View CSAF Summary Hitachi Energy is aware of a vulnerability that affects the Hitachi Energy PCM600 product versions listed in this document. An attacker successfully exploiting this vulnerability can impact integrity of…

View CSAF Summary ABB became aware of vulnerability in the product versions listed as affected in the advisory. An update is available that resolves a vulnerability. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerabil…

View CSAF Summary ABB became aware of vulnerability in the product versions listed as affected in the advisory. An update is available that resolves a vulnerability. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may enab…

Microsoft today pushed software updates to fix a staggering 167 security vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and related software, including a SharePoint Server zero-day and a publicly disclosed weakness in…

A Brazilian tech firm that specializes in protecting networks from distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks has been enabling a botnet responsible for an extended campaign of massive DDoS attacks against other networ…

A 24-year-old British national and senior member of the cybercrime group "Scattered Spider" has pleaded guilty to wire fraud conspiracy and aggravated identity theft. Tyler Robert Buchanan admitted his role in a series o…

The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has released security updates to address several security vulnerabilities in the HTTP Server, including a severe vulnerability that could potentially lead to remote code execution (RC…

A newly identified supply chain attack targeting DAEMON Tools software has compromised its installers to serve a malicious payload, according to findings from Kaspersky. "These installers are distributed from the legitim…

A sophisticated China-nexus advanced persistent threat (APT) group has been attributed to attacks targeting government entities in South America since at least late 2024 and government agencies in southeastern Europe in…

DarkSword is a sophisticated piece of malware—probably government designed—that targets iOS. Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) has identified a new iOS full-chain exploit that leveraged multiple zero-day vulnerabil…

Someone pleaded guilty to secretly working for a ransomware gang as he negotiated ransomware payments for clients.

Polymarket is a platform where people can bet on real-world events, political and otherwise. Leaving the ethical considerations of this aside (for one, it facilitates assassination), one of the issues with making this wo…

Info is scant, but such breaches can reveal where a security product's controls are located and how detections are designed, giving attackers a leg up.

A proof-of-concept exploit (PoC) shows how someone with admin privileges can exploit the issue to steal passwords, and thus use them to engage in further malicious activity.

Two decades ago Dark Reading posted its first blockbuster — a column by a pen tester who sprinkled rigged thumb drives around a credit union parking lot and let curious employees do the rest. This episode looks back at t…

A previously undocumented Linux implant named Quasar Linux (QLNX) is targeting developers' systems with a mix of rootkit, backdoor, and credential-stealing capabilities. [...]

Hackers trojanized installers for the DAEMON Tools software and since April 8, delivered a backdoor to thousands of systems that downloaded the product from the official website. [...]

The hacker behind a breach at education technology giant Instructure claims to have stolen 280 million data records for students and staff from 8,809 colleges, school districts, and online education platforms. [...]

The agency will begin targeted assessments meant to help critical infrastructure entities operate while disconnecting OT networks from IT and third-party vendors. The post CISA wants critical infrastructure to operate ‘w…

Deniss Zolotarjovs was mostly tasked with putting pressure on the Russia-based crew’s victims, in one case leaking hundreds of children’s health records. The post Latvian national sentenced for ransomware attacks run by…

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency officials said it’s proven a boon in numerous areas, but there are some hurdles to adoption, still. The post CISA boasts AI automation improvements to threat analysis, mis…

Microsoft researchers warn of a large-scale phishing campaign using fake compliance emails to steal credentials, targeting 35,000 users across 13,000 organizations worldwide

Venomous#Helper attackers impersonate the US Social Security Administration to deploy signed RMM software and maintain persistent access across US networks

ESET warns that North Korean hackers compromised a Yanbian gaming site in a supply‑chain attack, trojanizing Windows and Android software to spy on users

This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – May. 5, 2026 – Watch the YouTube video SOC teams are overwhelmed by the volume of threat alerts they must manage. A Forrester analysi…

This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – May. 1, 2026 – Listen to the podcast A quarter-century old article in The Wall Street Journal reported in 1998 that Serge Humpich, a…

This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – May. 4, 2026 – Watch the YouTube video Step into the future of cybersecurity at Black Hat USA 2026, Aug. 1-6, in Las Vegas. REGISTER…

Daemon Tools users: It's time to check your machines for stealthy infections, stat.

