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Today's cybersecurity landscape highlights significant threats, including the discovery of preinstalled Android malware named Midnight Mimosa on MediaTek devices, affecting users in 150 countries by creating proxy botnets. Additionally, a malware incident at Nippon Columbia has compromised over 8.7 million records, underscoring the ongoing risks associated with data breaches. The U.S. CISA has updated its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, adding critical flaws in several widely used software applications, prompting urgent patching efforts. Meanwhile, concerns grow over AI's potential to execute sophisticated attacks on infrastructure, with experts warning that current defenses may be inadequate. The persistent threat of DDoS attacks also raises alarms about their impact on democratic processes. Overall, these developments reflect an evolving threat landscape that demands heightened vigilance and proactive security measures.
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I've attended over 100 tech conferences in the past decade, and I've paid for maybe five of them. The rest? Free tickets through speaking engagements, partnerships, volunteering, and strategic relationships. Here's exactly how to do it.
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The Spanish police have dismantled the largest Spanish-language manga piracy platform, operating since 2014, with millions of monthly users from around the globe. [...]
Author, Creator & Presenter: Sergej Epp, CISO At Sysdig
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The UK’s cybersecurity agency said the devices will be available for purchase by organizations around the world
NEW YORK, Apr. 21, 2026, CyberNewswire—BreachLock, a global leader in offensive security, today announced it has been named a representative vendor in the 2026 Gartner Market Guide for Adversarial Exposure Validation.
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Here Is What That Looks Like From an Investigator’s Perspective. The DPRK remote IT worker scheme is not a cybersecurity problem. It is an identity fraud problem at state scale. The tools that can detect and attribute it are the same tools built for investigating threat actors, not screening job app...
Key Takeaways We identified an exposed server that provided unusual visibility into a large-scale, multi-victim exploitation and collection operation. Artifacts on the host showed that Claude Code and OpenClaw were embedded in the operator’s day-to-day workflow, supporting troubleshooting, orchestra...
The Mozilla Foundation tested Claude Mythos, an Anthropic AI model that has stirred debate in the cybersecurity community. Before granting access to Mythos, Mozilla scanned Firefox using Opus 4.6, which led to fixes for 22 security-sensitive bugs in Firefox 148. For instance, Mythos identified 271 v...
The DDoS attack caused a major outage, but Mastodon mitigated it within a few hours.
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UK unveils £90m cybersecurity funding at CYBERUK to boost SME resilience, promote Cyber Essentials and a new Cyber Resilience Pledge, sparking industry debate
The U.K.'s cybersecurity chief warned that U.K. businesses and critical infrastructure are underestimating the threat from spyware attacks and other cyberthreats, with more governments having access to the powerful surveillance technology than ever.
Fraud operations now operate like call centers, complete with hiring, training, and performance tracking. Flare reveals how cybercriminals manage "Caller-as-a-Service" operations like a professional sales team. [...]
This year's Devner OWASP event showed why modern AppSec depends on secure defaults, stronger provenance, and security controls that appear where developers make decisions.
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Microsoft fixed critical ASP.NET Core vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-40372 (CVSS score of 9.1), that lets attackers escalate privileges. Microsoft released out-of-band updates to address a serious ASP.NET Core vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-40372 (CVSS score of 9.1). Microsoft fixed the flaw...
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Passkeys are awesome and that's why we implemented them on Report URI! You can read about our implementation here and get the basics on how Passkeys work and why you want them. In this post, we're going to focus on what security considerations you should have
It was discovered that Slurm did not properly handle access control when
dealing with RPC traffic through PMI2 and PMIx, which could allow an
unprivileged user to send data to an arbitrary unix socket on the host.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code as
the root user.
Dutch intelligence says the threat from Beijing is now largely going unmet and is so sophisticated its operations are regularly missed by intelligence agencies and cybersecurity defenders.
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