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AI Security

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News and analysis of security incidents involving large language models, AI agents, and AI infrastructure. Covers prompt injection, reward hacking, agent sandbox escapes, supply chain attacks through AI coding agents, intrusions that attackers automate with AI agents, and the mitigations that contain them.

Data Breaches & Privacy

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News and explainers on data breaches, leaks, and privacy. Articles cover what personal or company data was exposed and how, who is affected, what the organization said, and the steps affected people can take. The category also covers spyware and tracking that collect information about people without their knowledge.

Defense & Incident Response

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Guides and news on protecting systems and responding when something goes wrong: security practices that reduce risk, incident response and remediation, checks for compromise after an attack, and investigations into major outages, including whether an attack caused them.

Nation-State Hacking & Cybercrime

10 articles

News on the groups behind attacks: state-sponsored hacking and espionage, cyberwarfare and hacktivists, and criminal groups that steal money and data, including cryptocurrency theft. Articles cover who was targeted, what the attackers did, how companies and agencies responded, and the law enforcement takedowns and charges that followed.

Policy & Regulation

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News and explainers on cybersecurity laws, regulations, and government directives, such as CISA directives that require action from federal agencies and the CMMC program that defense contractors must meet to win contracts. Articles explain what each rule requires, who must comply, and when it takes effect.

Ransomware & Malware

5 articles

News and explainers on malicious software, including ransomware that encrypts files and demands payment, data extortion, infostealers, trojans, and botnets. The category also covers supply chain attacks that hide malware in software packages, extensions, and update channels. Articles cover how each attack spreads, who was hit, and the prevention and recovery steps agencies and vendors recommend.

Scams, Phishing & Identity Theft

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News and guides on schemes that trick people and companies: phishing emails and texts, business email compromise, deepfake impersonation, account takeover, and identity theft. Articles explain how each scheme works, who it targets, and the protections agencies recommend, such as multi-factor authentication.

Vulnerabilities & Patches

13 articles

News and explainers on serious security flaws in widely used software, devices, and services. Articles explain in plain terms what each flaw allows, which products and versions are affected, and whether attackers are exploiting it in the wild. They also name the updates that fix each flaw and note when CISA adds it to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

Latest Articles

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Data Breaches & Privacy
2026-11-15•4 min read

Italy fines Meta €805 million over Facebook app's access to Android users' photo galleries

Italy's data protection authority, the Garante, fined Meta Platforms Ireland €805 million on November 14, 2026, saying the Facebook app for Android accessed photos, videos, and their metadata on Italian users' phones without specific consent. The regulator gave Meta 60 days to switch the gallery suggestions feature off by default and to ask for separate consent. Meta said it strongly disagrees with the decision and intends to appeal.

Defense & Incident Response
2026-11-15•4 min read

Microsoft blames earlier network upgrade for global Microsoft 365 outage, rules out cyberattack

A worldwide Microsoft 365 outage that began on November 12, 2026, cut off Outlook email, Teams, Copilot, and other Microsoft cloud services for governments, businesses, and consumers. On November 13, Microsoft said the outage was a technical issue introduced during an earlier network capacity upgrade and not related to a cyberattack. Microsoft said early on November 14 that it had restored service to the remaining affected customers, The Register reported, and the company has promised a full post-incident report.

Defense & Incident Response
2026-11-14•4 min read

Officials say FAA nationwide ground stop followed L3Harris network upgrade, not a cyberattack

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) halted departures at all U.S. airports on November 13, 2026, after communication problems hit the centers that guide aircraft between airports. On November 14, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said the ground stop followed work by contractor L3Harris Technologies to move part of the FAA's telecommunications network from copper wire to fiber optic cable, and FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford said there was zero evidence of anything nefarious. More than 9,000 U.S. flights were canceled on November 13, according to FlightAware figures reported by CBS News and NPR.

AI Security
2026-11-14•4 min read

FBI warns attackers use Artex AI framework to reach privileged access in under three hours

The FBI published a FLASH alert on November 13, 2026, warning that criminal and state-backed hackers have used Artex, an open-source penetration testing framework run by AI agents, against organizations worldwide since at least August 2026. The FBI said some Artex intrusions went from first targeting to privileged access in under three hours, and that more than 1,600 Artex consoles were exposed online as of early November. Amazon published research the same day on Artex campaigns that stole credentials for AI models.

Vulnerabilities & Patches
2026-11-13•5 min read

Check Point says hackers used firewall zero-day CVE-2026-123039 to wipe data at Israeli organizations

Check Point said on November 12, 2026, that attackers exploited CVE-2026-123039, a previously unknown flaw in its security gateways, against a couple of dozen customers. The attackers broke in through the PHP2Shell flaws, used CVE-2026-123039 to gain root control, and in a first wave that began October 30 ran a wiper, malware that deletes data, against some Israeli organizations. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added the flaw to its catalog of exploited vulnerabilities on November 13 and gave federal civilian agencies until November 16 to address it.

Ransomware & Malware
2026-11-13•5 min read

Attacker uses 4,837 hijacked GitHub accounts to steal secrets from at least 1,835 repositories

An attacker used 4,837 compromised GitHub accounts starting November 10, 2026, to probe 61,764 code repositories and plant a script that steals GitHub Actions secrets and cloud credentials, Aikido Security reported. Aikido, which tracks the campaign as wfx-loot, said the script ran and stole credentials in at least 1,835 repositories. The researchers advise owners of affected repositories to treat every secret their workflows could reach as compromised.