10 Apr

CPUID site hijacked to serve malware instead of HWMonitor downloads

Visitors to the CPUID website were briefly exposed to malware this week after attackers hijacked part of its backend, turning trusted download links into a

Author rabih
10 Apr

Project Glasswing and open source software: The good, the bad, and the ugly

Opinion Anthropic describes Project Glasswing as a coalition of tech giants committing $100 million in AI resources to hunt down and fix long-hidden vulnerabilities in

Author rabih
10 Apr

Britain seeks views before it drops the hammer on signal jammers

The UK government is seeking views on radiofrequency jammers as it prepares legislation to ban the controversial devices. The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Author rabih
10 Apr

Recovery scammers hit you when you’re down: Here’s how to avoid a second strike

If you’ve been the victim of fraud, you’re likely already a lead on a ‘sucker list’ – and if you’re not careful, your ordeal may

Author rabih
10 Apr

Unpacking AI security in 2026 from experimentation to the agentic era

Webinar Promo 2025 was the year of AI experimentation. In 2026, the bills are coming due. AI adoption has moved from isolated pilots to autonomous,

Author rabih
09 Apr

Crypto? Huh. Good gawd y’all, what is it good for? $45M in this case

US, UK, and Canadian law enforcement Thursday said that they disrupted a $45 million global cryptocurrency scam, freezing $12 million in stolen funds and identifying

Author rabih
09 Apr

‘Several dozen’ high-value corporations hit by new extortion crew in helpdesk phishing spree

A new extortion crew has targeted “several dozen high-value” corporations through phishing and helpdesk social-engineering, according to Google. Google Threat Intelligence Group tracks the financially

Author rabih
09 Apr

Chevin pulls the handbrake on FleetWave software after security scare

A cybersecurity incident has knocked FleetWave into a “major outage” across the UK and US after Chevin Fleet Solutions pulled parts of its SaaS platform

Author rabih
09 Apr

Months-old Adobe Reader zero-day uses PDFs to size up targets

Hackers have been quietly exploiting what appears to be a zero-day in Adobe Acrobat Reader for months, using booby-trapped PDFs to profile targets and decide

Author rabih
09 Apr

Microsoft locks out VeraCrypt and WireGuard devs, blames verification process

Microsoft says that it will work on how it communicates with developers after two leading open source figures were suddenly locked out of their accounts,

Author rabih
09 Apr

Security researchers tricked Apple Intelligence into cursing at users. It could have been a lot worse

Apple Intelligence, the personal AI system integrated into newer Macs, iPhones, and other iThings, can be hijacked using prompt injection, forcing the model into producing

Author rabih
09 Apr

Zephyr Energy loses £700K in cyber hit that rerouted contractor payment

UK-listed oil and gas outfit Zephyr Energy plc has admitted a cyber incident siphoned off roughly £700,000 after a single payment to a contractor was

Author rabih
09 Apr

Sticky-note security turned gym into hall of ’80s horrors

PWNED Welcome back to Pwned, the column where we share war stories from IT soldiers who shot themselves – or watched someone else shoot themselves

Author rabih
09 Apr

Cryptographers place $5,000 bet whether quantum will matter

Quantum computing exists in a sort of superposition with regard to cryptography – it’s both a pending threat and a technology of no immediate consequence

Author rabih
08 Apr

Criminal wannabes even more dangerous than the pros, says ex-FBI cyber chief

interview It’s the biggest threat today, but it took her a while to appreciate it. After spending two decades at the FBI and much of

Author rabih
08 Apr

Dutch healthcare software vendor goes dark after ransomware attack

A Dutch healthcare software vendor has been knocked offline following a ransomware attack, officials say. ChipSoft’s website went down on April 7 and remains unreachable

Author rabih
08 Apr

NHS Scotland-linked domains caught serving pr0n and dodgy sports streams

Multiple domains belonging to Scottish healthcare providers have been hijacked and are now pushing links to adult content and illegal sports streams, according to a

Author rabih
08 Apr

Microsoft hints at bit bunkers for war zones

Microsoft is reevaluating how it designs and builds datacenters in conflict-prone regions after Iran began targeting Middle Eastern bit barns in retaliation for US military

Author rabih
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