An industry effort involving CrowdStrike, Google and the Shadowserver Foundation has led to the disruption of the Glassworm botnet. Working together, the three organizations managed to simultaneously take down all four of Glassworm’s command-and-control (C2) channels, severing the operators from… Read More "CrowdStrike, Google Take Down Glassworm Botnet"
SecurityWeek will host the 2026 Artificial Intelligence (AI) Risk Summit August 11-12, 2026, at the Ritz-Carlton in Half Moon Bay, CA. Now in its third year, the AI Risk Summit is the leading conference that brings together CISOs, security leaders, AI researchers,… Read More "SecurityWeek to Host AI Risk Summit August 11-12 at the Ritz-Carlton, Half Moon Bay"
Ravie LakshmananMay 27, 2026Malware / Threat Intelligence CrowdStrike, in partnership with Google and the Shadowserver Foundation, has announced the simultaneous disruption of all command-and-control (C2) channels associated with GlassWorm, a persistent software chain campaign targeting software developers through malicious packages… Read More "GlassWorm Malware Takedown Disrupts Developer Supply Chain Attack Infrastructure"
The safety guardrails of several prominent large language models (LLM) can be bypassed if a user tricks the LLM into having a multi-pronged, ongoing conversation, researchers at Cisco have warned. The researchers examined commonly used LLMs and frontier AI models… Read More "All Major LLMs Exposed to Multi-Turn Manipulation, Warn Researchers"
Cybersecurity startup RevEng.AI today announced raising $15 million in a Series A funding round that brings the total raised by the company to $19.5 million. The investment round was led by NATO Innovation Fund, with additional support from Sands Capital,… Read More "RevEng.AI Raises $15 Million to Hunt for Flaws and Backdoors in Software Binaries"
When an employee installs an AI writing assistant, connects a coding copilot to their IDE, or starts summarizing meetings with a new browser tool, they are doing exactly what a productive employee should do: finding faster ways to work. Across… Read More "5 Steps to Managing Shadow AI Tools Without Slowing Down Employees"
More than 4300 fraudulent domains impersonating FIFA’s official web presence have been registered since last August, building a fraud operation aimed squarely at fans of the 2026 FIFA World Cup. According to new analysis from Group-IB, the activity spans six… Read More "Thousands of Fake FIFA Domains Target World Cup Fans"
Identity security and quantum resilience company Lastwall announced on Wednesday that it has raised $11.5 million (C$16 million) in a Series A extension round to accelerate its expansion in North America. The funding round was led by the Business Development… Read More "Lastwall Raises $11.5 Million for Quantum-Resilient Identity Platform"
More than two-thirds of UK businesses have said they plan to increase cybersecurity spending over the next 12 months as AI adoption and geopolitical uncertainty reshape technology budgets. According to the Q1 2026 Barclays Business Prosperity Index, 68% of UK… Read More "68% of UK Firms Plan to Increase Cyber Spending as AI Risks Rise"
The GlassWorm botnet that has been targeting the open source software ecosystem for over six months has been disrupted, cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike reports. Together with Google and the Shadowserver Foundation, CrowdStrike took down GlassWorm’s four command-and-control (C&C) channels simultaneously, preventing… Read More "GlassWorm Botnet Disrupted – SecurityWeek"
