Proton CEO pushes AI coding despite staff security concerns
Employees say AI use may decide who keeps a job, and leadership did not dispute the account.
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41 articles · newest firstOpenAI says Dots should reach more of Europe within weeks
Personal Pro accounts in the EEA, Switzerland and the UK remain locked out, while some business accounts already have access.
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Nefilim and Hive ransomware affiliate sentenced to 70 months
Artem Stryzhak pleaded guilty after attacks on hospitals and large firms; an alleged accomplice remains at large.
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Nefilim and Hive affiliate Artem Stryzhak sentenced to 70 months
He pleaded guilty after extradition from Spain for attacks from 2018 through 2021; prosecutors still seek co-conspirator Volodymyr Tymoshchuk.
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Proton hosts Flock camera map covering over 300,000 devices
The Swiss copy is reachable worldwide, while the original site is US-only and under a cease-and-desist.
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AOMEI Backupper update servers briefly hijacked to push a backdoor
Tampered configs sent Backupper 8.3.0 and later a dropper that installed Radmin and SHINYROAD.
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AOMEI Backupper updates briefly served malware in 2026
UNC7017 used five-to-ten-minute windows to deliver CrossRoad and the ShinyRoad backdoor to anyone fetching packages.
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Hitachi Energy MicroSCADA X SYS600 flaws allow local privilege abuse
Versions 10.7 and earlier need 10.8 for two flaws; 10.8 still needs a documented mitigation for the authentication issue.
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Hitachi Energy RTU500 CMU firmware flaws can disrupt ICS communications
Builds from 12.7.1 through 13.8.2 should move to 13.9.1 or named branch fixes; exploitation is not stated.
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AOMEI update servers briefly served CROSSROAD and SHINYROAD malware
UNC7017 altered promotion configs for minutes in May and July so Backupper ran malware without user action.
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Gold is now the top U.S. export
A numismatics column says gold became the top U.S. export, mainly to Switzerland, Hong Kong, and the UK.
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Encryption Is Getting Squeezed From All Sides
Canada's C-22 bill could force encryption backdoors and metadata retention, prompting Signal and Psiphon to threaten exit.
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Attackers Tampered with AOMEI Backupper's Update Servers for Minutes to Deliver a Backdoor
UNC7017 briefly tampered with AOMEI Backupper updates to install the SHINYROAD backdoor on polling hosts.
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Investigating Ephemeral Supply Chain Tampering
UNC7017 briefly hijacked AOMEI updates to deliver CROSSROAD and SHINYROAD malware.
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Apertus 1.5 Release Notes
Swiss AI published release notes for Apertus 1.5, its open language model.
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Physical Intelligence API Beta: Frontier Models for Every Robot
Physical Intelligence opened a beta API to fine-tune and host its latest robot foundation models.
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Odyssey-3 is a new generative world model that you can try for free
Odyssey opened a free preview of Odyssey-3, a 14-billion-parameter world model for real-time interactive environments.
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Hitachi Energy Asset Suite
Hitachi Energy Asset Suite 9.9.0 and earlier expose unauthenticated servlets that can leak data or disrupt availability.
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Hitachi Energy RTU500
CISA warns end-of-life Hitachi Energy RTU500 firmware has critical unauthenticated flaws, including arbitrary firmware upload.
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Hitachi Energy REB500
Hitachi Energy REB500 8.3.3.1 and earlier can be crashed via libexpat flaws in IEC 61850 parsing.
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Hitachi Energy SOI
CISA warns Hitachi Energy SOI 2.0.0–2.2.0 has an authenticated ActiveMQ code-injection flaw, CVE-2026-34197 (CVSS 8.8).
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'Warlock' ransomware used in attacks on critical infrastructure in Portuguese, Spanish-speaking countries
A Chinese group is deploying Warlock ransomware against critical infrastructure via unpatched SharePoint flaws.
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16-Year-Old Suspected KillSec Ransomware Leader Arrested in International Operation
Authorities arrested three KillSec suspects, including an alleged 16-year-old administrator, in a nine-country operation.
