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FIFA 2026
Meta tries to get ahead of scammers before the World Cup begins

Football fans are counting down the days until the FIFA World Cup begins, and scammers are doing the same. Last week, the FBI warned that cybercriminals are spoofing FIFA …

alert
Brute-force attack triggers Dashlane account lockouts

Password manager Dashlane has confirmed that a brute-force attack targeting user accounts triggered temporary account suspensions and authentication issues. The company first …

AI
DNS-AID lets AI agents find and verify each other through DNS

AI agents run across many platforms, and each one needs a way to locate and confirm the identity of the others it works with. The Linux Foundation’s DNS-AID project …

Antonija Vojnović
EU organizations buckle under rising compliance pressure

Cybersecurity governance in the EU is shifting under expanding frameworks such as NIS2 and DORA, while AI raises new questions for security teams. What the future brings is …

Eye
Websites can spy on user activity by analyzing SSD behavior

Websites have spent years collecting information about visitors through browser fingerprinting, tracking scripts, and other techniques designed to identify devices and monitor …

Claude
Anthropic launches Claude Opus 4.8, prepares Mythos-class models for all customers

Anthropic has released Claude Opus 4.8 and outlined plans for broader access to its Mythos-class models, which the company expects to make available to all customers in the …

trojan
The behavioral signals that sharpen Trojan malware detection

Malware analysts spend a lot of time deciding which signals from a sandbox run are worth keeping. A sample executed in a controlled environment can generate hundreds of …

data breach
Cybercriminals sail away with data from 6 million Carnival customers

Carnival Corporation, one of the world’s largest cruise operators, confirmed a data breach weeks after the ShinyHunters hacking group claimed it had stolen millions of …

deepfake
OpenAI prepares ChatGPT for the election misinformation wave

AI-generated election misinformation could shape public opinion and influence the lives of millions of people. To address those risks, OpenAI outlined a series of safeguards …

FIFA 2026
A single typo could derail your World Cup plans

Cybercriminals are spoofing Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) websites ahead of the 2026 FIFA World Cup, the FBI warns. The attackers are registering …

chess
Oil shipments, drone makers, and a poisoned code library targeted in recent APT campaigns

Geopolitical pressure drove much of the state-sponsored cyber activity recorded between October 2025 and March 2026, according to ESET’s latest APT Activity Report. …

arrest
Police arrest suspect in Ajax football club hack that exposed 300,000 fan records

The Dutch National Police arrested a man suspected of hacking into the computer systems of AFC Ajax, a football club from Amsterdam. “On the morning of Tuesday, May 26, …

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