Panthalassa aims to test floating AI computing nodes in the Pacific in 2026.

State says chatbot claimed to practice medicine, gave invalid license number.

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Railway, a San Francisco-based cloud platform that has quietly amassed two million developers without spending a dollar on marketing, announced Thursday that it raised $100 million in a Series B funding round, as surging…

Alfred Wahlforss was running out of options. His startup, Listen Labs, needed to hire over 100 engineers, but competing against Mark Zuckerberg's $100 million offers seemed impossible. So he spent $5,000 — a fifth of his…

The artificial intelligence coding revolution comes with a catch: it's expensive.Claude Code, Anthropic's terminal-based AI agent that can write, debug, and deploy code autonomously, has captured the imagination of softw…

In recent years, LLM Multi-Agent systems have garnered widespread attention for their collaborative approach to solving complex problems. However, it's a common scenario for these systems to fail at a task despite a flur…

MIT introduces SEAL, a framework enabling large language models to self-edit and update their weights via reinforcement learning. The post MIT Researchers Unveil “SEAL”: A New Step Towards Self-Improving AI first appeare…

ByteDance introduces Astra, an innovative dual-model architecture revolutionizing robot navigation in complex indoor environments. The post ByteDance Introduces Astra: A Dual-Model Architecture for Autonomous Robot Navig…

With Apple's latest operating system updates, users will reportedly have their pick of which third-party AI models they want to use for a host of tasks.

Altara’s AI aims to diagnose failures and help speed up R&D by unifying data siloed across spreadsheets and legacy systems.

Christophe Fouquet, who became ASML's CEO in 2024 after more than a decade at the company, sat down with this editor on the rooftop deck of his Beverly Hills hotel Tuesday morning ahead of his appearance at the Milken In…

Google Home users can now ask Gemini to complete more complex, multi-step tasks and combine multiple tasks in a single command. Google has updated Gemini for Home to Gemini 3.1, which it says will improve the smart home…

Apple has agreed to pay $250 million to settle a class action lawsuit that accused it of misleading customers about the availability of its Apple Intelligence features. The proposed settlement would apply to people in th…

Xbox is "winding down Copilot on mobile" and "will stop development of Copilot on console," new Xbox CEO Asha Sharma announced on Tuesday. The move follows Sharma's reorganization of the Xbox platform team earlier on Tue…

[Editor’s note] The blog has been updated to note that GeForce RTX 5080-power expansion also extends to the Install-to-Play library. It’s gonna be May — and the cloud’s in full festival mode. 16 games are joining GeForce…

Enterprise AI has learned to generate. It has learned to reason. Now companies are asking the next question: How should AI act? Early agent systems have shown what’s possible, moving beyond simple prompts to take on more…

By early 2026, the open source project OpenClaw had become a phenomenon. In January, its GitHub star count crossed 100,000 as developer interest surged.

UK staff of Google’s AI research lab hope to block the use of the company’s artificial intelligence models in military settings.

Armed with some Python and a white-hot sense of injustice, one medical student spent six months trying to figure out whether an algorithm trashed his job application.

OpenAI’s cofounder and president revealed in federal court on Monday that he’s one of the largest individual stakeholders in the AI lab.

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Google DeepMind and Korea partner to accelerate scientific breakthroughs using frontier AI models

Exclusive: Worker pointed to Iran war and Pentagon’s Anthropic feud as indications the department is ‘not a responsible partner’Workers developing Google’s artificial intelligence products in the UK have voted to unioniz…

Reform UK is ‘doing something right when it comes to visibility’ on multiple AI systems, say researchersAI platforms are more likely to reference Nigel Farage than any other UK leader when prompted about British politics…

Exclusive: Biometrics commissioners say face-scanning not as effective as claimed and new laws needed to regulate useHow does live facial recognition work and how many police forces use it? Guilty until proven innocent:…

Google and Anthropic integrations tested so far.

