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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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Traditionally, security teams have an on-again, off-again relationship with infrastructure and operations teams. I think most folks who have worked with, or within, IT groups agree that the relationship can sometimes be strained. However, projects around the virtualization of infrastructure, especially virtualized desktops (VDI), and infrastructure-as-a-service (public cloud) present special challenges for IT.

JOHANNESBURG  - South Africa's ruling African National Congress on Friday said its website had been hacked by Zimbabwe activists claiming ties to the global "hacktivist" group Anonymous. "Someone calling themselves Anonymous and claiming to be the legitimate representative of the people of Zimbabwe has flooded the website of our organisation," the ANC said in a statement.

WASHINGTON - US authorities on Thursday warned makers of medical devices and hospital networks to step up efforts to guard against potential cyber attacks. The US Food and Drug Administration said implanted devices, which could include pacemakers or defibrillators, could be connected to networks that are vulnerable to hackers.

The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) released an update to its Top 10 list of risks facing developers. As in previous years, injection remained the top application security risk.

On Wednesday, NSS Labs released the results of a study that examined Next Generation Firewalls (NGFWs), and their ability to deal with SSL traffic. What they found was unfortunate, as many of the products – which are often the core of an enterprise’s defense strategy, failed to deal with the encrypted traffic properly.

BEIJING - Bombshell revelations about the United States' wide-reaching surveillance programs could spur China and other countries to expand their own efforts, Beijing-based dissident Ai Weiwei warned on Wednesday.

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Security researchers uncover critical flaws and widespread misconfigurations in Salesforce’s industry-specific CRM solutions.

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