House panel poised to hold hearing centered on AI impact on cyber
A House subcommittee will hold an open hearing next week on how frontier artificial intelligence models are shaping the cybersecurity landscape, for good and for…
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Zapier fixes bug chain that researchers say risked widespread account takeover
Security researchers chained together five separate weaknesses in the popular workflow automation service Zapier that, if first discovered by a malicious actor, could have granted…
UK spy chief labels AI ‘unstoppable force’ with offensive, defensive ramifications for cyberspace
Artificial intelligence is an “unstoppable force” that allows tech to be “weaponized just below the threshold of traditional warfare,” including in cyberspace, the head of…
FBI warns US-based law firms to be on the lookout for cybercrime group that steals data in person
Silent Ransom Group, a long-running data extortion operation, continues to hit U.S.-based law firms by impersonating IT support and, in some cases, visiting victims in…
OpenAI heralds cybersecurity, election interference safeguard plans for 2026 midterms
OpenAI on Wednesday hailed its plans to safeguard information and aid cybersecurity defenders in the 2026 midterm elections, including work to combat deepfakes and other…
CrowdStrike disrupts Glassworm botnet that preyed on open-source supply chain
CrowdStrike has dismantled the Glassworm botnet in an operation aided by Google and Shadowserver, stripping the operators’ access to infrastructure that helped threat actors infect…
White House charts new course for federal agencies and cybersecurity logging
The White House has updated rules for federal agencies to keep logs of significant cyber activities in their networks, touting it as a measure to…
Apple open-sources quantum-resistant encryption code
Apple has released quantum-resistant cryptographic code and the mathematical verification tools it developed to prove the code’s correctness, making them publicly available for independent review…
Anthropic: Mythos finds more than 10,000 software flaws in first month
Anthropic said its month-old Project Glasswing initiative has uncovered more than 10,000 high- or critical-severity software vulnerabilities across systemically important code, a finding the company…
FBI warns about fast-growing phishing kit targeting Microsoft 365 users
The FBI is warning organizations and defenders about Kali365, a growing phishing-as-a-service platform that retrieves Microsoft 365 access tokens, issuing a public service announcement Thursday. …
European authorities take down prolific cybercrime VPN service
European authorities took down a prominent virtual private network service and arrested the alleged administrator behind an operation that cybercriminals used to steal data, commit…
CISA chief frets about open-source vulnerabilities, delayed security improvements
Securing some of the open-source technology that serves as the backbone for all modern digital infrastructure is going to require some “hard decisions” amid a…