How CISA Cuts Impact Election Security

State and federal security experts weighed in on the impact that budgetary and personnel cuts to CISA will have on election security as a whole.

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Hoff’s Rule: People First

Dark Reading Confidential Episode 5: Christofer Hoff, chief secure technology officer at LastPass, shares the human side of the story of how he led his team through a major cyber incident and built from the ground up a security team and security culture.

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Android Malware Exploits a Microsoft-Related Security Blind Spot to Avoid Detection

Microsoft’s .NET MAUI lets developers build cross-platform apps in C#, but its use of binary blob files poses new risks by bypassing Android’s DEX-based security checks.

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SignalGate Is Driving the Most US Downloads of Signal Ever

Scandal surrounding the Trump administration’s Signal group chat has led to a landmark week for the encrypted messaging app’s adoption—its “largest US growth moment by a massive margin.”

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Splunk Patches Dozens of Vulnerabilities

Splunk patches high-severity remote code execution and information disclosure flaws in Splunk Enterprise and Secure Gateway App.

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OpenAI Bug Bounty Program Increases Top Reward to $100,000

OpenAI Bug Bounty program boosts max reward to $100,000, expanding scope and offering new incentives to enhance AI security and reliability.

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RedCurl Uses New QWCrypt Ransomware in Hypervisor Attacks

Discover the novel QWCrypt ransomware used by RedCurl in targeted hypervisor attacks. This article details their tactics, including…

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Anthropic scientists expose how AI actually ‘thinks’ — and discover it secretly plans ahead and sometimes lies


Anthropic has developed a new method for peering inside large language models like Claude, revealing for the first time how these AI systems process information and make decisions. The research, published today in two papers (available here and here), shows these models are more sophisticated than previously understood — they plan ahead when writin…Read More

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DoJ Recovers $5M Lost in BEC Fraud Against Workers’ Union

The union received a spoofed email that led to the loss of $6.4 million, much of it transferred to other accounts or to a cryptocurrency exchange.

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UK Software Firm Fined £3 Million Over Ransomware-Caused Data Breach 

The UK ICO has fined Advanced Computer Software Group £3 million ($3.8 million) over a 2022 data breach resulting from a ransomware attack.

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