Iran-nexus APT Dust Specter targets Iraq officials with new malware
Iran-nexus APT Dust Specter targets Iraq officials with new malware Pierluigi Paganini March 06, 2026 A campaign by Iran-linked group Dust Specter is targeting Iraqi…
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Ransomware is now less about malware and more about impersonation
Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Identity has replaced malware as…
Cisco reveals 2 max-severity defects in firewall management software
Cisco released information on a pair of max-severity vulnerabilities in its firewall management software Wednesday that unauthenticated, remote attackers could exploit to obtain the highest…
Microsoft 365 Backup to add file-level restore for faster recovery
Microsoft will soon begin rolling out a significant upgrade to Microsoft 365 Backup to speed up recovery by allowing administrators to restore individual files and…
Claude AI Uncovers 22 Firefox Vulnerabilities in Two Weeks
Artificial intelligence models are rapidly evolving from simple coding assistants into highly capable, autonomous vulnerability researchers. Recently, Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.6 demonstrated this by uncovering…
How Vulnerable Are Computers to an 80-Year-Old Spy Technique? Congress Wants Answers
Computers leak secrets. Not just through invasive ad tracking, data-stealing malware, and your ill-advised oversharing on social media, but through physics. The movements of a…
AWS-LC Flaw Exposes Amazon Users to Attacks by Bypassing Certificate Chain Validation
Amazon issued a critical security bulletin (2026-005-AWS) detailing three high-severity vulnerabilities in AWS-LC, its open-source cryptographic library. Discovered through a coordinated disclosure process with the…
PleaseFix Flaw Lets Hackers Access 1Password Vault via Comet AI Browser
A significant security gap has been closed in the Comet AI browser created by Perplexity. Following a detailed investigation, researchers at Zenity Labs discovered a…
March 2026 Patch Tuesday forecast: Is AI security an oxymoron?
Developers and analysts are using more AI tools to produce code and to test both the performance and security of the finished products. They are…
Pentagon ditches Anthropic AI over “security risk” and OpenAI takes over
On Friday the US Pentagon cut ties with Anthropic, the company behind Claude AI. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth designated the San Francisco-based company a “supply-chain…
Iran-Linked MuddyWater Hackers Target U.S. Networks With New Dindoor Backdoor
New research from Broadcom’s Symantec and Carbon Black Threat Hunter Team has discovered evidence of an Iranian hacking group embedding itself in several U.S. companies’…
Norway braced for foreign AI cyber attacks on vital petroleum computing
Norway is braced for cyber attacks on its vital petroleum industry, after reports by its three national intelligence agencies identified “persistent and serious” threats from…