[ad_1] The North Korean state-run Lazarus Group is running a new campaign known as “Mach-O Man” that turns routine business communication into a direct path to credential theft and data loss, security experts warned Wednesday. The collective, with cumulative loot estimated at $6.7 billion since 2017, is targeting fintech, cryptocurrency and other high-value executives and...Read More

[ad_1] This story was originally published on Social Media Today. To receive daily news and insights, subscribe to our free daily Social Media Today newsletter. Pew Research published a new report on how U.S. teens use social media apps and the benefits teens say they get from that usage. The report is based on survey...Read More

[ad_1] A group of unauthorized users reportedly has gained access to Anthropic’s controversial Claude Mythos Preview AI frontier model despite the AI vendor’s efforts to keep it out of public hands by limiting the organizations that can use it. Bloomberg reported that the unnamed group had tried multiple ways to gain access to the AI...Read More

[ad_1] Casablanca – The Executive Bureau of the Arab Cybersecurity Ministers Council held its third meeting on Tuesday via videoconference, bringing together representatives from member states along with Secretary-General Ibrahim Bin Saleh Al-Furaih. The meeting focused on a packed agenda and wrapped up with a set of decisions that will feed into the council’s third...Read More

[ad_1] Angelo Martino, a 41-year-old former ransomware negotiator at the incident response firm DigitalMint, has pleaded guilty to conspiring with the ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware gang to extort five U.S. companies whose data his employer had been hired to protect, the Department of Justice announced on Monday. Martino, of Land O’Lakes, Florida, is the third and final...Read More

[ad_1] Australia’s internet regulator on Wednesday asked online gaming platforms including Roblox and Microsoft’s Minecraft to spell out how they were protecting children from grooming by sexual predators and youth from radicalisation. The eSafety regulator said it had issued legally enforceable transparency notices to Roblox, Minecraft, Epic Games’ Fortnite and Valve’s Steam covering systems, staffing...Read More

[ad_1] When Manuel Santiago pleaded guilty to three counts of fourth-degree sexual assault and three counts of risk of injury to a child in Waterbury Superior Court on Jan. 8, 2025, Denise, his ex-girlfriend and mother to two of his victims, was told he would be released in May 2027. But in December 2025, she...Read More

[ad_1] Ransomware incidents in the UK dropped sharply in volume but successful compromises rose significantly year-on-year Attackers shifted to targeted, human-operated methods, with small businesses disproportionately affected compared to large enterprises Outdated “zombie tech” and undetected breaches fueled millions of attack attempts, while data theft replaced file encryption as the primary extortion tactic Last year,...Read More

[ad_1] Digital transformation across the Middle East has accelerated rapidly in recent years, and cybersecurity has followed close behind. Saudi Arabia is one of the region’s fastest-growing digital economies, driven by government programs such as Vision 2030 that are pushing everything from e-government services to fintech and smart infrastructure online. That transformation has created an enormous demand...Read More

[ad_1] Lovable’s recent security fumble just gave pro software engineers one more reason to be wary of vibe coding. Loading audio narration… On Monday, an X user called Lovable out and said that the Swedish AI-coding startup suffered a mass data breach “affecting every project created before November 2025.” The individual, who goes by the...Read More