> TODAY'S SUMMARY (130 articles)
Today's cyber news highlights several significant threats and trends. The largest cryptocurrency heist in history occurred as North Korean hackers stole approximately $6.3 billion from Binance by exploiting a compromised DevOps laptop. In retail, fashion retailer Resolve reported the theft of customer payment card information due to a security breach. Additionally, a malicious update to the Claude Code extension for VS Code was found to have installed persistent SSH backdoors on developers' machines. Exploits targeting critical vulnerabilities in Drupal and GitLab are actively being leveraged by attackers, raising concerns about web security. Lastly, hackers published sensitive data of over 41,000 DHS employees, emphasizing the ongoing risks to government cybersecurity.
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// AI-powered summary generated at 20:00
A list of topics we covered in the week of April 6 to April 12 of 2026
Ransomware will never die, will it? In fact, it’s more powerful than ever thanks to GenAI and creative operators that evolve techniques to generate profit.
The post Ransomware Lives On, Blending Hacktivism and Crime, Fueled by AIÂ appeared first on Security Boulevard.
OpenAI revealed a GitHub Actions workflow used to sign its macOS apps, which downloaded the malicious Axios library on March 31, but noted that no user data or internal system was compromised.
"Out of an abundance of caution, we are taking steps to protect the process that certifies our macOS applic...
The technological trajectory is clear: Hash-based systems anchored in the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (“NCMEC”) database remain highly effective for identifying known CSAM, but they are structurally incapable of addressing synthetic, modified, or previously unseen material. M...
Parking lots were filled with cars that couldn’t be moved and drivers had to awkwardly explain to employers why they couldn’t make it to work after a cyberattack took down the Intoxalock vehicle breathalyzer system.Â
The post Intoxalock Vehicle Breathalyzers Downed by Cyberattack, Leave Drivers Str...
In this Help Net Security interview, Art Manion, Deputy Director at Tharros, examines why vulnerability data across repositories stays inconsistent and hard to trust. The problem starts with systems not designed to collect or manage that data well. They introduce the idea of Minimum Viable Vulnerabi...
A new category is emerging in cybersecurity For years, organizations have relied on monitoring tools to detect compromised credentials and exposed data. But as identity has become the primary attack surface, those tools are no longer enough. A new category is emerging in response: Identity Risk Inte...
Des pirates sont parvenus à avoir accès à l'API du projet CPUID, ce qui leur a permis de distribuer des versions infectées de CPU-Z et HWMonitor.
Le post Les outils CPU-Z et HWMonitor piégés par un malware ! a été publié sur IT-Connect.
ZeroID is an open-source identity platform that implements an identity and credentialing layer specifically for autonomous agents and multi-agent systems. The attribution problem The core issue ZeroID targets is attribution in agentic workflows. When an orchestrator agent spawns sub-agents to carry...
Financial fraud losses in the United States reached $16.6 billion in 2024, up from $4.2 billion in 2020. Behind those numbers is a structural problem: the teams responsible for stopping fraud, fraud investigators and cybersecurity analysts, have historically operated separately, using different tool...
The blog describes a phishing campaign identified by Cofense that impersonates Interactive Brokers using a fake IRS W-8BEN renewal email to trick users into clicking a malicious link. The email appears legitimate but uses a suspicious sender address and directs victims to a counterfeit login page de...
AWS vient d'annoncer Amazon S3 Files, une nouvelle fonctionnalité qui transforme les buckets S3 en véritables systèmes de fichiers, notamment avec Amazon EFS.
Le post Amazon S3 Files : le stockage objet S3 devient du stockage fichiers chez AWS a été publié sur IT-Connect.
In this video, John Murray, Senior Vice President of Sales at GlobalSign, explains what’s changing in the certificate industry and what companies need to do about it. Certificate validity periods are shrinking, which means companies will need to rotate certificates far more often than before. Small...
Every growing business has at least one lingering privilege management issue. It’s not because your team is lazy. It’s because organizations grow, restructure and hire far faster than manual access processes can keep up.
When roles evolve or contractors come and go, permissions a...
In this Help Net Security interview, Archit Lohokare, CEO of AppViewX, explains how the rise of AI marked a turning point where machine and AI agent identities began converging into a single problem. Drawing on his experience across IBM and CyberArk, he describes the shift from human-driven systems...
The dark web is often misunderstood, but it plays an important role in both privacy technology and cybercrime activity. In this episode, Tom Eston speaks with cybersecurity researcher and educator John Hammond about what the dark web actually is and how it has evolved in recent years. The discussion...
The Cloud Security Alliance’s MythosReady report offers a calm, rational roadmap for navigating the AI-driven vulnerability surge. But two critical questions about exploit automation and the painful transition ahead deserve more attention.
The post The Vuln Surge is Coming. CSA is Telling Us How to...
PLUS: Toyota wheels out basketball bot; Arm scores AI server win with SK Telecom; India ponders payment pauses to foil fraudsters; And more! Asia In Brief China’s National Data Administration last Friday published its action plan for AI in education which calls for upskilling of the nation’s citize...
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Fed Chair Jerome Powell call a meeting with the CEOs of the largest U.S. banks to caution them of the cybersecurity dangers of Anthropic's powerful new Mythos Preview frontier AI model, which can quicky identify software vulnerabilities and, in wrong hands,...