When European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen gives her State of the Union address in mid-September, the Brussels tech community will focus on her promised proposals to keep children safe. It’s the highest-profile tech dossier on her agenda, overshadowing both the bloc’s antitrust crackdown and artificial intelligence regulation.  What von der Leyen will announce remains unclear. She could call for a...Read More

WASHINGTON (TNND) — A former Facebook safety employee and whistleblower is criticizing Meta’s $18 billion settlement with dozens of states, arguing the agreement does not do enough to protect children and holds the company insufficiently accountable. Arturo Bejar, who previously worked at Facebook, spoke out just days after Meta agreed to the landmark deal resolving...Read More

The printer management software manufacturer PaperCut has issued an emergency notice warning that its PaperCut NG and MF programs are being actively exploited by threat actors. The company has released patches to fix the vulnerabilities, which have been identified as CVE-2026-82078 and CVE-2026-81578, and rated with a severity higher than 8.8 out of 10. “The...Read More

Authorities arrested more than 5,800 alleged cybercriminals and seized $293 million in a global operation targeting social-engineering scams and money laundering across 97 countries, Interpol said Thursday. The anti-fraud crackdown, dubbed Operation First Light, identified more than 142,000 victims, including people, businesses and governments, officials said.  “Social engineering scams continue to pose a significant threat...Read More

Here’s the kind of story that gives cold sweats to anyone who has ended up living in the cloud. A streamer going by the name Joshua Khane had his Microsoft account hacked, and the company’s response was to purely and simply delete that account – along with the twenty-five years of digital life stored inside...Read More

The U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, or ATF, says a cyberattack on one of its systems has been declared a “major incident,” a formal, legally defined classification that prompts a formal notification to lawmakers in Congress. ATF said in a statement that it’s responding to the cyberattack on a stand-alone system that’s...Read More

Summary On August 27, 2026, the notorious ransomware group Qilin claimed responsibility for a cyberattack on Globalport Terminals (globalports.com.ph), a leading business services organization in the Philippines. The attackers have threatened to release sensitive data if negotiations are not initiated. Incident Report Field Details Target Globalport Terminals Domain globalports.com.ph Country Philippines Attacking Group Qilin Date...Read More

The quartermaster model of hacking For a year prior to the takedown, Lumen’s Black Lotus Labs tracked QTFY as it functioned as a “quartermaster,” integrating reconnaissance, proxy orchestration, and operational routing into “a reusable service layer, enabling malicious actors to validate access routes and mask their activities using shared infrastructure.” “We were able to see...Read More

* VAST AI Operating System delivers native CrowdStrike Falcon support, integrating protection across AI infrastructure, enterprise data access and AI pipelines with VAST InsightEngine. London, UK – VAST Data, the AI Operating System company, and CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD) today announced new integrations that will bring enterprise-grade cybersecurity across the infrastructure, data and AI workloads supporting...Read More

Pistachio, an Oslo-based AI-powered human risk platform, today announced its IP acquisition of Hugin.io, a Norwegian cyber-risk management platform that helps growing businesses assess, manage and demonstrate their cybersecurity posture and regulatory compliance. With this acquisition, Pistachio aims to broaden its offering beyond human risk to compliance management, strengthening its proposition for SMBs and mid-market...Read More