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American Lending Center Data Breach Affects 123, 000 Individuals
2+ day, 7+ hour ago (543+ words) The non-bank lender discovered a ransomware attack nearly one year ago, but only recently completed its investigation. American Lending Center this week revealed that a data breach discovered last year has impacted more than 123, 000 individuals. American Lending Center (ALC) is…...
Mythos Proves Potent in Vulnerability Discovery, Less Convincing Elsewhere
3+ day, 1+ hour ago (652+ words) Mythos appears to be as powerful as claimed at detecting software vulnerabilities; but its capabilities in other areas is more nuanced. Anthropic's Mythos AI model has been making waves since its announcement in early April, primarily because of its reputed…...
Enhancing Data Center Security Without Sacrificing Performance
3+ day, 4+ hour ago (637+ words) Every data center cybersecurity team faces the same impossible equation: host-based agents consume CPU cycles that high-performance computing requires. For years, the industry has tried to balance this trade-off. The more security you implement, the more performance suffers; yet, the…...
Akamai to Acquire AI and Browser Security Firm Layer X for $205 Million
3+ day, 5+ hour ago (514+ words) The acquisition enables Akamai to expand its Zero Trust portfolio to add protection directly into the browser. Cloud computing, security and CDN provider Akamai announced on Thursday that it has agreed to acquire Layer X, a company specializing in AI…...
Chinese APTs Expand Targets, Update Backdoors in Recent Campaigns
3+ day, 6+ hour ago (746+ words) Salt Typhoon has hit an energy entity in Azerbaijan. Twill Typhoon has targeted Asian entities with an updated RAT. China-linked state-sponsored hackers have been observed expanding their targets and updating malicious tools in fresh campaigns that either follow known patterns…...
Foxconn Confirms North American Factories Hit by Cyberattack
4+ day, 1+ hour ago (408+ words) The Nitrogen ransomware group claims to have hacked the company's systems, stealing 8 TB of data, including confidential documents. Taiwanese electronics manufacturing giant Foxconn has confirmed that some of its North American factories have been hit by a cyberattack. Foxconn, best…...
Sweet Security Launches Agentic AI Red Teaming to Counter "Mythos Moment
4+ day, 3+ hour ago (815+ words) New "Sweet Attack" platform uses runtime intelligence and continuous agentic red teaming to identify exploitable attack chains human teams may miss. The Mythos Moment can be defined as the moment when industry fully realized that human security has no chance…...
Government to Scrutinize Instructure Over Canvas Disruption, Data Breach
4+ day, 6+ hour ago (589+ words) The Committee on Homeland Security has requested to be briefed on the incident and Instructure's remediation steps. The US House Committee on Homeland Security has asked Instructure to provide details on the recent cyberattacks that disrupted its broadly used online…...
716, 000 Impacted by Open Loop Health Data Breach
4+ day, 7+ hour ago (467+ words) The telehealth platform was hacked in January, and users" personal information was exfiltrated from its systems. Hackers stole the personal information of 716, 000 individuals during a January 2026 intrusion at telehealth platform Open Loop Health. The incident was initially disclosed to the…...
Chipmaker Patch Tuesday: Intel and AMD Patch 70 Vulnerabilities
4+ day, 10+ hour ago (542+ words) The two chip giants have published over two dozen advisories describing recently identified security defects. Intel and AMD have released over two dozen advisories on May 2026 Patch Tuesday, addressing 70 vulnerabilities across their product portfolios. Intel published 13 advisories describing 24 security defects,…...