Botnet operator behind $14 million in ransomware extortion payments gets 24 months behind bars
A Russian national has been sentenced to 24 months in prison after admitting he managed a botnet used to launch ransomware attacks against dozens of…
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Gemini picks up criminal activity buried in dark web noise
To help teams make faster and more accurate decisions on emerging threats, Google has introduced a dark web intelligence capability in Google Threat Intelligence. Powered…
Codenotary introduces AgentX for autonomous Linux infrastructure security
Codenotary has announced the availability of AgentX, an autonomous platform designed to manage, secure, and protect large-scale Linux infrastructure in the cloud or on-premises through…
The AI safety conversation is focused on the wrong layer
Organizations have spent years accumulating fragmented identity systems: too many roles, too many credentials, too many disconnected tools. For a workforce of humans, that fragmentation…
Uncle Sam closes the door on all new foreign-made routers
The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has imposed a ban on all new routers manufactured overseas being imported into and sold within the United States.…
Novee introduces autonomous AI red teaming to hunt LLM vulnerabilities
Novee today introduced AI Red Teaming for LLM Applications for its AI penetration testing platform, designed to uncover security vulnerabilities in LLM-powered applications before attackers…
Measuring security performance in real-time, not once a quarter
Most organizations have invested heavily in security products over the past decade. The assumption embedded in that spending is that more tools equal better protection.…
Top must-visit companies at RSAC 2026
RSAC 2026 Conference is taking place at the Moscone Center in San Francisco March 23 – 26. With hundreds of booths, countless product demos, and…
The devices winning the race to get hacked in 2026
Enterprise networks keep adding connected devices, expanding the attack surface as threat actors target a wider range of systems, many of which are difficult to…
Quantum threats are already active and the defense response remains fragmented
Enterprises are moving toward post-quantum security at uneven speeds, and the gap between organizations that have built crypto-agility into their infrastructure and those that have…
Oracle issues emergency fix for pre-auth RCE in Identity Manager (CVE-2026-21992)
Oracle has released an out-of-band patch for a critical and easily exploitable vulnerability (CVE-2026-21992) in Oracle Identity Manager and Oracle Web Services Manager. The company…
Plumber: Open-source scanner of GitLab CI/CD pipelines for compliance gaps
GitLab CI/CD pipelines often accumulate configuration decisions that drift from security baselines over time. Container images get pinned to mutable tags, branches lose protection settings,…