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Teenagers suspected of leading KillSec ransom group arrested during international operation
An international operation arrested three suspects, including teenagers, accused of leading the KillSec ransomware group.
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Operation KillSwitch: Police Dismantle KillSec Ransomware Group
Europol's Operation KillSwitch dismantled KillSec ransomware after about 500 confirmed attacks and seized 110 terabytes.
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WordPress Backdoor Rebuilds Itself After Cleanup Using Files, Database, and Shared Memory
Sucuri details SC, a self-healing WordPress backdoor that rebuilds from files, the database, and RAM.
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16-year-old suspected leader of KillSec ransomware group arrested
Eurojust says a 16-year-old suspected KillSec leader was arrested after nearly 1,000 ransomware attacks.
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One year later: Sovereign AI and the fight for choice
Cloudflare is bringing EuroLLM and Switzerland's fully open Apertus model to Workers AI.
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ABB Protection and Control IED Manager PCM600
CISA discloses local privilege-escalation and path-traversal flaws in ABB PCM600 2.14 and earlier.
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OpenAI launches always-on Dots agents to rival Meta's Muse
OpenAI launches always-on Dots agents and cheaper GPT-6.1 Sol, while holding back top-end Astra over safety.
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NetScaler zero-day exploitation escalates into mass attacks (CVE-2026-88771)
Citrix NetScaler zero-day CVE-2026-88771 is under mass exploitation after a public proof of concept.
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Startup Nights 2026 is comming up on 5-6 Nov. in Switzerland
Startup Nights 2026, a general founder pitching event, runs 5-6 November in Switzerland.
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Hackers Exploit WordPress CVE-2026-63030 and CVE-2026-60137 to Steal Government Data
A Chinese threat actor exploited critical WordPress vulnerabilities to steal 18,566 sensitive records from a Western government organization across 29 countries.
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PaperCut Attacker Uses Hundreds of AI Agents to Compromise 440+ Instances
GreyNoise and Blackpoint tracked an AI-assisted actor using OpenAI Codex and DeepSeek agents to exploit PaperCut flaws across 440+ instances in 48 countries.
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Switzerland's Federal Government Is Replacing Microsoft on 3k Computers
Switzerland's Federal Chancellery launched a pilot replacing Microsoft 365 with open-source openDesk on 3,000 federal workstations by end of 2027.
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Rewiring Democracy Series on The Renovator
Schneier and Sanders link a four-part Rewiring Democracy essay series covering civic AI in Japan, Switzerland, Brazil and Scotland.
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AI "Mind Viruses" Can Spread Between Agents Through Persistent Prompt Files
Anthropic and EPFL researchers showed self-propagating payloads can spread between AI agents via persistent system-prompt files, though no in-the-wild spread was found.
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Ukrainian software developer faces 12 years in Swiss ransomware trial
Swiss prosecutors seek a 12-year sentence for a Ukrainian developer accused in LockerGoga, MegaCortex and Nefilim ransomware attacks causing roughly $160 million in losses.
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Invisible AI Prompts Trigger Court Sanctions
A Connecticut litigant hid white-font prompt injections in court filings to sway AI systems; the judge sanctioned him by revoking e-filing privileges.
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DDoS Attacks Cause Major Threema Outages
Sustained distributed denial-of-service attacks knocked Swiss secure messenger Threema offline for hours before upstream filtering restored service; On-Prem users unaffected.
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- Mandiantorganization · 5
- UNC7017threat actor · 5
- ShinyRoadmalware · 5
- AOMEI Backupperproduct · 5
- Google Threat Intelligence Grouporganization · 5
- CrossRoadmalware · 5
- Eurojustorganization · 4
- ManageEngineorganization · 4
- KillSecthreat actor · 4
- Europolorganization · 4
- OpenAIorganization · 3
- FBIorganization · 3
- Microsoftvendor · 3
- KillSecmalware · 3
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