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  1. The Next Web

    Instagram’s Edits app gets an AI assistant that reads your Reels data

    Instagram is putting a chatbot inside Edits, its video editing app for creators. The tool reads a creator’s Instagram data and suggests what to make next. It is rolling out to all Edits users in the US, Brett Westervelt, who leads the app, wrote in a blog post on Wednesday. “One thing we heard...

  2. The Hacker News

    WordPress Backdoor Rebuilds Itself After Cleanup Using Files, Database, and Shared Memory

    Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a WordPress compromise in which threat actors deployed multiple persistence mechanisms to ensure that the final payload kept returning without having to infect the site again. The backdoor has been codenamed SC after the "SC_" markers present in the...

  3. The Hackers News

    WordPress Backdoor Rebuilds Itself After Cleanup Using Files, Database, and Shared Memory

    Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a WordPress compromise in which threat actors deployed multiple persistence mechanisms to ensure that the final payload kept returning without having to infect the site again. The backdoor has been codenamed SC after the "SC_" markers present in the...

  4. The Next Web

    Xbox is not for sale, CEO Asha Sharma tells The New York Times

    Asha Sharma was asked whether her endgame at Xbox was divestiture, Zachary Small reported for The New York Times. The question came in a profile of Microsoft’s gaming chief published on Wednesday. “Xbox is not for sale,” Sharma said. “We will do whatever it takes to set the company up for success...

  5. Security Week

    Enterprises Struggle to Prepare for AI and Quantum Threats, PwC Says

    PwC’s survey found that only 22% of leaders would use fully autonomous AI for cyber defense, while just 21% are implementing quantum-resistant security measures. The post Enterprises Struggle to Prepare for AI and Quantum Threats, PwC Says appeared first on SecurityWeek.

  6. Security Week

    Hacker Conversations: Rob Juncker, a Knock at the Door and a Moral Compass

    Rob Juncker is chief product and technology officer at Mimecast. Is he a hacker? “Unequivocally yes,” he says. The post Hacker Conversations: Rob Juncker, a Knock at the Door and a Moral Compass appeared first on SecurityWeek.

  7. The Next Web

    Google DeepMind’s watermarked AI proteins still work in the lab

    Google DeepMind has brought its SynthID watermarking technology to synthetic biology. The new tool, SynthID Bio, hides a signature in the amino acid sequence or predicted 3D structure of a protein. The lab announced it on Wednesday in a blog post and a paper in Nature. Google DeepMind says a test...

  8. Security Week

    Police Shut Down KillSec Ransomware, Identify Alleged Teen Leader

    Police took control of KillSec’s leak site and secured at least 110 terabytes of data stolen from victims. The post Police Shut Down KillSec Ransomware, Identify Alleged Teen Leader appeared first on SecurityWeek.

  9. Infosecurity Magazine

    Critical Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Zero-Day Under Active Exploitation

    Vulnerability in Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager allows an unauthenticated, remote attacker to access systems with admin privileges

  10. The Next Web

    MI5 says over 100 UK academics worked on projects funded by China’s spies

    MI5 has told UK universities to review any work with the China General Technology Research Institute (CGTRI). It says the institute funds research for China’s Ministry of State Security (MSS). More than 100 UK-linked academics have worked on its projects, according to MI5. MI5 published the warning...

  11. Infosecurity Magazine

    China-Linked Hackers Impersonate AI Experts to Target US Policy Insiders

    TA419 posed as AI policymakers and economists to phish US AI policy experts' Microsoft 365 accounts

  12. Help Net Security

    16-year-old suspected leader of KillSec ransomware group arrested

    A 16-year-old is suspected of being the main operator of KillSec, a ransomware group that Eurojust says is responsible for almost 1,000 attacks worldwide. Seizure notice (Source: Eurojust) According to Eurojust, KillSec has been active since 2024. The group got into organizations’ systems by...

  13. CIO

    Memory squeeze set to tighten through 2028, Micron says

    The global memory shortage that has driven up the cost of servers, storage and PCs through 2026 will get worse in 2027 and 2028, according to memory maker Micron Technology. “We expect memory and storage supply-demand conditions to be much tighter in calendar 2027 and 2028 than they were in 2026,”...

  14. Help Net Security

    DeepKeep’s AI Lens flags coding agent data leaks and routes destructive commands for approval

    DeepKeep has announced AI Lens for Developers, a new extension to the company’s AI usage control and runtime protection modules to secure software developers and their coding agents that can write, modify, and execute code on their behalf. The capability gives security teams policy enforcement...

  15. The Next Web

    Nvidia-backed GMI Cloud raises $668m as contracted revenue tops $600m

    GMI Cloud, a Mountain View company that rents out Nvidia GPU servers, has raised $668m in new financing, the company said on Wednesday. That is $223m of Series B equity and a $445m credit facility. The Taiwanese bank CTBC led the credit facility. ARCHIV, a new San Francisco firm that invests in AI...

  16. Help Net Security

    Exabeam brings AI-assisted security investigations to data that must stay on-premises

    Exabeam has introduced a new wave of capabilities that bring the Agentic SOC to life in the cloud and on-premises environments, combining AI-driven investigation, execution, and governance. Analyst workflows alone can’t keep pace with machine-speed threats or the growing complexity of goal-driven...

  17. CSO Online

    Google makes Gemini 4 AI model available to a trusted few

    Google has unveiled a new frontier AI model after months of delay. Gemini 4 Argon is designed to handle complex, long-horizon workloads spanning software engineering, enterprise knowledge work such as legal and financial analysis, and cybersecurity. But only a few organizations can get their hands...

  18. The Next Web

    OpenAI’s 2017 plan to auction AGI to China and Russia, per The Atlantic

    In 2017, OpenAI co-founders Greg Brockman and Ilya Sutskever proposed auctioning the rights to the company’s future AGI to governments, including the US, China and Russia. Kevin Roose reports the plan in an excerpt from his book, published by The Atlantic on Tuesday. Dario Amodei opposed it. It was...

  19. Help Net Security

    RadarFirst helps teams investigate AI bias, data exposure and unintended actions

    RadarFirst has announced the general availability of Radar AI Incident Management, a purpose-built solution that helps organizations investigate, manage, and document AI-related incidents. As organizations deploy AI across customer experiences, employee workflows, business operations, and...

  20. CSO Online

    Cisco SD-WAN Manager hit by zero-day admin access attack

    Cisco’s SD-WAN management software has been letting some attackers walk through an authentication check without having to prove who they are. The company says it has now fixed the flaw that was allowing it. The affected platform, Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager, is used to configure and operate...