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AI
With open-weight AI, more of the security burden falls on enterprises

Organizations that run open-weight AI models on their own infrastructure may have to supply safety and security controls that an AI provider would otherwise handle for them, …

Phishing
Hackers disguise phishing as promising business opportunities

Attackers are breaking into business email accounts with short messages asking whether a company can quote on an upcoming project, the kind of request sales and procurement …

fraud
Scammers clone candidates’ voices to steal cash and voter data ahead of 2026 midterms, FBI warns

Three weeks before Americans vote in the 2026 midterm election, fraudsters are borrowing candidate names, logos and slogans to collect fake donations and harvest personal …

malware
Fake Arch Linux AUR packages exploit typos to run malware with root privileges

Arch Linux users who mistyped yay or paru while installing the package helpers from the Arch User Repository (AUR) may have given a stranger root access to their machine. AUR …

malware
KGB RAT trojan packs webcam spying, password theft and a “fun” menu to terrorize victims

A Windows trojan advertised on hacking forums for as little as $150 a month promises buyers access to a victim’s webcam, microphone, keystrokes and saved passwords, and comes …

vulnerability
CISA flags exploited flaws in Palo Alto, Cisco and Ahsay products

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added four new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog: CVE-2026-0322, a …

North Korea
FBI raids 40+ laptop farms helping North Korea pocket US tech salaries

North Korean IT workers used stolen and fabricated identities to land remote jobs at more than 70 US companies, with help from Americans who allegedly kept company-issued …

attack
Phase Eight, Hobbs and Whistles owner joins growing list of fashion retailers targeted by hackers

People who have shopped with Phase Eight, Hobbs or Whistles will have to wait to find out whether their personal information was exposed in a cyberattack on the company behind …

espionage
OpenAI engineer arrested for allegedly trying to eavesdrop on executive meetings

A recording device wrapped in toilet paper and plugged into the back of a television in an executive conference room at OpenAI’s San Francisco office has led to the arrest of …

Data center
Ukrainian drones hit Yandex data centers, sparking claims that Russian troll farms went quiet

Russian tech giant Yandex confirmed that drones hit three of its data centers, shutting down the facilities in Sasovo and Vladimir and knocking out part of the infrastructure …

GitLab
GitLab admins urged to patch critical RCE flaw (CVE-2026-97229)

GitLab is urging users of self-managed instances to patch a critical vulnerability (CVE-2026-97229) in its CI/CD Regular Expression Compiler that could allow remote attackers …

cloud
Most high-severity cloud security findings are downgraded once an AI agent checks the environment

Cloud security platforms turn every failed rule into a finding, and those findings pile up in queues sorted by severity. Research from Sola Security tested what happens to …

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