As enterprises move AI models and agents into production, security teams are confronting risks that conventional application security tools were not designed to assess. Mindgard is building its business around that gap, raising $30 million in Series A funding to expand a platform that applies offensive security research and attacker behavior to identifying weaknesses in...Read More
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Criminal and state-aligned threat groups are testing frontier and open-weight AI models to develop new methods of attacking corporate IT networks. Attackers are using AI for a range of activities, enabling them to develop new exploits, accelerate attack speeds and maintain persistence through the abuse of legitimate tools, researchers from Accenture and Google Cloud said...Read More
When a Loveland resident received unsolicited child sexual abuse material in May, the report led to a four-month investigation and the arrest of a 23-year-old Georgia man last Wednesday, according to authorities. The Georgia man was arrested by the Glynn County Sheriff’s Office Wednesday after Loveland detectives determined the person sending the unsolicited child sexual...Read More
KITCHENER, Ont. – A 26-year-old Kitchener man has pleaded guilty to a widespread computer hacking conspiracy that resulted in the compromise of many U.S. organizations, the theft of billions of sensitive customer records and the extortion of numerous victims. “Connor Moucka (pictured) hacked over 150 companies and organizations, obtained extremely sensitive information, and extorted the...Read More
North Korean hackers have been exploiting a Windows zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2026-68820) to target defense-sector companies as part of the Operation Dream Job campaign. Microsoft addressed the flaw in this month’s Patch Tuesday security updates, marking it as actively exploited in the wild. Researchers found that the Lazarus threat group has been leveraging it since early...Read More
BRASILIA, Aug 12 : Brazil’s data protection authority ANPD ordered chat platform Discord to suspend livestreaming features within three business days, citing failures to protect children and teens from exposure to content promoting violence, self-harm and suicide. ANPD said Discord must prove compliance within three business days, and faces potential fines of up to 50...Read More
DARLINGTON COUNTY, SC (WMBF) – A cybersecurity incident is limiting some Darlington County services, but emergency services and the county’s ability to receive and dispatch 911 calls remain operational. The county said Wednesday that certain computer systems are affected and some services are operating at limited capacity. Some systems were proactively taken offline as part...Read More
Rourkela, Aug 12 (PTI) Five people were arrested by the Odisha Police as it busted an inter-state cybercrime racket, officials said on Wednesday. Acting on a complaint lodged at Udit Nagar police station on August 6, police first arrested Rourkela resident Jyotish Prasad Verma (29), alias Tilak Mahato, who was involved in the momo business....Read More
