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Romanian Man Extradited to US for Role in Hacking Scheme 17 Years Ago
Gavril Sandu, 53, was indicted in 2017, but was arrested and extradited to the United States only in 2026. The post Romanian Man Extradited to US for Role in...
Your AI Agents Are Already Inside the Perimeter. Do You Know What They're Doing?
Analysts recently confirmed what identity security teams have quietly feared: AI agents are being deployed faster than enterprises can govern them. In their ...
Intel 471 speeds threat hunting and remediation with Retroactive Threat Detections
Intel 471 has announced Retroactive Threat Detections (RTD), a new capability within its Verity471 platform. RTD helps security teams quickly understand the ...
Security’s Blind Spot: The Threats Hiding in “Low-Severity” Alerts
Security operations centers (SOCs) operate under a difficult reality where there are far more security alerts than human analysts available to investigate th...
Rowhammer Attack Against NVIDIA Chips
A new rowhammer attack gives complete control of NVIDIA CPUs. On Thursday, two research teams, working independently of each other, demonstrated attacks agai...
Extreme Networks introduces Agent ONE for autonomous enterprise networking
Extreme Networks has introduced Extreme Agent ONE, a new class of AI agents for enterprise networking. Moving beyond generic, prompt-based AI, Extreme Agent ...
UiPath adds agentic AI capabilities to Automation Suite for government agencies
UiPath has announced the release of agentic AI capabilities on UiPath Automation Suite. The Automation Suite updates help government agencies and regulated i...
CISA Launches ‘CI Fortify’ to Prepare Critical Infrastructure for Geopolitical Cyber Conflict
Agency issued guidance and calls on operators to build resilient OT environments capable of surviving extended isolation and cyber compromise. The post CISA ...
8×8 updates CX platform with AI, analytics, and frontline management capabilities
8×8 has released a set of platform updates to the 8×8 Platform for CX that target the operational gaps most commonly stalling organizations, including AI dep...
Proton Mail brings quantum-safe email encryption to all accounts
Post-quantum protection is now available as an optional feature in Proton Mail across all plans, including the free tier. How post-quantum protection works O...
Sophisticated Quasar Linux RAT Targets Software Developers
The persistent, evasive implant provides remote access, surveillance, and credential exfiltration capabilities. The post Sophisticated Quasar Linux RAT Targe...
Microsoft Edge Found Holding Saved Credentials in Plaintext Memory
Security researcher Tom Jøran Sønstebyseter Rønning, posting as @L1v1ng0ffTh3L4N, has revealed that Microsoft Edge decrypts every saved password at startup a...
Application Security Strategies Are Changing as AI-generated Code Floods the SDLC
AI-generated code is changing AppSec workflows, forcing teams to rethink SDLC security, dependency checks, code review, and risk prioritization.
Websites with an undefined trust level: avoiding the trap
We explain what suspicious websites are and how to distinguish a safe site from a fraudulent one. A new category in Kaspersky solutions: we're sharing global...
Poisoned truth: The quiet security threat inside enterprise AI
As enterprises rush to deploy internal LLMs, AI copilots, and autonomous agents, most security conversations focus on familiar threats: prompt injection, jai...
Train like you fight: Why cyber operations teams need no-notice drills
St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto recently executed a full Code Orange simulation: A mass casualty emergency protocol requiring the activation of every clini...
One in Eight Workers Has Sold Their Corporate Logins
Cifas says that 13% of employees admit selling company credentials to a former colleague
Windows Phone Link Exploited by CloudZ RAT to Steal Credentials and OTPs
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of an intrusion that involved the use of a CloudZ remote access tool (RAT) and a previous undocumented plugi...