United States prosecutors and federal law enforcement spent over a year examining ties between Jeffrey Epstein and Customs and Border Protection officers stationed in the US Virgin Islands (USVI), according to documents recently released by the Department of Justice. As… Read More "Jeffrey Epstein’s Ties to CBP Agents Sparked a DOJ Probe"
Posted by Dave Kleidermacher, VP, Platforms Security & Privacy, Google Technology should bring people closer together, not create walls. Being able to communicate and connect with friends and family should be easy regardless of the phone they use. That’s why… Read More "A Secure Approach to Cross-Platform File Sharing"
Security filters caught one phishing email every 19 seconds in 2025, more than double the rate a year previously, Cofense has revealed. AI technology is helping threat actors to increase the speed and scale of attacks, to the point where… Read More "AI Drives Doubling of Phishing Attacks in a Year"
Infrastructure delivering updates for Notepad++—a widely used text editor for Windows—was compromised for six months by suspected China-state hackers who used their control to deliver backdoored versions of the app to select targets, developers said Monday. “I deeply apologize to… Read More "Notepad++ Users, You May Have Been Hacked by China"
Posted by Aden Haussmann, Associate Product Manager and Sumeet Sharma, Play Partnerships Trust & Safety Lead Android uses the best of Google AI and our advanced security expertise to tackle mobile scams from every angle. Over the last few years,… Read More "Android expands pilot for in-call scam protection for financial apps"
A sprawling malicious infrastructure linked to the ShadowSyndicate cybercrime cluster has been expanded following the discovery of new technical markers that connect dozens of servers to the same operator. The findings add fresh detail to a threat actor already associated… Read More "New Technical Markers Reveal Expanding ShadowSyndicate Infrastructure"
Usually, when you see a feel-good story about finding a lost dog, you don’t immediately react with fear and revulsion. But that was indeed the case in response to a Super Bowl commercial from Amazon-owned security camera company Ring. There’s… Read More "A $10K Bounty Awaits Anyone Who Can Hack Ring Cameras to Stop Sharing Data With Amazon"
Posted by Nathan Parker, Chrome security team Chrome has been advancing the web’s security for well over 15 years, and we’re committed to meeting new challenges and opportunities with AI. Billions of people trust Chrome to keep them safe by… Read More "Architecting Security for Agentic Capabilities in Chrome"
“Most teams have far more integrations than they realize, and many retain broad privileges long after the original business need,” he pointed out. “In parallel, we should raise the security bar for any SaaS vendor we rely on, [with] clear… Read More "New phishing campaign tricks employees into bypassing Microsoft 365 MFA"
A long-running malware operation known as SystemBC has been linked to more than 10,000 infected IP addresses worldwide, including systems associated with sensitive government infrastructure. According to new research by Silent Push, the findings reinforce concerns about the malware’s continued… Read More "Global SystemBC Botnet Found Active Across 10,000 Infected Systems"
