Betting shop bug ends in kidnap plot as staff turn ransom artists 2026-04-24 at 11:27 By Connor Jones Computer glitch spawns duplicate jackpots, disgruntled punters, and one very bad career choice A computer glitch in a Spanish betting shop triggered a chain of events that ended with the store manager being kidnapped and held for […]
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Ubuntu 26.04 LTS delivers memory-safe system tools and live patching for Arm servers 2026-04-24 at 11:27 By Mirko Zorz Linux distributions have spent the past few years absorbing GPU vendor toolchains, Rust-based system components, and more stringent encryption defaults. Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, codenamed Resolute Raccoon, pulls most of those threads together into a single release
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OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 is out with expanded cybersecurity safeguards 2026-04-24 at 11:27 By Sinisa Markovic Competition to release stronger AI models is accelerating, and just weeks after the release of GPT-5.4, OpenAI has introduced GPT-5.5, pointing to expanded safeguards in the new model. GPT-5.5 is being rolled out to Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise users in
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Bitwarden NPM Package Hit in Supply Chain Attack 2026-04-24 at 11:27 By Ionut Arghire Tied to a fresh Checkmarx supply chain attack claimed by TeamPCP, the incident references the Shai-Hulud worm. The post Bitwarden NPM Package Hit in Supply Chain Attack appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original Source
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Copperhelm Raises $7 Million for Agentic Cloud Security Platform 2026-04-24 at 11:27 By SecurityWeek News The Israel-based company, which just emerged from stealth mode, was founded by cloud and security experts from RSA, McAfee, and Unity. The post Copperhelm Raises $7 Million for Agentic Cloud Security Platform appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an
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LMDeploy CVE-2026-33626 Flaw Exploited Within 13 Hours of Disclosure 2026-04-24 at 11:27 By A high-severity security flaw in LMDeploy, an open-source toolkit for compressing, deploying, and serving LLMs, has come under active exploitation in the wild less than 13 hours after its public disclosure. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-33626 (CVSS score: 7.5), relates to a
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AI is speeding up nation-state cyber programs 2026-04-24 at 08:40 By Mirko Zorz Im this Help Net Security interview, Kaja Ciglic, Senior Director, Cybersecurity Policy and Diplomacy at Microsoft, discusses how nation-state cyber programs have changed over three years. Cyber has become a core instrument of state power, integrated with military, economic, and diplomatic tools.
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Weak security means attackers could disable all of a city’s public EV chargers 2026-04-24 at 08:22 By Simon Sharwood Demonstrated in China, probably applicable elsewhere Black Hat Asia Developers of rented internet of things infrastructure – stuff like public EV chargers and shared e-bikes – are prioritizing user convenience over security, and leaving themselves exposed
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A study of 1,000 Android apps finds a privacy policy logging gap 2026-04-24 at 08:22 By Anamarija Pogorelec Android developers write log statements for the same reasons they always have: debugging crashes, tracing performance issues, and understanding how features behave in production. Legal and privacy teams, working from templates and regulatory checklists, draft policies describing
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IT spending to hit $6.31 trillion record, thanks to AI 2026-04-24 at 08:22 By Anamarija Pogorelec Global spending on IT is expected to reach $6.31 trillion in 2026, according to the latest quarterly forecast from Gartner, marking a 13.5% increase from the previous year. The forecast shows that growth is spread across all major segments,
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Where AI in CI/CD is working for engineering teams 2026-04-24 at 08:22 By Anamarija Pogorelec Developers have folded AI into daily coding work. Still, the same tools remain largely absent from the systems that validate and ship software. New research from JetBrains points to a widening gap between how engineers write code on their own
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With AI’s help, North Korean hackers stumbled into a near-undetectable attack 2026-04-24 at 08:22 By Zeljka Zorz For many years, state-sponsored hacking was defined by human expertise in finding security holes, writing malware and exploits, pulling off social engineering and phishing attacks, and much more. Since the advent of LLM-powered AI assistants and tools, less
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Hacker with a special interest in breaching sports institutions ends behind bars 2026-04-24 at 08:22 By Sinisa Markovic French police have arrested a suspected hacker linked to a series of data breaches affecting organizations in the country. Citing authorities, Le Parisien reported that the suspect, a 20-year-old man using the alias ‘HexDex,’ was taken into
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Succeeding an Underwhelming Leader 2026-04-24 at 08:22 By Security leaders discuss taking over leadership after an underperforming leader. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source
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The Week in Vulnerabilities: SharePoint, Fortinet, OpenClaw, and GPL Odorizers 2026-04-24 at 05:54 By Mihir Bagwe Cyble Research & Intelligence Labs (CRIL) weekly vulnerability report tracked 1,675 vulnerabilities, last week, reflecting continued high disclosure volume across enterprise software, cloud services, and emerging AI ecosystems. Of these, more than 205 vulnerabilities have publicly available Proof-of-Concept (PoC)
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Anthropic admits it dumbed down Claude when trying to make it smarter 2026-04-24 at 03:01 By Thomas Claburn System changes and bugs overlapped to create the impression of general decline Claude users who complained about the AI service producing lower-quality responses over the past month weren’t imagining it.… This article is an excerpt from The
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With jaw-dropping $1 trillion valuation, Anthropic overtakes OpenAI in market cap race 2026-04-24 at 02:17 By Marc Vartabedian Desperate buyers scooping up a dwindling supply of Anthropic shares have vaulted the AI giant’s valuation on some trading platforms to $1 trillion – eclipsing OpenAI’s market capitalization in a sea change in the AI race. The
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Dev targeted by sophisticated job scam: ‘I let my guard down, and ran the freaking code’ 2026-04-24 at 01:01 By Jessica Lyons Legit-looking website, camera-on interviews, jokes about backdoors … it worked EXCLUSIVE It all started with a LinkedIn message, as so many employment scams do these days.… This article is an excerpt from The
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Solid-state batteries hold more juice, but keep cracking up. Now researchers know why 2026-04-24 at 00:17 By Brandon Vigliarolo Two teams, similar diagnosis: Ceramic electrolytes still refusing to cooperate With more capacity and faster charging, solid-state batteries could be the next big thing in energy. And good news: researchers may have pinned down one major
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Claude Opus 4.7 has turned into an overzealous query cop, devs complain 2026-04-24 at 00:08 By Thomas Claburn Rising refusal rate from Acceptable Use Classifier leaves customers paying for nothing Anthropic’s release last week of Opus 4.7 came with stronger safeguards to prevent misuse. Unfortunately, these safeguards have also managed to thwart legitimate use.… This
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