Tag: computer

UK copyright law unfit for protecting creative workers from AI

Jan 19, 2026 7:13 PM

Tags: ai, computer, government, intelligence, law

As the UK government considers its approach to artificial intelligence and copyright, Computer Weekly explores the dynamics at play in copyright markets, and what measures can be taken to ensure that creatives are protected First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/news/366637299/UK-copyright-unfit-for-protecting-creative-workers-from-AI
Hacker Pleads Guilty to Access Supreme Court, AmeriCorps, VA Systems

Jan 19, 2026 6:13 PM

Tags: access, breach, computer, credentials, hacker

Nicholas Moore, a 24-year-old Tennessee man, pleaded guilty to using stolen credentials of authorized users to hack into computer systems of the Supreme Court, VA, and AmeriCorps, obtaining sensitive information and then posting it online to his Instagram account. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/01/hacker-pleads-guilty-to-access-supreme-court-americorps-va-systems/
Neue EU-Schwachstellen-Datenbank gestartet

Jan 19, 2026 5:21 PM

Tags: api, compliance, computer, cybersecurity, incident response, open-source, risk-management, security-incident, tool, vulnerability, vulnerability-management

Die neue GCVE-Datenbank soll das Schwachstellenmanagement effizienter und einfacher machen.Mit db.gcve.eu stellt die GCVE-Initiative (Global Cybersecurity Vulnerability Enumeration) ab sofort eine kostenfreie, öffentlich zugängliche Datenbank für IT-Sicherheitslücken bereit. Ziel ist es, die Abhängigkeit von US-Datenbanken zu beenden und die digitale Souveränität in Europa zu stärken. Die Plattform führt Informationen aus verschiedenen öffentlichen Ressourcen zusammen. Dazu…
Jordanian pleads guilty to selling access to 50 corporate networks

Jan 19, 2026 4:13 PM

Tags: access, computer, corporate, network

A Jordanian man has pleaded guilty to operating as an “access broker” who sold access to the computer networks of at least 50 companies. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/jordanian-pleads-guilty-to-selling-access-to-50-corporate-networks/
Mastang Panda Uses Venezuela News to Spread LOTUSLITE Malware

Jan 19, 2026 1:13 PM

Tags: computer, government, malware, virus

Researchers have found a new spying campaign using news about Venezuela to trick US government officials. Learn how the LOTUSLITE virus sneaks into computers to steal secrets. First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/mastang-panda-venezuela-news-lotuslite-malware/
From arts degree to cybersecurity: Rona Michele Spiegel brings fresh perspective to cyber leadership

Jan 19, 2026 10:13 AM

Tags: ai, awareness, business, cisco, ciso, cloud, compliance, computer, cyber, cybersecurity, data, governance, group, hacking, Hardware, intelligence, jobs, network, office, penetration-testing, privacy, psychology, risk, risk-management, skills, software, startup, strategy, supply-chain, technology, tool, vulnerability

Rona Michele Spiegel’s journey to cybersecurity might seem unconventional to some: She studied the arts. But as someone who grew up when computers first appeared and everyone wanted to experiment with them, she did a lot of multimedia work. She was always interested in technology and discussed with art colleagues about where the world was…
CERT-UA reports PLUGGYAPE cyberattacks on defense forces

Jan 14, 2026 10:12 PM

Tags: attack, blizzard, computer, cyberattack, defense, government, group, malware, russia, ukraine

CERT-UA reported PLUGGYAPE malware attacks on Ukraine’s defense forces, linked with medium confidence to Russia’s Void Blizzard group. The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) reported new cyberattacks against Ukraine’s defense forces using PLUGGYAPE malware. Government experts attributed the attack with medium confidence to the Russian-linked group Void Blizzard (aka Laundry Bear, UAC-0190), active…
PLUGGYAPE Malware Uses Signal and WhatsApp to Target Ukrainian Defense Forces

Jan 14, 2026 7:11 PM

Tags: attack, blizzard, computer, cyber, defense, group, hacking, malware, russia, threat, ukraine

The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) has disclosed details of new cyber attacks targeting its defense forces with malware known as PLUGGYAPE between October and December 2025.The activity has been attributed with medium confidence to a Russian hacking group tracked as Void Blizzard (aka Laundry Bear or UAC-0190). The threat actor is believed…
Tennessee man to plead guilty to hacking Supreme Court’s electronic case filing system

