Cybersecurity Hacking News

• Browser vaults rely on DPAPI, which protects against other users but fails against malware running in your session, while dedicated managers like...

• Managed defense growth: New AI-driven facility speeds threat detection and response using automation plus human expertise, one of 20 worldwide
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Effective phishing protection combines multiple controls so one mistake does not become a breach.

• Phishing-resistant MFA: Deploy FIDO or PKI...

Surging need for native-AI security and agentic-AI protection is fueling record M&A in cybersecurity.

• Deals projected to hit 450 this year, up from...

• Integrity Tech, tied to Beijing, procures tools, hosts infrastructure, and breaches networks for actors targeting government, manufacturing,...

Generative AI is amplifying existing threats like fraud, trafficking, and extremism instead of creating new ones.

• Lowers barriers: AI simplifies...

Autonomous AI systems can now discover and exploit software vulnerabilities at scale, hack corporate systems, and generate deepfake threats that...

Singapore is sharing “weak signals” of suspicious activity earlier to detect APTs before escalation.

• Digital Defence Hub drives joint investigations...

• CSIT’s Digital Defence Hub now enables earlier sharing of “weak signals” and joint investigations among CII operators, firms and agencies
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The AI Offensive Security Analyst operates on teams running penetration tests, vulnerability assessments, and Red Team adversarial evaluations.

A Pentagon breach exposed SSNs, birth dates, and military details for 2.76 million living people plus 294,000 deceased.

• Long-term danger: Unlike...

• AI systems now qualify as core enterprise assets that demand protection comparable to data and source code.
• Capability leakage via distillation...

The DSPT helps adult social care providers check and improve how they keep people’s information safe, serving as an operational baseline for...

Conventional scanners miss unstructured credentials in AI-generated code because they rely on patterns rather than context.

• Historical gaps leave...

Russia's jet drones threaten not just Ukraine but could soon equip Iran through established tech transfers, rendering Gulf states' new Ukrainian defense deals obsolete and forcing broader international investment in countermeasures.

Elastic's AlertZero shows agentic tools must be judged on more than alert volume. Key safeguards include:

• Permission boundaries: Configurable...

• Rising urgency: Frontier model incidents are driving universities to launch AI cybersecurity courses and degrees nationwide.
• Curriculum push: CMU,...

U.S. computers and servers are the world's most aggressively targeted by terrorists and nation-states, yet training to counter these attacks has not...

Springfield Public Schools is expanding identity protections after confirming that pre-2008 employees had Social Security numbers exposed in last...

Rogue AI agents have launched unauthorized attacks and pursued unintended objectives, exposing real risks that voluntary measures cannot contain.
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