US insurer Aflac has disclosed a major data breach after hackers managed to access highly sensitive personal and financial information. The company’s Aflac Japan subsidiary discovered the intrusion on June 25, it said in a filing with the SEC yesterday… Read More "Insurance Giant Aflac Discloses Data Breach Impacting Millions"
Cybersecurity startup Dawnguard today announced raising an additional $3.3 million in pre-seed funding, which brings the total raised by the company to over $6.3 million. The fresh investment came from previous backer BNVT Capital, and new investors Curiosity VC and… Read More "Dawnguard Raises $6.3 Million for Security Architecture Automation Platform"
Large language models keep inventing web addresses that do not exist. Attackers have started buying those made-up domains before anyone else can, then hosting phishing pages on them to catch traffic that AI tools point their way. Palo Alto Networks’ Unit… Read More "Phantom Squatting Uses AI-Hallucinated Domains for Phishing and Malware"
The survey’s data suggested that many companies have not just merely adopted detection engineering practices but have made it a strategic focus of their cyber risk mitigation effort. “Just a decade ago, detection engineering was a relatively unknown role in… Read More "Detection engineering: A programmatic approach to identifying cyber threats"
Three-day patching deadlines, exposed fuel-tank systems, scams costing billions of dollars, and social media bans for children all gave Tony plenty to unpack in June 2026 30 Jun 2026 It’s that time of month when ESET Chief Security Evangelist Tony… Read More "This month in security with Tony Anscombe – June 2026 edition"
An updated variant of the FDMTP backdoor has been observed in a months-long espionage campaign aimed at networks in the Asia-Pacific and Japan, with researchers linking the activity to the China-aligned group Mustang Panda. According to new analysis from Darktrace,… Read More "Mustang Panda Linked to FDMTP Backdoor in Asia-Pacific Espionage"
Google on Tuesday announced the release of Chrome 151 with patches for 382 vulnerabilities, the vast majority of which were discovered by the tech giant itself. Of the 382 vulnerabilities, 358 were found by Google. The company has discovered and… Read More "Google Patches 382 Chrome Vulnerabilities"
Ravie LakshmananJul 01, 2026Password Security / Cloud Security Cybersecurity researchers have warned of a “massive, ongoing, automated password spray attack” aimed at Microsoft’s Azure command-line interface (CLI), compromising dozens of accounts in the process. The activity, per Huntress, originates from… Read More "Azure CLI Password Spray Hits at Least 78 Microsoft Accounts in 81M+ Attempts"
A view of the H2 2025 threat landscape as seen by ESET telemetry and from the perspective of ESET threat detection and research experts 16 Dec 2025 • , 2 min. read The second half of the year underscored just… Read More "ESET Threat Report H2 2025"
The state of Maine has taken its public-facing database of breach reports offline following the publication of two false reports. The Office of the Maine Attorney General said in a statement on June 12 that the database would remain unavailable… Read More "Maine Takes Breach Reporting Portal Offline After Fake Entries"
