Israeli cybersecurity startup Neo emerged from stealth on Monday with $100 million in funding, betting that the rapid adoption of AI agents is creating an entirely new category of enterprise security software. The financing consists of a $75 million Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz and Bessemer Venture Partners, with participation from Craft Ventures and...Read More
Busan police say agencies, reviewers and a software developer used stolen accounts and IP-masking tools to post nearly 29,000 fake reviews for about 700 businesses. Reviews on Naver; The Busan Metropolitan Police Agency’s cybercrime investigation unit uncovered a group that accepted payment to post fake online reviews for restaurants, hospitals and accommodation providers they had...Read More
CVE-2026-42533: Critical NGINX Bug Could Turn HTTP Requests Into Server Takeovers Pierluigi Paganini July 20, 2026 F5 fixes critical nginx flaw CVE-2026-42533 that can crash servers and, in some cases, allow remote code execution through crafted HTTP requests. F5 released patches for a critical nginx vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-42533 (CVSS score of 9.2), that can...Read More
Leeds-based digital security specialist Xentra has secured a £2.7m funding round. Xentra specialises in subscription-based managed cybersecurity, digital compliance, and safeguarding services. Through its “STAX” software bundles and centralised customer portal, the company simplifies the procurement and management of round-the-clock IT protection infrastructure. The Yorkshire firm currently works with over 90 enterprise and education clients,...Read More
Every time a major ransomware attack makes headlines, the same question resurfaces: Why can’t cybersecurity companies create a foolproof solution that prevents all malware, just as vaccines protect people from diseases? While the comparison is appealing, it overlooks a fundamental difference between biological viruses and digital threats. In cybersecurity, there is no such thing as...Read More
A global cybersecurity firm, Kaspersky, has weighed in on Malaysia’s newly tabled Cybercrimes Bill 2026, describing the legislation as a relevant reflection to the nation’s rapidly changing digital landscape and increasingly complex online threat environment. “When the Computer Crimes Act was first introduced in 1997, cybercrime largely centred on unauthorised access to computer systems, data...Read More
A solo Russian-speaking threat actor known as “bandcampro” outsourced a chunk of their operations to Google’s open-source Gemini CLI artificial intelligence (AI) and commandeered a live botnet. The findings come from an analysis of 200 Gemini CLI session logs between March 19 and April 21, 2026, which found the threat actor using AI, among other...Read More
ReliaQuest has entered into a partnership with OpenAI, joining the ChatGPT developer’s Daybreak Cyber Partner Program to expedite the use of AI in enterprise cyber defence. The agreement will provide ReliaQuest with technical collaboration opportunities and access to OpenAI’s cyber models. The company expects this arrangement to accelerate the development of AI-driven capabilities for identifying...Read More
KUALA LUMPUR, July 20 — A total of 8,014 charges related to online fraud crimes have been recorded as of May this year, surpassing the total of 6,140 charges throughout 2025, said Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi. He said the statistics showed that the threat of online fraud crimes was becoming...Read More
On 16 July, The Coca‑Cola Company announced that a dairy company it owns – fairlife, LLC – identified unauthorised access by a third party to a portion of its systems, including its production-related systems, in connection with a ransomware event. According to an announcement published on the fairlife website, after detecting the issue, the company...Read More
