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Lidl
Hackers breach Lidl’s IT service provider, steal customer data

German discount supermarket chain Lidl has notified customers in Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands that customer data was stolen after attackers breached one of its IT …

Russian flag
EU and UK blacklist Russia’s cyber operators over efforts to destabilize Europe

The EU and the UK jointly sanctioned dozens of Russian individuals and entities, accusing Moscow of coordinating a malicious cyber ecosystem targeting Europe, its member …

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Ransomware negotiator who betrayed clients sentenced to 70 months in prison

A former ransomware negotiator at incident response firm DigitalMint has been sentenced to 70 months in prison after admitting he shared confidential client information with …

Chip
A hardware security AI assistant that checks chips for hidden backdoors

Chip designers license blocks of circuitry from outside vendors and drop them into larger products. A single processor can carry components from a range of suppliers, each …

open source
The open source library holding up your stack might have one maintainer

Every serious software product runs on code that someone else wrote and released for free. A web service leans on a cryptography library, a data pipeline pulls in a parser, …

data request
Most data brokers won’t tell you what happened to your deletion request

Data brokers collect personal details on most adults in the United States and sell them to buyers that include employers, landlords, insurance companies, and government …

AWS
AWS gives its ERP agent deny-by-default rules and a separate identity

Accounts receivable teams at large companies spend hours each day matching incoming bank payments to invoices by hand. When those payments sit unmatched for days, cash flow …

arrest
5,811 arrests, $293 million seized over social engineering scams

Criminals who pose as police officers, romantic partners, and business suppliers have built fraud operations that reach across continents. A four-month enforcement campaign …

Search
Malicious AI agent skills can slip past the scanners built to stop them

Developers who build with AI coding agents grab capabilities off public marketplaces the same way they grab packages from npm or PyPI. The add-ons are called agent skills. …

GitHub
Open-source collaboration is growing worldwide and putting pressure on maintainers

Developers are pushing code and opening pull requests across economy borders at a rate GitHub has rarely seen. Outbound collaboration, the sum of git pushes and pull requests …

mobile
Messaging fraud trends point to smarter attacks, stronger blocking

Fraudsters spent 2025 investing in scale. New routes, new tools, and higher message volumes moved through the SMS, voice, and chat channels that businesses rely on to reach …

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A single malware file can outweigh an entire AI dataset

Antivirus vendors and security startups keep shipping AI features that promise to read malware the way a seasoned analyst would. The results inside security teams tell a …

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