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Dark Reading
Artificial intelligence notwithstanding, the vast majority of CISOs in northern Europe say they're facing no more serious cyberattacks than they did two years ago.
The Register
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Graham Cluley
CISA, the US government agency whose entire job is keeping America's critical infrastructure safe from hackers, has had a contractor publish dozens of plain-text credentials to a public GitHub profile. Meanwhile, your Oura ring is quietly transmitting some of its data unencrypted - and when one journalist asked the company how often it hands user data to law enforcement, the answer was quite telling. Plus don't miss our featured interview with OPSWAT's Benny Czarny about his new book "Cybersecurity Upside Down." All this and more in episode 469 of the "Smashing Security" podcast with cybersecurity expert and keynote speaker Graham Cluley, and special guest Lesley Carhart.
The Hacker News
Most organizations still picture cyber defense as a fortress problem: build stronger walls, add more guards, buy another detection engine. But modern incidents rarely crash through the front gate. They drift in disguised as routine activity, hide inside legitimate processes, and quietly accumulate risk long before anyone labels them an "incident." That changes the role of the SOC entirely. The
The Hacker News
CrowdStrike, in partnership with Google and the Shadowserver Foundation, has announced the simultaneous disruption of all command-and-control (C2) channels associated with GlassWorm, a persistent software chain campaign targeting software developers through malicious packages and extensions. "Since at least early 2025, GlassWorm operators have systematically targeted software developers, a
The Hacker News
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new malicious package on the npm registry that comes with information stealing capabilities. According to OX Security, the package, named "mouse5212-super-formatter," is designed to upload files from "/mnt/user-data," a dedicated directory used by Anthropic's Claude artificial intelligence (AI) tool to handle uploads and outputs in the background. The
The Hacker News
Latin America and Europe become the target of two banking trojan campaigns that are designed to infect Windows and Android devices with Grandoreiro and BTMOB malware, respectively. That's according to new findings from WatchGuard and ESET, which have observed the two malware families being used to single out companies in Spain, Portugal, and Mexico, as well as mobile users in Brazil. The
Dark Reading
Every company needs an agentic AI strategy, but the tools to allow agentic AI frameworks to be safely and securely adopted are just starting to appear.
Dark Reading
The cybersecurity industry of 2006 barely resembled today's billion-dollar behemoth. As part of Dark Reading's 20th anniversary celebration, we trace the industry's evolution through a technology lens.
Dark Reading
Attackers are using AI to dramatically reduce the time they need to develop a working exploit for a CVE, according to new research.