UK privacy watchdog probes Grok over AI-generated sexual images
The United Kingdom’s data protection authority launched a formal investigation into X and its Irish subsidiary over reports that the Grok AI assistant was used…
Month: February 2026
PDFly Variant Uses Custom PyInstaller Modification, Forcing Analysts to Reverse-Engineer Decryption
A new variant of the PDFly malware has emerged with advanced techniques that challenge traditional analysis methods. The malware uses a modified PyInstaller executable that…
Critical Flaws in KiloView Devices Enable Complete Admin Takeover
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has disclosed a critical vulnerability affecting multiple versions of KiloView Encoder Series devices, warning that unauthenticated attackers could…
Meet Moltbook, the Social Platform Where AI Agents Talk and Humans Watch – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, AI, and More
A strange new corner of the internet has emerged that looks like Reddit, but with a twist: humans are strictly there to watch. Known as…
Download: Tines Voice of Security 2026 report
Security teams everywhere are adopting AI. Yet manual work persists, workloads are rising, and burnout continues to climb. To understand what’s really changing, Tines surveyed…
Why the UK needs to rethink the Investigatory Powers Act and allow intercept evidence in court
The Investigatory Powers Act 2016 (IPA 2016), now 10 years’ old, is seriously out of date. It provides the main legal framework within which the…
French Authorities Raid X Office Following Cybercrime Allegations
French authorities raided the Paris headquarters of Elon Musk’s social media platform X today, escalating a year-old cybercrime probe into alleged algorithmic manipulation and illicit…
APT28 Exploits Active Microsoft Office Zero-Day to Deliver Malware
The Russia-linked advanced persistent threat group APT28 has been observed actively exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft Office to deliver malware through a sophisticated multi-stage…
What is Autonomous Penetration Testing and How Does it Work?
Everything you always wanted to know about penetration testing but were afraid to ask can be found in a widely popular blog post from BreachLock, a leading vendor…
Notepad++ supply chain attack: Researchers reveal details, IoCs, targets
Rapid7 researchers have attributed the recent hijacking of the Notepad++ update mechanism to Lotus Blossom (aka Billbug), a Chinese state-sponsored group known for targeting organizations…
VMware vSphere 8 end-of-support challenges
Organisations using vSphere 8 have until October 2027 to migrate to vSphere 9 before product support ends, with additional costs needing to be considered beyond…
French prosecutors raid X offices, summon Musk over Grok deepfakes
French prosecutors have raided X’s offices in Paris on Tuesday as part of a criminal investigation into the platform’s Grok AI tool, widely used to…