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In Other News: ATT&CK Advisory Council, Russian Cyberattacks Aid Missile Strikes, Predator Bypasses iOS Indicators

Other noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: cyber valuations surge, OpenAI disrupts malicious AI use, ShinyHunters claims Odido breach. The post In Other News: ATT&CK Advisory Council, Russian Cyberattacks Aid Missile Strikes, Predator Bypasses iOS Indicators appeared first on SecurityWeek. more…

38 Million Allegedly Impacted by ManoMano Data Breach

Hackers stole personal information such as names, email addresses, phone numbers, and other information. The post 38 Million Allegedly Impacted by ManoMano Data Breach appeared first on SecurityWeek. more…

900 Sangoma FreePBX Instances Infected With Web Shells

The attacks exploited a post-authentication command injection vulnerability in the endpoint manager’s interface. The post 900 Sangoma FreePBX Instances Infected With Web Shells appeared first on SecurityWeek. more…

Chilean Carding Shop Operator Extradited to US

The 24-year-old suspect has been accused of trafficking over 26,000 cards from a single brand. The post Chilean Carding Shop Operator Extradited to US appeared first on SecurityWeek. more…

Anthropic Refuses to Bend to Pentagon on AI Safeguards as Dispute Nears Deadline

Anthropic said it sought narrow assurances from the Pentagon that Claude won’t be used for mass surveillance of Americans or in fully autonomous weapons. The post Anthropic Refuses to Bend to Pentagon on AI Safeguards as Dispute Nears Deadline appeared first on SecurityWeek. more…

Aeternum Botnet Loader Employs Polygon Blockchain C&C to Boost Resilience

Aeternum operates on smart contracts, making its command-and-control (C&C) infrastructure difficult to disrupt. The post Aeternum Botnet Loader Employs Polygon Blockchain C&C to Boost Resilience appeared first on SecurityWeek. more…

Jack Dorsey shrinks Block to ‘intelligence‑native’ model, cutting 4,000 jobs

Block, the payments and financial services company led by Jack Dorsey, is cutting more than 4,000 jobs, nearly half its workforce, because AI tools have made a leaner organisation not just possible, but strategically preferable, Dorsey said in a letter to its shareholders. The cuts will reduce Block’s headcount from over 10,000 to just under […] more…

Google’s Gemini, 3 years in: Is this the future we wanted?

Believe it or not, it’s now been a full three years since Google’s Gemini assistant took its incredibly awkward and painfully premature first steps into the world. Google announced Gemini — known as Bard, at the time — in February of 2023. (In a classic Google move, the Gemini moniker came into the mix several […] more…

Juniper Networks PTX Routers Affected by Critical Vulnerability

An out-of-band security update for Junos OS Evolved patches the remote code execution vulnerability CVE-2026-21902. The post Juniper Networks PTX Routers Affected by Critical Vulnerability appeared first on SecurityWeek. more…

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Critical Flaws Exposed Gardyn Smart Gardens to Remote Hacking

CISA has released an advisory to warn about four vulnerabilities discovered by a researcher in Gardyn Home and Gardyn Studio. The post Critical Flaws Exposed Gardyn Smart Gardens to Remote Hacking appeared first on SecurityWeek. more…

AI doesn’t think like a human. Stop talking to it as if it does

Autonomous agents take the first part of their names very seriously and don’t necessarily do what their humans tell them to do — or not to do. But the situation is more complicated than that. Generative (genAI) and agentic systems operate quite differently than other systems — including older AI systems — and humans. That […] more…

Europe forces a search reset: Google experiments with fairer rankings

Google continues to find itself in hot water over its alleged antitrust tactics and monopolization of certain market segments. Now its parent company, Alphabet, seems to be ceding to EU scrutiny of its search practices. The company will reportedly begin testing changes to its search engine results in the EU to more fairly represent vertical […] more…

NATO approves iPhone and iPad to handle classified info

In an impressive and unique industry first that reflects the work Apple has done on mobile device security since the first iPhone arrived almost 20 years ago, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) says iPhones and iPads running iOS 26 are secure enough to handle classified information in NATO-restricted environments — pretty much out-of-the-box. That’s going […] more…

Apple iPhone and iPad Cleared for Classified NATO Use

The devices have been added to the NATO Information Assurance Product Catalogue (NIAPC). The post Apple iPhone and iPad Cleared for Classified NATO Use appeared first on SecurityWeek. more…

ServiceNow plans automation of L1 Service Desk roles, promises more AI ‘specialists’ to come

ServiceNow plans to unleash the first member of its Autonomous Workforce, the Level 1 Service Desk AI specialist, next quarter. The agent will autonomously diagnose and resolve common IT support requests such as password resets, provisioning of software access, and network troubleshooting. It will base its actions on information from enterprise knowledge bases, historical incident […] more…

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