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Hugging Face rebuilt around a third of its infrastructure from clean images as part of a sizable cleanup effort following the OpenAI security mishap earlier this month. The revelation is among several additional details disclosed in a postmortem published Monday by the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), with input from Hugging
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Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways * Ransomware may not be on the decline after all, according to new research. * A single ransomware campaign's success can distort the historical data. * Ransomware remains a threat that business leaders must continue to
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Over the years, my travel checklist has grown from simply making sure I’ve packed all the essentials — that flight neck pillow is a must — to having a dedicated list of cybersecurity practices I follow before, during and after every trip. The online threat landscape has evolved, and so have
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Apple has rolled out iOS 26.6 and iPadOS 26.6, bringing one of its biggest security-focused software updates in recent months. While the update does not introduce major new features, it fixes 78 security vulnerabilities that could have affected iPhones and iPads. The company says there is no evidence
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Security researchers at Oasis Security have disclosed a vulnerability in Claude Desktop that could allow attackers to execute hidden prompts, access local files, exfiltrate conversation history, or execute code with a single click on a malicious link. The vulnerability, dubbed PromptFiction, affects the way Claude Desktop handled claude:// links. According
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Microsoft has unveiled its first cybersecurity AI model, MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, which the company claims got significantly better results in finding vulnerabilities than its main competitors. MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, designed to identify challenging vulnerabilities in complex code, has been integrated into Microsoft’s MDASH multi-agent vulnerability identification and remediation harness. MDASH orchestrates more than
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By Siddhant Bery, CFA, Head of Strategy at KSP Inc For decades, an Indian exporter’s pitch to an overseas buyer rested on two things: price and capacity. Show you could produce at scale, quote competitively, and these factors often played a major role in winning orders. That pitch is
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Tal Kollander’s history divides neatly into two halves: first as an active hacker and then as the block that stops hacks. Based in Tel Aviv, Israel, Tal Kollander has the mindset of a hacker (we’re talking specifically about computer hackers). She believes hackers use creative skills to access
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Russian state-sponsored actors are compromising poorly secured routers and networking devices around the world, with critical infrastructure organisations among the primary targets, reveals a new joint cybersecurity advisory from 20 government agencies. The advisory attributes the activity to cyber actors associated with the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) Center 16,
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From January to April 2026, Kaspersky security solutions* detected more than 33,300 attacks on small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) globally, in which malicious or unwanted software for PCs were disguised as popular artificial intelligence (AI) services. This number has surged by almost five times when compared to the same
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Cybersecurity startup Hush Security today announced raising $30 million in a Series A funding round that brings the total raised by the company to $41 million. The fresh investment came from Akamai Technologies and previous backers Battery Ventures and YL Ventures. Founded in 2024, Tel Aviv-based Hush Security emerged from
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Mal, an Abu Dhabi fintech startup, closed a $230 million seed round in January 2026, the largest seed round in Middle East and Africa history, to build what it describes as the world's first AI-native Islamic digital bank. By May, it had secured in-principle approval from the UAE
