Dutch police disrupts botnet composed of 17 million devices
The Dutch National Police and the country’s National Cyber Security Center (NCSC) have taken offline 200 servers controlling a botnet of 17 million devices, the law …
New infostealer reaches enterprise devices through FortiClient EMS vulnerability
Attackers are delivering a broad-spectrum infostealer to enterprise computers by exploiting a known vulnerability (CVE-2026-35616) in FortiClient Enterprise Management Server …
Websites can spy on user activity by analyzing SSD behavior
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LinkedIn-themed phishing abuses Adobe’s A/B testing platform
A newly documented phishing campaign is targeting professionals with fake LinkedIn business emails and abusing a trusted service operated by Adobe. The attack from the …
Microsoft 365 Copilot redesign brings context and actions into one workspace
Microsoft 365 Copilot, an AI assistant that helps people write, summarize, analyze information, and complete work tasks, has been redesigned. It now serves as a single, …
Anthropic launches Claude Opus 4.8, prepares Mythos-class models for all customers
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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 …
Product showcase: TotalAV helps iOS users clean up their digital mess
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Building a risk-based vulnerability management program that scales
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New infosec products of the month: May 2026
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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 …
Microsoft’s Copilot trust test: Zero findings, more models, wider oversight
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