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Phishing Campaign Hits 80+ Orgs Using SimpleHelp and ScreenConnect RMM Tools 2026-05-04 at 21:21 By An active phishing campaign has been observed targeting multiple vectors since at least April 2025, with legitimate Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) software as a way to establish persistent remote access to compromised hosts. The activity, codenamed VENOMOUS#HELPER, has impacted

Elon Musk pressured OpenAI’s Greg Brockman to settle lawsuit or become one of ‘most hated men in America’: filing 2026-05-04 at 21:07 By Thomas Barrabi In the filing, OpenAI’s legal team argues that Musk’s texts to Brockman lend to support to one of their core arguments – that Musk, as the founder of xAI, is

EBay pops 6% as GameStop’s Ryan Cohen makes unsolicited $56B offer to buy company 2026-05-04 at 21:07 By Thomas Barrabi The company’s valuation is currently hovering around $48.8 billion following the Monday stock surge. Meanwhile, GameStop’s shares were down more than 8%, dropping its market cap below $11 billion – meaning it is far smaller

Progress Patches Critical MOVEit Automation Bug Enabling Authentication Bypass 2026-05-04 at 21:06 By Progress Software has released updates to address two security flaws in MOVEit Automation, including a critical bug that could result in an authentication bypass. MOVEit Automation (formerly Central) is a secure, server-based managed file transfer (MFT) solution used to schedule and automate

Hands off my trademark! Notepad++ dev threatens legal action against macOS port 2026-05-04 at 19:34 By Brandon Vigliarolo It’s not the fork that’s the problem, it’s the attempt to make it look official, says original Notepad++ dev Don Ho Notepad++ remains a Windows-only app, at least under that name. The beloved developer-focused, open-source text editor

The Coming Wave of Large-Scale Al-Enabled Cyberattacks 2026-05-04 at 19:14 By The first truly major AI-enabled cyberattack will look different from the incidents that dominate headlines today. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Is SIEM Trying to Do Too Much? 2026-05-04 at 18:59 By Bruce Deakyne The security pitfalls of complexity and how next-gen XDR does it better This article is an excerpt from SECURITY.COM View Original Source

Shadow IT has given way to shadow AI. Enter AI-BOMs 2026-05-04 at 18:59 By Jessica Lyons ‘If you don’t have visibility, you can’t understand what to protect’ When it comes to securing enterprise supply chains, now heavily infused with AI applications and agents, a software bill of materials (SBOM) no longer provides a complete inventory

Inside Amazon Web Services’ plan to make networking disappear 2026-05-04 at 18:59 By Thomas Claburn The Register gets a look inside AWS’ networking lab in Cupertino FEATURE  In an unassuming three-story office building in Cupertino, California, engineers from Amazon Web Services are busy trying to make networking inconspicuous.… This article is an excerpt from The

Cybersecurity Professionals Sentenced to Prison for Ransomware Attacks 2026-05-04 at 18:59 By Two cybersecurity professionals were imprisoned for their role in a string of 2023 ransomware attacks.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

⚡ Weekly Recap: AI-Powered Phishing, Android Spying Tool, Linux Exploit, GitHub RCE & More 2026-05-04 at 18:59 By This week, the shadows moved faster than the patches. While most teams were still triaging last month’s alerts, attackers had already turned control panels into kill switches, kernels into open doors, and open-source pipelines into silent delivery

Instructure, Parent of Canvas, Confirms Data Breach 2026-05-04 at 17:48 By Instructure recently confirmed its data was stolen.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source