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** Ravie Lakshmanan ** Apr 17, 2026 Vulnerability / Endpoint Security Huntress is warning that threat actors are exploiting three recently disclosed security flaws in Microsoft Defender to gain …

Two weeks ago, Google’s Quantum AI group published a zero-knowledge proof of a quantum circuit so optimized, they concluded that first-generation quantum computers will break elliptic curve …

Mythos and Cybersecurity Last week, Anthropic pulled back the curtain on Claude Mythos Preview , an AI model so capable at finding and exploiting software vulnerabilities that the company decided it …

Google this week announced a new set of Play policy updates to strengthen user privacy and protect businesses against fraud, even as it revealed it blocked or removed over 8.3 billion ads globally and …

Datateam homepage on 13 April 2026 A Kent-based communications business has grown to over £14m in turnover by acquiring more than 70 underperforming specialist magazines. Many of its print titles, …

Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner. Picture: Robert Downs/INMA Axel Springer’s planned £575m takeover of Telegraph Media Group has been approved by the UK Government. It is still awaiting regulatory …

** Ravie Lakshmanan ** Apr 17, 2026 DDoS / Cybercrime An international law enforcement operation has taken down 53 domains and arrested four people in connection with commercial distributed …

** Ravie Lakshmanan ** Apr 17, 2026 Vulnerability Management The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has announced changes to the way it handles cybersecurity vulnerabilities and …

Artificial intelligence is already proving it can accelerate drug development and improve our understanding of disease. But to turn AI into novel treatments we need to get the latest, most powerful …

** Ravie Lakshmanan ** Apr 17, 2026 Vulnerability / Enterprise Security A recently disclosed high-severity security flaw in Apache ActiveMQ Classic has come under active exploitation in the wild, per …

Introduction This diary provides indicators from a Lumma Stealer infection that was followed by Sectop RAT (ArechClient2). I searched for cracked versions of popular copyright-protected software, and …

ISC Stormcast For Friday, April 17th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9896

** Ravie Lakshmanan ** Apr 16, 2026 Botnet / Cryptomining Cybersecurity researchers have warned of an active malicious campaign that’s targeting the workforce in the Czech Republic with a …

Standard website homepage on 16 April 2026 The Independent has completed a “long-term” deal to run the digital operations and print advertising of The Standard. Press Gazette understands that out of …

Online retailers face a persistent challenge: shoppers struggle to determine the fit and look when ordering online, leading to increased returns and decreased purchase confidence. The cost? Lost …

Compliance teams in regulated industries spend weeks on manual reviews, pay for outside consultants, and still face audit gaps when AI outputs lack formal proof. Automated Reasoning checks in Amazon …

Text-to-SQL generation remains a persistent challenge in enterprise AI applications, particularly when working with custom SQL dialects or domain-specific database schemas. While foundation models …

Stephen Nolan. BBC Northern Ireland has won a complaint against the Irish News over four articles that alleged staff had been “planted” in the audience of presenter Stephen Nolan’s TV show. Press …

Head straight for orbit with GeForce NOW — no space helmet required. PRAGMATA , Capcom’s long-awaited sci-fi action adventure, touches down on GeForce NOW the same day it launches worldwide. The …

** Ravie Lakshmanan ** Apr 16, 2026 Hacking News / Cybersecurity News You know that feeling when you open your feed on a Thursday morning and it’s just… a lot? Yeah. This week delivered. …

** Mohit Kumar ** Apr 16, 2026 Artificial Intelligence / Enterprise Security In 2024, compromised service accounts and forgotten API keys were behind 68% of cloud breaches. Not phishing. Not weak …

** Ravie Lakshmanan ** Apr 16, 2026 Application Security / Threat Intelligence A “novel” social engineering campaign has been observed abusing Obsidian, a cross-platform note-taking …

** The Hacker News ** Apr 16, 2026 Data Privacy / Compliance A bank approved a Taboola pixel. That pixel quietly redirected logged-in users to a Temu tracking endpoint. This occurred without the …

** Ravie Lakshmanan ** Apr 16, 2026 Vulnerability / Network Security Cisco has announced patches to address four critical security flaws impacting Identity Services and Webex Services that could …

Human Trust of AI Agents Interesting research: “ Humans expect rationality and cooperation from LLM opponents in strategic games .” Abstract: As Large Language Models (LLMs) integrate into our social …