Google has announced that it’s discontinuing its dark web report tool in February 2026, less than two years after it was launched as a way for users to monitor if their personal information is found on the dark web. To that end, scans for new dark web breaches will be stopped on January 15, 2026,…
Managing general agents help insurers navigate sectors where they lack expertise. A cybersecurity policy written by an MGA is more likely to reflect an understanding of the risks CISOs deal with.
Two Apple zero-day vulnerabilities discovered this month have overlap with another mysterious zero-day flaw Google patched last week.
Etay Mayor, a cybersecurity strategist and professor, shares his journey, insights, and advice on breaking into the diverse and ever-evolving field of cybersecurity.
A Google Chrome extension with a “Featured” badge and six million users has been observed silently gathering every prompt entered by users into artificial intelligence (AI)-powered chatbots like OpenAI ChatGPT, Anthropic Claude, Microsoft Copilot, DeepSeek, Google Gemini, xAI Grok, Meta AI, and Perplexity. The extension in question is Urban VPN Proxy, which has a 4.7…
A new version of VolkLocker, wielded by the pro-Russia RaaS group CyberVolk, has some key enhancements but one fatal flaw.
Multiple security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in the open-source private branch exchange (PBX) platform FreePBX, including a critical flaw that could result in an authentication bypass under certain configurations. The shortcomings, discovered by Horizon3.ai and reported to the project maintainers on September 15, 2025, are listed below – CVE-2025-61675 (CVSS score: 8.6) – Numerous
If you use a smartphone, browse the web, or unzip files on your computer, you are in the crosshairs this week. Hackers are currently exploiting critical flaws in the daily software we all rely on—and in some cases, they started attacking before a fix was even ready. Below, we list the urgent updates you need…
In early December 2025, security researchers exposed a cybercrime campaign that had quietly hijacked popular Chrome and Edge browser extensions on a massive scale. A threat group dubbed ShadyPanda spent seven years playing the long game, publishing or acquiring harmless extensions, letting them run clean for years to build trust and gain millions of installs,…
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of an active phishing campaign that’s targeting a wide range of sectors in Russia with phishing emails that deliver Phantom Stealer via malicious ISO optical disc images. The activity, codenamed Operation MoneyMount-ISO by Seqrite Labs, has primarily singled out finance and accounting entities, with those in the procurement, legal, payroll