May 2026

ScarCruft Hacks Gaming Platform to Deploy BirdCall Malware on Android and Windows 2026-05-05 at 13:20 By The North Korea-aligned state-sponsored hacking group known as ScarCruft has compromised a video game platform in a supply chain espionage attack, trojanizing its components with a backdoor called BirdCallto likely target ethnic Koreans residing in China. While prior versions

Classic ASCII game NetHack debuts version 5.0 just 11 years after last major release 2026-05-05 at 11:25 By Simon Sharwood New monsters! New magic items! An Arm port! And compliance with a dead C standard Antiques Code Show  Admirers of Roguelike games have a new distraction: Version 5.0 of NetHack dropped last weekend.… This article

Weaver E-cology RCE Flaw CVE-2026-22679 Actively Exploited via Debug API 2026-05-05 at 11:24 By A critical security vulnerability in Weaver (Fanwei) E-cology, an enterprise office automation (OA) and collaboration platform, has come under active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability (CVE-2026-22679, CVSS score: 9.8) relates to a case of unauthenticated remote code execution affecting Weaver

Microsoft Details Phishing Campaign Targeting 35,000 Users Across 26 Countries 2026-05-05 at 11:24 By Microsoft has disclosed details of a large-scale credential theft campaign that has leveraged a combination of code of conduct-themed lures and legitimate email services to direct users to attacker-controlled domains and steal authentication tokens. The multi-stage campaign, observed between April 14

Microsoft to stop taking reservations for 17 Azure VM flavours, kill 13 in 2028 2026-05-05 at 09:19 By Simon Sharwood Haswell’s had its day and Skylake and Cascade Lake are draining away Microsoft will stop offering long-term rentals for 17 Azure instance types – most of them powered by CPUs Intel released in the 2010s

The Art of Security: It Is Time to Rethink the CISO’s Role 2026-05-05 at 09:18 By The CISO’s role, and the cultural and strategic mindset that influences it, must change. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Singapore boffins get diverse SIEMs singing in harmony with agentic rule translation 2026-05-05 at 05:22 By Simon Sharwood Vendors all use different formats. This tech translates them all so you can smooth your SOC Academics from Singapore and China have found a way to make AI useful for cyber-defenders, by creating a technique that translates

Palantir CEO: 10 percent of the world ‘professionally hates us’ 2026-05-05 at 05:22 By O’Ryan Johnson The Iran war has been great for business The Iran War has been great for business at Palantir, as the Department of Defense has doubled usage of the company’s Maven targeting system in four months.… This article is an

OpenAI President Greg Brockman grilled over embarrassing diary entries while taking charitable donations from Elon Musk: ‘What will take me to $1B?’ 2026-05-05 at 02:52 By Marc Vartabedian In the bombshell trial over OpenAI’s future, Elon Musk’s attorney Steven Molo hammered OpenAI President Greg Brockman Monday over entries in a personal journal which Molo said

Elon Musk settles SEC lawsuit over Twitter disclosures — fined $1.5M 2026-05-05 at 02:52 By Reuters Musk won’t have to give up any money he allegedly saved from the delay. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post View Original Source

New tool can find deadliest cancer years before tumors can be seen on a scan 2026-05-05 at 02:52 By Rachel Sacks Many are split on whether AI is good for humanity, but a new AI-powered tool could prove revolutionary when it comes to cancer screenings. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News |

Bad news for OpenClaw stans: Apple’s Mac Mini now starts at $799 2026-05-05 at 02:51 By Tobias Mann The tiny desktop is no longer Apple’s most affordable computer The Mac Mini is the latest victim of the AI-fueled RAM-pocalypse. Last week, Apple discontinued the 256 GB version of the system, which cost $599. To get

Microsoft fixes VS Code after app gives Copilot credit for human’s work 2026-05-05 at 02:51 By Thomas Claburn Devs not thrilled that Git extension added the bot as co-author by default Imagine working your butt off on a project, only to have VS Code put an attribution into your commit that says Copilot helped you,

Kids say they can beat age checks by drawing on a fake mustache 2026-05-05 at 02:51 By Brandon Vigliarolo 46% say age checks are easy to bypass, and nearly a third admit getting around them It’s been months since the UK government began requiring stronger age checks under the Online Safety Act, and recent research