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Medtronic Data Breach Impacts 3.8 Million People
/in General NewsMedical technology giant Medtronic is notifying more than 3.8 million individuals that their personal and medical information was compromised in a recent data breach. The incident occurred in April 2026, when the infamous extortion group ShinyHunters accessed the company’s corporate IT systems. Medtronic confirmed the attack in late April, noting that its products and manufacturing […]
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Alleged Scattered Spider Hacker Extradited to US
/in General NewsProsecutors say 19-year-old Peter Stokes was a member of Scattered Spider, the hacking group linked to more than 100 network intrusions and over $100 million in ransom payments.
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Critical Cursor AI Code Editor Flaws Could Lead to OS-Level Remote Code Execution
/in General NewsThe DuneSlide vulnerabilities enable zero-click prompt injection attacks that escape Cursor’s sandbox and execute arbitrary code on the underlying operating system.
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EU Politicians Investigated Pegasus Spyware. Then It Ended Up on One of Their Phones
/in General News“It is a direct attack on the rule of law,” says one European Parliament member of the new findings from Citizen Lab.
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Politician who investigated spyware abuses had his phone hacked with Pegasus spyware
/in General NewsA government customer of NSO Group used the company’s Pegasus spyware to hack into the phone of a European politician, who at the time was serving on an EU committee tasked with investigating the spyware industry.
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Aussies Face Reduced Cybercrime Risk, as Pressure Shifts to SMBs
/in General NewsImproved institutional safeguards and stricter regulations have pushed the burdens of protection and risk reduction on to Australian businesses.
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Google Disrupts NetNut Residential Proxy Network Spanning 2 Million Home Devices
/in General NewsGoogle has significantly degraded NetNut, one of the biggest networks that turns home devices into rented relays for other people’s traffic.
Working with the FBI, Lumen, and others, Google’s Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) said this week it had reduced the network’s pool of usable devices by millions.
Google identifies NetNut, also tracked as Popa, as a network spread across home
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VMware Licensing Changes and Their Impact on Infrastructure Modernization
/in General NewsExplore how VMware licensing changes are influencing infrastructure modernization, cloud strategy, and AI readiness, and what enterprises should evaluate next.
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FortiBleed Actors Collaborating With Inc, Lynx Ransomware Gangs
/in General NewsAfter gaining a foothold in thousands of Fortinet firewalls, the attackers are starting to monetize that access, and are also piling on a Nextcloud zero-day bug.
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Apple Reverses Age-Old Patch Policy to Keep Up With AI
/in General NewsExpect more compressed patching cycles from Apple going forward, as attackers leverage artificial intelligence to reduce time to exploit.
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