March 2026

Why scam loan calls are flooding your phone and voicemail right now — and how you can stop them 2026-03-12 at 20:38 By Brooke Steinberg Chalk up the scummy surge to a perfect storm of economic anxiety and rapid technological advances, experts say. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post […]

Rust-Based VENON Malware Targets 33 Brazilian Banks with Credential-Stealing Overlays 2026-03-12 at 20:19 By Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new banking malware targeting Brazilian users that’s written in Rust, marking a significant departure from other known Delphi-based malware families associated with the Latin American cybercrime ecosystem. The malware, which is designed to infect

Hive0163 Uses AI-Assisted Slopoly Malware for Persistent Access in Ransomware Attacks 2026-03-12 at 20:19 By Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a suspected artificial intelligence (AI)-generated malware codenamed Slopoly put to use by a financially motivated threat actor named Hive0163. “Although still relatively unspectacular, AI-generated malware such as Slopoly shows how easily threat actors can

White House activates Yu-Gi-Oh’s trap card by using anime clip for war comms 2026-03-12 at 19:48 By Connor Jones Franchise isn’t the only one unhappy about its IP appearing in propaganda Anime mainstay Yu-Gi-Oh has criticized the White House for using a clip from the TV show in videos promoting US military action.… This article

Medical equipment techs beg for right-to-repair lifeline 2026-03-12 at 18:48 By Brandon Vigliarolo OEM delays have become patient care delays When patient care is delayed in a hospital because something is broken, biomedical technicians would like you to understand that it’s not usually their fault.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original

Operating Lightning takes down SocksEscort proxy network blamed for tens of millions in fraud 2026-03-12 at 18:42 By Jessica Lyons International cops stuck down 23 servers in 7 countries Cops from eight countries this week disrupted SocksEscort, a residential proxy service used by criminals to compromise hundreds of thousands of routers worldwide and carry out

Oracle tops up restructuring fund for FY26 by $500M 2026-03-12 at 18:42 By Lindsay Clark Pot of money grows to $2.1BN for fiscal ’26, as Big Red exec says AI helping smaller engineering teams do more Oracle has increased funding for its restructuring plans for the current financial year by $500 million, with some observers

Musk makes the Macrohard joke again 2026-03-12 at 17:37 By Richard Speed The idea being that fleets of AI agents could emulate the ‘function of entire companies’ Elon Musk wheeled out his “Macrohard” dad joke again in the form of a supposed fleet of “Digital Optimus” agents that he claims would be capable of “emulating

Users protest as Google Antigravity price floats upward 2026-03-12 at 17:37 By Tim Anderson Google evolves its pricing for agentic AI tool, pointing devs towards on-demand credits or $250 per month Ultra plan Developers using Google’s Antigravity agentic AI coding tool are complaining about higher prices following an announcement yesterday that the company is evolving

Quicksort inventor Tony Hoare reaches the base case at 92 2026-03-12 at 17:37 By Liam Proven Classicist, philosopher, wit, and one of the greatest British computer scientists of all time Obit  Professor Charles Anthony Richard Hoare has died at the age of 92. Known to many computer science students as C. A. R. Hoare, and

NASA probe checks out years early because this solar cycle is a real drag 2026-03-12 at 17:37 By Richard Speed Van Allen spacecraft re-enters over the Pacific with 1 in 4,200 chance of causing injury NASA’s Van Allen Probe A has re-entered Earth’s atmosphere eight years earlier than expected, with a 1 in 4,200 chance

How to Scale Phishing Detection in Your SOC: 3 Steps for CISOs 2026-03-12 at 17:36 By Phishing has quietly turned into one of the hardest enterprise threats to expose early. Instead of crude lures and obvious payloads, modern campaigns rely on trusted infrastructure, legitimate-looking authentication flows, and encrypted traffic that conceals malicious behavior from traditional

ThreatsDay Bulletin: OAuth Trap, EDR Killer, Signal Phishing, Zombie ZIP, AI Platform Hack & More 2026-03-12 at 17:36 By Another Thursday, another pile of weird security stuff that somehow happened in just seven days. Some of it is clever. Some of it is lazy. A few bits fall into that uncomfortable category of “yeah… this