Researchers track surge in high-level Smishing Triad activity
Researchers have uncovered a long-running phishing campaign that uses text messages to trick victims, and it’s both bigger and more complex than previously thought. The…
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Open letter calls for prohibition on superintelligent AI, highlighting growing mainstream concern
An open letter released Wednesday has called for a ban on the development of artificial intelligence systems considered to be “superintelligent” until there is broad…
US ‘slipping’ on cybersecurity, annual Cyberspace Solarium Commission report concludes
The Trump administration should reverse cyber personnel and budget cuts, strengthen the Office of the National Cyber Director and expand federal workforce initiatives, the successor…
Researchers uncover remote code execution flaw in abandoned Rust code library
Security specialists at Edera discovered and disclosed a high-severity vulnerability in an early and since-abandoned code for an open-source async tar archive library for the…
Robocalling task force bill advances in Senate
The federal government is shut down and the House remains out of session, but work in the Senate continues, as a bipartisan bill designed to…
Veeam acquires Securiti AI for $1.7 billion
Veeam announced Tuesday it agreed to acquire Securiti AI for $1.725 billion, marking the data protection company’s largest acquisition and its entry into the artificial…
Dataminr to acquire cybersecurity firm ThreatConnect for $290 million
Dataminr, a New York-based company specializing in real-time threat intelligence, announced plans Tuesday to acquire ThreatConnect, a cybersecurity threat intelligence provider, for $290 million. The…
Apple and Google challenged by parents’ rights coalition on youth privacy protections
A nonprofit organization has filed a formal complaint with the Federal Trade Commission, claiming Google’s business practices around children and teenagers violates U.S. privacy laws…
China’s spy agency accuses NSA of yearslong attack on the country’s timekeeping service
China’s Ministry of State Security accused the National Security Agency of conducting a yearslong attack on China’s national timekeeping infrastructure to steal sensitive data and…
Judge forbids NSO Group from targeting WhatsApp users
WhatsApp has won a ruling against spyware maker NSO Group forbidding it from targeting its users, while NSO Group in the same ruling got a…
Behind the struggle for control of the CVE program
On April 16, less than a month after nonprofit R&D organization MITRE celebrated the 25th anniversary of the Common Vulnerability and Exposures (CVE) effort, the…
Europol dismantles cybercrime network linked to $5.8M in financial losses
European law enforcement dismantled and seized an expansive cybercrime operation used to facilitate phishing attacks via mobile networks for fraud, including account intrusions, credential and…