Red team reidentified users from anonymised data in under two hours.

After massive data modernisation project.

Every few centuries, changes in how information moves reshape how societies govern themselves. The printing press spread vernacular literacy, helping give rise to the Reformation and, eventually, representative governmen…

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Two of the most powerful people in AI—Sam Altman and Elon Musk—began their face-of…

In the first week of the landmark trial between Elon Musk and OpenAI, Musk took the stand in a crisp black suit and tie and argued that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and president Greg Brockman had deceived him into bankrolling…

Elon Musk argued the journals show the moment when OpenAI abandoned its mission.

Panthalassa aims to test floating AI computing nodes in the Pacific in 2026.

State says chatbot claimed to practice medicine, gave invalid license number.

Governance around Physical AI is becoming harder as autonomous AI systems move into robots, sensors, and industrial equipment. The issue is not only whether AI agents can complete tasks. It is how their actions are teste…

Two weeks ago at Google Cloud Next ’26 in Las Vegas, Google did something the enterprise AI industry has been dancing around for the better part of two years: it made agentic AI governance a native product feature, not a…

According to SAP, enterprise AI governance secures profit margins by replacing statistical guesses with deterministic control. Ask a consumer-grade model to count the words in a document, and it will often miss the mark…

Fuel prices in Australia have started to moderate just as costs have reached an almost four-year high in the United States.

The latest major hotel project announced for Adelaide adds to a looming accommodation construction boom in the CBD.

With grocery prices continuing to bite, more Australians are discovering that home gardening isn't just good for wellbeing — it can also make real financial sense.

Introduction Advances in AI model-powered exploitation have demonstrated that general-purpose AI models can excel at vulnerability discovery, even without being purpose-built for the task. Eventually, capabilities such a…

Written by: JP Glab, Tufail Ahmed, Josh Kelley, Muhammad Umair Introduction Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) identified a multistage intrusion campaign by a newly tracked threat group, UNC6692, that leveraged pers…

Written by: Jamie Collier, Robin Grunewald Germany has reclaimed its position as a primary focus for cyber extortion in Europe. While data leak site (DLS) posts rose almost 50% globally in 2025, Google Threat Intelligenc…

MCP serverThis release our very own cdelafuente-r7 finished implementing the Metasploit MCP Server (msfmcpd), bringing Model Context Protocol support to Metasploit Framework. MCP lets AI applications like Claude, Cursor,…

The full agenda for the Rapid7 2026 Global Cybersecurity Summit is now live, and it gives a clearer sense of how the conversation around security operations is evolving.Across two days, the sessions progress from a share…

At this year's Gartner Security and Risk Management Summit in Sydney, Rapid7 CISO Brian Castagna joined industry CISO Nigel Hedges for a fireside chat on the decisions security leaders are actually making right now. They…

How we validated, fixed, and investigated a critical vulnerability in under two hours, and confirmed no exploitation. The post Securing the git push pipeline: Responding to a critical remote code execution vulnerability…

Learn to find and exploit real-world agentic AI vulnerabilities through five progressive challenges in this free, open source game that over 10,000 developers have already used to sharpen their security skills. The post…

The new Code Security Risk Assessment gives you a one-click view of vulnerabilities across your organization, at no cost. The post How exposed is your code? Find out in minutes—for free appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Key Takeaways Background VECT Ransomware is a Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) program that made its first appearance in December 2025 on a Russian-language cybercrime forum. After claiming their first two victims in Janua…

For the latest discoveries in cyber research for the week of 27th April, please download our Threat Intelligence Bulletin. TOP ATTACKS AND BREACHES Vercel, a frontend cloud platform, has disclosed a security incident lin…

For the latest discoveries in cyber research for the week of 4th May, please download our Threat Intelligence Bulletin. TOP ATTACKS AND BREACHES Medtronic, a global medical device maker, has disclosed a cyberattack on it…

A high-severity Linux vulnerability, “Copy Fail” (CVE-2026-31431), enables root privilege escalation across cloud environments and Kubernetes workloads. With a working exploit already in the wild, organizations should ac…

