Information Security Magazine

The winners of the AI Cybersecurity Challenge (AIxCC), Team Atlanta, won a $4m prize

Leaders of the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA) pushed back on layoff concerns and highlighted new initiatives

The Information Commissioner has applied for a civil penalty against Optus following the 2022 data breach that exposed the personal details of 9.5 million Australians

The judiciary announced stronger protections for its case management system following reports of a major breach of sensitive court documents in multiple states

Bouygues Telecom revealed the attackers stole personal data of 6.4 million customers, including contact details, contractual data and international bank account numbers

The NSA’s CAPT program, launched in 2024 with Horizon3.ai, now benefits 1000 of the 300,000 US Defense Industrial Base companies

A new Microsoft AI agent, named Project Ire, is able to autonomously classify malware at a global scale with a high level of precision

Microsoft Exchange customers have been urged to apply fixes set out in a hybrid deployment security update published in April

Google confirms it was among the victims of an ongoing data theft campaign targeting Salesforce instances, where publicly available business names and contact details were retrieved by the threat actor

A UK government initiative to tackle Companies House fraud has raised security concerns

SonicWall has claimed an uptick in Akira ransomware intrusions is due to legacy password use

Claroty researchers have uncovered four vulnerabilities in a proprietary protocol used by surveillance equipment manufacturer Axis Communications

According to Infoblox’s new report, the VexTrio cybercrime-enabling network originates from Italy and Eastern Europe

The incident, reported to be ransomware-related, has resulted in attackers stealing sensitive personal and clinical data, including lab test results

GenAI company OpenAI has launched its first-ever open-weight models alongside a red teaming challenge

A Nigerian man accused of hacking, fraud and identity theft has been extradited from France to the US to face charges

During the pre-Black Hat AI Summit, Sean Morgan, Protect AI’s Chief Architect, highlighted the three most prominent security risks of using AI agents

Adversaries are prioritizing stealth over scale, according to OPSWAT’s latest Threat Landscape Report

Trend Micro has released a temporary fix for the flaws, which enable remote code execution on on-prem Apex One machines

Ransomware actors deploy a range of activities to make it harder for victims to recover and increase the consequences of not paying demands