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Mirax Android RAT Turns Devices into SOCKS5 Proxies, Reaching 220,000 via Meta Ads 2026-04-14 at 14:28 By A nascent Android remote access trojan called Mirax has been observed actively targeting Spanish-speaking countries, with campaigns reaching more than 220,000 accounts on Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and Threads through advertisements on Meta. “Mirax integrates advanced Remote Access Trojan (RAT) capabilities, […]

Enterprise-Grade Security For All in 2026 2026-04-14 at 13:33 By Jason Rolleston Attackers assume strapped teams don’t have advanced protection—Symantec CBX is here to prove them wrong This article is an excerpt from SECURITY.COM View Original Source

Microsoft raises UK Surface prices as RAM crisis reaches the checkout 2026-04-14 at 13:33 By Carly Page Entry-level models jump by up to £220, mirroring steeper hikes in US Microsoft’s memory squeeze has reached the shop floor, and Surface prices have been jacked up to match.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View

Analysis of 216M Security Findings Shows a 4x Increase In Critical Risk (2026 Report) 2026-04-14 at 13:32 By OX Security recently analyzed 216 million security findings across 250 organizations over a 90-day period. The primary takeaway: while raw alert volume grew by 52% year-over-year, prioritized critical risk grew by nearly 400%. The surge in AI-assisted development is

Britain gives Rolls-Royce the nod to sketch out its mini reactor future 2026-04-14 at 12:59 By Dan Robinson Contract kicks off design work, but SMRs unlikely to generate power before the mid-2030s The British government has signed a deal with Rolls‑Royce to carry out the design work on small modular reactors (SMRs).… This article is

Man suspected of Molotov attack on Sam Altman’s home charged with attempted murder 2026-04-14 at 12:59 By Connor Jones 20-year-old Texan also allegedly planned to kill everyone inside the OpenAI office building The man accused of attacking Sam Altman’s San Francisco home with a Molotov cocktail on April 10 now faces charges of attempted murder.…

Microsoft sends Outlook Lite to the great inbox in the sky as memory costs skyrocket 2026-04-14 at 12:01 By Richard Speed Mailbox access in stripped-down Android app ends on May 25 Having blocked new installations of Outlook Lite in October 2025, Microsoft will ” complete the retirement” of the app on May 25.… This article

UK state bank considers lengthening disastrous IT program 2026-04-14 at 12:01 By Lindsay Clark Already £1.3B over budget and 4 years late, NS&I could extend timetable beyond 8 years The UK’s state-backed savings bank has set out options for finishing its disastrous transformation program, including busting the current timeline.… This article is an excerpt from

108 Malicious Chrome Extensions Steal Google and Telegram Data, Affecting 20,000 Users 2026-04-14 at 12:00 By Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new campaign in which a cluster of 108 Google Chrome extensions has been found to communicate with the same command-and-control (C2) infrastructure with the goal of collecting user data and enabling browser-level abuse by

When the IBM PC and shoulder pads were big, Japan led the chip industry. It’s trying to get back there now 2026-04-14 at 10:48 By Tobias Mann Local hero Rapidus is on track to begin production of 2nm semis next year, as TSMC expands its Japanese foothold When IBM PCs set the standard for personal

Windows Update is a torture chamber for seldom-used PCs 2026-04-14 at 10:08 By Avram Piltch Microsoft punishes you for updating infrequently Opinion  It’s not the first time this has happened to me and it won’t be the last. I pulled a laptop that I hadn’t used for six months out of a drawer, then waited

CISA Adds 6 Known Exploited Flaws in Fortinet, Microsoft, and Adobe Software 2026-04-14 at 09:14 By The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added half a dozen security flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The list of vulnerabilities is as follows – CVE-2026-21643 (CVSS score: 9.1) –  An

ShowDoc RCE Flaw CVE-2025-0520 Actively Exploited on Unpatched Servers 2026-04-14 at 09:14 By A critical security vulnerability impacting ShowDoc, a document management and collaboration service popular in China, has come under active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2025-0520 (aka CNVD-2020-26585), which carries a CVSS score of 9.4 out of 10.0. It relates to a case of

Japanese rocket part came unglued, leading to mission failure 2026-04-14 at 06:29 By Simon Sharwood Tiny variation in temperature weakened a component and when a critical moment arrived, that mattered Japan’s space exploration agency (JAXA) thinks a manufacturing process that didn’t properly take into account the qualities of an adhesive caused the December 2025 failure

The votes are in: AI will hurt elections and relationships 2026-04-14 at 04:10 By Thomas Claburn Latest report from Stanford’s AI boffins finds unsafe usage practices, widespread anxiety about impacts, and China catching up to the USA Artificial intelligence has achieved mass adoption faster than the personal computer or the internet, reaching 53 percent of

Cloudflare revamps CLI as agents take over the internet 2026-04-14 at 01:35 By Brandon Vigliarolo What, you think basic usability is improved just for your benefit, human? Cloudflare is rebuilding Wrangler’s command-line tooling by adding commands for products and interfaces that still lack CLI support. And yes, AI agents are a big reason why.… This

Zombie Microsoft bugs rise from the dead, pave way for crims and ransomware scum 2026-04-14 at 01:35 By Jessica Lyons One was patched almost 14 years ago Crooks are exploiting four Microsoft vulnerabilities – one patched 14 years ago and another tied to ransomware activity – according to America’s lead cyber-defense agency, which on Monday

Claude is getting worse, according to Claude 2026-04-14 at 01:35 By Thomas Claburn Brief outage follows growing number of quality complaints Once the AI darling of programmers everywhere, Anthropic’s Claude has been stumbling mightily, both in terms of cost and perceived quality. The service was down briefly on Monday with “a major outage,” service trouble

How ServiceNow gets customers to gorge at the AI trough 2026-04-13 at 23:10 By O’Ryan Johnson ‘AI is now infused in every package that we offer to our addressable market,’ SVP John Aisien told us ServiceNow’s latest product announcements show how hardcore the company has become about embedding AI across its go-to-market strategy.… This article

Oracle accused of targeting employees with stock options in recent layoffs 2026-04-13 at 22:43 By Marc Vartabedian Outrage continues to build around Oracle’s mass layoffs as some laid-off workers slam the software giant for how it allegedly chose who to cut – with one 30-year veteran suggesting the company may have targeted employees with outstanding