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The hacker group ShinyHunters has been on a tear this year, having compromised several organizations and leaking the information of those that refused to pay up. The latest data breach involves Charter Communications, which offers consumers and businesses broadband internet services through its Spectrum brand. The intrusion into Charter’s
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* FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center warned of at least 35 spoofed FIFA websites designed to steal personal and financial data from fans * Fraudsters mimic legitimate domains with subtle spelling or TLD changes * Officials advise typing FIFA’s URL directly, or avoiding sponsored search results Hackers spoofing FIFA has gotten
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Catherine Ledner/Getty Images ByEdward Graham, Managing Editor, Nextgov/FCW May 29, 2026 01:10 PM ET U.S. Central Command said it “has received multiple threat reports concerning adversary exploitation of commercial location data to target or surveil U.S. personnel in theater.” * Telecom * Defense * Congress * Cyber Threats Foreign
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Organizations using Claude Mythos have discovered thousands of vulnerabilities in the first month of security testing under Project Glasswing, per an announcement from Anthropic last week. The project, initially announced on April 7, granted preview access of Mythos to about 50 organizations, including Apple, Google, JPMorgan Chase, the Linux Foundation
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After a security researcher published a series of unpatched bugs in Microsoft products, along with code to exploit them, the company is now threatening to take legal action and call the cops on them. Microsoft’s veiled threat reignites a long-running argument over what responsibility, if any, security researchers have
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As AI applications become more complex, teams need models that can handle longer-running work, reason more deeply across complex analysis use tools more reliably across multi-step workflows, and support consistency for production workflows. Claude Opus 4.8 is designed for these demands, with stronger performance across software development, agents, document-heavy
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Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways * Lightwell is a huge effort to safeguard open-source software. * IBM and Red Hat are investing in this massive security initiative. * We don't yet know how this subscription-based service will work. AI is a
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SecurityWeek’s weekly cybersecurity news roundup offers a concise overview of important developments that may not receive full standalone coverage but remain relevant to the broader threat landscape. This curated summary highlights key stories across vulnerability disclosures, emerging attack methods, policy updates, industry reports, and other noteworthy events to help
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* CISA issued an alert on ongoing supply chain attacks abusing GitHub repos via a malicious Nx Console VSCode extension and the Megalodon campaign * Threat actors stole CI/CD secrets, cloud credentials, and tokens by poisoning workflows, prompting CISA to urge audits of contributor activity and workflow files * Recommended mitigations include
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Welcome to the second Cloud CISO Perspectives for May 2026. Today, Usman Chaudhary, Field CISO, Google Public Sector, offers a guide for CISOs protecting government agencies and critical infrastructure on how to get started — and get the most out of — defending with AI. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the
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The recognition of a homegrown quantum-safe cryptographic algorithm by the Data Security Council of India (DSCI) may appear, at first glance, to be a niche achievement relevant only to cryptographers. In reality, it could represent something much larger. As governments, banks, defence agencies, and critical infrastructure operators prepare for the
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* Carnival confirmed its April ransomware attack affected 5,995,277 people * Stolen data included names, birth dates, genders, membership details * ShinyHunters leaked the data after failed ransom talks Carnival Corporation, the world’s largest cruise company, said it began notifying people affected by the April ransomware attack, pinning the number
