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A Nigerian national, Chukwuemeka Victor Amachukwu (aliases Chukwuemeka Victor Eletuo and So Kwan Leung), 40, was sentenced to eight years in prison for his role in spearphishing attacks against US tax preparation businesses between 2019 and 2021. He pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit computer intrusions and wire fraud after being extr…
This is a sponsored article by Specops Software, not a report on a threat or incident. It sets out five priorities for agencies protecting Criminal Justice Information (CJI) under CJIS v6.1: multi-factor authentication, account management and least privilege, password policy, audit logging, and continuous audit readiness. It promotes Spec…
Microsoft announced that quick machine recovery (QMR) is now available on Windows Server 2025 after installing the October 2026 security update. The feature lets IT administrators fix critical boot failures through targeted Windows Update remediations, without physical access to affected systems. QMR was introduced in November 2024 under …
This vendor-authored article from Tines, published on The Hacker News, discusses "wild code": AI-assisted apps, agents and automations that employees build faster than security teams can own, secure and maintain them. It describes no specific incident, vulnerability or threat actor. The risks it names are excessive permissions, sensitive …
A survey of 2,018 senior IT decision-makers in the US and UK, conducted by Censuswide for Origina and published with Thinkers50 in the report The Software Tax, finds large enterprises spend an average of 28% of software budgets on upgrades, migrations and licensing changes they would not have chosen. 95% of respondents paid for a vendor-d…
Spotify launched paid podcast memberships on Tuesday, letting creators monetize their biggest fans beyond paywalled bonus episodes. Creators choose the perks, such as bonus audio or video, fewer ads or early access. The feature was previewed at Spotify's Investor Day in May and is rolling out to 34 markets, including the U.S. The launch i…
Yelp has added a Check for Me feature to its app. An AI voice agent calls a restaurant on the user's behalf to check wait times and texts the result back, based on the party size and phone number the user enters. Yelp is also updating its Yelp AI assistant with an OpenTable booking integration, memory of preferences, 30 days of chat histo…
Otter.ai, an AI meeting note-taking vendor, announced a $320 million raise from General Catalyst's Customer Value Fund (CVF), a non-dilutive vehicle that earns returns on marketing spend results. Otter plans to use the capital for enterprise growth, go-to-market strategy, international expansion and product innovation. The company passed …
CNET Group is launching TechPulse, a free iOS and Android app that combines articles and videos from ZDNET, CNET, PCMag, Mashable, Lifehacker and ExtremeTech into a single feed. Users can choose which publications appear, and the feed is described as algorithm-free. No subscription is required. The article is product news with no security…
Microsoft announced new controls to monitor and restrict potentially rogue AI agents in enterprise environments, arguing that organizations should treat agents as insiders rather than trusted software. The capabilities extend Project Perception, the agentic security system launched in July, which was initially pitched as a defense against…
The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) says existing major-incident reporting rules must extend to significant AI failures and near-misses as financial firms adopt more autonomous, agentic systems. Speaking at Bloomberg's UK Policy Series, FCA chief data, information and intelligence officer Jessica Rusu warned that poorly governed AI c…
Estonia-based Blackwall, which sells web traffic security tools to hosting, managed service and cloud providers, announced a $100 million Series C at a $2.2 billion valuation, four times its 2025 valuation. The round was led by AVP, with Dawn Capital, MMC Ventures and Tera Ventures participating. Blackwall uses a channel model: providers …
This sponsored piece from Zscaler argues that UK public services have reached a cyber resilience inflection point. It cites a new Prime Minister, the scrapping of DSIT, and the redistribution of its cyber and digital functions across Whitehall. Three forces are named: policy raising expectations for boards, organizational reform (Local Go…
Microsoft published a blog post arguing that organizations should treat AI agents as a present insider threat rather than a future risk. Agents with access to critical systems can fail, be manipulated or be compromised, and their behavior can drift mid-run through prompt injection in external documents or untrusted data. Microsoft's answe…
A Mac user (Reddit u/UntilHEX) reported that Anthropic's Claude Code found an unauthorized XMRig cryptominer while helping build a temperature-monitoring app. Abnormally high sensor readings led the assistant to inspect running processes and identify XMRig as the cause of roughly 1,175% CPU use, or nearly 12 saturated cores. The finding i…
ICANN has begun testing authentication schemes that would let law enforcement agencies file urgent requests for non-public WHOIS data when facing imminent threats to life, serious bodily injury, critical infrastructure or child exploitation. The work is led by the Input Group on Law Enforcement Agency Authentication Mechanisms, which repo…
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said at The People's AI Assembly, hosted by the AI Now Institute, that the federal government has abdicated its role in regulating AI. He urged New Yorkers to resist the idea that AI adoption is inevitable. He pointed to his September order banning AI use in elementary and middle schools. He also pointed…
Flipkart, the Walmart-owned Indian e-commerce company, is internally testing a food-delivery service called "Eat-in by Minutes" in Bengaluru. The trial has grown from a few hundred employees to more than 8,000, and Flipkart has deployed a dedicated rider fleet through its logistics arm Ekart. The service draws on restaurants listed via ON…
Bloomberg reports, as relayed by TechCrunch, that Anthropic and AI infrastructure provider Nscale are close to announcing a second $45 billion compute deal, a little over a month after their first deal of the same size. Sources cautioned that talks are ongoing and the details could change. If completed, it would be the latest of many larg…
At TechCrunch Disrupt, Hugging Face chief policy officer Irene Solaiman said AI model evaluations remain an immature science with limited reproducibility and no meaningful way to compare tests against each other. She argued that open weights are central to reproducing results and that qualifications for effective third-party evaluators ne…
