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Social engineering attacks on open source developers are escalating

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Social engineering attacks on open source developers are escalating 2026-04-08 at 15:45 By Zeljka Zorz North Korean hackers spent weeks socially engineering an Axios maintainer through a fake Slack workspace, a cloned company identity, and a fabricated Microsoft Teams call that tricked him into installing a RAT posings as a software update. They used the […]

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Massachusetts Hospital Diverts Ambulances as Cyberattack Causes Disruption

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Massachusetts Hospital Diverts Ambulances as Cyberattack Causes Disruption 2026-04-08 at 15:45 By Eduard Kovacs Signature Healthcare was forced to cancel some services, and pharmacies are unable to fill prescriptions due to the hacker attack. The post Massachusetts Hospital Diverts Ambulances as Cyberattack Causes Disruption appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek

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NYT revives Adam Back theory in latest bid to identify Bitcoin creator

Oil falls, Bitcoin jumps to $72K, but is this BTC price breakout for real?

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Oil falls, Bitcoin jumps to $72K, but is this BTC price breakout for real? 2026-04-08 at 15:06 By Cointelegraph by Nancy Lubale Bitcoin rose toward $72,000 after US President Donald Trump confirmed a ceasefire agreement with Iran, sending oil prices crashing below $100. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

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Investors are going nuclear to keep UK’s AI datacenters fed

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Investors are going nuclear to keep UK’s AI datacenters fed 2026-04-08 at 15:06 By Dan Robinson Market watcher says money is pouring into British atomic and fusion startups amid massive energy demand Investors are backing nuclear power as a solution to fuel the UK’s datacenter buildout, according to researchers tracking investment activity.… This article is

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Dutch healthcare software vendor goes dark after ransomware attack

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Dutch healthcare software vendor goes dark after ransomware attack 2026-04-08 at 15:06 By Connor Jones ChipSoft’s website remains down but emails are functioning A Dutch healthcare software vendor has been knocked offline following a ransomware attack, officials say.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

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DXC lands Metropolitan Police outsourcing deal that could climb to £1B

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DXC lands Metropolitan Police outsourcing deal that could climb to £1B 2026-04-08 at 15:06 By Lindsay Clark Supplier will support the current Oracle E-Business Suite and lead migration to a new Oracle Fusion SaaS platform The UK’s largest police force has awarded DXC Technology a contract worth up to £1 billion to develop and run

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Iranian cyber activity hits US energy, water, and government networks

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Iranian cyber activity hits US energy, water, and government networks 2026-04-08 at 15:06 By Anamarija Pogorelec U.S. government agencies on Tuesday warned American organizations about ongoing cyber activity targeting OT and PLC devices, including those manufactured by Rockwell Automation and Allen-Bradley, across multiple critical infrastructure sectors. The activity has been attributed to Iranian-affiliated APT actors

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Hackers Targeting Ninja Forms Vulnerability That Exposes WordPress Sites to Takeover

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Hackers Targeting Ninja Forms Vulnerability That Exposes WordPress Sites to Takeover 2026-04-08 at 15:06 By Ionut Arghire The vulnerability allows hackers to upload arbitrary files to a site’s server and achieve remote code execution. The post Hackers Targeting Ninja Forms Vulnerability That Exposes WordPress Sites to Takeover appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an

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Evasive Masjesu DDoS Botnet Targets IoT Devices

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Evasive Masjesu DDoS Botnet Targets IoT Devices 2026-04-08 at 15:06 By Ionut Arghire Focused on persistence, the botnet does not engage in widespread infection and avoids blacklisted IPs and critical infrastructure entities. The post Evasive Masjesu DDoS Botnet Targets IoT Devices appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original Source

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US Disrupts Russian Espionage Operation Involving Hacked Routers and DNS Hijacking

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US Disrupts Russian Espionage Operation Involving Hacked Routers and DNS Hijacking 2026-04-08 at 15:06 By Eduard Kovacs The APT28 threat group exploited vulnerable TP-Link and MikroTik routers to conduct adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) attacks. The post US Disrupts Russian Espionage Operation Involving Hacked Routers and DNS Hijacking appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from

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Shrinking the IAM Attack Surface through Identity Visibility and Intelligence Platforms (IVIP)

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Shrinking the IAM Attack Surface through Identity Visibility and Intelligence Platforms (IVIP) 2026-04-08 at 15:06 By The Fragmented State of Modern Enterprise Identity Enterprise IAM is approaching a breaking point. As organizations scale, identity becomes increasingly fragmented across thousands of applications, decentralized teams, machine identities, and autonomous systems. The result is Identity Dark Matter: identity activity that sits

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Architecting for Margin Beyond the Initial Sale

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Architecting for Margin Beyond the Initial Sale 2026-04-08 at 13:10 By Alan Maxwell Part 2 of 6: How resilience changes the channel model This article is an excerpt from SECURITY.COM View Original Source

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UBS partners with five banks for Swiss franc stablecoin sandbox

ARK buys $13M in Robinhood as US Treasury taps platform for Trump Accounts

Will quantum-safe cryptography slow Ethereum down? The performance tradeoff explained

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Will quantum-safe cryptography slow Ethereum down? The performance tradeoff explained 2026-04-08 at 13:10 By Cointelegraph by Dilip Kumar Patairya Will quantum-safe cryptography slow Ethereum? It is likely to affect gas fees, validator load and network efficiency, prompting Ethereum to pursue a broader redesign strategy. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

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NHS Scotland-linked domains caught serving pr0n and dodgy sports streams

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NHS Scotland-linked domains caught serving pr0n and dodgy sports streams 2026-04-08 at 13:10 By Connor Jones Two practice web addresses appear to have been compromised Multiple domains belonging to Scottish healthcare providers have been hijacked and are now pushing links to adult content and illegal sports streams, according to a researcher.… This article is an

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Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Finds Thousands of Zero-Day Flaws Across Major Systems

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Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Finds Thousands of Zero-Day Flaws Across Major Systems 2026-04-08 at 13:09 By Artificial Intelligence (AI) company Anthropic announced a new cybersecurity initiative called Project Glasswing that will use a preview version of its new frontier model, Claude Mythos, to find and address security vulnerabilities. The model will be used by a small set of organizations, including Amazon Web Services, Apple,

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Virtual SG-41 project brings Nazi cipher machine to life in the browser

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Virtual SG-41 project brings Nazi cipher machine to life in the browser 2026-04-08 at 12:47 By Richard Speed Martin Gillow’s 3D recreation lets users explore would-be Enigma successor’s mechanics and enciphering logic online An enthusiast has built a digital 3D model of the SG-41 cipher machine, replete with wheels, levers, and stepping logic, accessible via

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Chaos malware expands from routers to Linux cloud servers

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Chaos malware expands from routers to Linux cloud servers 2026-04-08 at 12:47 By Mirko Zorz Chaos, Go-based malware first documented by Lumen’s Black Lotus Labs, has historically targeted routers and edge devices. A new variant observed in March 2026 shows the malware operating against misconfigured Linux cloud servers, a category of infrastructure the botnet had

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