The United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has unveiled a new program titled the Vulnerability Research Initiative (VRI), aimed at deepening collaboration with independent experts in vulnerability discovery. This initiative seeks to bolster...
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The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) of India has announced the dismantling of a transnational cybercriminal syndicate responsible for large-scale tech support scams. The operation, codenamed Chakra V, was carried out on July 7,...
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The Trump administration is planning to allocate $1 billion over the next four years toward offensive operations in cyberspace. These funds will be disbursed through the Department of Defense as part of a sweeping...
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There is no shortage of protective tools today, yet unfortunately, the number of threats continues to outpace them—particularly those that operate subtly and invisibly, penetrating the very core mechanisms of an operating system. Detecting...
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The cybersecurity landscape has witnessed an alarming evolution in hacktivist operations, with threat actors increasingly shifting their focus from traditional DDoS attacks and website defacements to sophisticated industrial control system (ICS) infiltrations. This tactical transformation represents a significant escalation in the hacktivist threat ecosystem, as groups now target critical infrastructure components that directly impact national […]
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The Open-Ended Working Group (OEWG) on security and the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in the context of international security has concluded its work in New York. After nearly five years of...
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A counterfeit extension for the Cursor AI development environment, masquerading as a legitimate Ethereum utility, has resulted in a major cybersecurity incident—a Russian cryptocurrency developer lost half a million dollars due to the extension’s...
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Over the weekend, an employee of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), an agency under Elon Musk’s purview, inadvertently exposed a confidential key that granted direct access to over 50 of xAI’s language models....
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A high-profile incident has recently concluded within the Solana ecosystem, involving the unauthorized extraction of cryptocurrency assets from the Texture project. Several days ago, an unidentified hacker exploited a vulnerability in one of the...
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The Gemini AI assistant, integrated into Google Workspace, has unexpectedly proven vulnerable to a novel form of social engineering. By exploiting a particular method of structuring content within emails, malicious actors can deceive the...
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