Microsoft Defender Research observed a large-scale credential theft campaign that exemplifies this trend, using code of conduct-themed lures, a multi-step attack chain, and legitimate email services to distribute fully a…

​Today we’re announcing the general availability of Agent 365, plus previews of new capabilities to discover and manage shadow AI agents, including local agents like OpenClaw and Claude Code. The post Microsoft Agent 365…

Unit 42 analyzes npm supply chain evolution post-Shai Hulud. Discover wormable malware, CI/CD persistence, multi-stage attacks and more. The post The npm Threat Landscape: Attack Surface and Mitigations (Updated May 1) a…

Copy Fail (CVE-2026-31431) is a critical Linux kernel LPE that allows stealthy root access. This flaw impacts millions of systems. Read our analysis. The post Copy Fail: What You Need to Know About the Most Severe Linux…

Unit 42 highlights the need for a comprehensive security strategy that spans every IT zone. Explore the full details here. The post Essential Data Sources for Detection Beyond the Endpoint appeared first on Unit 42.

Microsoft Defender Research observed a large-scale credential theft campaign that exemplifies this trend, using code of conduct-themed lures, a multi-step attack chain, and legitimate email services to distribute fully a…

The Microsoft Defender Security Research Team uncovered a sophisticated macOS intrusion campaign attributed to the North Korean threat actor Sapphire Sleet that abuses user driven execution and social engineering to bypa…

In early 2026, email threats increased with a rise in credential phishing, QR code phishing, and CAPTCHA-gated campaigns, highlighted by Microsoft’s disruption of the Tycoon2FA phishing platform which led to a 15% volume…

Kaspersky researcher discovered a vulnerability in RPC architecture that enables an attacker to create a fake RPC server and escalate their privileges.

Kaspersky expert breaks down a new phishing scheme that uses the Amazon SES cloud email service. Let's look at some examples to see how you can tell a phishing email from a real one.

The Silver Fox group is targeting companies in Russia and India by impersonating tax authorities to distribute ValleyRAT and the new ABCDoor backdoor.

Marc Rogers and Silas Cutler expose how cheap smart home devices conceal a shadow supply chain of shell companies, firmware flaws, and foreign data routing.

Single-tool LLM analysis produces reports that look authoritative but aren't. A serial consensus pipeline catches artifacts and hallucinations at source.

A previously unknown 2005 cyber sabotage framework patches high-precision calculation software in memory to silently corrupt results.

A Monday morning security alert flags unauthorized access attempts, security group misconfigurations, and AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policy violations. Your team needs answers fast. Security teams are using…

As AI agents, bots, and programmatic access become an increasingly significant portion of web traffic, organizations need better tools to understand, analyze, and manage this activity. Today, we’re excited to announce AI…

This article shows you how to identify and secure open proxies in your AWS environment to prevent abuse, protect your IP address reputation, and control costs. An open proxy is a server that forwards traffic on behalf of…

Cisco Talos is disclosing UAT-8302, a sophisticated, China-nexus advanced persistent threat (APT) group targeting government entities in South America since at least late 2024 and government agencies in southeastern Euro…

Cisco Talos discovered an intrusion, active since at least January 2026, where an unknown attacker implanted a CloudZ remote access tool (RAT) and a previously undocumented plugin called “Pheno.”

In this week’s newsletter, Hazel uses International Superhero Day as a springboard to explore why empathy — rather than just technical prowess — is the most essential, underrated superpower for navigating the human side…

GPT-5.5 Instant updates ChatGPT’s default model with smarter, more accurate answers, reduced hallucinations, and improved personalization controls.

OpenAI expands ChatGPT ads with a beta self-serve Ads Manager, CPC bidding, and enhanced measurement tools—built to protect privacy and keep conversations separate from ads.

An overview of coordinated influence operation campaigns terminated on our platforms in Q4 2025.

Our bulletin covering coordinated influence operation campaigns terminated on our platforms in Q3 2025.

Our bulletin covering coordinated influence operation campaigns terminated on our platforms in Q2 2025.