3+ day, 12+ hour ago   (405+ words) The acting director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency issued a sober warning Wednesday about the significant and possibly devastating cybersecurity vulnerabilities Americans face, blaming past government mistakes, outdated tech and AI as threats. “We've made a lot of…...

3+ day, 17+ hour ago   (927+ words) At least four cyber-espionage groups, most linked to Chinese state intelligence, have been using the same previously unknown Google Chrome vulnerability in attacks beginning late August and continuing into this week, cybersecurity firm Proofpoint said Wednesday. The groups were observed…...

4+ day, 11+ hour ago   (277+ words) Microsoft’s latest Patch Tuesday release broke another record this month, surpassing 900 vulnerabilities for the first time. The federal cyberdefense agency, CISA, confirmed that two of them — CVE-2026-81963 and CVE-2026-85880 — are being exploited by hackers. Federal agencies have until September 22 to…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (617+ words) U.S. and European authorities announced the disruption of Sality, one of the internet’s longest-running botnets, after turning the malware’s peer-to-peer architecture against itself to cut thousands of infected computers off from the suspected Russian operators controlling the network. Active since at…...