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Google unleashes even more AI security agents to fight the baddies 2026-04-22 at 15:49 By Jessica Lyons Along with a bunch of new services to make sure those same agents don’t cause chaos Google Cloud chief operating officer Francis deSouza has summed up his company’s security strategy du jour as follows: “You need to use […]

Google claims to have all the answers for enterprise AI agent sprawl 2026-04-22 at 15:49 By O’Ryan Johnson As biz agentic bot-wrangling intensifies, company says AI orchestration, security and infrastructure tools on the way Google Cloud Next  Google has overhauled its enterprise AI strategy in the wake of the agentic push across the biz landscape,

Forget one chip to rule them all: With TPU 8, Google has an AI arms race to win 2026-04-22 at 15:49 By Tobias Mann x86 gets the boot as Google pairs up its TPUs with some Arm-based Axion cores Google unveiled two new in-house AI accelerators at its annual Cloud Next conference in Las Vegas

Scotland Yard can keep using live facial recognition on Londoners, say judges 2026-04-22 at 14:47 By Connor Jones Judges say cops face-slurping not a problem under current human rights laws London’s Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) has survived a legal challenge that attempted to curb its rollout of live facial recognition (LFR) technology across the capital.…

France’s ‘Secure’ ID agency probes breach as crooks claim 19M records 2026-04-22 at 14:47 By Carly Page Gov admits ‘incident’ as forum sellers boast of fresh haul covering up to a third of the population France’s National Agency for “Secure” Documents is explaining a potential data spill just as crooks online claim they’ve nicked a

UK tribunal sends £2B claim accusing Microsoft of overcharging for licensing to trial 2026-04-22 at 14:47 By Richard Speed Legal action claims tech giant charges more for Windows Server when it’s not on Azure A UK Competition Appeals Tribunal (CAT) has dismissed Microsoft’s objections to a collective action lawsuit brought by UK-based cloud licensees, clearing

Lotus Wiper Malware Targets Venezuelan Energy Systems in Destructive Attack 2026-04-22 at 14:47 By Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a previously undocumented data wiper that has been used in attacks targeting Venezuela at the end of last year and the start of 2026. Dubbed Lotus Wiper, the novel file wiper has been used in a destructive

Toxic Combinations: When Cross-App Permissions Stack into Risk 2026-04-22 at 14:47 By On January 31, 2026, researchers disclosed that Moltbook, a social network built for AI agents, had left its database wide open, exposing 35,000 email addresses and 1.5 million agent API tokens across 770,000 active agents. The more worrying part sat inside the private

Harvester: APT Group Expands Toolset With New GoGra Linux Backdoor 2026-04-22 at 13:48 By Threat Hunter Team Campaign appears to have been targeted at India and Afghanistan. This article is an excerpt from SECURITY.COM View Original Source

Database world trying to build natural language query systems again – this time with LLMs 2026-04-22 at 13:48 By Lindsay Clark Text-to-SQL might be useful for analysts and DBAs, but be cautious with general user adoption Over the past few years, database and analytics vendors have hopped on a bandwagon that may take us all

Forget call centers, local energy prices mean Britain’s latest offshoring wave is AI projects 2026-04-22 at 13:48 By Dan Robinson Brit firms look to run tech overseas as govt tries to support ‘sovereign’ creators One in five UK firms have already moved AI workloads abroad due to high energy costs, in findings likely to alarm

Microsoft Patches Critical ASP.NET Core CVE-2026-40372 Privilege Escalation Bug 2026-04-22 at 13:47 By Microsoft has released out-of-band updates to address a security vulnerability in ASP.NET Core that could allow an attacker to escalate privileges. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-40372, carries a CVSS score of 9.1 out of 10.0. It’s rated Important in severity. An anonymous

Oil crisis? What oil crisis? IT spending de-coupled from wider war shock 2026-04-22 at 11:49 By Lindsay Clark Gartner sees accelerating growth in IT spending, powered by cloud and AI infrastructure investment A day after the International Energy Agency (IEA) said the US/Israel/Iran war was creating the worst energy crisis ever faced by the ‌world,

Mustang Panda’s New LOTUSLITE Variant Targets India Banks, South Korea Policy Circles 2026-04-22 at 11:49 By Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new variant of a known malware called LOTUSLITE that’s distributed via a theme related to India’s banking sector. “The backdoor communicates with a dynamic DNS-based command-and-control server over HTTPS and supports remote shell access,

Cohere AI Terrarium Sandbox Flaw Enables Root Code Execution, Container Escape 2026-04-22 at 11:49 By A critical security vulnerability has been disclosed in a Python-based sandbox called Terrarium that could result in arbitrary code execution. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-5752, is rated 9.3 on the CVSS scoring system. “Sandbox escape vulnerability in Terrarium allows arbitrary

The Security Metric That’s Failing You 2026-04-22 at 09:07 By Security teams have measured patch rates for so long that somewhere along the way, the metric became the strategy. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Mythos found 271 Firefox flaws – but none a human couldn’t spot 2026-04-22 at 08:33 By Simon Sharwood Mozilla CTO says AI means developers finally have a chance to get on top of security The Mozilla Foundation has revealed it tested Anthropic’s bug-finding “Mythos” AI model and feels the results it experienced represent a watershed

The Privacy–Security Partnership: How We Bend Risk in a Resource Crunch 2026-04-22 at 08:33 By The partnership between cybersecurity and privacy matters now more than ever. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Magnificent irony as Meta staff unhappy about running surveillance software on work PCs 2026-04-22 at 06:04 By Simon Sharwood Zuck reportedly needs to capture workers’ keystrokes to build AI Meta, the company built on watching everything its billions of users do online so it can keep them clicking on ragebait and targeted ads, is reportedly

Anthropic tests how devs react to yanking Claude Code from Pro plan 2026-04-22 at 03:42 By Thomas Claburn Unannounced change apparently aimed at two percent of users but hit documentation for everyone Anthropic has removed Claude Code from its Pro subscription plan, according to some of its public-facing web pages, but the company says it’s