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Educational institutions, the edtech companies they rely on, and, more concerningly, the challenges they pose for schools are the focus of the latest Reporters' Notebook video series.

With tens of billions of dollars flowing into regional economies from cybercrime, scam centers continue to flourish, despite international and law-enforcement efforts.

After a global lull, ransomware gangs are setting sights on a rich new arena: attacking EU organizations and their suppliers.

Researchers believe rogue peering was used to connect to the victim's SD-WAN devices to gain admin privileges and root-level access.

Persistent cybercrime, social engineering, and infrastructure threats continue to plague the FIFA 2026 World Cup across the US, Canada, and Mexico.

Dark Reading Confidential Episode 19: Kickbacks, no-show jobs, "dirty" VCs, and shelf ware — industry expert Robert "RSnake" Hansen explains why he thinks it's time for a CISO code of ethics. It could ensure cybersecurity bosses aren't engaged in self-dealing that could risk enterprise, and even national, security.

OpenClaw removed five packages from its ClawHub skills marketplace that bypassed security checks even though they included infostealers and other threats.

Attackers can exploit the issue to disable security and integrated browser tools without needing administrator privileges or kernel exploits.

More victims have emerged after attackers breached application vendor Klue and used its OAuth tokens to steal customers' Salesforce data.

The CI/CD workflow weakness affects Microsoft's Azure Sentinel, Google's AI Agent Development Kit, Apache's Doris analytics database, Cloudflare's Workers SDK, and Python Software Foundation's Black.

SocGholish uses traffic distribution systems (TDSs) to provide initial access into victims' networks for cybercrime groups such as the notorious Evil Corp.

The threat actors engineered a Golang-based sniffer to target 430,000 FortiGate firewalls and identify 110 million credentials in the ongoing global campaign.

Four vulnerabilities allow attackers to exploit Dify, a platform for AI application building and management, to silently access and exfiltrate sensitive data.

Attackers are using multiple online channels — including GitHub, YouTube, and VirusTotal — to build an illusion of trust to spread a cross-platform clipboard hijacker.

Threat actors can easily steal one-time passwords sent by text when they conduct a SIM swap attack. This can lead to account takeovers, so users must layer up their security measures.

As threats proliferate and AI complicates cybersecurity, CISOs say the job is getting harder, but more companies still want cybersecurity expertise, if even on a part-time basis.

A leaked GitHub token underscores what most organizations get wrong: Treating secrets management as a tooling problem rather than an identity problem.

The threat group's curious business model may combine opportunistic monetization alongside intel collection, without much coordination between the two.

A hacker could have "Rickrolled" the World Cup — or worse — thanks to FIFA's unenforced Entra access controls.

Klue's Battlecards is now the third integrated application that has been compromised to steal customers' Salesforce data, and victims include Huntress, the cybersecurity vendor.