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Noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: Cloudflare outage not caused by cyberattack, Dutch police identified 126 users of Cracked.io, the Victoria’s Secret cyberattack has cost $10 million. 

Threat actors have abused the TeamFiltration pentesting framework to target over 80,000 Entra ID user accounts.

Industry professionals comment on the Trump administration’s new executive order on cybersecurity. 

CISA warns that vulnerable SimpleHelp RMM instances have been exploited against a utility billing software provider’s customers.

Multiple legitimate, unusual tools were used in a Fog ransomware attack, including one employed by Chinese hacking group APT41.

Mitel has announced patches for a MiCollab path traversal vulnerability that can be exploited remotely without authentication.

Trend Micro patches critical-severity Apex Central and Endpoint Encryption PolicyServer flaws leading to remote code execution.

ZeroRISC has raised $10 million in seed funding for production-grade open source silicon security, built on OpenTitan designs.

Citizen Lab publishes forensic proof that spyware maker Paragon can compromise up-to-date iPhones. Journalists in Europe among victims.

AI-generated voice deepfakes have crossed the uncanny valley, fueling a surge in fraud that outpaces traditional security measures. Detection technology is racing to keep up.

Hirundo tackles AI hallucinations and bias by making trained models “forget” poisoned, malicious, and confidential data.

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Cloud security startup Upwind has appointed Rinki Sethi as Chief Security Officer.

SAP security firm SecurityBridge announced the appointment of Roman Schubiger as the company’s new CRO.

Cybersecurity training and simulations provider SimSpace has appointed Peter Lee as Chief Executive Officer.

Orchid Security has appointed a new Chief Product Officer and three advisors.

Kaseya has appointed Rania Succar as Chief Executive Officer.

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Industry professionals comment on the Trump administration’s new executive order on cybersecurity. 

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Mitel has announced patches for a MiCollab path traversal vulnerability that can be exploited remotely without authentication.

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AI-generated voice deepfakes have crossed the uncanny valley, fueling a surge in fraud that outpaces traditional security measures. Detection technology is racing to keep up.

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The new attack technique uses smartwatches to capture ultrasonic covert communication in air-gapped environments and exfiltrate data.

Interpol has announced a crackdown on infostealer malware in Asia as part of an effort called Operation Secure.

Series E funding round brings Cyera’s total funding to over $1.3 billion and values the data security firm at $6 billion.

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Microsoft on Friday announced that Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer has decided to retire as CEO and will step down within the next 12 months.Ballmer will continue to serve as CEO until his successor is selected, the company said. 

WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama said Friday he is "confident" that vast surveillance programs are not being abused but admitted that Americans have "legitimate" concerns. "We do have to do a better job of giving people confidence in how these programs work," Obama told CNN in an interview.

Norwich University Applied Research Institutes (NUARI) and U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) announced on Thursday that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology (DHS S&T) directorate intends to award NUARI a $9.9 million contract to develop technologies that will help organizations understand how to respond in the event of a cyber attack.

In the current threat landscape, where cyber-criminals are increasingly using automation to carry out their attacks, an automatic security reaction seems to be inevitable, as mitigating attacks with a manual process would be as effective as bringing a knife to a gunfight.

FORT MEADE - US Army Private Bradley Manning was sentenced to 35 years in jail and dishonorably discharged Wednesday for the biggest breach of official secrets in American history.

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