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Hackers hijacked CPUID downloads, served STX RAT to victims

If you tried to download software from CPUID’s website late last week, you might have downloaded malware instead. “Investigations are still ongoing, but it appears …

crypto scams
$12 million frozen, 20,000 victims identified in crypto scam crackdown

More than $12 million has been frozen, and over 20,000 victims have been identified in an international law enforcement operation targeting cryptocurrency and investment …

Rockstar Games
Rockstar Games receives “pay or leak” warning after cyberattack

Rockstar Games, the developer behind titles such as Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption, has confirmed a cyberattack claimed by hacking group ShinyHunters, which says it …

Google Pixel 10
Google makes it harder to exploit Pixel 10 modem firmware

Google is working to improve the security of Pixel phones by focusing on the cellular baseband modem, a part of the device that handles communication with mobile networks and …

Adobe Reader
Adobe issues emergency fix for Acrobat Reader flaw exploited in the wild (CVE-2026-34621)

Adobe has pushed out an emergency security update for Adobe Acrobat Reader, patching a zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2026-34621) exploited in the wild since November 2025. About …

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Seized VerifTools servers expose 915,655 fake IDs, 8 arrested

On April 7 and 8, Dutch police arrested eight suspects in a nationwide operation targeting users of the VerifTools platform as part of an identity fraud investigation. The …

Art Manion
Fixing vulnerability data quality requires fixing the architecture first

In this Help Net Security interview, Art Manion, Deputy Director at Tharros, examines why vulnerability data across repositories stays inconsistent and hard to trust. The …

ZeroID
ZeroID: Open-source identity platform for autonomous AI agents

ZeroID is an open-source identity platform that implements an identity and credentialing layer specifically for autonomous agents and multi-agent systems. The attribution …

MITRE
MITRE releases a shared fraud-cyber framework built from real attack data

Financial fraud losses in the United States reached $16.6 billion in 2024, up from $4.2 billion in 2020. Behind those numbers is a structural problem: the teams responsible …

GlobalSign
Why manual certificate management is running out of time

In this video, John Murray, Senior Vice President of Sales at GlobalSign, explains what’s changing in the certificate industry and what companies need to do about it. …

Archit Lohokare
Bringing governance and visibility to machine and AI identities

In this Help Net Security interview, Archit Lohokare, CEO of AppViewX, explains how the rise of AI marked a turning point where machine and AI agent identities began …

Linux
The fully free Linux OS Trisquel gets a major update with version 12.0 Ecne

Trisquel GNU/Linux, a free operating system aimed at home users, small enterprises, and educational centers, released version 12.0. The release, codenamed Ecne, is declared …

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