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Hacker with a special interest in breaching sports institutions ends behind bars

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Hacker with a special interest in breaching sports institutions ends behind bars 2026-04-24 at 08:22 By Sinisa Markovic French police have arrested a suspected hacker linked to a series of data breaches affecting organizations in the country. Citing authorities, Le Parisien reported that the suspect, a 20-year-old man using the alias ‘HexDex,’ was taken into […]

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Google brings instant email verification to Android, no OTP needed

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Google brings instant email verification to Android, no OTP needed 2026-04-23 at 15:10 By Anamarija Pogorelec Google has introduced cryptographically verified email credentials for Android through the Credential Manager API. This API aligns with the W3C Digital Credential API standard. It provides a unified way for apps to request and retrieve user credentials for authentication

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If cyber espionage via HDMI worries you, NCSC built a device to stop it

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If cyber espionage via HDMI worries you, NCSC built a device to stop it 2026-04-23 at 14:17 By Sinisa Markovic A new cybersecurity device developed by the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) should be a helpful solution for protecting governments and businesses from malicious activity carried through display connections. Called SilentGlass, the plug-and-play tool is

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Apple fixes iPhone bug that let FBI retrieve deleted Signal messages(CVE-2026-28950)

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Apple fixes iPhone bug that let FBI retrieve deleted Signal messages(CVE-2026-28950) 2026-04-23 at 14:17 By Zeljka Zorz Apple has rolled out security updates for iPhones and iPads that fix CVE-2026-28950, a logging issue in Notification Services that made devices unexpectedly retain notifications marked for deletion. The vulnerability was patched following a recent report about the

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GopherWhisper APT group hides command and control traffic in Slack and Discord

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GopherWhisper APT group hides command and control traffic in Slack and Discord 2026-04-23 at 12:17 By Anamarija Pogorelec Attackers continue to lean on everyday collaboration platforms to hide command and control traffic inside normal enterprise noise. A newly identified China-aligned APT group pushes that trend further, running its operations through Slack workspaces, Discord servers, Outlook

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OpenAI tackles a bad habit people have when interacting with AI

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OpenAI tackles a bad habit people have when interacting with AI 2026-04-23 at 12:17 By Sinisa Markovic Since people tend to paste personal data into AI tools such as ChatGPT, OpenAI has released Privacy Filter, an open-weight model designed to detect and redact personally identifiable information (PII) in text. The model is available under the

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Scenario: Open-source framework for automated AI app red-teaming

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Scenario: Open-source framework for automated AI app red-teaming 2026-04-23 at 09:47 By Mirko Zorz Enterprises running customer service bots, data analytics agents, and other AI-driven applications in production handle sensitive records and connect to core business systems every day. LangWatch has released Scenario, an open-source framework that runs automated red-team exercises against AI agents using

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A year in, Zoom’s CISO reflects on balancing security and business

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A year in, Zoom’s CISO reflects on balancing security and business 2026-04-23 at 09:47 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Sandra McLeod, CISO at Zoom, reflects on her first year in the role. She talks about moving from reactive firefighting to business strategy, and what she heard from engineers, the board, and

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GDPR works, but only where someone enforces it

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GDPR works, but only where someone enforces it 2026-04-23 at 07:32 By Sinisa Markovic A new measurement study of web tracking across ten countries offers a reality check for anyone working on privacy compliance. Researchers crawled the same set of globally popular websites from virtual machines located in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Germany, India, Singapore, South

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Ransomware, fraud, and lawsuits drive cyber insurance claims to new peaks

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Ransomware, fraud, and lawsuits drive cyber insurance claims to new peaks 2026-04-23 at 07:13 By Mirko Zorz The 2026 InsurSec Report from At-Bay, covering more than 100,000 policy years of claims data, documents a 7% year-over-year rise in overall claim frequency and an all-time high average severity of $221,000. Ransomware severity reached $508,000, up 16%

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Google’s Workspace Intelligence promises privacy while running on your data

