Most security teams track their vulnerabilities carefully. Most get breached by them anyway. Vicarius, the vulnerability remediation platform provider, surveyed 300 IT and cybersecurity leaders for its 2026 State of Vulnerability Remediation report. It found that 79% experienced a security incident last year tied to a weakness already in their inventory, and how a team...Read More
When right-wing commentator and social media influencer Charlie Kirk was shot and killed on a university campus in September 2025, graphic videos of the assassination quickly spread online. Many of those images also landed in front of teenagers worldwide. In early 2026, our team at DIY: Digital Safety, a Western University-based research project that builds...Read More
Governments have reportedly begun banning ransomware payments to hackers as demand amounts continue to rise. That’s according to a report Monday (July 20) from the Financial Times (FT), which cites the example of the U.K.’s planned ban on ransomware payouts from public sector organizations and “critical national infrastructure groups.” According to the report, this proposal is happening...Read More
Turkish police have arrested 361 people in operations against cybercrime in the past two weeks, the country’s Interior Ministry reported on Monday. The authorities’ actions were carried out in 39 counties and were related to the detection of crimes such as fraud for financial gain, illegal gambling, and online child pornography. They detained 669 people,...Read More
Social psychologist Dr. Jonathan Haidt discusses Australia’s youth social media ban, highlighting the removal of 4.7 million underage accounts and weighing in on new research linking the restrictions to improved teen well-being. Social psychologist Dr. Jonathan Haidt explains how Australia’s youth social media ban has boosted family time by 30% and improved sleep and focus....Read More
The agentic operator documented as the first ransomware campaign run end-to-end by a large language model (LLM) has returned with a purpose-built locker designed to destroy trained AI model artifacts. According to new research from the Sysdig Threat Research Team (TRT) published one July 20, JadePuffer re-entered the same Langflow instance it hit in its earlier...Read More
Ernst & Young confirms breach via a third‑party IT service management platform, exposing client tax data between March 28 and April 12, 2026 Attackers accessed documents tied to tax support tickets; exact scope and affected clients remain undisclosed, with no dark web leaks or group claims so far EY activated incident response, secured systems, and...Read More
Arctic Wolf’s 2026 State of the Cybersecurity Attack Surface Report analyzes aggregated, anonymized data from more than 800,000 IT assets monitored through Aurora® Exposure Management. The findings reveal a common challenge across organizations of all sizes: fundamental security controls and asset visibility gaps remain widespread. One in Three Assets Is Missing a Critical Control The...Read More
Damage sustained during fighting between Thailand and Cambodia is pictured on the outside of an abandoned scam centre in O’Smach town on the Thai-Cambodian border on March 12, 2026, during a press trip organised by Thailand’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Royal Thai Army. Photo by AFP The death of a 22-year-old South Korean...Read More
French lawmakers are racing against the clock to reach a compromise that would allow a bill banning social media for children under 15 to possibly enter into force at the start of the new school year in September. With Parliament’s summer recess looming, time is running out. Seven members of the National Assembly and seven senators were...Read More
