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FIFA 2026
Free, no-signup World Cup streams serve scams instead of football

Researchers at Malwarebytes identified dozens of websites claiming to offer free access to FIFA World Cup matches. Instead of streaming games, the sites directed visitors …

danger
Only 7% of companies are ready for the AI agents they deployed

Most organizations now run or pilot AI agents that operate on company data with limited human direction at each step, a share that reaches 88% in Veeam Software’s Data …

clawhub
23 ClawHub plugins squatting official scopes expose AI registry security gaps

Plugin registries for AI agents use npm-style scopes like @openclaw/ and @clawhub/ to signal who published a package. But on ClawHub, a registry whose plugins run with Claude, …

Jaya Baloo
Who pays when you gate cyber-capable AI models?

In this interview with Help Net Security, Jaya Baloo, COO & CISO at Aisle, examines the debate over restricting access to cyber-capable AI models. She lays out the …

Agent Beacon
Agent Beacon: Open-source telemetry layer for AI agents

AI coding agents such as Claude Code, Codex CLI, Cursor, and Claude Cowork run on developer laptops, CI jobs, cloud environments, where they edit files, run commands, and call …

inspect
Encrypted DNS still tells an eavesdropper where to look

Encrypted DNS runs across much of the Internet. DNS over TLS, HTTPS, and QUIC keep the contents of a query away from anyone watching a network link. The encryption covers the …

Avira Mobile Security
Product showcase: Avira Security for iOS blends security, privacy, and device optimization

Avira Mobile Security for iOS combines security, privacy, and device optimization tools in a single application. The app is also available for Android, macOS, and Windows …

AI
Hundreds of AI-powered iOS apps found exposing credentials

Mobile app developers are packing AI features into everything from writing assistants to productivity tools and lifestyle apps. New research shows that securing access to …

systemd
The systemd 261 release brings a software TPM, new OS installer

Linux distributions that ship systemd as their init system now have a new version to track. The systemd 261 update adds a cloud metadata subsystem, carries process state …

cybersecurity week in review
Week in review: 74k Fortinet firewall credentials stolen, Splunk Enterprise RCE under active attack

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: A hardware neural network backdoor that hides in plain sight Deep learning …

klue salesforce
Klue breach lead to Salesforce data theft, Huntress affected

Cybersecurity vendor Huntress was among multiple companies hit by a breach originating at Klue, a market intelligence platform used to integrate CRM and sales data across …

cybercrime
Cybercriminals abused GitHub, YouTube and VirusTotal to push crypto-stealing malware

A cryptocurrency-stealing malware campaign used inflated GitHub activity, software reviews, YouTube tutorials and favorable VirusTotal comments to make malicious trading and …

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