Jan 13, 2026 11:02 PM

Tags: computer, hacking

Nicholas Moore of Springfield “intentionally accessed a computer without authorization” on 25 different days when breaking into the filing system between August and October 2023, court documents allege. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/guilty-plea-hacking-supreme-court-case-filing-system
Hacker gets seven years for breaching Rotterdam and Antwerp ports

Jan 13, 2026 1:02 AM

Tags: computer, crime, crimes, hacker, hacking

The Amsterdam Court of Appeal sentenced a 44-year-old Dutch national to seven years in prison for multiple crimes, including computer hacking and attempted extortion. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hacker-gets-seven-years-for-breaching-rotterdam-and-antwerp-ports/
Dutch court sentences hacker who used port systems to smuggle cocaine to 7 years

Jan 12, 2026 5:02 PM

Tags: computer, exploit, hacker, network

The Amsterdam Court of Appeal ruled Friday that the man played a central technical role in a criminal network that exploited port computer systems in 2020 and 2021, allowing traffickers to move drugs through Europe’s logistics hubs without detection. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/dutch-court-sentences-hacker-who-smuggled-cocaine-ports
Iran-linked MuddyWater APT deploys Rust-based implant in latest campaign

Jan 12, 2026 12:02 PM

Tags: access, apt, attack, awareness, cctv, china, communications, computer, control, defense, detection, email, encryption, endpoint, espionage, framework, government, group, india, intelligence, iran, malware, military, network, phishing, russia, rust, threat, tool, training

Rust offers evasion advantages: CloudSEK researchers said RustyWater was developed in Rust, which they said is increasingly used by malware authors for its memory safety features and cross-platform capabilities, according to the blog post. Other state-sponsored groups, including Russia’s Gossamer Bear and China-linked actors, have also deployed Rust-based malware in recent campaigns, according to security…
NDSS 2025 GhostShot: Manipulating The Image Of CCD Cameras With Electromagnetic Interference

Jan 9, 2026 11:02 PM

Tags: attack, cctv, computer, control, data, detection, Internet, network, qr

Session 8B: Electromagnetic Attacks Authors, Creators & Presenters: Yanze Ren (Zhejiang University), Qinhong Jiang (Zhejiang University), Chen Yan (Zhejiang University), Xiaoyu Ji (Zhejiang University), Wenyuan Xu (Zhejiang University) PAPER GhostShot: Manipulating The Image Of CCD Cameras With Electromagnetic Interference CCD cameras are critical in professional and scientific applications where high-quality image data are required, and…
PeekBoo! ðŸ«£ Emoji Smuggling and Modern LLMs FireTail Blog

Jan 9, 2026 3:01 PM

Tags: ai, computer, control, cybersecurity, data, exploit, injection, LLM, malicious, monitoring, risk, social-engineering, tactics, threat, tool, vulnerability

Jan 09, 2026 – Viktor Markopoulos – We often trust what we see. In cybersecurity, we are trained to look for suspicious links, strange file extensions, or garbled code. But what if the threat looked exactly like a smiling face sent by a colleague?Based on research by Paul Butler and building on FireTail’s previous disclosures…
PeekBoo! ðŸ«£ Emoji Smuggling and Modern LLMs FireTail Blog

Jan 9, 2026 3:01 PM

Tags: ai, computer, control, cybersecurity, data, exploit, injection, LLM, malicious, monitoring, risk, social-engineering, tactics, threat, tool, vulnerability

Jan 09, 2026 – Viktor Markopoulos – We often trust what we see. In cybersecurity, we are trained to look for suspicious links, strange file extensions, or garbled code. But what if the threat looked exactly like a smiling face sent by a colleague?Based on research by Paul Butler and building on FireTail’s previous disclosures…
GehirnSchnittstelle Neurotechnologie mit Echtzeit-Erkennung mentaler Zustände

Jan 9, 2026 2:01 PM

Tags: computer, cyersecurity

Zander Labs gab einen entscheidenden Durchbruch in der Gehirn-Computer-Schnittstellen-Technologie (BCI) bekannt: die erfolgreiche Demonstration eines vollständig integrierten BCI-Systems, das hochpräzise neuronale Daten verarbeitet und dabei sicherstellt, dass Nutzer die vollständige Kontrolle über ihre Daten behalten. Dieser Meilenstein bringt das NAFAS-Projekt voran, eine wegweisende Initiative, die von der Agentur für Innovation in der Cybersicherheit (Cyberagentur) finanziert wird…
Black Cat Behind SEO Poisoning Malware Campaign Targeting Popular Software Searches

