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New AI laws should target data governance, safety to build public confidence: experts

Hong Kong should enact laws on data governance and underlying safety standards to ensure the responsible use of artifici...

Seoul police officer detained over AI sexual deepfakes, thousands of illegal files

A serving Seoul police officer has been detained on suspicion of creating and distributing hundreds of AI-generated sexu...

ShinyHunters hacker in FBI data theft held in Jordan

Google Gemini could soon get full access to your Mac’s files, apps and the web

Google's Gemini could soon access any file on your macOS device, open apps, browse the web, and perform actions without ...

China and Africa boost law enforcement ties in crackdown on cross-border cybercrime

From online-gambling rings in eSwatini to SIM swapping in Kenya and cybercrime networks in Zambia, a wave of cross-borde...

ShinyHunters hacker reportedly detained in Jordan, aiding FBI

A suspected ShinyHunters hacking group member known online as "Rey" has reportedly been detained in Jordan and is cooper...

Fake Jobs Put Job Seekers at Risk of Identity Theft

Fraud investigator Jay Jones, known online as “The Profiler,” tells Bloomberg This Weekend that AI is helping scammers c...

Warlock Exploits SharePoint Flaws to Disable Security Tools and Deploy Ransomware

The suspected China-linked threat actor known as Warlock is still continuing to weaponize Microsoft SharePoint vulnerabi...

Danish university DTU breach exposes data of up to 200,000 people

The Technical University of Denmark (DTU) says information belonging to up to 200,000 users may have been exposed after ...

The State of Cybersecurity in 2026: Key Segments, Insights, and Innovations

Featuring: Cybersecurity is being reshaped by the expansion of cloud infrastructure, AI, distributed systems, and increa...

Brazil is regulating AI use in elections. Here’s why it’s been a challenge.

Brazil’s polarized political landscape is rife with disinformation – a challenge that can be turbocharged by artificial ...

OpenAI says its review into hacks, including on Australian government sites, is costing $500,000 a day

Company says it is reviewing 50 petabytes of data after its agents accessed websites including Medicare without authoris...

OpenAI says its review into hacks, including on Australian government sites, is costing $500,000 a day

Company says it is reviewing 50 petabytes of data after its agents accessed websites including Medicare without authoris...

Rizwan, NCCIA tight-lipped after player appears for questioning

LAHORE: Pakistan’s wicket-keeper/batter Mohammad Rizwan appeared before the National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency (N...

AI tools suspected in South Korea’s Shinhan Bank hack, Yonhap says

Information exposed in the breach included names, phone numbers, annual income and borrowing limits.

US man arrested over alleged $300 million scheme to smuggle Nvidia AI servers to China

Amid intensifying competition in the AI technology race, US authorities have arrested a California technology company ow...

Judge dismisses spyware case brought by Salvadoran journalists targeted with Pegasus

The plaintiffs, who all worked for the independent and Salvadoran news outlet El Faro, failed to convince the court that...

RemoteThreat Bets Security Teams Need to Test What Happens After Defenses Fail

The offensive cyber operations startup looks to evolve red teaming beyond traditional methods to simulate attackers' inc...

Bipartisan backlash to ALPRs grows as two high-profile bills are introduced

Republican Sen. Josh Hawley has new legislation on limiting automated license plate readers (ALPRs), while Democratic Se...

Frontline Education breach exposes school district employee data

Frontline Education is notifying school districts of a data breach after attackers exploited a vulnerability in third-pa...

Warlock ransomware breach SharePoint in water, telecom operator attacks

The China-linked ransomware group Warlock targeted a water utility, a telecom provider, a regional government body, and ...

The legal questions raised by agentic AI hacks

Experts and policymakers want AI companies to face consequences for agentic hacks. There may not be a clear-cut answer u...

GitLab Patches Critical 9.9 AI Gateway Flaw Allowing Command Execution on Self-Hosted Servers

A critical flaw in GitLab's AI Gateway could let a logged-in user with Duo Agent Platform access run commands on the gat...

Antino Backdoor Uses Outlook and OneDrive for C2 in China-Nexus Espionage Campaign

Government and policy organizations across Asia have become the target of a new campaign orchestrated by a China-nexus t...

Dell CSM Flaws Enable Unauthenticated Admin Access and Root on Kubernetes Nodes

Dell has released security updates to address multiple critical security flaws in Dell Container Storage Modules (CSM) t...

Kiteworks & Citrix Incidents Show Challenges of Zero-Day Response

One company told customers to power down its data-protection platform during a nine-hour window, while the other remaine...

SWIFT Banking & Government Middleware Enables RCE

Patch middleware vulnerabilities now to avoid hardware-based MFA exploits in ultra-sensitive environments.

GitLab warns of critical RCE vulnerability in AI Gateway service

GitLab warned customers today to immediately patch a critical AI Gateway vulnerability that could let attackers run arbi...

Is It Fair to Blame 'Rogue' AI for Security Failures?

"Rogue AI" terminology anthropomorphizes LLMs and shifts risk responsibility from vendors. Defenders should treat agents...

US sanctions Tren de Aragua gang members in ATM hacks crackdown

The U.S. Treasury Department has sanctioned eight members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua (TdA) for their role in ...

Mexico to Target Social Media Violence After School Attacks

Mexico plans to have a decree ready next week requiring social media platforms to detect, report and swiftly remove cont...

Iran accused of blocking SIM cards, digital access to silence dissent

DW has spoken with several Iranians who say their SIM cards, bank access and online accounts were blocked until they del...

OpenAI’s Medicare attack has exposed Australia’s ‘tech debt’. Fixing it could bring a big bill for taxpayers

Home affairs department orders all federal government agencies to conduct review of ‘legacy technology’ amid fallout fro...

OpenAI’s Medicare attack has exposed Australia’s ‘tech debt’. Fixing it could bring a big bill for taxpayers

Home affairs department orders all federal government agencies to conduct review of ‘legacy technology’ amid fallout fro...

Unidentified Flock Cameras in Florida

St. Lucie County in Florida discovered (alt link) a dozen Flock cameras whose ownership it can’t identify, and that the ...

Microsoft: AI Cuts Post-Compromise Attack Time to Minutes

Microsoft has warned that threat actors have gained the advantage over defenders by using AI to enhance the speed and sc...

Mississippi mayor says ransomware incident led city to shut down systems

Government services were temporarily disrupted by ransomware in Vicksburg, Mississippi. Mayor Willis Thompson said the F...

'Warlock' ransomware used in attacks on critical infrastructure in Portuguese, Spanish-speaking countries

The group is exploiting a variety of vulnerabilities impacting Microsoft SharePoint, according to a new report from Syma...

The EDR blind spot: 3 ways browser attacks evade endpoint telemetry

Browser-based attacks can steal sessions, abuse extensions, or manipulate users without creating the endpoint artifacts ...

Vulnerability Backlogs Are an Ownership Problem

Organizations don't need better vulnerability scanners; they need to know who owns their assets and has the authority an...