Cybersecurity, AI, etc.
Security researchers at Kaspersky have uncovered a supply-chain attack targeting DAEMON Tools Lite, where trojanized Windows installers were distributed from the official website for nearly a month — from April…
A wave of AI-attributed mass layoffs swept through the tech sector this week, with Cloudflare, Upwork, Bill Holdings, Coinbase, and Meta all announcing significant workforce reductions — and explicitly pointing…
Anthropic has signed a major compute deal with SpaceX, gaining exclusive access to the Colossus 1 data center in Memphis, Tennessee — originally built by Elon Musk’s xAI to train…
The cybercrime group ShinyHunters has escalated its attack on Instructure’s Canvas learning management system, defacing the platform’s login page with a ransom demand threatening to leak data from 275 million…
A new, unpatched local privilege escalation vulnerability in the Linux kernel — dubbed “Dirty Frag” — has been publicly disclosed, enabling unprivileged local users to gain root access on most…
Ivanti has released emergency patches for its Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM) product, addressing five vulnerabilities — including CVE-2026-6973, a high-severity zero-day that is being actively exploited in targeted attacks. The…
Summary Tether’s AI Research Group has unveiled QVAC MedPsy, a new class of medical language models designed to run directly on smartphones and other resource-constrained devices. According to Tether, these…
Summary Europol has released its Internet Organised Crime Threat Assessment (IOCTA) 2026, titled “How Encryption, Proxies, and AI Are Expanding Cybercrime.” The annual report paints a stark picture of an…
Summary The United States National Guard has been activated in multiple states to respond to ransomware attacks that overwhelmed local government cybersecurity capabilities. In Minnesota, Governor Tim Walz authorized the…
Summary Twelve critical security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in vm2, the widely-used Node.js library for running untrusted JavaScript inside sandboxed environments. The flaws — including CVE-2026-24118, CVE-2026-24120, CVE-2026-24781, and CVE-2026-26332,…