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Federal agencies disrupted the attack but were direct about what comes next. These five router security steps are the responsibility of individual owners. 5 min read For years, a unit of Russia's military intelligence agency quietly turned ordinary home routers into tools of espionage. The GRU group known
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Law enforcement in the Netherlands has dismantled a massive global botnet that hijacked more than 17 million consumer devices worldwide. The coordinated strike targeted 200 command-and-control servers physically hosted within Dutch borders, cutting off a sprawling infrastructure used to mask major cybercriminal operations. The joint operation, executed by the Cybercrime
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Threat actors are exploiting a critical-severity Windows Netlogon vulnerability for remote code execution, Centre for Cybersecurity Belgium (CCB) warns. Tracked as CVE-2026-41089 (CVSS score of 9.8), the security defect was publicly disclosed on May 12, when Microsoft patched it along with 136 other bugs as part of its Patch
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Today I’m talking with Harvey Mason Jr., who is CEO of the Recording Academy — that’s the outfit that puts on the Grammy Awards. I last talked to Harvey in 2024, when it was obvious that generative AI would upend the music industry, but still not exactly clear how
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* Researchers disclosed a critical flaw in WP Maps Pro allowing attackers to create hardcoded admin accounts * Exploitation is active: Wordfence blocked over 3,600 attempts in a single day * Patch released May 20 (v6.1.1); users must upgrade immediately Criminals are actively exploiting a critical vulnerability in a popular
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Over the past several years, Microsoft has largely managed to withstand populist calls to break up Big Tech while peers faced sweeping lawsuits. But a probe by the Federal Trade Commission suggests that grace period could be nearing an end. Earlier this year, Bloomberg outlined the contents of civil investigative
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* Dutch NCSC and police dismantled a 17M‑device botnet by taking down 200 servers * Asocks, previously tied to free Android VPN apps and promoted on Russian hacking forums, offered residential proxies often abused by cybercriminals * Officials stress devices are assimilated via malware without consent A major botnet comprising 17 million
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Cybersecurity researchers at the firm Novee Security have discovered a dangerous flaw in pretalx, a popular open-source software, which allows cybercriminals to completely hijack organiser accounts without having to click a single link. It is a high-severity stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-41241 with a high CVSS score
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Industrial cybersecurity firm Dragos has acquired xIoT security specialist Phosphorus, a move aimed at strengthening its ability to help organizations secure and manage the growing number of connected devices embedded across critical infrastructure and other operational networks. Phosphorus was founded in 2017 by Chris Rouland (CEO), Earle Ady (CTO), and
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CIO Review Europe | Thursday, May 21, 2026 Intelligent automation adoption in the UK has progressed beyond early experimentation, yet many organisations remain constrained by structural weaknesses created during initial digitisation efforts. Executives responsible for automation investments often inherit environments built through incremental tool adoption, where systems were introduced to solve
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* Cybercriminals tricked Meta’s AI customer support agent into forwarding password reset codes * Stolen short‑handle accounts, valued at over $1M combined, were listed for sale across Telegram * Attack highlights risk of delegating sensitive tasks to AI systems Cybercriminals successfully pulled off a social engineering attack against Meta’s customer
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Sophos, a global cybersecurity leader, today announced production results from a full year of agentic operation inside Sophos Managed Detection and Response (MDR), now defending 40,000 customers worldwide at 39% growth year-over-year. The results define what an agentic Security Operations Center (SOC) looks like at scale. The volume of
