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Police arrest 10 suspected members of Black Axe cybercrime gang

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Police arrest 10 suspected members of Black Axe cybercrime gang 2026-04-28 at 22:35 By Sinisa Markovic A coordinated police operation in Switzerland has targeted suspected members of the Black Axe criminal network. On 28 April 2026, authorities carried out house searches across several Swiss cantons, leading to 10 arrests, including the Black Axe ‘Regional Head’ […]

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Alleged Chinese hacker extradited to US over cyberattacks targeting COVID-19 research

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Alleged Chinese hacker extradited to US over cyberattacks targeting COVID-19 research 2026-04-28 at 22:35 By Sinisa Markovic Chinese national Xu Zewei was extradited from Italy to the United States to face charges tied to an alleged cyber espionage campaign that breached thousands of computers worldwide. Xu is charged alongside Zhang Yu, who remains at large.

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LevelBlue Recognized at Intelligent Insurer’s Cyber Insurance Awards US 2026

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LevelBlue Recognized at Intelligent Insurer’s Cyber Insurance Awards US 2026 2026-04-28 at 18:06 By LevelBlue is proud to be named at the Intelligent Insurer Cyber Insurance Awards US 2026, earning Cyber Security Consulting Services Provider of the Year and being recognized as Highly Commended for the Cyber Security Solution Provider of the Year. This article

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Your IAM was built for humans, AI agents don’t care

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Your IAM was built for humans, AI agents don’t care 2026-04-27 at 11:18 By Help Net Security Identity and access management was built for a simpler world. One where the hardest problem was a human logging in, and where “Who are you?” was sufficient to decide what someone could do. That model served enterprises well

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The AI criminal mastermind is already hiring on gig platforms

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The AI criminal mastermind is already hiring on gig platforms 2026-04-27 at 10:30 By Mirko Zorz Labor-hire platforms let anyone with a credit card post a task and pay a stranger to complete it. The RentAHuman platform extends that model to AI agents through a Model Context Protocol server, allowing an agent to post gigs

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25 open-source cybersecurity tools that don’t care about your budget

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25 open-source cybersecurity tools that don’t care about your budget 2026-04-27 at 10:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec Regardless of the operating system you use, managing secrets, apps, cloud, compliance, and security operations can be overwhelming. The free, open-source tools presented in this article can help you detect threats, increase visibility, enforce controls, and investigate and respond

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Product showcase: LuLu reveals unauthorized outbound connections from Mac apps

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Product showcase: LuLu reveals unauthorized outbound connections from Mac apps 2026-04-27 at 07:03 By Anamarija Pogorelec LuLu is a free, open-source firewall for macOS that lets you control which apps are allowed to send data from your computer. macOS includes a built-in firewall, but it mainly handles incoming connections. LuLu also monitors outgoing traffic. Installing

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Week in review: Claude Mythos finds 271 Firefox flaws, Vercel breach

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Week in review: Claude Mythos finds 271 Firefox flaws, Vercel breach 2026-04-26 at 12:27 By Help Net Security Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: SmokedMeat: Open-source tool shows what attackers do inside CI/CD pipelines Boost Security has released SmokedMeat, an open-source framework that runs attack chains

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Users advised to drop passwords and make room for passkeys

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Users advised to drop passwords and make room for passkeys 2026-04-24 at 23:26 By Sinisa Markovic In a decisive move that could reshape how users log in online, the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is urging consumers to abandon passwords in favour of passkeys, positioning them as the future of authentication. “Passkeys should become consumers’

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Indirect prompt injection is taking hold in the wild

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Indirect prompt injection is taking hold in the wild 2026-04-24 at 23:26 By Zeljka Zorz The open web is slowly but surely filling up with “traps” designed for LLM-powered AI agents. The technique, known as indirect prompt injection (IPI), involves hiding (more or less) covert instructions inside ordinary web pages, waiting for an AI agent

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Compromised everyday devices power Chinese cyber espionage operations

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Compromised everyday devices power Chinese cyber espionage operations 2026-04-24 at 13:17 By Sinisa Markovic China-linked threat actors have shifted from individually procured infrastructure to large-scale covert networks, botnets built from compromised routers and other edge devices, the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) warns. To help organizations address this threat, the NCSC, together with the Cyber

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New Cisco firewall malware can only be killed by pulling the plug

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New Cisco firewall malware can only be killed by pulling the plug 2026-04-24 at 13:17 By Zeljka Zorz Suspected state-sponsored attackers are using a custom backdoor to persistently compromise Cisco security devices (firewalls), the US CISA and the UK National Cyber Security Centre warned on Thusday. “The [Firestarter] malware (…) is relevant for both Cisco

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Ubuntu 26.04 LTS delivers memory-safe system tools and live patching for Arm servers

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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

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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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AI is speeding up nation-state cyber programs

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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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A study of 1,000 Android apps finds a privacy policy logging gap

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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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Where AI in CI/CD is working for engineering teams

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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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IT spending to hit $6.31 trillion record, thanks to AI

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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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With AI’s help, North Korean hackers stumbled into a near-undetectable attack

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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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