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Visa Is Buying Fraud-Detection Firm BioCatch for $2.4 Billion
The payments giant wants BioCatch's technology, which watches how you move through a banking app, to help banks catch scammers before money leaves an account.
UK Police Legal Database Breach Exposes 100,000+ Officers as ICO and NCA Step In
The Police National Legal Database has confirmed contact details of officers and criminal justice staff were stolen, with the ExfilSquad group claiming 135,000 records and demanding a ransom.
BTMOB Android spyware splinters into a messy resale market
What started as a single Android remote-access tool for hire has fractured into resellers, source-code buyers and impersonators trading under the same name.
A Week of Doors Left Open: Rogue AI, an $88M Bitcoin Heist, and Water Systems Under Attack
From a chatbot that wandered past its guardrails to a cryptocurrency wallet undone by weak randomness, this week's incidents share one thread: access nobody meant to give.
98% of Cybersecurity Leaders Report Job Stress. The Fix Isn't More Hiring.
A major industry survey finds that stress among security chiefs has become the norm, not the exception. The real problem, argues one senior researcher, is a design flaw in how organisations treat the role itself.
Why Locking Down What AI Agents Can Do Is Not Enough
A security firm says the real question is not what you told your AI to do. It is how far it can wander if something goes wrong.
River Bank Paid Hackers to Delete Stolen Data After June Ransomware Attack
Alabama's River Bank & Trust was hit by ransomware in June. The bank appears to have paid the criminals to destroy what they took, but still cannot confirm whether customer data was exposed.
Horizon3.ai Raises $250 Million as Demand for Automated Security Testing Grows
The cybersecurity firm behind autonomous penetration testing just landed a major funding round. Here is what the company does, why investors are paying attention, and what it means for the broader security market.
Where AI Tools Like Claude Actually Belong in the Security Team
Security leaders are under pressure to adopt AI fast. Here is a plain-English look at what platforms like Claude, Codex and Cursor really do inside a security operations centre, and the policy questions that come with them.
Fake Amazon Login Pages Hide a Chinese iPhone Hacking Campaign
Researchers say a Chinese group is running more than 100 lookalike sign-in sites to attack iPhones with a leaked hacking kit called DarkSword.
UK Police Legal Database Leaked to Dark Web After July Breach
Names, work emails and organisational details of officers, criminal justice staff and government partners were posted online after intruders hit the Police National Legal Database.
INC Ransomware Gang Is Exploiting Two Critical SonicWall Flaws, And Calling Victims Afterward
A ransomware group has weaponised two newly discovered holes in widely used remote-access devices, hitting targets across five countries. The criminals are now also cold-calling victims to pile on the pressure.
Your Company's Vendor Problem Starts Before Anyone Calls Security
When businesses pick software first and ask security questions second, they hand criminals a head start. Here is why fixing that order matters, and what a grown-up process actually looks like.
Iran-Linked Hackers Hit Water Systems Across at Least Seven US States
Michigan, South Dakota, and Georgia are among the states confirmed to have had water infrastructure targeted. This is not a Minnesota problem.
Thermo Fisher patches DNA analysis flaw that could let evidence files be quietly altered
A vulnerability in Applied Biosystems human identification software could allow near-invisible edits to forensic DNA files before analysts ever see them.
AI Isn't Bringing New Attack Tricks. It's Making the Old Ones Much Faster
Security experts say the lesson from AI-assisted hacking isn't panic about sci-fi threats. It's that the basics your organisation has been ignoring for years just got a lot more dangerous to skip.
Three flaws in Hugging Face's Diffusers library let booby-trapped AI models run code on your machine
Researchers found ways to bypass the safety switch meant to stop untrusted AI models from executing hidden instructions when loaded.
N-able confirms hackers seized N-central servers through a login-bypass flaw
The remote-management platform's first patch didn't hold. A second fix, in build 2026.3.1.7, closes CVE-2026-18577.
Cybersecurity Then and Now: What Actually Changed (and What Didn't)
A look at how the threats facing ordinary people and the businesses they deal with have shifted over the decades, and why some of the oldest tricks still work best.
Iranian hackers suspected in attack on 30 US water systems
A wave of cyberattacks hit Minnesota water infrastructure on Sunday and Monday, briefly cutting supply to one town. Investigators say the methods match a known Iranian-linked group, though formal attribution has not yet been made.
OpenAI's unreleased 'Astra' model reportedly cracked 10 maths problems that stumped humans for decades
The lab says an internal version of its next big model produced fresh results in geometry, cryptography and group theory, at a compute cost of around $2,000 per problem.