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Researchers say hackers using the Akira ransomware strain may be exploiting the vulnerability en masse.

What scientists thought were squid fossils were actually arrow worms.

San Francisco, Calif., Aug. 1, 2025, CyberNewswire—Comp AI, an emerging player in the compliance automation space, today announced it has secured $2.6 million in pre-seed funding to accelerate its mission of transforming how companies achieve compliance with critical frameworks like SOC 2 and HIPAA. The funding round was co-led by OSS Capital and Grand Ventures,

Industries and trade partners scramble ahead of July 9 Deadline

interos.ai Risk Intelligence Summit is back after a sold-out event in 2024. After a sold-out inaugural summit last year, we are excited to announce that the in

Author: Teddy DeWitt, PhD, Lead Computational Social Scientist  Recession Fears Linger Amidst Consumer Pessimism and Tariff Uncertainty  The U.S. economy ma

Author: Dr. Andrea Little Limbago, SVP, Applied AI  We are at a rare moment in history, one where an industrial revolution, an information revolution, and

72% of surveyed CFOs anticipated the North American economy would improve this year, according to Deloitte’s fourth quarter North American CFO Signals Survey.

Geopolitical shocks, trade wars, tariff policies, cyber threats and compounding supplier disruptions mean today’s supply chain challenges demand more than awa

OpenAI is reportedly working on a new plan called 'Go,' which would be cheaper than the existing $20 Plus subscription.

The flaw, disclosed a month after it was patched, provided an attacker with remote code execution privileges by poisoning the data ingested by the model.

Unit 42 said social engineering — the method of choice for groups as diverse as Scattered Spider and North Korean tech workers — was the top initial attack vector over the past year.

SonicWall firewall devices have been increasingly targeted since late July in a surge of Akira ransomware attacks, potentially exploiting a previously unknown security vulnerability, according to cybersecurity company Arctic Wolf.

An Ohio man lost $27,000 after an Apple ID scam text hit his phone. The strangest part? It happened at his doorstep.

Critical flaw in Cursor AI editor let attackers execute remote code via Slack and GitHub—fixed in v1.3 update.

Hackers have leaked flight records allegedly belonging to the CEO of the Russian airline Aeroflot following a major cyberattack that grounded flights.

Meta backs Pwn2Own Ireland 2025 in Cork, offering up to $1M for WhatsApp exploits; targets include phones and wearables.

Pi-hole, a popular network-level ad-blocker, has disclosed that donor names and email addresses were exposed through a security vulnerability in the GiveWP WordPress donation plugin.

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Researchers said an unidentified hacker demanded a ransom after an intrusion linked to the SharePoint flaw.

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Proton annonce le lancement de Proton Authenticator, un logiciel pour smartphone et pour ordinateur pour gérer ses codes pour la double authentification. L'outil vient challenger les ténors du genre, comme Google Authenticator. Avoir un mot de passe d'excellente qualité et unique par service, c'est bien. Utiliser un

Dans une étude publiée le 31 juillet 2025 et menée auprès de plus de 1 500 entreprises à travers le monde, la société américaine Semperis révèle que 78 % des entreprises interrogées ont été la cible d’une tentative de ransomware au cours de l’année écoulée. Parmi les victimes d'une attaque réussie, 40 % déclarent

This week on the Lock and Code podcast, we revisit an interview with Joseph Cox about the largest FBI sting operation ever carried out.

VPN use is skyrocketing across the UK as the region's Online Safety Act places age verification controls on adult websites.

OpenAI removed a short-lived experiment that allowed ChatGPT users to make their conversations discoverable by search engines

The U.S. alleged the company knowingly sold genetic-sequencing systems with software vulnerabilities to federal agencies.

A vulnerability that researchers call CurXecute is present in almost all versions of the AI-powered code editor Cursor, and can be exploited to execute remote code with developer privileges.

Hackers used fake Microsoft OAuth apps to target 3,000+ accounts across 900 environments in 2025.

The accusation, the latest from Beijing, says U.S. intelligence agencies attacked two Chinese military enterprises.