Latest news as of 4/22/2026, 8:36:56 AM
The Register
Gartner sees accelerating growth in IT spending, powered by cloud and AI infrastructure investment A day after the International Energy Agency (IEA) said the US/Israel/Iran war was creating the by the world, Gartner increased its growth forecasts for global IT spending by nearly three percentage points.… worst energy crisis ever faced
The Hacker News
A critical security vulnerability has been disclosed in a Python-based sandbox called Terrarium that could result in arbitrary code execution. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-5752, is rated 9.3 on the CVSS scoring system. "Sandbox escape vulnerability in Terrarium allows arbitrary code execution with root privileges on a host process via JavaScript prototype chain traversal," according to
The Hacker News
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new variant of a known malware called LOTUSLITE that's distributed via a theme related to India's banking sector. "The backdoor communicates with a dynamic DNS-based command-and-control server over HTTPS and supports remote shell access, file operations, and session management, indicating a continued espionage-focused capability set rather than
Bleeping Computer
Microsoft has released out-of-band (OOB) security updates to patch a critical ASP.NET Core privilege escalation vulnerability. [...]
Bleeping Computer
Over 1,300 Microsoft SharePoint servers exposed online remain unpatched against a spoofing vulnerability that was exploited as a zero-day and is still being abused in ongoing attacks. [...]
The Register
Mozilla CTO says AI means developers finally have a chance to get on top of security The Mozilla Foundation has revealed it tested Anthropic’s bug-finding “Mythos” AI model and feels the results it experienced represent a watershed moment for software defenders.…
Bleeping Computer
France Titres, the government agency in France for issuing and managince administrative documents has disclosed a data breach after a threat actor claimed the attack and stealing citizen data. [...]
The Register
NCSC boss says China's whole-of-state cyber machine has become Britain's peer competitor in cyberspace State-sponsored cyberattacks from Chinese intelligence and military agencies display "an eye-watering level of sophistication," UK National Cyber Security Centre CEO Richard Horne is expected to say in a less-than-cheery opening speech to kick off its annual conference.…
Dark Reading
A cautionary tale illustrates why the person negotiating should never be involved with any part of the ransom payment process, experts noted.
The Register
Lawmakers decry CISA cuts: 'We are shooting ourselves in the foot' If a cyberattack leads to a death, that's murder. A former FBI cyber division chief urged the US Justice Department to consider felony homicide charges against ransomware actors when attacks on hospitals lead to patient deaths.…