GISEC GLOBAL 2026 – The Middle East & Africa’s Largest Cybersecurity Event

Meta on Tuesday said it has made available a tool called WhatsApp Research Proxy to some of its long-time bug bounty researchers to help improve the program and more effectively research the messaging platform’s network protocol. The idea is to make it easier to delve into WhatsApp-specific technologies as the application continues to be a…

Google on Friday released security updates for its Chrome browser to address a security flaw that it said has been exploited in the wild. The high-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-2441 (CVSS score: 8.8), has been described as a use-after-free bug in CSS. Security researcher Shaheen Fazim has been credited with discovering and reporting the shortcoming…

A unique take on the software update gambit has allowed “PlushDaemon” to evade attention as it mostly targets Chinese organizations.

A server-side request forgery vulnerability in OpenAI’s chatbot infrastructure can allow attackers to direct users to malicious URLs, leading to a range of threat activity.

Noodlophile is targeting enterprises in spear-phishing attacks using copyright claims as phishing lures.

The threat activity cluster known as UnsolicitedBooker has been observed targeting telecommunications companies in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, marking a shift from prior attacks aimed at Saudi Arabian entities. The attacks involve the deployment of two distinct backdoors codenamed LuciDoor and MarsSnake, according to a report published by Positive Technologies last week. “The group used several