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Today's cybersecurity landscape reveals several critical trends and threats. AI tools are increasingly being leveraged by SOC teams to enhance efficiency, but concerns arise over diminished skill development opportunities. A recent incident highlighted that AI coding agents inadvertently leaked 13,000 internal company screenshots to public GitHub repositories, raising serious data security questions. On the threat front, attackers are exploiting new vulnerabilities in Citrix NetScaler, actively deploying malware through phishing tactics, and leveraging AI features to distribute trojans. Additionally, the Pentagon suffered a significant data breach affecting millions, underscoring vulnerabilities in sensitive government databases. Overall, confidence in basic cyber skills remains low among UK businesses, indicating a pressing need for improved cybersecurity training and awareness.
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Amazon Web Services EMEA Sarl (AWS) has been designated as a critical third party (CTP) to the UK financial sector by HM Treasury. The CTP regime came into force on January 1, 2025, and establishes a framework through which the Bank of England, PRA, and FCA (collectively the UK regulators) can set r...
Microsoft’s latest Secure Future Initiative report outlines progress on secure foundations, AI-powered defense, and future-ready cybersecurity.
The post Securing our future: July 2026 progress report on Microsoft’s Secure Future Initiative appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog.
CISA reveals how it responded after sensitive AWS GovCloud credentials and internal data were exposed in a public GitHub repository
Researchers at firmware security firm Binarly have found six new flaws in U-Boot, the small program that starts up hardware as varied as home routers, smart cameras, and the management chips inside data-center servers.
Four of the bugs can crash a device. The other two could let an attacker who sli...
Hackers are actively exploiting a critical vulnerability in the official Docker image for the Gitea self-hosted Git service that allows attackers to impersonate any user, including administrators. [...]
A new multi-purpose backdoor allows cyber threat actors to conduct both quiet espionage activity and destructive wiping operations
A Bulgarian national has been charged with stealing $290,000 in government-seized cryptocurrency while serving 121 months in prison for helping launder millions stolen from American fraud victims. [...]
Other noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: Abnormal AI sued by Anthropic, AssuranceAmerica data breach affects 7 million people, NSA brings back TAO.
The post In Other News: DHS Database Hacked, Adobe Boosts Patch Cadence, Canada Disrupts Ransomware Ops appeared first on Secur...
In my first weeks as Executive Director of EFF, I’ve been reminded every day how consequential this moment is in determining what kind of future we will have.
We are on the edge. What each one of us steps up to do – with our expertise, energy, and resources – will determine whether our future is on...
Researchers at Ledger's Donjon security team have shown that a precisely timed laser pulse, aimed at the chip inside a Tangem crypto wallet card, can reset the card's password to anything the attacker picks.
No old password. No backup card. Once it is reset, whoever did it controls the wallet and c...
Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have failed to block a proposal extending the mass scanning of private communications, a measure they have previously rejected twice.
This time too, more votes were cast against the proposal than in favor, but due to the absence of...
Security company CrowdStrike has identified five new prompt injection techniques that could leave enterprises at risk. Prompt injections attacks exploit the growing use of AI within organizations . They work by tricking LLMs into accepting instructions that a human operator wo...
Details have emerged about three now-patched security flaws in the OpenClaw personal artificial intelligence (AI) assistant that, if successfully exploited, could enable credential theft, privilege escalation, and arbitrary code execution on the host.
A brief description of the high-severity vulner...
A third ransomware negotiator has been jailed for helping a notorious ransomware group extort American victim companies into paying the hackers.
AI agents are accelerating the growth of non-human identities, making it harder for organizations to understand what exists, who owns it, and what it can access. Netwrix explains why stronger visibility and identity governance are essential as AI expands the enterprise attack surface. [...]
Researchers at the AI Now Institute developed a proof-of-concept exploit showing common AI tools used for security could backfire
GigaWiper is a remote access Trojan that can spy on victims and permanently wipe their systems in three different ways.
The activity, in some cases breaching the exact same systems, ran between February 2024 and April 2026 and centered on the force responsible for the country’s southwestern province that has been the site of a long-running separatist insurgency.
This post is part 2 in a series about automated content moderation. Read the first post here.
When whistleblower Frances Haugen leaked a set of documents from Meta in 2020, among the revelations was a jarring statistic: The company’s algorithms designed to detect terrorist content incorrectly delete...
The China-linked cybercrime group known as Silver Fox has been attributed to a new Rust-based remote access trojan (RAR) called MODBEACON.
Chinese cybersecurity company QiAnXin said that while the threat cluster may appear like a low-sophistication, high-activity operation that propagates malware v...