Fake Next.js job interview tests backdoor developer’s devices
The Microsoft Defender team has discovered a coordinated campaign targeting software developers through malicious repositories posing as legitimate Next.js projects and technical assessment materials, including recruiting coding tests. […]
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Why ‘Call This Number’ TOAD Emails Beat Gateways
Attackers are bypassing email gateways through telephone-oriented attack delivery (TOAD), in which the only email payload is a phone number.
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Microsoft warns of job‑themed repo lures targeting developers with multi‑stage backdoors
Microsoft says it has uncovered a coordinated campaign targeting software developers through malicious repositories posing as legitimate Next.js projects and technical assessments. The campaign employs carefully crafted lures to blend into routine workflows, such as cloning repositories, opening projects, and running builds, thereby allowing the malicious code to execute undetected. Telemetry collected during an incident…
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Attackers Now Need Just 29 Minutes to Own a Network
Credential misuse, AI tools, and security blind spots help attackers move through breached networks faster than ever, CrowdStrike finds.
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WhatsApp is adding another lock to your account
Meta has released WhatsApp Beta for Android 2.26.7.8 through the Google Play Beta Program. The update includes references to password-protected accounts, indicating plans to introduce an additional layer of protection beyond the app’s current authentication options. WhatsApp is exploring the implementation of a feature that will introduce a password (Source: WABetaInfo) The feature will allow…
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Claude Code scans, verifies, and patches code vulnerabilities
Anthropic brings Claude Code Security to Claude Code on the web through a limited research preview. Claude Code Security (Source: Anthropic) Claude Code Security analyzes code context, traces data flows between files, and flags multi-component vulnerability patterns that existing scanners often miss. Each finding undergoes an adversarial verification pass that re-examines results before they are…
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Is AI killing technology?
We’re living through the single biggest tech disruption in history (and, if not the biggest, definitely the fastest). The AI revolution promises huge productivity gains by automating complex tasks, accelerating scientific breakthroughs in medicine, biotech, materials science, and democratizing access to expertise in critical industries like healthcare and education. People on the leading edge are…
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Attackers keep finding the same gaps in security programs
Attackers keep getting in, often through the same predictable weak spots: identity systems, third-party access, and poorly secured perimeter devices. A new threat report from Barracuda based on Managed XDR telemetry from 2025 shows that many successful incidents still start with basic access and configuration failures, not advanced malware. The report draws on more than…
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One stolen credential is all it takes to compromise everything
Attackers often gain access through routine workflows like email logins, browser sessions, and SaaS integrations. A single stolen credential can give them a quick path to move across systems when access permissions are broad and visibility is fragmented. That pattern appears across more than 750 incident response engagements covered in Unit 42’s Global Incident Response…
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ZeroDayRAT spyware targets Android and iOS devices via commercial toolkit
A new cross-platform spyware sold openly through Telegram is lowering the barrier for hackers seeking remote access to mobile devices. Called “ZeroDayRAT” by its developer, the toolkit is being marketed through Telegram channels as a ready-to-deploy remote access solution. iVerify researchers traced its first activity to 2nd February, with the spyware being distributed as an…
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Static Design to Adaptive Control: How Artificial Intelligence Improves Modern Material Handling Equipment Systems
AI enables material handling systems to adapt to demand volatility through predictive design, dynamic control, and smarter maintenance without replacing core engineering.
Global Security News, Microsoft, Security
Microsoft rolls out new Secure Boot certificates before June expiration
Microsoft has begun rolling out updated Secure Boot certificates through monthly Windows updates to replace the original 2011 certificates that will expire in late June 2026. […]
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SAP Transformation Needs a Toolbox, Not a Hammer
Organizations must rethink SAP transformation in the age of AI through the lens of Maslow’s Hammer, where companies over-rely on a familiar tool or method, leading them to see every problem as solvable with that single solution. The post SAP Transformation Needs a Toolbox, Not a Hammer appeared first on RTInsights.
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SAP Transformation Needs a Toolbox, Not a Hammer
Organizations must rethink SAP transformation in the age of AI through the lens of Maslow’s Hammer, where companies over-rely on a familiar tool or method, leading them to see every problem as solvable with that single solution. The post SAP Transformation Needs a Toolbox, Not a Hammer appeared first on RTInsights.