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Google’s Workspace Intelligence promises privacy while running on your data 2026-04-22 at 23:27 By Sinisa Markovic Security and data governance are among the key considerations in Google’s latest AI update, which introduces Workspace Intelligence within Google Workspace. Google describes the feature as “a secure, dynamic system that inherently understands complex semantic relationships within your Workspace

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Cyberattack on French government agency triggers phishing alert

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Cyberattack on French government agency triggers phishing alert 2026-04-22 at 19:55 By Sinisa Markovic France Titres, a French government agency, has disclosed a data breach that may have exposed user data from its online portal. France Titres, also known as the Agence nationale des titres sécurisés (ANTS), operates under the French Ministry of the Interior

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Claude Mythos finds 271 Firefox flaws, Mozilla believes it shifts security toward defenders

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Claude Mythos finds 271 Firefox flaws, Mozilla believes it shifts security toward defenders 2026-04-22 at 18:51 By Sinisa Markovic The Mozilla Foundation tested Claude Mythos, an Anthropic AI model that has stirred debate in the cybersecurity community. Before granting access to Mythos, Mozilla scanned Firefox using Opus 4.6, which led to fixes for 22 security-sensitive

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New Mirai variants target routers and DVRs in parallel campaigns

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New Mirai variants target routers and DVRs in parallel campaigns 2026-04-22 at 16:42 By Zeljka Zorz Hidden inside newly discovered botnet malware is an unusual message from its creator: “AI.NEEDS.TO.DIE”. Dubbed “tuxnokill” by researchers at Akamai, the malware is one of two fresh Mirai botnet variants documented this month by major cybersecurity firms and, judging

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Progress Software fixes sneaky WAF bypass vulnerability (CVE-2026-21876)

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Progress Software fixes sneaky WAF bypass vulnerability (CVE-2026-21876) 2026-04-22 at 14:47 By Zeljka Zorz Progress Software has fixed a slew of high-severity vulnerabilities in MOVEit WAF and LoadMaster, including a flaw (CVE-2026-21876) that may allow attackers to bypass firewall detection. MOVEit WAF (web application firewall) is designed to protect Progress’s managed file transfer platform MOVEit

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Phishing reclaims the top initial access spot, attackers experiment with AI tools

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Phishing reclaims the top initial access spot, attackers experiment with AI tools 2026-04-22 at 13:48 By Anamarija Pogorelec Phishing returned as the leading method attackers used to break into organizations in the first quarter of 2026, accounting for over a third of engagements where initial access could be determined, according to Cisco Talos. It is

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Tencent’s QClaw AI agent app arrives on Windows and macOS

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Tencent’s QClaw AI agent app arrives on Windows and macOS 2026-04-22 at 13:48 By Sinisa Markovic Tencent has opened an international beta of QClaw, an AI agent application aimed at consumers in Canada, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, and the United States. The first wave is capped at 20,000 users. Additional markets are scheduled to follow.

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OneDrive updates focus on AI, access control, and compliance

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OneDrive updates focus on AI, access control, and compliance 2026-04-22 at 13:48 By Anamarija Pogorelec Microsoft OneDrive’s recent updates focus on improving intelligence, collaboration, and administrative control. “Last year, we made a promise: your files should work for you, not the other way around. That meant reimagining OneDrive not just as a place to store

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PentAGI: Open-source autonomous AI penetration testing system

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PentAGI: Open-source autonomous AI penetration testing system 2026-04-22 at 10:09 By Anamarija Pogorelec Penetration testers have long relied on collections of specialized tools, manual coordination, and documented runbooks to work through a target assessment. PentAGI, an open-source project from VXControl, attempts to automate that entire workflow using a multi-agent AI system that plans, researches, and

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Shadow AI, deepfakes, and supply chain compromise are rewriting the financial sector threat playbook

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Shadow AI, deepfakes, and supply chain compromise are rewriting the financial sector threat playbook 2026-04-22 at 10:09 By Anamarija Pogorelec Financially motivated attacks continued to drive the bulk of cyber incidents against banks, insurers, and payment processors in 2025. Approximately 90% of breaches affecting financial institutions carried a financial motive, with data breaches accounting for

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