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Today's cybersecurity landscape reveals several key threats and trends. Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) continue to face significant risks of client data leaks due to common oversights, such as password reuse. A jailbroken AI agent has executed a two-week attack on a European telecom, highlighting the evolving nature of AI-assisted cyber threats. Notably, a recent supply chain attack compromised tens of thousands of GitHub repositories, showcasing vulnerabilities in software development ecosystems. Additionally, hackers are exploiting vulnerabilities in refrigeration controllers and NAS devices, leading to potential service disruptions and data breaches. In a concerning trend, deepfake technology is being utilized in scams, with three individuals indicted for using AI to impersonate CEOs and defraud companies out of $129 million.
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Over the past 6-8 months, researchers at my company discovered vulnerabilities across multiple AI tools that allowed external bad actors to steal data, exploit AI browsers, or poison the core memories of AI systems. As we responsibly disclosed these flaws, we found that AI vendors almost universall...
The Payouts King ransomware is using the QEMU emulator as a reverse SSH backdoor to run hidden virtual machines on compromised systems and bypass endpoint security. [...]
A White House official said the administration is engaging with advanced AI labs about their models and the security of software.
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Author, Creator & Presenter: Padma Apparao, Architecting Al Solutions, Govt Agencies
Our thanks to [un]prompted for publishing their Creators, Authors and Presenter’s outstanding [un]prompted 2026 AI Security Practitioner content on the Organizations' YouTube Channel.
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More than 18 months after a ransomware attack disrupted care at hospitals in South East London, documents show at least one NHS trust is still working without fully restored systems and managing large backlogs of delayed test results.
More than 20 countries participated in a coordinated takedown of platforms selling cheap access to distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.
Lately, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has been buried under troubling headlines. Steep workforce reductions. $700 million 2027 budget cut. Leadership uncertainty. Impacts from the months-long partial government shutdown. Canceled 2026 CyberCorps: Scholarship for Service...
Cyber policy has always lagged cyber reality. Regulations arrive after breaches, frameworks emerge after failures, and accountability structures materialize long after the damage lands on someone else’s balance sheet. NCC Group’s fifth edition of its Global Cyber Policy Radar suggests that cycle is...
A security researcher published details of three security vulnerabilities in Windows Defender, and the code used to exploit them. Now, hackers are taking advantage of the vulnerabilities in real life attacks, according to a cybersecurity firm.
NIST said it overwhelmed by the surge in the number of CVEs submissions in recent years, so it is paring back the analysis work it does on the dangerous security flaws. Security experts say the number of new vulnerabilities detected will only grow during the AI era and that the private sector will...
Under a new model announced by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, NVD will no longer enrich every CVE. Instead, enrichment efforts will focus on a defined subset, including vulnerabilities in the CISA KEV catalog, software used by the federal government, and software designated as c...
Congress overhauled Section 702 in 2024 with 56 changes. Now, as the law nears expiration, supporters and critics can’t even agree on what the numbers show.
The post The surveillance law Congress can’t quit — and can’t explain appeared first on CyberScoop.
Booking.com's breach exposed names, phone numbers, and booking details now being used in targeted WhatsApp phishing. Constella explains how the PII-to-smishing pipeline works and what to do about it.
The post Booking.com Breach Shows Exactly How Smishing Attacks Get Made appeared first on Security B...
This is the second in a series of posts about anonymous credentials. You can find this first part here. In the previous post, we introduced the notion of anonymous credentials as a technique that allows users to authenticate to a website without sacrificing their privacy. As a quick reminder, an ano...
Bug hiding in plain sight for over a decade lands on KEV list CISA is sounding the alarm on a newly-exploited Apache ActiveMQ bug, ordering federal agencies to patch within two weeks as attackers circle a flaw that's been quietly lurking for more than a decade.…
via the comic artistry and dry wit of Randall Munroe, creator of XKCD
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Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.7 on April 16, 2026 with automated cybersecurity safeguards and a Cyber Verification Program. Dark web intelligence from the same week, a cross-vendor prompt injection disclosure published the same morning, and the unanswered policy question of who decides whic...
L'autorité italienne de protection des données (GPDP) a publié une décision de sanction à l'encontre de l'Institut national de la prévoyance sociale (INPS), comprenant le prononcé d'une amende de 40 000 €, pour des manquements liés au pré-remplissage des données dans le service en ligne de la Déclar...
Or, how public information and a €5 tracker exposed an avoidable opsec lapse Militaries around the world spend countless hours training, developing policies, and implementing best operational security practices, so imagine the size of the egg on the face of the Dutch navy when journalists managed to...
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