4chan shrugs off UK regulator, refuses to pay £520,000 in fines over online safety violations 2026-03-19 at 16:54 By Sinisa Markovic The U.K.’s media regulator Ofcom fined 4chan £450,000 under the Online Safety Act for failing to introduce age checks to stop children from accessing pornographic content on its platform. 4chan is an online forum […]
Secure endpoint management systems immediately, CISA urges 2026-03-19 at 14:59 By Sinisa Markovic The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warns that the cyberattack on Stryker Corporation serves as a signal to U.S. organizations that foreign cyber activity tied to Middle East conflicts may be spilling into their operations. Attackers breached Stryker’s internal Microsoft
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CISA warns of active exploitation of Microsoft SharePoint vulnerability (CVE-2026-20963) 2026-03-19 at 13:32 By Zeljka Zorz CVE-2026-20963, a remote code execution (RCE) SharePoint vulnerability Microsoft fixed in January 2026, is being exploited by attackers. The confirmation comes from the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), which added the flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities
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Google limits Android accessibility API to curb malware abuse 2026-03-19 at 13:32 By Anamarija Pogorelec Google is restricting how Android apps can use accessibility features after years of abuse by banking Trojans and mobile malware. The changes, introduced in Android 17.2, limit access to the accessibility API when Advanced Protection Mode (APM) is enabled. Apps
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900,000 contact records exposed in Aura data breach 2026-03-19 at 13:32 By Sinisa Markovic Aura, the online safety service, confirmed that an unauthorized party accessed about 900,000 records, mostly names and email addresses from a marketing tool linked to a company it acquired in 2021. The incident occurred as a result of a targeted phone
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EDR killers are now standard equipment in ransomware attacks 2026-03-19 at 12:02 By Anamarija Pogorelec Ransomware attackers routinely deploy tools designed to disable endpoint detection and response software before launching encryptors. These tools, known as EDR killers, have become a standard component of ransomware intrusions. ESET Research tracked nearly 90 EDR killers actively used in
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Samba 4.24.0 ships Kerberos hardening and a CVE fix for domain encryption defaults 2026-03-19 at 10:35 By Sinisa Markovic Samba 4.24.0 arrived carrying a set of Kerberos security changes aimed at Active Directory deployments. The release fixes a vulnerability, extends audit coverage for sensitive AD attributes, and introduces configuration options to counter two related Kerberos
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Java 26 ships with new cryptography API and HTTP/3 support 2026-03-19 at 09:59 By Anamarija Pogorelec Oracle released JDK 26, the 17th consecutive feature release delivered under the six-month cadence the project adopted in 2018. The release includes ten JDK Enhancement Proposals spanning language changes, garbage collection improvements, cryptographic tooling, and network protocol support. PEM
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AI got it wrong with high confidence. Now what? 2026-03-19 at 09:02 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Christian Debes, Head of Data Analytics & AI at SPRYFOX, talks about the growing gap between what AI models do and what their operators can explain. He argues this gap is already a liability,
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Betterleaks: Open-source secrets scanner 2026-03-19 at 09:02 By Anamarija Pogorelec Secrets scanning has become standard practice across engineering organizations, and Gitleaks has been one of the most widely used tools in that space. The author of that project has now released a new tool called Betterleaks, which is designed to scan git repositories, directories, and
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Elite members of North Korean society fake their way into Western paychecks 2026-03-19 at 09:02 By Sinisa Markovic Increased federal activity, including indictments over the past year, has drawn attention to a pattern that has been unfolding inside corporate hiring pipelines. North Korean nationals are securing roles as remote IT contractors and full-time staff within
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Your APIs are under siege, and attackers are just getting warmed up 2026-03-19 at 07:21 By Anamarija Pogorelec Internet-facing systems are handling sustained levels of malicious traffic across APIs, web applications, and DDoS channels. Akamai’s State of the Internet security report places these patterns within the same operating environment, with activity increasing across each area
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Spotlight Report: Cyber Resilience and Business Impact in US SLED for 2026 2026-03-18 at 16:02 By Threat groups are uniquely open-minded when selecting their targets. They may issue platitudes about avoiding schools or critical infrastructure, but data from LevelBlue’s just-releasedSpotlight Report: Cyber Resilience and Business Impact in US SLED shows this is, unsurprisingly, false. This article
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Firefox is getting a free built-in VPN 2026-03-18 at 15:24 By Sinisa Markovic Mozilla is adding a free built-in VPN to Firefox, with the feature arriving in Firefox 149 on March 24. Privacy concerns often follow free VPN services, especially when unclear data practices put user information at risk. Mozilla says its version is grounded
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Apple starts issuing lightweight security updates between software releases 2026-03-18 at 13:32 By Sinisa Markovic Apple is delivering small security updates, called Background Security Improvements, starting with iOS 26.1, iPadOS 26.1, and macOS 26.1. Apple describes Background Security Improvements as lightweight security releases for components such as Safari, the WebKit framework, and other system libraries,
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Major tech companies invest $12.5 million in open source security 2026-03-18 at 11:31 By Sinisa Markovic The Linux Foundation announced $12.5 million in grant funding backed by Anthropic, AWS, GitHub, Google, Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and OpenAI to strengthen open source security. The funding will be directed through the foundation’s Alpha-Omega Project and the Open Source
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ManageEngine expands Endpoint Central with EDR and secure access 2026-03-18 at 10:17 By Industry News ManageEngine has announced the expansion of its unified endpoint management and security (UEMS) platform, Endpoint Central, to include endpoint detection and response (EDR) and secure private access capabilities. The additions bolster Endpoint Central’s endpoint security capabilities by enabling AI-powered threat
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Stop building security goals around controls 2026-03-18 at 09:27 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Devin Rudnicki, CISO at Fitch Group, argues that security strategy fails when it loses its connection to business outcomes. Rudnicki walks through how to align security goals with corporate priorities, why CISOs must present risk in terms
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Cybercriminals scale up, government sector hit hardest 2026-03-18 at 09:27 By Sinisa Markovic Government agencies faced the highest volume of cyberattack campaigns in 2025, according to new findings from HPE Threat Labs, which tracked 1,186 active campaigns over the course of the year. The data covers activity observed between January 1 and December 31, 2025,
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Global fraud losses climb to $442 billion 2026-03-18 at 08:01 By Sinisa Markovic Online fraud is reaching more victims and generating larger losses, driven by digital tools and organized networks operating across borders. Global trends in financial fraud (Source: Interpol) In INTERPOL’s March 2026 Global Financial Fraud Threat Assessment, financial fraud sits among the top
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