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Proofpoint to buy Varonis for $6.3 billion
The deal pairs the email security giant's massive threat intelligence with Varonis' visibility into corporate data, as both companies race to secure the AI agents…
Federal bankruptcy courts dealing with outages after contractor cyberattack
The incident, which involved a government contractor, has halted all production of bankruptcy notices.
AI Slop Isn’t Just for Social Media; It’s Ruining Cyberattacks, Too
Don't buy the hype! AI has been dumbing down cyberattacks, and serious threat actors are barely touching it.
Hackers exploit Collabora RCE flaw to backdoor Nextcloud servers
Threat actors are exploiting a critical command execution flaw, now tracked as CVE-2026-110447, in the Collabora Online - Built-in CODE Server app (richdocumentscode) for Nextcloud.
Android gets AI defenses against messaging scams, fake calls
Google announced new AI-powered defenses against scam messages and call-forwarding abuse on Android, currently rolling out to eligible devices.
The next election influence campaign will target your AI chatbot
Someone is seeding the internet with hyperlocal content about political races. Researchers say it’s designed to train AI chatbots to favor candidates across a broad…
Hackers hijack D-Link, Ubiquiti devices to resell your stolen bandwidth
A proxyjacking campaign has impacted devices in 34 countries, monetizing victims' internet connections through a commercial residential proxy network.
The Q3 Vulnerability Pulse: Discovery ≠ Exploitation
Is the cybersecurity world really facing a "Bugmageddon?" Thor breaks down the latest CVE and KEV trends in the latest Threat Source newsletter.
Context Is King in the Fight Against Modern Cyberattacks
Contextual defense helps security teams connect the signals, anticipate what comes next, and stop threats before they escalate.
Fake Arch Linux packages push malware with root privileges
A threat actor uploaded malicious packages to the Arch User Repository (AUR) that impersonated two popular helper tools, yay and paru.
Measuring Human Cryptanalysis Effort
Matthew Green has a new site that tries to estimate the number of cryptanalyst-hours that have been spent analyzing different public-key algorithms: Abstract: We estimate…
Vulnerability Management Isn’t About the Score — It’s About How It Applies to You
Organizations need to move away from vendor-assigned, theoretical scores toward real exploit data specific to their environments.
Is AI pentesting as good as a human pentester?
AI pentesting can uncover vulnerabilities missed by human testers, but it also has limitations in consistency, risk assessment, and understanding business context. Intruder compares the…
Suspected Kazakhstan-linked hackers target governments across former Soviet states
A roughly 2-year-old cyber-espionage campaign against Central Asian states appears to originate in Kazakhstan, researchers said.
Microsoft: Windows Server 2022 reached end of mainstream support
Microsoft announced that Windows Server 2022 has reached the end of mainstream support and will remain in extended support until October 2031.