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$285 Million Drift Hack Traced to Six-Month DPRK Social Engineering Operation 2026-04-06 at 00:27 By Drift has revealed that the April 1, 2026, attack that led to the theft of $285 million was the culmination of a months-long targeted and meticulously planned social engineering operation undertaken by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) that began in the […]

Researchers didn’t want to glamorize cybercrims. So they roasted them 2026-04-05 at 17:32 By Jessica Lyons True-crime tales of criminals making fools of themselves interview  Cybercrime crews have become almost mystical entities, with security vendors assigning them names like Wizard Spider and Velvet Tempest.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

AI agents promise to ‘run the business,’ but who is liable if things go wrong? 2026-04-05 at 14:02 By Lindsay Clark Vendors tout the potential, but responsibility remains unclear Feature  “You can’t blame it on the box,” says the boss of a UK financial regulator. What about the people who sold you the box? Good

How Nvidia learned to embrace the light in its quest for scale 2026-04-05 at 11:17 By Tobias Mann The GPU king’s move to optical scale-up was inevitable If you thought Nvidia’s GB200 rack systems were big, CEO Jensen Huang is just getting started. At GTC last month, the world’s most valuable company revealed plans to

36 Malicious npm Packages Exploited Redis, PostgreSQL to Deploy Persistent Implants 2026-04-05 at 10:14 By Cybersecurity researchers have discovered 36 malicious packages in the npm registry that are disguised as Strapi CMS plugins but come with different payloads to facilitate Redis and PostgreSQL exploitation, deploy reverse shells, harvest credentials, and drop a persistent implant. “Every package

Fortinet Patches Actively Exploited CVE-2026-35616 in FortiClient EMS 2026-04-05 at 10:14 By Fortinet has released out-of-band patches for a critical security flaw impacting FortiClient EMS that it said has been exploited in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-35616 (CVSS score: 9.1), has been described as a pre-authentication API access bypass leading to privilege escalation. “An improper access

FBI warns iPhone, Android users against installing certain apps — as personal data could be collected, stored overseas 2026-04-04 at 22:47 By Fox News Apps like CapCut, Temu and SHEIN are among widely used Chinese-developed platforms that could be affected This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post View Original

Netflix, Meta, and IBM speakers: AI will make anyone a 10x programmer, but with 10x the cleanup 2026-04-04 at 16:36 By Joab Jackson Agents to check the work of the agents All Things AI  AI is easy to use, but not quite as easy as just barking “Alexa! Make me an e-commerce site.” And, no,

Ex-Microsoft engineer believes Azure problems stem from talent exodus 2026-04-04 at 13:00 By Thomas Claburn The cloud service’s woes reflect a crisis made worse by AI – under-investment in people In 2024, federal cybersecurity evaluators reportedly dismissed Microsoft 365 Government Community Cloud High (GCC High) as garbage, although they used a more colorful term. To

PrismML debuts energy-sipping 1-bit LLM in bid to free AI from the cloud 2026-04-04 at 11:09 By Thomas Claburn Bonasi 8B model is competitive with other 8B models but 14x smaller and 5x more energy efficient PrismML, an AI venture out of Caltech, has released a 1-bit large language model that outperforms weightier models, with

Online attacks and Luigi Mangione-inspired death threats in ugly brawl to build California AI megaproject 2026-04-04 at 05:04 By Marc Vartabedian The defamation lawsuit, filed by Imperial Valley Computer Manufacturing and its attorney, Sebastian Rucci, claims nonprofit Comite Civico del Valle (CCV) is attempting to stall the data center project in a bid to force

Elon Musk asks SpaceX IPO banks to buy Grok AI subscriptions: report 2026-04-04 at 02:17 By Reuters SpaceX boosted its target initial public offering valuation above $2 trillion, according to Bloomberg. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post View Original Source

Trump wants to take a battle axe to CISA again and slash $707M from budget 2026-04-04 at 02:17 By Jessica Lyons Ex-CISA official tells The Reg: ‘this would weaken the system for managing cyber risk’ The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s budget will see yet another deep cut if Congress approves President Trump’s proposal

Netflix – yes Netflix – jumps on the AI bandwagon with video editor 2026-04-04 at 00:01 By Thomas Claburn Video-language model revises how objects interact when things get removed from a scene A new Netflix model promises to rewrite the way we make movies. Just imagine this. As the director of the multi-million dollar epic

Apple’s fitness chief who joked to employees about sleeping with Olympic skier retires: report 2026-04-03 at 20:58 By Ariel Zilber Jay Blahnik, 57, who served as Apple’s vice president of fitness technologies, allegedly joked about sleeping with Olympic skier Ted Ligety. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post View

NHS staff resist using Palantir software 2026-04-03 at 20:58 By Brandon Vigliarolo Staff reportedly cite ethics concerns, privacy worries, and doubt the platform adds much Palantir’s software was brought in to help NHS England improve care and cut delays, but new reports suggest some staff are resisting using it over ethical, privacy, and trust concerns.…

World Cloud Security Day: Breaking Down the State of the Cloud Cybersecurity and Physical Security 2026-04-03 at 20:58 By A snapshot of the state of the cloud in cybersecurity and physical security.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

China-Linked TA416 Targets European Governments with PlugX and OAuth-Based Phishing 2026-04-03 at 20:58 By A China-aligned threat actor has set its sights on European government and diplomatic organizations since mid-2025, following a two-year period of minimal targeting in the region. The campaign has been attributed to TA416, a cluster of activity that overlaps with DarkPeony, RedDelta, Red Lich, SmugX,

Microsoft Details Cookie-Controlled PHP Web Shells Persisting via Cron on Linux Servers 2026-04-03 at 20:58 By Threat actors are increasingly using HTTP cookies as a control channel for PHP-based web shells on Linux servers and to achieve remote code execution, according to findings from the Microsoft Defender Security Research Team. “Instead of exposing command execution through URL

Car site Edmunds tests a $25K Chinese hybrid SUV — and issues warning to US automakers: ‘Technology is terrific’ 2026-04-03 at 18:58 By Reuters While Chinese cars are effectively banned in the US, Edmunds wanted to test one because of growing US consumer interest in the affordable, feature-packed vehicles. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology