As Cybersecurity Firms Chase AI, VC Market Skyrockets
Investments in cybersecurity startups took off in 2025, as venture capital firms focused not just on AI-native tech, but talent as well.
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GitHub Issues Abused in Copilot Attack Leading to Repository Takeover
Attackers can inject malicious instructions in a GitHub Issue that are automatically processed by Copilot when launching a Codespace from that issue.
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Romanian Hacker Extradited to US Admits Hacking Oregon State Network
Catalin Dragomir admits to hacking an Oregon government office and selling network access. Read more on the $250k fraud case and his 2026 sentencing.
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Taiwan Security Firm Confirms Flaw Flagged by CISA Likely Exploited by Chinese APTs
The vulnerability in TeamT5 ThreatSonar Anti-Ransomware was recently added to CISA’s KEV catalog.
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Identity Prioritization isn’t a Backlog Problem – It’s a Risk Math Problem
Most identity programs still prioritize work the way they prioritize IT tickets: by volume, loudness, or “what failed a control check.” That approach breaks the moment your environment stops being mostly-human and mostly-onboarded.
In modern enterprises, identity risk is created by a compound of factors: control posture, hygiene, business context, and intent. Any one of these can perhaps be
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Lazarus Group Uses Medusa Ransomware in Middle East and U.S. Healthcare Attacks
The North Korea-linked Lazarus Group (aka Diamond Sleet and Pompilus) has been observed using Medusa ransomware in an attack targeting an unnamed entity in the Middle East, according to a new report by the Symantec and Carbon Black Threat Hunter Team.
Broadcom’s threat intelligence division said it also identified the same threat actors mounting an unsuccessful attack against a healthcare
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Anonymous Fénix Members Arrested in Spain
The group’s administrator and moderator were arrested last year, and two other members were arrested this month.
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UnsolicitedBooker Targets Central Asian Telecoms With LuciDoor and MarsSnake Backdoors
The threat activity cluster known as UnsolicitedBooker has been observed targeting telecommunications companies in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, marking a shift from prior attacks aimed at Saudi Arabian entities.
The attacks involve the deployment of two distinct backdoors codenamed LuciDoor and MarsSnake, according to a report published by Positive Technologies last week.
“The group used several
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Anthropic Says Chinese AI Firms Used 16 Million Claude Queries to Copy Model
Anthropic on Monday said it identified “industrial-scale campaigns” mounted by three artificial intelligence (AI) companies, DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax, to illegally extract Claude’s capabilities to improve their own models.
The distillation attacks generated over 16 million exchanges with its large language model (LLM) through about 24,000 fraudulent accounts in violation of its terms
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How to take full-page screenshots in Chrome on any device – it’s easy and free
Want to capture a scrolling screenshot of a web page in Chrome? Here’s how to quickly take one on a desktop or your phone.
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