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Media groups and exiled journalists bear the heaviest concentration of cyberattacks against civil society, Cloudflare data shows
New research drawn from more than 3,400 protected domains reveals DDoS campaigns lasting days rather than minutes, vulnerability probing at more than seven times the rate of other customers, and phishing emails that slip past standard authentication before being caught.
Business as Usual: How Attackers Are Turning IT Tools Into Backdoors
HP threat researchers found criminals using LogMeIn and ScreenConnect, tax-themed phishing, and AI-assisted scripts to take over PCs without triggering alarms that detect conventional malware.
AI security has a detection problem, and Check Point’s 2026 report puts a number on it
Only 13% of organisations can block a malicious prompt and just 5% can stop unsafe AI outputs, according to Check Point’s 2026 Cloud Security Report. Why detection has outpaced prevention.
The 2026 World Cup Is the Most Predictable Cyberattack Window Ever Handed to Adversaries
A Palo Alto Networks assessment finds disruptive intrusions, fraud at scale and hacktivist operations against the tournament are highly likely, with an active Iran-nexus campaign already targeting the municipal infrastructure 16 host cities will run under tournament load.
The biggest AI risk inside enterprises is the person at the keyboard, not the model, Optro report
With 82% of organisations reporting more AI-enabled attacks in the past year, new Optro research argues the dominant threat is no longer technical model failure but everyday human decisions made inside ungoverned AI tools.
From Backup to AI Trust: What Veeam Announced at VeeamON New York and Why It Matters
Three announcements in three days: a new platform built from the Securiti AI acquisition, a preview of Data Platform v13.1, and a governance framework exposing the gap between AI confidence and AI readiness.
The AI Labs Built the Threat. Now They Are Selling the Defence
OpenAI's Daybreak launch brings a second AI lab into a cybersecurity race that Anthropic opened with Claude Mythos five weeks ago. For the security industry, the contest raises questions that go well beyond which model performs better.
275 Million Students, One Point of Failure, and No Way Out
The Canvas ransomware attack exposed what happens when a platform becomes too dominant to avoid and too architecturally fragile to trust — and students had no choice about being in either position.