Teaching cybersecurity by letting students break things
Cybersecurity students show higher engagement when the work feels tangible. A new study from Airbus Cybersecurity and Dauphine University describes what happens when courses move…
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AsyncRAT and the Misuse of Cloudflare Free-Tier Infrastructure: Detection and Analysis
Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a sophisticated AsyncRAT campaign exploiting Cloudflare’s free-tier services and TryCloudflare tunneling domains to evade detection while delivering remote access trojan payloads…
What insurers expect from cyber risk in 2026
Technology shifts, policy decisions, and attacker behavior are changing at the same time, and their effects increasingly overlap. Insurers, brokers, and security teams are feeling…
CISA Alerts on Actively Exploited Gogs Path Traversal Flaw
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a critical vulnerability in Gogs, a self-hosted Git service, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, warning…
New WhatsApp Scam Hijacks Accounts Without Stealing Passwords
Security researchers at Avast have uncovered a new WhatsApp takeover scam that does not rely on stolen passwords, broken encryption or SIM-swapping. Instead, it tricks…
Online shopping scams cost Hongkongers HK$14 million in first week of 2026
Internet fraudsters tricked more than 270 Hong Kong residents out of nearly HK$14 million (US$1.8 million) through online shopping scams in the first week of…
Google’s Mandiant releases free Salesforce access control checker
Google-owned security vendor Mandiant has released an open-source command line tool which aims to help organisations identify potentially catastrophic access control misconfigurations in their Salesforce…
Aussie teenager charged with swatting US retailers and educational institutions
The Australian Federal Police said a NSW teenager has been charged with making multiple hoax calls to major education and retail institutions in the United…
Spanish police disrupt Black Axe, arrest alleged leaders in action spanning four cities
Authorities arrested 34 alleged cybercriminals in Spain, including some leaders of Black Axe, a transnational criminal organization responsible for adversary-in-the-middle scams such as business email…
Hacker gets seven years for breaching Rotterdam and Antwerp ports
The Amsterdam Court of Appeal sentenced a 44-year-old Dutch national to seven years in prison for multiple crimes, including computer hacking and attempted extortion. The man…
Minnesota Sues to Stop ICE ‘Invasion’
The State of Minnesota and the cites of Minneapolis and St. Paul on Monday filed a sweeping federal lawsuit to halt what they call an…
Russian BlueDelta (Fancy Bear) Uses PDFs to Steal Logins in Just 2 Seconds – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, AI, and More
Recent findings from the research firm Recorded Future’s Insikt Group reveal that it only takes two seconds of distraction for a professional’s private data to…