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Today's cyber news highlights significant legal actions against individuals involved in cybercrime. Raheim Hamilton, co-creator of the Empire Market dark web platform, received a 40-year prison sentence for drug conspiracy, alongside a forfeiture of over $100 million in Bitcoin. Additionally, the FBI has arrested the co-founder of a Canadian cybersecurity firm linked to the ShinyHunters hacking group, which has been notorious for data breaches and ransomware activities. These events underscore ongoing efforts by law enforcement to combat dark web marketplaces and ransomware operations.
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Microsoft has confirmed that the April 2026 security updates are causing failures in third-party backup applications using the psmounterex.sys driver. [...]
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds a flaw in Linux Kernel to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added a flaw in the Linux Kernel, tracked as CVE-2026-31431 (CVSS score of 7.8), to its Known E...
As AI drives deeper dependence across business, supply chains, and national security, the buildings that run the cloud are becoming critical infrastructure — and increasingly attractive targets.
The post Why data centers now belong on the critical infrastructure list appeared first on CyberScoop.
As AI-generated CSAM blurs the line between real and fabricated evidence, investigators need the right tools, legal awareness and forensic expertise to identify victims, prioritise leads and pursue justice responsibly.
Microsoft vient d'annoncer la sortie d'un nouveau module PowerShell dédié à la gestion des snapshots ReFS : ReFSSnapshots. Il peut remplacer l'outil refsutil.
Le post Microsoft lance un module PowerShell pour gérer les snapshots ReFS a été publié sur IT-Connect.
Polymarket is a platform where people can bet on real-world events, political and otherwise. Leaving the ethical considerations of this aside (for one, it facilitates assassination), one of the issues with making this work is the verification of these real-world events. Polymarket gamblers have thre...
Claude Security, previously called Claude Code Security, is in public beta for Claude Enterprise customers. Available in Claude.ai, the capability scans codebases for security vulnerabilities and suggests targeted patches for review, helping teams identify and fix issues that might otherwise be miss...
Advanced Account Security provides stronger login methods, more secure account recovery, shorter sessions, and training exclusion.
The post OpenAI Rolls Out Advanced Security for ChatGPT Accounts appeared first on SecurityWeek.
A previously unknown threat actor has been observed targeting government and military entities in Southeast Asia, alongside a smaller cluster of managed service providers (MSPs) and hosting providers in the Philippines, Laos, Canada, South Africa, and the U.S., by exploiting the recently disclosed v...
La boite de dialogue "Exécuter" de Windows 11 va être modernisée par Microsoft : nouveaux raccourcis, fluent design, etc... Découvrez les nouveautés.
Le post Microsoft va moderniser la boîte de dialogue « Exécuter » sur Windows 11 a été publié sur IT-Connect.
The UK cyber agency NCSC warns AI is speeding up vulnerability discovery, likely causing a “patch wave” of urgent software updates to fix exposed flaws. The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) warns that AI is rapidly accelerating the discovery of software vulnerabilities, increasing the risk...
Even limited voter rolls can be linked to identify people, research shows Your voter data could be used against you. A foreign intelligence service that wished to identify the family members of deployed military personnel could do so by cross-referencing public voter record data and social media pos...
As AI evolves toward autonomy, the Cloud Security Alliance is launching the STAR for AI Catastrophic Risk Annex to codify auditable controls for agentic systems
The post Frameworks Don’t Build Trust. Adoption Does appeared first on Security Boulevard.
Even limited voter rolls can be linked to identify people, research shows
Hiring fake IT workers has been a growing problem in recent years — but it’s often a problem very few want to admit to. From Fortune 500 companies down to smaller organizations, remote hiring practices have been exploited to grant trusted access to individuals who are not who...
Every CISO eventually faces the same tension: You know your security program needs to mature, but the budget and headcount to do it all aren’t there. That tension is especially sharp when it comes to data security posture management (DSPM).
Not every organization can afford...
As API and AI adoption grows across the Middle East, so do the expectations around how data is handled. For many organizations operating in this region, it’s not just about securing applications. It’s about doing it in a way that keeps data in-country and aligned with local requirements. Today, we’r...
What happened A faulty Microsoft Defender antimalware signature update released around April 30, 2026, caused widespread false positive alerts by incorrectly flagging two legitimate DigiCert root certificates as high-severity malware. The detection, labeled Trojan:Win32/Cerdigent.A!dha, identified r...
French authorities have detained a 15-year-old suspected of involvement in a data breach at France Titres, the government agency responsible for issuing official documents. “Between 12 and 18 million data records were reportedly being offered for sale on cybercriminal forums by a hacker known as “br...
What happened Cyberthint analysts have documented a structural shift in how cyberattacks are conducted, with threat actors now using artificial intelligence to discover and exploit zero-day vulnerabilities in minutes rather than months. The firm identified this transition in late 2024, noting that A...