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Today's cybersecurity landscape reveals several significant threats and trends. German lawmakers were warned that their iPhones may have been compromised by spyware, highlighting ongoing concerns about mobile security. In a major crackdown, Google and partners dismantled a botnet of over 1.3 million infected Android TV boxes that were intentionally shipped with backdoor vulnerabilities. Meanwhile, a new AI-powered infostealer named VOLTA uses machine learning to assess the financial value of stolen personal data, indicating a shift towards more sophisticated cybercrime tactics. Additionally, the FBI has linked North Korean hackers to a $6.3 billion theft from the Binance cryptocurrency exchange, raising alarms about state-sponsored cybercrime. Lastly, a series of cyberattacks targeting supermarket refrigeration systems across Europe has caused significant food spoilage, underscoring the potential impact of cyber threats on critical infrastructure.
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Every SOC analyst has heard it by now: “AI is coming for your job”.
I hear it in conversations with SOC teams. I see it in the hesitation during evaluations. And increasingly, I feel it as a source of resistance — especially from the very people AI is supposed to help.
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Fast16 is a pre-Stuxnet malware that tampered with precision software and spread itself. Evidence suggests links to U.S. operations during early cyber tensions. SentinelOne uncovered Fast16, a sabotage malware used in 2005, years before Stuxnet. The malicious code is written in Lua and targeted high...
The vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2026-6770 and it has been patched with the release of Firefox 150 and Tor 15.0.10.
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Phishing still hooks users around the world and coaxes them to hand over credentials. But on occasion the good guys take them down, like the FBI in collaboration with Indonesian law enforcement did with W3LLStore marketplace.
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Aptori has expanded its Runtime-Driven Validation Platform with autonomous offensive testing capabilities to address the growing gap between code output and security team capacity. By moving beyond passive scanning to active validation, the platform helps organizations identify, validate, and fix vu...
AI vuln-hunter finds what humans taught it to find. Funny that Opinion In retrospect, calling it Mythos made it a hostage to fortune. Anthropic may have hoped that the name implied its AI code security model had mythical god-like powers, but there's an alternate reading. Another definition for Myth...
AI vuln-hunter finds what humans taught it to find. Funny that
Researchers uncover a new data theft and extortion group dubbed “BlackFile”
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Identity and access management was built for a simpler world. One where the hardest problem was a human logging in, and where “Who are you?” was sufficient to decide what someone could do. That model served enterprises well for decades. It was not built for a world where non-human identities now acc...
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Italy plans to extradite Xu Zewei to the U.S. over alleged hacks on COVID-19 research tied to state-backed operations. Italy is moving to extradite Xu Zewei, the Chinese national arrested in 2025 at the request of U.S. authorities on cyber-espionage charges, Bloomberg reported. The case stands out b...
La version 2 de Windows Admin Center vMode est disponible en version préliminaire publique : découvrez les nouveautés de cette solution prometteuse.
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In April 2026, home security firm ADT confirmed a data breach by ShinyHunters, which listed the company on its website as part of a "pay or leak" extortion attempt. The breach impacted 5.5M unique email addresses along with names, phone numbers and physical addresses. ADT also advised that "in a sma...
Pack2TheRoot (CVE-2026-41651), c'est le nom d'une faille de sécurité importante découverte dans un composant omniprésent sur Linux : PackageKit.
Le post Pack2TheRoot : cette vulnérabilité vieille de 12 ans menace Linux a été publié sur IT-Connect.
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AI is changing cybersecurity in different ways. One of the biggest changes shows up in penetration testing, especially in the first stage called reconnaissance. This is the stage where security testers collect information about a target before they test it. Today, AI-driven reconnaissance makes this...
Itron detected unauthorized access to part of its IT environment on April 13, 2026, and launched incident response and notified authorities. Itron disclosed a cyber incident involving unauthorized access to part of its internal IT systems, detected on April 13, 2026. The company activated its incide...