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Microsoft agreed to adopt guardrails and privacy standards for its AI in schools, as negotiated with the American Federation of Teachers. The post Microsoft Commits to Sweeping AI Privacy Rules for Students. Will Other Tech Giants Follow? appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Point-in-time audits and sampled assessments offer only snapshots; continuous control monitoring provides evidence that security controls are working today. The post “We Think the Security Control Is Working” Is No Longer Good Enough appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a previously undocumented Brazilian banking malware operation that delivers a toolkit called KREMLIN. Elastic Security Labs is tracking the activity under the moniker REF9334. Active since at least May 2025, the threat actor has used lures that impersonate a dozen Brazilian banks and install a malicious browser extension on Google Chrome and

Cybersecurity agencies in the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands have detailed a Windows malware that they say Iran's intelligence service uses to spy on dissidents, journalists, and activists around the world. The malware is controlled via the Telegram messaging app and can copy a target's emails and chat messages, take screenshots, and activate the microphone to record

AI-assisted researchers flooded Vercel with reports, forcing the company to automate vulnerability triage. The post $1 Million Sandbox Challenge Uncovers Linux Kernel Flaws appeared first on SecurityWeek.

The cybersecurity startup is building a proprietary foundation model and plans to accelerate global expansion. The post Exein Secures $270M at $1.7B Valuation for Physical AI Security appeared first on SecurityWeek.

A hacker claims to have stolen 7.5 million customer records after breaching the company’s systems. The post Texas Utility CenterPoint Energy Confirms Breach After Hacker Leaks Data appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a multi-platform campaign that uses the Message Queueing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) protocol as a communication channel to control Windows and Linux systems. The emerging malware family, codenamed BambooToken, is assessed to be active since at least February 2023 and put to use in attacks targeting organizations across Asia and South America.

The hackers staged numerous scripts for reconnaissance and CVE probing, along with brute-force utilities and privilege escalation tools. The post Thai Broadband Provider Hacked via Fortinet Vulnerability appeared first on SecurityWeek.

The incident occurred in May, when RubyGems maintainers suspended new account registrations due to what appeared like malicious activity. The post OpenAI Investigates Report Linking AI Agents to RubyGems Attack appeared first on SecurityWeek.

With artificial intelligence (AI) shrinking the window between vulnerability discovery and exploitation and lowering the barrier to entry for bad actors, new findings from Sysdig show that skilled human operators can move just as swiftly after gaining initial access. In one instance highlighted by the cloud security company, the threat actor pivoted from a vulnerable Marimo notebook to an SSH

Hackers exploited a vulnerability in a VPN product to steal the personal information of roughly 240,000 people. The post 240,000 Hit by Data Breach at Japan’s Digital Agency appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Introduction Security teams have gotten pretty good at testing against what can hurt them. Can this EDR agent catch this payload? Will my organization fail the phishing simulation? Does this SIEM rule fire on this particular technique? And, in more mature organizations, this testing happens continuously rather than as a one-off exercise. But no matter how much you validate against these

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a mass-scanning campaign that has targeted Vite deployments siphon sensitive data. The first is an automated effort aimed at internet-exposed Vite development servers that's designed to steal cloud credentials, configurations from Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure instances, and infrastructure state files, per F5 Labs. The

The updates resolve kernel vulnerabilities that could lead to memory corruption, privilege escalation, system termination, and information leaks. The post Apple Patches 200 Vulnerabilities With New iOS 27, macOS Golden Gate 27 Releases appeared first on SecurityWeek.