Jan 7, 2026 8:01 PM

Tags: backdoor, china, computer, cybercrime, malware, network, software

A cybercrime gang known as Black Cat has been attributed to a search engine optimization (SEO) poisoning campaign that employs fraudulent sites advertising popular software to trick users into downloading a backdoor capable of stealing sensitive data.According to a report published by the National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team/Coordination Center of China (CNCERT/CC) and…
Zander Labs erreicht Durchbruch in der GehirnSchnittstellen-Technologie

Jan 7, 2026 4:01 PM

Tags: computer

Das neu demonstrierte System integriert neuartige Neurotechnologie-Komponenten. Die Gehirnaktivität wird durch die Zypher Suite erfasst (ein nahezu unsichtbares Set aus EEG-Elektroden kombiniert mit dem weltweit kleinsten 24-Kanal-EEG-Verstärker), die außergewöhnlich hochwertige Gehirnsignale für Echtzeitanalysen in jeder Umgebung liefert. First seen on infopoint-security.de Jump to article: www.infopoint-security.de/zander-labs-erreicht-durchbruch-in-der-gehirn-computer-schnittstellen-technologie/a43281/
Detecting Zero-Day Vulnerabilities Without Signatures – Contrast Security

Jan 6, 2026 4:52 PM

Tags: computer, data, framework, monitoring, threat, vulnerability, zero-day
AI, Quantum, and the New Threat Frontier: What Will Define Cybersecurity in 2026?

Jan 6, 2026 10:52 AM

Tags: access, ai, api, application-security, attack, authentication, automation, business, ciso, cloud, compliance, computer, computing, container, control, crypto, cryptography, cyber, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, defense, detection, encryption, exploit, finance, flaw, framework, governance, government, healthcare, iam, identity, infrastructure, injection, LLM, malicious, metric, monitoring, network, nist, open-source, oracle, regulation, resilience, risk, service, skills, software, strategy, supply-chain, threat, tool, vulnerability, vulnerability-management, waf, zero-day, zero-trust

AI, Quantum, and the New Threat Frontier: What Will Define Cybersecurity in 2026? madhav Tue, 01/06/2026 – 04:44 If we think 2025 has been fast-paced, it’s going to feel like a warm-up for the changes on the horizon in 2026. Every time this year, Thales experts become cybersecurity oracles and predict where the industry is…
NDSS 2025 AlphaDog: No-Box Camouflage Attacks Via Alpha Channel Oversight

Jan 3, 2026 5:52 AM

Tags: ai, attack, computer, conference, data, detection, exploit, Internet, ml, network

Session 7D: ML Security Authors, Creators & Presenters: Qi Xia (University of Texas at San Antonio), Qian Chen (University of Texas at San Antonio) PAPER AlphaDog: No-Box Camouflage Attacks via Alpha Channel Oversight Traditional black-box adversarial attacks on computer vision models face significant limitations, including intensive querying requirements, time-consuming iterative processes, a lack of universality,…
Cybersecurity Snapshot: Predictions for 2026: AI Attack Acceleration, Automated Remediation, Custom-Made AI Security Tools, Machine Identity Threats, and More

Jan 2, 2026 10:52 PM

Tags: access, ai, attack, automation, breach, ciso, cloud, computer, conference, control, cyber, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, defense, detection, exploit, governance, group, identity, intelligence, mitigation, risk, service, threat, tool, zero-day

In this special edition, Tenable leaders forecast key 2026 trends, including: AI will make attacks more plentiful and less costly; machine identities will become the top cloud risk; preemptive cloud and exposure management will dethrone runtime detection; and automated remediation gets the go-ahead. Key takeaways AI will supercharge the speed and volume of traditional cyber…
GNU Wget2 Vulnerability Enables Remote File Overwrite Attacks

Jan 2, 2026 3:52 PM

Tags: attack, computer, cvss, cyber, flaw, risk, tool, vulnerability

A high-severity security flaw has been discovered in GNU Wget2, a popular command-line tool used for downloading files from the web. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-69194, allows remote attackers to overwrite files on a user’s computer without their permission. This issue is rated asImportantwith a CVSS score of8.8 (High), indicating a significant risk to users who rely…
Top 10 Cybersecurity Predictions for 2026

