AI Browsers ‘Too Risky For General Adoption,’ Gartner Warns
09
Dec
2025

AI Browsers ‘Too Risky For General Adoption,’ Gartner Warns

AI browsers may be innovative, but they’re “too risky for general adoption by most organizations,” Gartner warned in a recent…

CBA wants agents to initiate application modernisation
09
Dec
2025

CBA runs early test of “frontier” AWS AI agent

CBA has run an early non-production test of a ‘DevOps agent’ unveiled by AWS last week, which is marketed as…

Ransomware
09
Dec
2025

FinCEN says ransomware gangs extorted over $2.1B from 2022 to 2024

A new report by the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) shows that ransomware activity peaked in 2023 before falling in…

ChrimeraWire Trojan Fakes Chrome Activity to Manipulate Search Rankings
09
Dec
2025

ChrimeraWire Trojan Fakes Chrome Activity to Manipulate Search Rankings – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, Tech, AI, Crypto and More

A newly identified trojan called ChrimeraWire is being used to manipulate search engine rankings by simulating real user activity through…

IBM to buy Confluent in US$11bn deal
09
Dec
2025

IBM to buy Confluent in US$11bn deal

IBM will buy data infrastructure company Confluent in a deal valued at US$11 billion ($16.6 billion), ramping up its cloud-computing…

SonicWall customers warned about brute force attacks against cloud backup service
08
Dec
2025

Initial access brokers involved in more attacks, including on critical infrastructure

Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief:…

CISA Adds Critical React2Shell Vulnerability to KEV Catalog Following Active Exploitation
08
Dec
2025

CISA Adds Critical React2Shell Vulnerability to KEV Catalog Following Active Exploitation

A critical vulnerability affecting Meta React Server Components has been added to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, signalling widespread active…

Vocus seeks four new submarine cable protection zones
08
Dec
2025

Vocus seeks four new submarine cable protection zones

Vocus is lobbying the government to more than double the number of submarine cable protection zones in Australia and to…

Federal communications agency may bar Chinese telecoms firms from US networks
08
Dec
2025

Federal communications agency may bar Chinese telecoms firms from US networks

The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) said on Monday it may bar three major Chinese telecoms companies from connecting to…

Hackers Can Leverage Delivery Receipts on WhatsApp and Signal to Extract User Private Information
08
Dec
2025

Hackers Can Leverage Delivery Receipts on WhatsApp and Signal to Extract User Private Information

Security researchers have exposed a critical privacy flaw dubbed “Careless Whisper” that lets attackers monitor user activity on WhatsApp and…

Ransomware Payments Fell After Law Enforcement Actions
08
Dec
2025

Ransomware Payments Fell After Law Enforcement Actions

U.S. companies made more than $2 billion in ransomware payments between 2022 and 2024, nearly equaling the total ransoms paid…

DTA in push to drive up government cloud use
08
Dec
2025

DTA in push to drive up government cloud use

Federal government departments and agencies will be pushed to use more cloud services from July 2026 under a new whole-of-government…