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Microsoft tightens Windows security with app transparency and user consent
Microsoft is strengthening default protections in Windows through two security initiatives, Windows Baseline Security Mode and User Transparency and Consent. User Transparency and Consent User Transparency and Consent introduces a structured approach to how Windows presents security decisions to users. The operating system will prompt users when applications request access to sensitive resources such as…
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How to Automate AWS Incident Investigation with Tines and AI
Cloud incidents drag on when analysts have to leave cases to hunt through AWS consoles and CLIs. Tines shows how automated agents pull AWS CLI data directly into cases, reducing MTTR and manual investigation work. […]
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DXC Completes Enterprise-Wide Amazon Quick Deployment and Launches New Practice to Help Accelerate AI Adoption
COMPANY NEWS: DXC proves AI at real enterprise scale through its own global deployment of Amazon Quick, supporting 115,000 employees across 70 countries. New DXC Amazon Quick Practice helps customers securely deploy and operationalize AI across complex, multivendor enterprise ecosystems. DXC’s Customer Zero approach validates new technologies internally first, enabling faster and more confident customer…
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DXC Completes Enterprise-Wide Amazon Quick Deployment and Launches New Practice to Help Accelerate AI Adoption
COMPANY NEWS: DXC proves AI at real enterprise scale through its own global deployment of Amazon Quick, supporting 115,000 employees across 70 countries. New DXC Amazon Quick Practice helps customers securely deploy and operationalize AI across complex, multivendor enterprise ecosystems. DXC’s Customer Zero approach validates new technologies internally first, enabling faster and more confident customer…
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AI customer service trends every business should watch
GUEST OPINION: Let’s cut through the noise. AI in customer service isn’t one thing. It’s moving fast. What worked last year feels old today. Businesses that keep up will pull ahead. The rest will frustrate their customers. This isn’t about sci-fi. It’s about practical shifts happening right now.
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AI customer service trends every business should watch
GUEST OPINION: Let’s cut through the noise. AI in customer service isn’t one thing. It’s moving fast. What worked last year feels old today. Businesses that keep up will pull ahead. The rest will frustrate their customers. This isn’t about sci-fi. It’s about practical shifts happening right now.
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Warlock Gang Breaches SmarterTools Via SmarterMail Bugs
The ransomware group breached SmarterTools through a vulnerability in the company’s own SmarterMail product.
AI, Data Breaches, Global Security News
Warlock Gang Breaches SmarterTools Via SmarterMail Bugs
The ransomware group breached SmarterTools through a vulnerability in the company’s own SmarterMail product.
AI, Forcepoint, GLOBAL GROUP, Global Security News, phishing, Phishing Scam, Security
Hackers Deliver Global Group Ransomware Offline via Phishing Emails
Global Group ransomware is delivered through phishing emails and can encrypt files offline without any internet connection.
AI, Forcepoint, GLOBAL GROUP, Global Security News, phishing, Phishing Scam, Security
Hackers Deliver Global Group Ransomware Offline via Phishing Emails
Global Group ransomware is delivered through phishing emails and can encrypt files offline without any internet connection.
AI, Forcepoint, GLOBAL GROUP, Global Security News, phishing, Phishing Scam, Security
Hackers Deliver Global Group Ransomware Offline via Phishing Emails
Global Group ransomware is delivered through phishing emails and can encrypt files offline without any internet connection.
AI, Global Security News, privacy
“Encrypt It Already” Campaign Pushes Big Tech to Prioritize E2E Encryption
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is urging major technology companies to follow through on their promises to implement end-to-end encryption by default across their services, as privacy concerns mount amid increased AI use.
AI, Compliance, Endpoint, Global Security News, privacy
Tinder’s camera roll and the Buffett deepfake
Tinder has got a plan to rummage through your camera roll, and Warren Buffett keeps popping up in convincing deepfakes dishing “number one investment tips.” Meanwhile, will agentic AI replace your co-hosts before you can say “EDR for robots”? and why you should still read books. All this, plus Lily Allen’s new album and Claude…