Unknown attackers maintained long-term, covert access to South Korea’s diplomatic training infrastructure for nearly ten months, exposing personal data tied to almost the entire diplomatic cadre and highlighting structural weaknesses in the Foreign Ministry’s security governance. South Korea’s Ministry of…
AI Between Compliance and Data Protection: “A Ban or Ignoring It Often Just Leads to Shadow AI”
Artificial intelligence has long been part of everyday life in many companies. This is also true at G DATA CyberDefense. Employees use AI tools for emails, presentations, or research. At the same time, like other companies, we face the challenge…
Preparing for Q-day: Four steps to prepare your hybrid cloud today
The arrival of a cryptographically relevant quantum computer, often referred to as Q-day, is moving from a distant theoretical mathematical challenge to an urgent timeline that security teams must plan for today. Bad actors are already engaging in harvest now,…
Two-Thirds of Ransomware Victims Say AI Boosted Attack Effectiveness
A new study of organizations which have fallen victim to ransomware suggests the rise of AI-tools being used by hackers is making life harder for defenders This article has been indexed from www.infosecurity-magazine.com Read the original article: Two-Thirds of Ransomware…
Teen Drops Landmark Addiction Case Against Meta
Plaintiff, age 15, drops second Los Angeles state case after settling with TikTok, Google, Snap, with thousands of cases still pending This article has been indexed from Silicon UK Read the original article: Teen Drops Landmark Addiction Case Against Meta
1-15 July 2026 Cyber Attacks Timeline
85 confirmed cyber incidents shaped the first half of July 2026, with cyber crime accounting for more than three-quarters of all attacks. Malware — spanning RATs, infostealers, spyware, and backdoors — was the dominant weapon, involved in 37 of 85…
1-15 July 2026 Cyber Attacks Timeline Infographic
Cyber Crime dominated the first half of July 2026, driving 76.5% of all confirmed activity, with Malware the clear weapon of choice at 43.5% of attack techniques. Exploitation of public-facing applications (MITRE T1190) led initial access methods at 27.6%, while…
Axonius expands Asset Cloud with Cyber Assets and Exposures enhancements
Axonius has announced new capabilities across the Axonius Asset Cloud to better address asset intelligence and exposure management use cases. The enhancements make it easier than ever to address CMDB visibility gaps and respond to vulnerabilities, while extending asset intelligence…
IT Security News Hourly Summary 2026-07-23 09h : 8 posts
8 posts were published in the last hour 7:3 : Samsung In Talks To Invest In France’s Mistral AI 7:2 : New TrickBot Malware Variant Uses DNS Tunneling for Command-and-Control 7:2 : Talking smack about a doctor got him access…
Samsung In Talks To Invest In France’s Mistral AI
South Korean chip giant reportedly may invest €1bn in French AI start-up, as companies grapple with severe semiconductor shortage This article has been indexed from Silicon UK Read the original article: Samsung In Talks To Invest In France’s Mistral AI
New TrickBot Malware Variant Uses DNS Tunneling for Command-and-Control
A new TrickBot malware variant that significantly evolves its command-and-control (C2) communication by leveraging DNS tunneling, replacing the traditional HTTP-based mechanisms observed in earlier campaigns. The discovery highlights a continued shift among financially motivated threat actors toward stealthier communication channels…
Talking smack about a doctor got him access to private medical files
Who needs a working security badge when you know how to talk your way into the records room? This article has been indexed from www.theregister.com – Articles Read the original article: Talking smack about a doctor got him access to…
OpenAI Plans 3.2 GW Data Centre In Georgia
AI start-up says massive facility could cost more than $30bn to build, as it seeks to ramp up compute infrastructure This article has been indexed from Silicon UK Read the original article: OpenAI Plans 3.2 GW Data Centre In Georgia
26 Unauthenticated Vulnerability Advisories Expose Firewalls, VPNs, Switches, and Load Balancers
A structural risk in enterprise infrastructure: unauthenticated, remotely exploitable vulnerabilities embedded in the very devices designed to secure networks. In the 30 days ending July 17, 2026, 61 advisories across 14 vendors were disclosed, including six critical issues. However, the…
CISA Warns of Check Point Authentication Vulnerability Exploited in Attacks
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued an urgent warning about a critical authentication vulnerability in Check Point SmartConsole that is actively being exploited in the wild, prompting organizations to take immediate defensive action. Tracked as CVE-2026-16232,…
Shadow AI is becoming enterprise security’s biggest blind spot
Artificial intelligence has moved from experimentation to everyday business operations with remarkable speed. Employees are using it to summarize documents, draft communications, analyze spreadsheets, write code, build automations, and create AI-powered workflows across nearly every business function. Microsoft’s 2026 Work…
France Passes Social Media Ban For Under-15s
French parliament overwhelmingly approves fast-tracked law barring children under 15 from social platforms starting in September This article has been indexed from Silicon UK Read the original article: France Passes Social Media Ban For Under-15s
CISA Urges Organizations to Remove Rockwell PLCs From Direct Internet Exposure
CISA and partner agencies are directing U.S. critical infrastructure operators to immediately remove Rockwell and other programmable logic controllers (PLCs) from direct internet exposure and to hunt for Iranian-affiliated APT activity in OT environments aggressively. In a joint advisory first…
Critical RefluXFS Linux Kernel Flaw Lets Local Attackers Gain Root Access
A critical vulnerability in the Linux kernel, identified as CVE-2026-64600 and referred to as RefluXFS. This vulnerability enables an unprivileged local user to gain root access on systems that utilize reflink-enabled XFS filesystems. The flaw resides in the XFS copy-on-write…
Product Showcase: AppViewX Agent Identity Security
AI is multiplying enterprise identities as quantum computing reshapes the cryptographic trust that secures them, and enterprises need to solve both together. Traditional identity security was built for people with predictable, auditable access, not autonomous, short-lived agents that share credentials…
Critical Adobe Acrobat Chrome Extension Flaw “HermeticReader” Lets Hackers Hijack WhatsApp Chats of 300M+ Users
Guardio Labs has disclosed a critical vulnerability chain in the Adobe Acrobat Chrome extension that could allow a malicious website to hijack and exfiltrate rendered WhatsApp Web data from affected users. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2026-48294 and has impacted…
Anthropic Launches Claude Security Plugin to Scan Codebases for Vulnerabilities Before Commit
Anthropic has launched the Claude Security plugin for Claude Code in beta, enhancing its AI-assisted development platform with security scanning capabilities designed to identify vulnerabilities earlier in the software development lifecycle. The company stated that developers can scan code changes…
US Warns of Iranian Hackers Targeting Siemens, Schneider, and Rockwell ICS Devices
An updated advisory from federal agencies provides information on the techniques used to hack programmable logic controllers. The post US Warns of Iranian Hackers Targeting Siemens, Schneider, and Rockwell ICS Devices appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article has been indexed…
Multi-patch vulnerability fixes can leave open source exposed
Vulnerability management runs on a shorthand. A CVE shows a linked patch, someone applies it, and the ticket moves to closed. That shorthand covers most open source fixes. A share work in a different way, arriving as a run of…