Jan 1, 2026 10:52 AM

Tags: access, ai, api, application-security, attack, authentication, automation, awareness, backdoor, backup, best-practice, blockchain, breach, business, ceo, china, ciso, cloud, communications, compliance, computer, computing, conference, control, corporate, crypto, cryptography, cyber, cyberattack, cybercrime, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, deep-fake, defense, detection, disinformation, email, encryption, espionage, exploit, extortion, finance, fraud, governance, government, group, hacker, hacking, healthcare, identity, incident response, infrastructure, intelligence, Internet, iran, korea, law, linkedin, LLM, malicious, malware, mfa, military, monitoring, msp, mssp, network, nist, north-korea, organized, phishing, privacy, programming, ransom, ransomware, regulation, risk, risk-management, russia, scam, service, skills, soc, social-engineering, software, strategy, supply-chain, tactics, technology, theft, threat, tool, training, ukraine, update, vulnerability, vulnerability-management, warfare, windows, zero-day

Top 10 Cybersecurity Predictions for 2026 The year AI changes cybersecurity forever Cybersecurity predictions are an opportunity to look forward instead of back, to be proactive instead of reactive, and to consider how changes in attackers, technology, and the security industry will impact the sustainability of managing cyber risks. Gaining future insights to the threats, targets,…
Top 10 police technology stories of 2025

Dec 31, 2025 11:52 AM

Tags: computer, technology

Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 police technology stories of 2025 First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/news/366636337/Top-10-police-technology-stories-of-2025
Equifax Europe CISO: Notorious breach spurred cybersecurity transformation

Dec 31, 2025 8:52 AM

Tags: access, ai, attack, authentication, awareness, breach, business, ceo, cio, ciso, cloud, computer, control, corporate, cyber, cyberattack, cybercrime, cybersecurity, data, defense, dora, espionage, finance, framework, google, government, identity, infrastructure, intelligence, network, nis-2, phishing, regulation, risk, risk-management, security-incident, service, strategy, technology, threat, update

Cloud as a new technological axis: Equifax’s $3 billion migration to the cloud, “which had been brewing for about seven years” and which the company says is the largest technological investment in its history, has involved moving more than 300 systems, over 30 product families, and thousands of customers to the company’s cloud platform, Equifax Cloud, in Spain…
Evasive Panda ändert das DNS, statt Updates lädt man Malware

Dec 29, 2025 8:55 AM

Tags: computer, dns, hacker, malware, update

Die Hacker-Gruppe Evasive Panda nutzte das Domain Name System, um unzählige Computer zu verseuchen. Das DNS ist elementar und keine Beilage. First seen on tarnkappe.info Jump to article: tarnkappe.info/artikel/cyberangriffe/evasive-panda-aendert-das-dns-statt-updates-laedt-man-malware-324673.html
Top 10 cyber crime stories of 2025

Dec 24, 2025 10:19 AM

Tags: attack, computer, crime, cyber, threat

In many regards, 2025 proved to be a relatively normal year for the cyber security world as threat actors and security pros continued their long-running cat-and-mouse game, but it was also a stand-out year that saw some of the largest cyber attacks ever to befall the UK. Discover more in Computer Weekly’s top 10 cyber…
Romanian Waters confirms cyberattack, critical water operations unaffected

Dec 22, 2025 10:19 PM

Tags: attack, computer, country, cyber, cyberattack, ransomware

Romania’s national water management authority, Romanian Waters, was hit by a ransomware attack over the weekend. Romanian Waters (AdministraÈ›ia NaÈ›ionalÄƒ Apele RomÃ¢ne), the country’s water management authority, suffered a ransomware attack over the weekend. According to the National Cyber Security Directorate (DNSC), the incident affected around 1,000 computer systems across the central organization and 10…
Nefilim ransomware hacker pleads guilty to computer fraud

Dec 22, 2025 5:19 PM

Tags: attack, computer, fraud, hacker, ransomware, ukraine

A Ukrainian national pleaded guilty in U.S. federal court to one charge stemming from attacks using Nefilim ransomware on companies in the U.S., Canada and Australia. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/nefilim-ransomware-hacker-fraud