Cybersecurity is a contest between attackers and defenders. For far too long, governments have been defending their turf alone while attackers frequently target public-sector entities with little to no resistance, launching attacks with national ramifications. Despite rules and regulations meant… Read More "Government Can’t Win the Cyber War Without the Private Sector"
The Hacker NewsApr 16, 2026Data Privacy / Compliance A bank approved a Taboola pixel. That pixel quietly redirected logged-in users to a Temu tracking endpoint. This occurred without the bank’s knowledge, without user consent, and without a single security control registering a violation.… Read More "Hidden Passenger? How Taboola Routes Logged-In Banking Sessions to Temu"
The original Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) Secure Boot certificates for Windows will start expiring in late June. Microsoft urged IT and security leaders to apply updated certificates to all Windows PCs made before 2024 to ensure they continue receiving… Read More "Microsoft’s Original Windows Secure Boot Certificate Is Expiring"
Two US nationals have been imprisoned for their role in helping to facilitate laptop farms for North Korean remote IT worker scams on behalf of Pyongyang. On April 15, the US Justice Department, announced that Kejia Wang, 42, and Zhenxing… Read More "US Nationals Jailed for Operating Fake IT Worker Scams for North Korea"
US cybersecurity startup Artemis this week emerged from stealth mode with $70 million in combined seed and Series A funding. Founded in 2025, New York-based Artemis has built an AI-based platform to detect and contain threats across applications, users, machines,… Read More "Artemis Emerges From Stealth With $70 Million in Funding"
Ravie LakshmananApr 16, 2026Vulnerability / Network Security Cisco has announced patches to address four critical security flaws impacting Identity Services and Webex Services that could result in arbitrary code execution and allow an attacker to impersonate any user within the service.… Read More "Cisco Patches Four Critical Identity Services, Webex Flaws Enabling Code Execution"
International law enforcement partners have executed Operation Lightning and dismantled malicious proxy service ‘SocksEscort.’ The proxy service is alleged to have compromised over 360,000 routers and internet of things (IoT) devices in163 countries since 2020 and offered ‘SocksEscort’ customers over… Read More "Law Enforcement Dismantles SocksEscort Proxy Network"
Days after Anthropic unveiled its Claude Mythos AI model, OpenAI introduced GPT-5.4-Cyber, a cybersecurity-focused model that will be offered to many defenders. OpenAI announced that it’s scaling its Trusted Access for Cyber program to thousands of verified defenders and hundreds… Read More "OpenAI Widens Access to Cybersecurity Model After Anthropic’s Mythos Reveal"
Ravie LakshmananApr 16, 2026Hacking 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. We’ve got hackers getting creative in ways that are almost impressive if you… Read More "Defender 0-Day, SonicWall Brute-Force, 17-Year-Old Excel RCE and 15 More Stories"
Why is Glasswing still a big deal VulnCheck’s findings reframe Glasswing’s capabilities. The limited number of directly attributable CVEs is just one way of measuring its impact. Industry observers are interpreting Mythos much differently. Melissa Bischoping, a SANS Technology Institute… Read More "Behind the Mythos hype, Glasswing has just one confirmed CVE"
