Securing our future: July 2026 progress report on Microsoft’s Secure Future Initiative
Microsoft’s latest Secure Future Initiative report outlines progress on secure foundations, AI-powered defense, and future-ready cybersecurity. The post Secu...
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Top 10 Best Social Engineering Testing Companies in 2026
In the fast-evolving digital landscape of 2026, an organization’s most sophisticated technological defenses can be rendered useless by a single click from a ...
Microsoft Warns New 'GigaWiper' Malware Combines Espionage and Destructive Capabilities
A new multi-purpose backdoor allows cyber threat actors to conduct both quiet espionage activity and destructive wiping operations
Microsoft uncovers GigaWiper, a backdoor designed for destruction on demand
Microsoft is warning defenders about a new backdoor that blurs the line between espionage malware and wipers. In a technical analysis published on Thursday, ...
GigaWiper Merges Three Malware Families Into One Destructive Backdoor
Microsoft uncovered GigaWiper, a modular Go backdoor combining three malware families with espionage, remote control, and destructive wiping features. In Oct...
GigaWiper: Anatomy of a destructive backdoor assembled from multiple malware
GigaWiper is a destructive backdoor that combines multiple wiping and ransomware-like capabilities into a single operational platform. This blog analyzes how...
UK Government Rolls Out Agentic AI Defense Plan Alongside Industry Pledge
Two announcements on July 7, 2026, demonstrate the government’s determination to improve the level of cybersecurity within the UK. The post UK Government Rol...
GodDamn Ransomware Attack Uses PsExec Lateral Movement and NirSoft Toolkit for Credential Theft
A targeted GodDamn ransomware incident shows the payload is not entirely new but the latest rebrand of a long-running family. Analysis reveals strong code ov...
UK cyber agency unveils AI-powered Cyber Shield to counter attacks at machine speed
The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) wants to deploy autonomous AI agents capable of finding and neutralizing cyberattacks on national networks in ...
AI Attacks Move in Minutes. Join This Webinar on Building a Defense That Keeps Up
AI has changed how fast attacks move. Work that once took an attacker days now takes minutes.
GodDamn Ransomware Uses PoisonX Driver to Disable Endpoint Defenses
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new ransomware family called GodDamn that employs the PoisonX kernel driver to neutralize security software as part ...
Qualys Joins Chainguard Athena: Turning Coalition-Scale Findings Into Validated Action
Qualys is proud to have joined Athena, the industry coalition Chainguard launched to coordinate the defense of open source software. It’s a cause we strongly...
Taiwan charges two businessmen over alleged role in Chinese espionage campaign
A company based in Taiwan was leasing out accounts on the popular LINE messaging app to Chinese spies, according to prosecutors, who charged two men in the a...
Here's what our industry learned the past 90 days since the Mythos announcement
AI will continue to accelerate, but resilience, speed, and proactive defense will stay ahead as this new era unfolds.
Webinar Today: Why Email Security Keeps Failing
Join the webinar as we break down why email-layer defenses alone can’t keep pace with the modern phishing ecosystem. The post Webinar Today: Why Email Securi...
ESET Threat Report H1 2026 Highlights Malicious AI Skills, ClickFix Surge, and EDR Killers
ESET’s H1 2026 threat report shows attackers accelerating the use of familiar playbooks with AI-flavored lures, social engineering, and defense evasion rathe...
NCSC Touts National Scale, AI-Powered “Cyber Shield” for Defense
The National Cyber Security Centre wants to work with AI partners to build a new “Cyber Shield” to defend the UK
CISA Deploys Anthropic’s Mythos AI to Hunt Vulnerabilities in U.S. Government Code
CISA is using Anthropic’s Mythos AI to scan federal code for vulnerabilities, aiming to find flaws before hackers and foreign intelligence services. Three so...
Your edge infrastructure has no witness
AI exposes edge security gaps where visibility, not detection, is the missing defense.
CISA Reportedly Using Anthropic’s Mythos to Scan Government Software for Flaws
The audits are reportedly being spearheaded by CISA’s Attack Surface Evaluation team, a specialized unit tasked with conducting digital defense assessments a...