Canadian hacker arrested for allegedly stealing data from Texas Republican Party

The prominent hacker Aubrey Cottle is accused of hacking into a third-party hosting company for the websites for the Texas Republican Party and the Texas Right to Life anti-abortion group.

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DoJ Seizes Over $8M from Sprawling Pig Butchering Scheme

The department was able to trace the stolen funds to three main cryptocurrency accounts after being routed through a series of other platforms.

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Cybersecurity Professor Mysteriously Disappears as FBI Raids His Homes

Xiaofeng Wang, a longtime computer science professor at Indiana University, has disappeared along with his wife, and their profiles on the school’s website were wiped ahead of recent FBI raids.

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Runway Gen-4 solves AI video’s biggest problem: character consistency across scenes

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Runway’s new Gen-4 AI creates consistent characters across entire videos from a single reference image, challenging OpenAI’s viral Ghibli trend and potentially transforming how Hollywood makes films.Read More

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Oracle under fire for its handling of separate security incidents

Oracle has denied at least one breach, despite evidence to the contrary, as it begins notifying healthcare customers of a separate patient data breach.

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CISA Warns of Resurge Malware Connected to Ivanti Vuln

Threat actors are exploiting a vulnerability in Ivanti Connect Secure first disclosed by the vendor in January.

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Russian Hackers Exploit CVE-2025-26633 via MSC EvilTwin to Deploy SilentPrism and DarkWisp

The threat actors behind the zero-day exploitation of a recently-patched security vulnerability in Microsoft Windows have been found to deliver two new backdoors called SilentPrism and DarkWisp.
The activity has been attributed to a suspected Russian hacking group called Water Gamayun, which is also known as EncryptHub and LARVA-208.
“The threat actor deploys payloads primarily by means of

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API testing firm APIsec exposed customer data during security lapse

The API testing firm took down a database exposed to the internet without a password.

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Zero to Hero – A “Measured” Approach to Building a World-Class Offensive Security Program

A strong security program will sometimes require substantial organizational and cultural changes around security practices, and inevitably, a higher cost.

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Bridging the Gap Between the CISO & the Board of Directors

Positioning security leaders as more than risk managers turns them into business enablers, trusted advisers, and, eventually, integral members of the C-suite.

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