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You wake up to headlines: a dam valve in Norway opened for hours after intruders fiddled with digital controls; in Poland, a major city narrowly avoids having its water cut off by a cyberattack. No one was hurt. Water kept flowing. But the message couldn’t be clearer: the systems that keep water safe and reliable…
If you think money mules in 2025 are still hiding behind basic VPNs, think again. In the Middle East, Turkey, and Africa (the META region), mule operators have leveled up. They’re mixing digital deception with physical logistics in a way that feels more like a supply chain than a scam. And they’re getting fast, adaptive,…
If a 22-year-old in Oregon can help knock one of the world’s biggest social platforms offline, what does that say about the internet’s defenses? And more importantly, what can you do to stay safe when the next wave hits? Federal authorities have taken down one of the most aggressive DDoS-for-hire services in recent years, charging…
If a friendly AI chatbot greeted you on a big brand’s website and seemed a bit too helpful, would you notice when it quietly handed your session cookie to an attacker? That’s the chilling lesson from a critical security flaw in Lenovo’s AI chatbot, “Lena,” where a single prompt could inject malicious code, exfiltrate session…
If you’ve ever scanned a QR code to log in faster, view an invoice, or reset a password, you’re not alone. QR codes are frictionless. They feel safe. And that’s exactly why attackers love them. Security researchers at Barracuda Networks just spotlighted a new wave of QR code phishing—often called “quishing”—that uses clever image tricks…
If you’ve ever wished you could clone your best security analyst, give them an army of specialized assistants, and let them work around the clock—CAI comes eerily close. Cybersecurity AI (CAI) is an open-source, lightweight framework that lets you build, test, and deploy AI agents for both offensive and defensive security tasks. It’s already in…
If you’re wondering whether your data is safe in the cloud, the Allianz Life breach is a wake-up call. A July cyber-attack exposed personal information tied to about 1.1 million customers, according to new data added to Have I Been Pwned. The incident targeted a cloud-based customer relationship management (CRM) system and appears to be…
If you’ve been following the long, messy fight over encryption, this update will make you pause: the UK has reportedly retreated from a push to force Apple to enable access to encrypted iCloud data. The twist? According to the U.S. government, Washington stepped in — and London blinked. Here’s why that matters. The decision doesn’t…
Picture this: a “producer” from a well-known celebrity podcast emails to invite you on their show. They say your story is exactly what their audience needs—and there’s a $2,000 honorarium for your time. You accept. Before the recording, they ask for a quick “tech check” and send a link to “ensure your camera and audio…
If you’ve been watching the rise of AIOps with equal parts excitement and anxiety, here’s a plot twist: your logs can lie to your AI. New research from RSAC Labs and George Mason University shows how attackers can poison application telemetry—logs, metrics, traces, and alerts—to trick LLM-driven AIOps agents into taking harmful actions. We’re not…
