A 21-year-old Swedish man accused of being a key organizer of violence-as-a-service linked to the Foxtrot criminal network, which police say has recruited and exploited

The number of organizations that have implemented methods for identifying security risks in the AI tools they use has almost doubled in the space of

interview When it comes to security, AI agents are like self-driving cars, according to Block Chief Information Security Officer James Nettesheim. “It’s not enough for

BreachForums, the serially resurrected cybercrime marketplace, has tripped over itself after a data breach spilled details tied to about 324,000 user accounts. The latest incarnation

Ofcom is investigating X over potential violations of the Online Safety Act, Britian’s comms watchdog has confirmed. The probe follows heavy pressure from politicians for

The Tories have pledged to kick under-16s off social media, betting that banning teens from TikTok and Instagram will fix what they see as a

India’s government has denied that it is working on rules that would require smartphone manufacturers to provide access to their source code. A Sunday report

Asia in Brief The governments of Malaysia and Indonesia have suspended access to social network X, on grounds that it allows users to produce sexual

infosec in brief Meta has fixed a flaw in its Instagram service that allowed third parties to generate password reset emails, but denied the problem

ANALYSIS From May’s cyberattack on the Legal Aid Agency to the Foreign Office breach months later, cyber incidents have become increasingly common in UK government.

While watching us now seems like the least of its sins, the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was once best known (and despised) for

France has released an alleged ransomware crook wanted by the US in exchange for a conflict researcher imprisoned in Russia. The prisoner swap occurred Thursday,

North Korean government hackers are turning QR codes into credential-stealing weapons, the FBI has warned, as Pyongyang’s spies find new ways to duck enterprise security

Chinese-linked cybercriminals were sitting on a working VMware ESXi hypervisor escape kit more than a year before the bugs it relied on were made public.

Grok has yanked its image-generation toy out of the hands of most X users after the UK government openly weighed a ban over the AI

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CrowdStrike has signed a $740 million deal to buy identity security startup SGNL. The move underscores the growing threat of identity-based attacks as companies struggle

Cisco patched a bug in its Identity Services Engine (ISE) and ISE Passive Identity Connector (ISE-PIC) products that allows remote attackers with admin-level privileges to