A bug in Meta’s AI support chatbot reportedly enabled hackers to hijack more than 20,000 Instagram accounts, including several high-profile profiles, before the flaw was patched A few days back, hackers reportedly took over close to 20,255 Instagram accounts by persuading their way through Meta’s AI-powered support chatbot. Meta confirmed the incident in a notice...Read More
Quick Read CIBR surged 22% year-to-date versus SPY’s 8%, but nearly all the gain was compressed into a single month of AI-security earnings momentum. Fortinet and Palo Alto Networks drove the move, rising 82% and 48% YTD on earnings beats tied to accelerating AI-driven enterprise security demand. Palo Alto trades at roughly 196 times trailing...Read More
Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust (MSE), which is responsible for sites in Chelmsford, Basildon and Southend, is to contact an unspecified number of its patients whose personal data was stolen in the 2024 Qilin ransomware attack on NHS lab services partner Synnovis. The incident caused chaos across parts of the NHS, with...Read More
HYDERABAD: The ministry of home affairs is set to ease cybercrime reporting with the launch of a new Money Restoration Module (MRM) under the National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal. Developed through the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C), the initiative will allow victims of cyber fraud to file refund requests online and track restoration of...Read More
Microsoft has shut down a wave of its own repositories on GitHub, including those related to Azure and AI coding agents, as it investigates a data breach, according to research from cybersecurity researchers and a statement given to 404 Media by Microsoft. Hackers planted malware that would harvest peoples’ credentials when they opened it in...Read More
AIAC West Africa 2026, the leading regional conference and exhibition focused on Asset Integrity, Automation & Cybersecurity in the oil & gas industry, will take place from 09–10 June 2026 at The Civic Centre, Lagos, Nigeria. AIAC West Africa 2026 will bring together industry leaders, technical experts, operators, EPCs, solution providers, and technology innovators to...Read More
cyber-crime Scumbags, including a Qilin ransomware affiliate, began hitting this hole May 7 Check Point released an emergency fix on Monday for a critical authentication bypass vulnerability affecting its Remote Access VPN and Mobile Access deployments – but attackers, including ransomware criminals, got a month-long head start. Attacks against the bug, tracked as CVE-2026-50751, began...Read More
The NPCC National Cybercrime Team has announced the relaunch of a new and improved Police CyberAlarm (PCA) platform, marking a significant step forward in the UK’s efforts to tackle cybercrime and protect organisations from digital threats. Police CyberAlarm, a national policing capability hosted by the City of London Police, has supported businesses and organisations since...Read More
Attackers can chain three already fixed vulnerabilities in the Ubiquiti UniFi OS server to execute remote code with root privileges and without authentication. The security issues are tracked as CVE-2026-34908, CVE-2026-34909, and CVE-2026-34910. They have been addressed in May and impact UniFi OS Server versions 5.0.6 and earlier. While all three flaws received the maximum...Read More
The Government Accountability Office addressed interagency collaboration shortfalls in a new report focused on the Federal Electronic Health Record Modernization office, a joint Department of Defense and Department of Veterans Affairs office that is responsible for providing oversight on joint functions within the federal EHR. The GAO recommended that the DOD and VA direct...Read More
