Australians more concerned about privacy as trust in AI remains low, OAIC survey finds
A large majority of Australians say they are more concerned about privacy than they were five years ago, according to a new survey released by…
Month: May 2026
Out of the Crypt: The Evolving Cyber Extortion Economy
Extortion Activity No Longer Requires Encryption for Payment This blog dives into the growing trend of data theft and extortion activities which no longer require…
Employees are unknowingly inviting tech support impersonators into firms, says FBI
Nick Tausek, lead security automation architect at Swimlane, said the Silent Ransom Group’s attack strategy of leaning into trust says a lot about where extortion…
Critical RCE Vulnerability: log4j – CVE-2021-44228
Our team is investigating CVE-2021-44228, a critical vulnerability that’s affecting a Java logging package log4j which is used in a significant amount of software, including…
GPU mining malware spreads via SEO poisoning, AI chatbots
Threat actors are targeting systems with high-performance computers in an ongoing cryptojacking campaign spread through a coordinated SEO poisoning operation that also manipulated AI chatbot…
Hackers Use Grandoreiro Malware to Target Portuguese Banks and Latin American Companies
A banking trojan that has been quietly operating since 2016 is making headlines again. Grandoreiro, one of the most widespread banking malware strains globally, has…
ECB Urges Banks to Tackle AI Security Threats
This week the European Central Bank (ECB), which supervises about 111 of the eurozone’s largest banks, convened at an urgent meeting with major lenders to…
CISA Warns LiteSpeed cPanel Plugin Vulnerability Is Being Exploited in Attacks
CISA has issued an urgent warning after adding a critical vulnerability in the LiteSpeed cPanel Plugin to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, confirming active…
Iran’s Nimbus Manticore Used Trojanized Zoom Installers Against US Firms
If you installed Zoom from unofficial sites earlier this year, your device may have been exposed to malware linked to Iran’s Nimbus Manticore hackers. Check…
Google AI Threat Defense targets attackers using AI to find flaws faster
Google Cloud introduced AI Threat Defense, an automated cybersecurity platform that combines several of the company’s security assets to find, prioritize, and patch software vulnerabilities…
Malicious npm Package Stole Files From Claude AI User Directory via GitHub
Ravie LakshmananMay 27, 2026Threat Intelligence / Supply Chain Attack Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new malicious package on the npm registry that comes with information…
Glassworm botnet that targeted OS devs smashed to pieces
The Glassworm botnet that weaponised trusted developer tools and turned them on the open source community to poison hundreds of GitHub repositories with malicious code…