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Akira Ransomware Affiliate Rebooted Into Safe Mode to Dodge EDR and Broke Its Own Attack
An affiliate of the Akira ransomware operation attempted a novel technique to blind endpoint defences during a recent intrusion, rebooting a compromised…
Forescout Launches Rapid Insight Assessment to Uncover Hidden Cyber Risks
Forescout has launched a new Rapid Insight Assessment designed to help organisations uncover hidden assets, network blind spots, and security exposures as…
UK Cyber Attacks Jump 26% Year-on-Year as Ransomware Activity Doubles Globally
UK organisations were hit by an average of 1,597 cyber attacks per week each in July 2026, a 26% increase year-on-year, according to new data from Check…
Margarita Howard’s HX5 Operationalizes CMMC Compliance Before AI Rules Arrive
Margarita Howard has spent two decades running a company in a government contracting market where the rules rarely hold still. HX5, the defense and…
Blockchain and AI: Why Trusted Data Matters
The internet has crossed a threshold that content teams can no longer ignore. Independent analysis of tens of thousands of web pages found that mostly…
Vega Introduces Detection Skills, The New Open Standard for AI Reasoning in Agentic Cyber Defense
Vega, the pioneer of Agentic Cyber Defense, today launched Detection Skills: an open standard that redefines security operations for the AI era. The…
Q&A: Ransomware is now a ‘fully fledged industry’, says cybercrime journalist Geoff White
Cybercrime no longer divides neatly between lone hackers, organised gangs and state-backed operations. These groups exchange tactics and tools, while…
Margarita Howard’s HX5 Operationalizes CMMC Compliance Before AI Rules Arrive
Margarita Howard has spent two decades running a company in a government contracting market where the rules rarely hold still. HX5, the defense and…
Blockchain and AI: Why Trusted Data Matters
The internet has crossed a threshold that content teams can no longer ignore. Independent analysis of tens of thousands of web pages found that mostly…
Mac Malware Found Draining Crypto Wallets After Fake CAPTCHA Trick
Researchers at Huntress have uncovered a strain of macOS malware that can gradually siphon funds out of victims’ cryptocurrency wallets, after tracing an…
Kill switch fears now rival ransomware as a top security risk for European businesses, Proton study finds
For years, the security team’s job has been to defend against cyberattacks. New research from Proton suggests that job now needs to extend to a very…
Salt Security Launches Industry-First AWS WAF Managed Ruleset for AI Agents and API Protection
Salt Security has unveiled what it says is the industry’s first AWS WAF managed ruleset designed specifically to protect both APIs and AI agents,…
Hackers Smuggle Post-Exploitation Toolkit Into Oracle Database Via Classic SQL Injection Flaw
A SQL injection vulnerability that many organisations might consider a decades-old, well-understood threat has been used as the entry point for a far more…
TP-Link Zero-Touch Provisioning Flaws Could Expose Enterprise Networks, Warns Forescout
Forescout Vedere Labs research has uncovered 15 previously unknown vulnerabilities affecting TP-Link’s Omada Zero-Touch Provisioning (ZTP) ecosystem,…
Fake Bank of America Phishing Emails Found Delivering Disguised ScreenConnect RAT via UAC Bypass
Researchers at Huntress have identified an active phishing campaign impersonating Bank of America that culminates in the covert installation of a remote…
When AI Agents Meet Real Infrastructure: Hype, Human Error or a Genuine New Threat?
Just days after OpenAI disclosed that one of its security research agents had escaped a testing sandbox by exploiting a previously unknown vulnerability,…
Check Point Named a Visionary Leader in 2026 Frost Radar for Enterprise Risk Mitigation and Management Platforms
Check Point has been named a Visionary Leader in Frost & Sullivan’s Frost Radar: Enterprise Risk Mitigation and Management Platforms, 2026 report, and…
AI pentesting tools are generating more findings than security teams can validate, new survey finds
New research from Pentest-Tools.com suggests that AI-assisted penetration testing tools are generating vulnerability findings faster than most security…
Huntress Makes RMM-Blocking Feature Free for All Customers as Attacks Surge 277%
Cybersecurity vendor Huntress has opened up a new application control capability to its entire customer base for free, as new data shows attacks abusing…