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Database backups likely stolen, potentially exposing donor, supporter, and service user details Beacon CRM has confirmed it was hit by a cyberattack that exposed data belonging to a growing list of UK charities. The company, which markets its software to charities and has more than 1,500 customers, said its
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* ZeroBEC observes Greatness PhaaS evolving to bypass MFA and phish Microsoft 365, iCloud, Yahoo, and Google Workspace accounts * Attackers spoofed RingCentral emails post‑ShinyHunters breach, luring victims to fake Microsoft 365 logins that capture authentication tokens * Greatness is sold on Telegram for $289/month, enabling access to Outlook, Teams, SharePoint,
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* On August 4, users in Russia reported widespread disruptions to 20+ VPNs * The attack targets the IPs and entire subnets of major hosting providers * On August 5, connectivity appeared to have been restored for some Citizens attempting to bypass Russia's stringent digital censorship are facing fresh obstacles, as
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Cyberspace is now the fourth domain of military conflict. Geopolitics can be summarized as the behavior of a country or region influenced by its location in time (history and current events), and space (geographical proximity to other countries or regions). Those geopolitical actions are also influenced by the state of
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The combination of sophisticated attacks and increasingly complex deployments makes achieving cybersecurity and establishing centralized visibility greater challenges than ever. Organizations generate unprecedented volumes of security telemetry across disparate environments. Security teams often struggle with the quantity of information, and fragmented visibility across tools, cloud environments and endpoints leaves dangerous
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Cybersecurity executives are already familiar with the idea of phishing prevention. For years, CISOs have trained staff to be suspicious of and resistant to old-school social engineering attacks, in which attackers use fake emails or texts that seem to come from executives, managers, vendors, partners or customers. Some organizations use
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Organizations must rethink long-held assumptions about patch management and change how they prioritize, remediate and manage cyber-risk, especially in the age of AI. Since 2019, the average time between vulnerability disclosure and confirmed exploitation has collapsed from months and weeks to mere hours. CISOs and their teams have far less
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Organizations that take cybersecurity seriously conduct risk assessments to determine policies, practices and controls. Often, however, security teams keep the actual assessments to themselves, with their findings failing to reach a broader audience. "A lot of times things communicated downstream are mistranslated; they get proxied through multiple layers of
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Uppsala Security, a Singapore-based blockchain intelligence and crypto forensics company, announced today that it has joined the Cyber Threat Alliance (CTA) as an Affiliate Member, becoming the first blockchain intelligence company to join the alliance. CTA is a nonprofit organization that brings cybersecurity organizations together to share actionable threat intelligence,
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Lifespan Physician Group of Massachusetts, doing business as Brown Health Medical Group-MA, is notifying over 311,000 individuals that their personal, medical, and financial information was stolen in a data breach. The incident occurred in December 2025 at its Hawthorn location. It involved a historic file server, the healthcare organization
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* Aikido researchers uncovers ChainDrop, a Shai‑Hulud variant infecting 1,300+ npm packages with an infostealer * Attackers compromised GitHub accounts tied to popular libraries (Keyv, Cacheable, flat‑cache, file‑entry‑cache) and pushed tainted releases with 2B monthly downloads * Malware exfiltrates developer/cloud credentials and secrets to a public GitHub
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The Linux Foundation has issued a Request for Comments on a newly proposed framework aimed at standardizing how the cybersecurity industry handles agentic AI incidents. Announced at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas, the Shared AI Findings Exchange (SAFE) guidelines seek to turn AI security incidents and near misses
