Month: May 2026

This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – May. 6, 2026 – Read the full story from BreachLock When Anthropic’s Mythos demonstrated it could autonomously…

 A dangerous new piece of malware called Remus has surfaced, quietly picking up where one of the most feared information stealers left off. Designed to steal browser passwords, cookies, and…

For nearly 20 years, we at The Hacker News have mostly told scary stories about cyberspace — big hacks, broken systems, and new threats. But behind every headline, there’s a quieter, better story. It’s the story of leaders making tough calls under pressure, teams building smarter defenses, and security products that keep hunting threats 24/7 — even when it’s hard. Most of the time, this work is

As part of its 20th anniversary celebration, Dark Reading looks back on 20 of the biggest newsmaking events from the past two decades that influenced the risk landscape for today's…

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 A severe zero-authorization vulnerability in Schemata’s API, an AI-powered virtual training platform holding active Department of Defense (DoD) contracts, recently exposed highly sensitive military training materials and U.S. service member…

Analysts recently confirmed what identity security teams have quietly feared: AI agents are being deployed faster than enterprises can govern them. In their inaugural Market Guide for Guardian Agents, Gartner states that “enterprise adoption of AI agents is accelerating, outpacing maturity of governance policy controls.” Enterprise leaders can request access to the Gartner Market Guide for

In hard-to-detect attacks, hackers are dropping the CloudZ RAT and a fresh plugin, Pheno, to hijack the Windows-based bridge between PCs and smartphones. Read More  

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 In a significant supply chain security incident, the popular video hosting platform Vimeo has confirmed a data breach that exposed user information. Discovered in April 2026, the breach exposed 119,000…

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Google has announced expanded Binary Transparency for Android as a way to safeguard the ecosystem from supply chain attacks. "This new public ledger ensures the Google apps on your device are exactly what we intended to build and distribute," Google's product and security teams said. The initiative builds upon the foundation of Pixel Binary Transparency, which Google introduced in October 2021

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of an intrusion that involved the use of a CloudZ remote access tool (RAT) and a previous undocumented plugin dubbed Pheno with the aim of facilitating credential theft. "According to the functionalities of the CloudZ RAT and Pheno plugin, this was with the intention of stealing victims' credentials and potentially one-time passwords (OTPs),"

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