> TODAY'S SUMMARY (5 articles)
Today's cyber news highlights several significant threats and developments. Huawei has announced the launch of a fully Chinese-manufactured PC amidst rising geopolitical tensions. Japan has declared an information security emergency, signaling heightened concerns over cyber threats. NVIDIA is facing scrutiny after reports emerged of a suspected Chinese espionage plot targeting CEO Jensen Huang, prompting an independent investigation. Additionally, a hacker has claimed responsibility for stealing data from 22 million French motorists, raising alarms over personal data security. Lastly, the NoName hacking group is reportedly targeting companies such as Free, La Poste Mobile, and Danfoss, with threats of data theft and DDoS attacks.
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Cloudflare Research is building a global consensus service called Meerkat that uses a new consensus algorithm called QuePaxa. We plan to use Meerkat to build a strongly consistent, fault-tolerant key-value store, and other applications.
A recent EvilTokens campaign targeting businesses across the US and Europe is exposing a new email security blind spot. This “ghost phishing” technique keeps the malicious page hidden until it decrypts and comes to life inside the victim’s browser.
For security leaders, the risk is clear: tradition...
A new banking fraudulent operation is targeting customers of Mexican banks, fintech, payment processors, and cryptocurrency exchanges using ClickFix lures.
The activity cluster, tracked by Elastic Security Labs under the moniker REF6045, involves infecting victims through fake CAPTCHA verification...
DNSFilter has launched an Original Equipment Manufacturing (OEM) program that lets external ISPs, cybersecurity firms, device makers, and other consumer app developers to embed their DNS threat protection, domain analysis, and privacy solutions into their own platforms and solutions. Partners can ch...
A cybersecurity startup dangling millions of dollars to acquire zero-day security vulnerabilities in popular software is run by a pair of far-right conspiracy theorists and convicted felons whose most recent ventures included fake intelligence companies and a now-defunct AI-based lobbying platform t...
Sygnia report details how agentic AI accelerated weeks-long attack to just 72 hours
Attestiv announced the launch of DeepScan, a new platform built to help organizations automatically validate submitted files before they drive critical business decisions. DeepScan represents a major architectural shift for Attestiv and its customers: moving from detecting fake or manipulated media...
The "Rogue Agent" vulnerability could have enabled attackers to silently manipulate AI conversations, exfiltrate data, and compromise every Dialogflow CX agent within the same Google Cloud project.
The post Google Dialogflow CX Bug Allowed Attackers to Hijack AI Conversations appeared first on Secur...
A prompt injection attack can trick GitHub’s preview Agentic Workflows into retrieving content from private repositories and publishing it publicly, exposing a broader risk as enterprises deploy AI agents with privileged access to software development environments, according t...
Driver-monitoring technology is becoming mandatory in new cars, but privacy experts warn it could create new risks alongside the safety benefits.
DuckDuckGo announced that its browser can now block most video ads on YouTube, including those shown before the video starts playing and during playback. [...]
Cybercriminals are exploiting India’s tax filing season with a new malware campaign that refuses to put all its eggs in one basket.
Researchers at Cyderes have uncovered a sophisticated phishing operation that poses as the Indian Tax Department to deliver two remote access...
New research shows that a signed Git commit's hash is not the one-of-a-kind name that much of the software world assumes it to be. Given any signed commit, someone without the signing key can mint a second commit with the same files, author, and date, and a valid signature, GitHub still stamps "Veri...
When critical evidence is locked inside feature phones or ultra-compact devices, MSAB helps investigators go further — enabling advanced mobile extraction and analysis where other forensic tools may fall short.
For years, account takeover (ATO) followed a predictable script. Attackers bought stolen credentials in bulk, ran them through automated tools, and waited for matches. Credential stuffing was cheap, scalable, and for defenders, relatively well understood.
That era is ending. Not because attackers g...
Accenture appears to have suffered a data breach, the extent of which is currently unknown. On Monday, a threat actor going by the handle “888” posted on the cybercrime forum PwnForums, claiming to have breached the technology consulting company and stolen “just over 35gb of source codes” in July 20...
Japanese telecommunications giant KDDI says that millions of people had their email addresses and passwords exposed after attackers breached an email platform used by five internet service providers (ISPs) in the country. [...]
An AI coding assistant that refuses to answer a dangerous request in its chat box can answer it anyway if the same request is broken into small, ordinary-looking steps inside a code editor. That is the finding of a new study of GitHub Copilot by researchers Abhishek Kumar and Carsten Maple.
The mod...
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