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Today's cybersecurity news highlights several critical threats and vulnerabilities. The PHP Foundation has issued emergency patches for two severe remote code execution vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619), collectively termed PHP2Shell, which are being actively exploited; website owners are urged to update immediately. Additionally, a new phishing-as-a-service platform, Athena StealthRoute, utilizes AI to generate deceptive lures, indicating a growing trend in AI-assisted cybercrime. Meanwhile, ransomware attacks are surging, with rival gangs evolving their tactics to exploit various vulnerabilities. The U.S. government has mandated the removal of DeepSeek AI products from federal systems due to security risks. Overall, the landscape is marked by rapid exploitation of vulnerabilities and the increasing sophistication of cyber threats.
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Finding the right balance between internet security and privacy is becoming increasingly hard when addressing cyber terrorism, experts at last week’s annual ISSE conference argued.
Biometrics has changed in several significant ways over the last decade, according to a prominent expert in the field.
Users of IT security products should see no gaps in service resulting from floods in Britain, despite the location of several vendors in some of the worst-affected towns.
Google is buying its way into the infosecurity market, through purchasing security service provider Postini for $625 million (ÂŁ310m, EUR458m) in cash, it said on 9 July.
This year, the Victory Challenge team introduced security into their game plan as they challenged the Swiss defender Alinghi, in the 32nd America’s Cup.
Eighty per cent of infected websites have been compromised by a third-party hacker, according to the latest threat statistics from Sophos.
Lloyds TSB has purchased pattern-recognition software from US vendor Actimize for detecting employee fraud within its retail banking operation. Use of such software is already common in financial services for spotting fraud in external transactions, such as credit card spending.
One gang is responsible for more than half of all attempted phishing for the likes of online banking log-in details, and has found ways to extend the lives of its web-sites, according to researchers at Cambridge University.