Bidding war for defunct Spirit Airlines’ employee data will not die
The destiny of Spirit Airline’s data is still undecided, months after the company sought bankruptcy protection. AI data company Micro1 has now offered $12.5 million…
Month: September 2026
Once popular for attacking AI, ASCII smuggling is embraced by spammers
A clever technique used to hide malicious prompts in attacks on AI agents has been adopted by spammers to evade filters on email platforms that…
Dissecting Gartner’s CNAPP Market Guide – Key Takeaways
What differentiates CNAPP offerings? What value do these solutions deliver to security and development teams? How is the CNAPP landscape evolving, and which aspects should…
Streamlining ES|QL Query and Rule Validation: Integrating with GitHub CI
One of the amazing, recently premiered 8.11.0 features, is the Elasticsearch Query Language (ES|QL). As highlighted in an earlier post by Costin Leau, it’s a…
IDScan sued over alleged data breach affecting 153 million drivers
Multiple lawsuits have been filed against identity verification company IDScan after hackers allegedly breached the service and offered to sell more than 153 million driver’s…
Microsoft Unveils Project Zenith Windows PCs That Can Run 30B+ AI Models Locally
Microsoft has introduced Project Zenith, a new developer-optimized Windows 11 experience built for a class of high-memory PCs capable of running large AI models directly…
AI is finding vulnerabilities faster. Who is funding the people expected to fix them?
Artificial intelligence is changing vulnerability discovery. At OpenSSL, we are seeing that change first-hand. A year ago, our security address received around nine separate reports…
Hackers Turn HiveMQ and Element Messenger Into Control Channels for Windows Backdoors
The financially motivated threat actor Toy Ghouls has expanded its custom malware arsenal with two Windows backdoors that abuse HiveMQ’s public MQTT infrastructure and the…
Early Bird Registration For Black Hat Europe 2026 In London
Black Hat Europe returns to the Excel in London with a four-day program, Dec. 7-10. The event will open with two-and four-day options of specialized cybersecurity…
Microsoft Teams is about to make QR code phishing much harder
Microsoft is preparing a new feature for Teams users that will help them stay safe from QR code phishing. Teams will automatically hide QR codes…
X Money rollout linked to password-reset attacks
X says attackers may be targeting accounts because its X Money payments service is now more widely available. The company is investigating a wave of…
Phishing Campaign Sends Millions of Emails Using Invisible Unicode to Evade Filters
Microsoft is alerting of a “high-volume phishing campaign” that’s using invisible Unicode tag characters to bypass email filters. “Instead of using these characters to hide…