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Today's cybersecurity news highlights several key threats and trends. Vanderbilt University has experienced a ransomware attack, reportedly by the BYOD group, compromising sensitive data. The Russian state-sponsored Turla group is utilizing a new malware toolset named "Cereal" to infiltrate Microsoft Exchange servers of government entities in Kazakhstan and Romania, showcasing escalating cyber-espionage tactics. Google has issued its eighth zero-day patch for Chrome this year, addressing a vulnerability actively exploited in the wild. Meanwhile, Apple and SAP have released important security updates to fix critical flaws in their software. Finally, spyware attacks are increasingly targeting a broader range of individuals, emphasizing the need for enhanced vigilance and protection measures.
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AI is now sitting in the middle of your financial systems, making decisions at machine speed with access to data that used to be tightly contained in ERP. If you donât explicitly govern how copilots and AI agents touch Oracle, SAP, and other businessâcritical systems, you end up with opaque data flo...
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Instagram will drop end-to-end encrypted chats on May 8, 2026, reversing years of Metaâs push for stronger privacy. Here's what it means.
Poland's National Centre for Nuclear Research (NCBJ) says hackers targeted its IT infrastructure, but the attack was detected and blocked before causing any impact. [...]
Meta has announced plans to discontinue support for end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for chats on Instagram after May 8, 2026.
"If you have chats that are impacted by this change, you will see instructions on how you can download any media or messages you may want to keep," the social media giant said i...
via the comic artistry and dry wit of Randall Munroe, creator of XKCD
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âMicrosoft is investigating several issues causing email synchronization and connection problems when using the classic Outlook desktop client. [...]
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The Council said in a press release that it has added a new provision in the AI Act âprohibiting AI practices regarding the generation of non-consensual sexual and intimate content or child sexual abuse material.â
The FBI is so concerned about the threat of residential proxy attacks and the dangers posed by cyber criminals using the technique that it has posted guidance on its website.
Residential proxies are used by cybercriminals to reroute traffic between individuals and the websi...
A new law enforcement operation against phishing and ransomware operators led to the takedown of 45,000 malicious IP addresses
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U.S. prosecutors accused an incident responder of conducting cyberattacks and helping ransomware gangs negotiate higher payouts from the same victims he was working for.
In late January 2026 an advisory covering two remote code execution vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-1281 & CVE-2026-1340) in Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM) was published. Shortly after reports (in example by tenable) mentioned publicly available proof-of-concept exploits. On 09th February 2026,...
Starbucks said the incident involved phishing attacks targeting an employee portal, affecting hundreds.
The post Starbucks Data Breach Impacts Employees appeared first on SecurityWeek.
INTERPOL on Friday announced the takedown of 45,000 malicious IP addresses and servers used in connection with phishing, malware, and ransomware campaigns, as part of the agency's ongoing efforts to dismantle criminal networks, disrupt emerging threats, and safeguard victims from scams.
The effort i...
Authorities in the US and Europe disrupted the SocksEscort proxy service, which used the AVrecon botnet and infected about 360,000 devices since 2020. Law enforcement agencies in the US and Europe have disrupted SocksEscort, a malicious proxy service powered by the AVrecon botnet. Active since 2020,...