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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

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

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

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

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

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

Post-Quantum Security Starts at the Edge 2026-03-12 at 15:46 By Bob Blair We can’t put off preparing for tomorrow’s threats—and with Symantec Secure Web Gateway (SWG), we don’t have to This article is an excerpt from SECURITY.COM View Original Source

Smart mirror shows dumb Windows in elevator 2026-03-12 at 15:46 By Richard Speed All aboard the elevator where only Microsoft knows where you’re going Bork!Bork!Bork!  Smart mirrors are all the rage. However, rather than a list of headlines and tasks to do today, an unhappy Windows installation can make a smart mirror seem very dumb

Attackers Don’t Just Send Phishing Emails. They Weaponize Your SOC’s Workload 2026-03-12 at 15:45 By The most dangerous phishing campaigns aren’t just designed to fool employees. Many are designed to exhaust the analysts investigating them. When a phishing investigation takes 12 hours instead of five minutes, the outcome can shift from a contained incident to

Apple Issues Security Updates for Older iOS Devices Targeted by Coruna WebKit Exploit 2026-03-12 at 15:45 By Apple on Wednesday backported fixes for a security flaw in iOS, iPadOS, and macOS Sonoma to older versions after it was found to be used as part of the Coruna exploit kit. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-43010, relates

CISA warns max-severity n8n bug is being exploited in the wild 2026-03-12 at 15:34 By Connor Jones No rest for project maintainers battered by slew of vulnerability disclosures The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has confirmed that hackers are exploiting a max-severity remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in workflow automation platform n8n.… This