Attackers embed invisible instructions in spam to trick AI assistants into recommending fraudulent payment changes or urgent actions to users.
Unauthorized actors exploited a private firm’s legal access to Denmark’s national population register, leaking names, addresses and CPR numbers for millions of citizens.
Federal prosecutors accuse Zohar Pinhasi of secretly buying decryption keys from ransomware gangs while charging victims full ransom amounts.
Most breaches originate from compromised credentials rather than external hackers, making identity verification the primary defense layer against data loss.
Attackers compromised high-profile developer accounts to inject malicious workflows into hundreds of repositories, stealing credentials from victims.
Cloudflare announces Clef-omni for native multimodal processing, alongside faster inference for Clef and reduced pricing for Clef-flash.
Misconfigured firewalls often expose more surface area than they protect because default allow rules silently bypass your intended security posture.
Password spraying hides in plain sight by staying below lockout thresholds, making detection dependent on log correlation rather than single-event alerts.
Traditional passwords fail because they are secrets you share; hardware keys work because they are secrets you never reveal to the attacker.
Attackers hijack brand support accounts on social platforms to steal credentials, bypassing traditional email security filters entirely.
Small teams can block most impersonation attempts by publishing a single text record in their DNS zone, requiring no new software or hardware purchases.
Drive-by downloads install software without your permission by exploiting browser vulnerabilities, meaning you can be compromised just by viewing a page.
Brand impersonation succeeds not by breaking encryption, but by exploiting the human tendency to trust familiar logos and expected communication patterns.
Evil twin attacks succeed because they mimic trusted networks, causing your device to connect automatically before you notice the subtle security certificate mismatches.
Your biggest security risk is not your firewall but the trusted third-party tools that bypass your perimeter checks to access your data.
Federal prosecutors allege the executive secretly paid ransoms while overcharging victims for specialized recovery services.
Hackers breached operators for .gh, .sl, and .as domains to obtain unauthorized HTTPS certificates for Google services, Google confirmed on October 6.