Latest news as of 5/19/2026, 1:33:55 PM
The Register
PLUS: Europol takes down two crime gangs; LastPass users phished (again); Crooks increase crypto hauls; And more The FBI is investigating a breach of its systems which reportedly affected systems related to wiretapping and surveillance.… Infosec In Brief
Bleeping Computer
Athanasios Rantos, the Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU), has issued a formal opinion suggesting that banks must immediately refund account holders affected by unauthorized transactions, even when it's their fault. [...]
Bleeping Computer
Threat actors are abusing the special-use ".arpa" domain and IPv6 reverse DNS in phishing campaigns that more easily evade domain reputation checks and email security gateways. [...]
The Register
Crims 'will do what gets them their objective easiest and fastest,' Microsoft threat intel boss tells The Reg AI agents allow cybercriminals and nation-state hackers to outsource the "janitorial-type work" needed to plan and carry out cyberattacks, according to Sherrod DeGrippo, Microsoft's GM of global threat intelligence. North Korea is taking advantage.… interview
Dark Reading
Fig Security's platform traces security data flows end-to-end across SIEMs, pipelines, and response systems to alert teams before infrastructure changes break critical defenses.
Dark Reading
Cylake's platform will analyze security data locally and identify potential attacks for organizations concerned about data sovereignty.
The Hacker News
OpenAI on Friday began rolling out Codex Security, an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered security agent that's designed to find, validate, and propose fixes for vulnerabilities. The feature is available in a research preview to ChatGPT Pro, Enterprise, Business, and Edu customers via the Codex web with free usage for the next month. "It builds deep context about your project to identify
Bleeping Computer
Ransomware threat actors tracked as Velvet Tempest are using the ClickFix technique and legitimate Windows utilities to deploy the DonutLoader malware and the CastleRAT backdoor. [...]
Bleeping Computer
Microsoft says threat actors are increasingly using artificial intelligence in their operations to accelerate attacks, scale malicious activity, and lower technical barriers across all aspects of a cyberattack. [...]
The Hacker News
Anthropic on Friday said it discovered 22 new security vulnerabilities in the Firefox web browser as part of a security partnership with Mozilla. Of these, 14 have been classified as high, seven have been classified as moderate, and one has been rated low in severity. The issues were addressed in Firefox 148, released late last month. The vulnerabilities were identified over a two-week period in