Bot Defense Is No Longer Optional for High Tempo Consumer Platforms
The need to deal with bots is not new, though we’re seeing a surge in automated activity across the web at the moment, creating a…
Month: May 2026
Fake Disk Cleanup Apps Fuel New macOS ClickFix Attack
A wave of ClickFix-style social engineering attacks that specifically target macOS users, using fake disk cleanup and system utility tips hosted on popular content platforms.…
Google Fixes CVSS 10 Gemini CLI Vulnerability Enabling GitHub Issue-Based RCE
A major security vulnerability recently put Google’s official Gemini-cli repository and its associated GitHub Actions at risk of a total takeover. Researchers at the firm…
vm2 Node.js Library Vulnerabilities Enable Sandbox Escape and Arbitrary Code Execution
Ravie LakshmananMay 07, 2026Vulnerability / Software Security A dozen critical security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in the vm2 Node.js library that could be exploited by…
UK High Court dismisses facial-recognition judicial review case
The UK High Court has dismissed a judicial review case against the Metropolitan Police’s use of live facial-recognition (LFR) technology, ruling there are sufficient constraints…
Qld gov says students, staff caught in Canvas cyber incident
The Queensland government says that students and staff working or studying at state schools since 2020 may have been caught up in a breach of…
Romanian Man Extradited to US for Role in Hacking Scheme 17 Years Ago
A Romanian national was recently extradited to the United States for his role in a cybercrime scheme carried out 17 years ago, the Justice Department…
Taiwan High-Speed Rail Emergency Braking Hack: How a Student Stopped the Trains and Exposed a Major Security Gap
Taiwan High-Speed Rail Emergency Braking Hack: How a Student Stopped the Trains and Exposed a Major Security Gap Pierluigi Paganini May 06, 2026 Taiwan high‑speed…
NIST will test three major tech firms’ frontier AI models for cybersecurity risks
After Anthropic’s announcement of Claude Mythos, agencies across the government are racing to get ahead of new AI models’ potential dangers. Source link
A critical Palo Alto PAN-OS zero-day is being exploited in the wild
Attackers are actively exploiting a zero-day vulnerability affecting some Palo Alto Networks’ customers’ firewalls, the security vendor said in an advisory Tuesday. The critical memory…
Threat Brief: Exploitation of PAN-OS Captive Portal Zero-Day for Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution
Executive Summary On May 6, 2026, Palo Alto Networks released a security advisory for CVE-2026-0300, identifying a buffer overflow vulnerability in the User-ID Authentication Portal…
Train like you fight: Why cyber operations teams need no-notice drills
Why the brain undermines the playbook Under genuine threat stimulus, the human nervous system does not behave the way a tabletop exercise assumes it will.…