Four Million Malware Reports Reveal a Widespread No-DNS C2 Blind Spot
A long‑running supply chain compromise of the QuickFox VPN accelerator that quietly delivered an FDMTP backdoor to carefully profiled Windows systems, exposing a major blind…
Month: August 2026
New Research: The Confidence Gap Between CISOs and Their Boards Is Real, and It’s Measurable
Las Vegas, United States, August 5th, 2026, CyberNewswire Pulse Security AI calls for boards and security leaders to define cyber risk appetite in new report:…
History of Hacking: The ILOVEYOU Computer Worm
“ILOVEYOU“, sometimes referred to as the Love Bug or Loveletter, was a computer worm that infected tens of millions of Windows computers following its release…
Tenable broadens AI visibility across major LLMs and AI tools
Tenable has announced enhanced AI security capabilities within the Tenable One Exposure Management Platform. Tenable One AI Exposure now delivers expanded platform coverage with support…
Google’s synchronized passkeys can be stolen in ‘Pass‑ta‑key’ attacks
Passkeys were supposed to make stolen passwords a thing of the past. No password to phish, no secret to reuse, and no string of characters…
New OVSwrap Linux Kernel Flaw Lets Local Users Gain Root via Open vSwitch
A memory corruption flaw in the Linux kernel’s Open vSwitch datapath gives ordinary local users a path to root on a broad set of default-configured…
Chi Onwurah pushes to curb digital twins of real people
Chi Onwurah, chair of the Science, Technology and Innovation Select Committee, has said she is bringing a bill to Parliament to stop companies from developing…
Secure Cloud Foundation For AI: A Guide For Enterprises
Amarbir Singh, Senior Director – AI & Cloud Solutions, AHEAD Building a secure cloud foundation for AI has become a top priority as enterprises move…
iTnews Executive Retreat – Security Leaders Edition
Security leaders operate in one of the most demanding roles in technology. Between navigating an evolving threat landscape, managing organisational risk and leading high-performing teams,…
New Attack Methods Enable Malware to Hijack Passkey-Protected Accounts
Palo Alto Networks researchers have disclosed the details of new attack methods targeting passwordless authentication, showing how malware can hijack a passkey-protected account. Passkeys are…
AI is getting better at election facts, but voters shouldn’t rely on it
Like seemingly everything else these days, artificial intelligence will re-shape the way voters gather information on candidates running in the 2026 midterm elections. In some…
One C2 kit. 30 customers. 2 governments
I was mapping the command-and-control infrastructure behind a state-linked intrusion set when the query came back and effectively ended the exercise I thought I was…