Latest news as of 12/28/2025, 7:11:25 PM
The Register
Customers will be able to see vulnerabilities, prioritize risks, and close them with automated workflows. After over a week of speculation, ServiceNow announced on Tuesday that it has agreed to buy cybersecurity heavyweight Armis in a $7.75 billion deal that will see the workflow giant incorporate a real-time security intelligence feed into its products.…
Dark Reading
The latest cybersecurity acquisition will help further ServiceNow's plans for autonomous cybersecurity and building a security stack to proactively manage AI.
Dark Reading
Healthcare cyberattacks are on the rise, but industry organizations say the proposed changes to the security rules fall short of what's needed.
Bleeping Computer
The WebRAT malware is now being distributed through GitHub repositories that claim to host proof-of-concept exploits for recently disclosed vulnerabilities. [...]
Dark Reading
Interpol said law enforcement across 19 countries made 574 arrests and recovered $3 million, against a backdrop of spiraling cybercrime in the region, including business email compromise, digital extortion, and ransomware schemes.
Dark Reading
The tech giant has been beset by a deluge of state-sponsored North Korean operatives, showcasing the sheer scale of the IT worker scam problem.
The Register
Automaker's third security snafu in three years Thousands of Nissan customers are learning that some of their personal data was leaked after unauthorized access to a Red Hat-managed server, according to the Japanese automaker.…
The Register
Redmond gets in early for the twelve whoopsies of Christmas Microsoft has hustled out an out-of-band update to address a Message Queuing issue introduced by the December 2025 update.…
Graham Cluley
Is Santa Claus real? This Christmas special of The AI Fix podcast sets out to answer that question in the most sensible way possible: by consulting chatbots, Google's festive killjoys, and the laws of relativistic physics. Your hosts unwrap a festive grab-bag of AI absurdity as Waymo self-driving taxis run over a beloved San Francisco cat, then stage several fresh PR disasters by refusing to cross bridges, block holiday parades, and apparently chauffeur a man hiding in the trunk. Meanwhile, Microsoft’s Copilot struggles to find anyone who actually wants to use it, while new research suggests the programmers of the future won’t need coding skills at all - just the ability to psychologically profile an AI. All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of "The AI Fix" podcast by Graham Cluley and Mark Stockley.
The Hacker News
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered two malicious Google Chrome extensions with the same name and published by the same developer that come with capabilities to intercept traffic and capture user credentials. The extensions are advertised as a "multi-location network speed test plug-in" for developers and foreign trade personnel. Both the browser add-ons are available for download as of