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A critical vulnerability in a widely used WordPress plugin has exposed over 200,000 websites to full account takeover, raising urgent concerns across the security community. Discovered on May 8, 2026, by Wordfence’s AI-powered PRISM threat intelligence platform, the flaw affects the Burst Statistics plugin, a privacy-focused analytics tool. Tracked as CVE-2026-8181 with a CVSS score […]

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Ransomware, supply chain vulnerabilities, insider threats, compliance failures, and software disruptions remain major concerns for security leaders, according to The Ransomware Reality: Zero Days to Recover report by Absolute Security. How CISOs currently ensure endpoint resilience against ransomware (overall, %) (Source: Absolute Security) A survey of 750 CISOs from enterprise organizations with more than 5,000 employees in the United States and the United Kingdom revealed gaps between ransomware frequency, confidence in recovery capabilities, and remediation … More →

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UFORCE, a London-based company founded by Ukrainians, is looking to make drones in America.

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It's a hot topic, the old "pay or don't pay" for hackers not to leak your data. Since recording this a few days ago, we've had Grafana go with the "no pay" approach, and I've seen a raft

Fast16 malware has been reclassified as a precision tool engineered not to disrupt nuclear warheads directly, but to quietly falsify the outcome of nuclear weapons test simulations and stall weapons development. Rather than causing kinetic damage, Fast16’s purpose was psychological and developmental: to convince weapons engineers that their virtual detonation tests were failing, even when […]

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