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When will average people feel AI’s impact?

Interconnects essay argues AI's impact is still a rounding error for average people, comparing looming wage stagnation to Engels' pause.

An Interconnects essay argues that AI currently touches daily life far less than previous industrial revolutions, since its benefits are concentrated in knowledge work and lack tangible consumer goods. The author invokes Engels' pause (1790-1840), when British wages stagnated amid rapid GDP growth, as a warning that popular backlash could kneecap AI's development. He contends the current phase is about building compounding infrastructure, and predicts daily life may look similar even 50 years from now.

Interconnects·Sep 9, 11:01 UTC · 7d agoAI industry1

Top 10 Best Enterprise Browsers in 2026

2026 enterprise browser guide ranks Island first and notes Mammoth Cyber's wind-down plus corrections to standard vendor shortlists.

An editorial guide assesses ten enterprise browser options, ranking category creator Island first for last-mile DLP and BYOD controls, followed by Palo Alto's Talon browser as a Prisma Access/SASE surface and Google Chrome Enterprise Premium for DLP on already-deployed browsers. It corrects common lists, noting SlashNext is browser-adjacent phishing and BEC defense rather than a managed browser, and that Mammoth Cyber has wound down independent operations. Microsoft Edge for Business is positioned as effectively free policy depth for Microsoft 365 estates, with Menlo Security offering an isolation-plus-browser blend.

Cyber Security News·Sep 11, 07:07 UTC · 5d agoIndustry1

The Work Now Within Reach

OpenAI argues increasingly capable and affordable AI can expand what workers and businesses accomplish, lowering the cost of growth.

An OpenAI publication frames more capable, affordable AI as a way to expand the work people and businesses can accomplish and to make economic growth more economical. The piece is presented as an exploration of AI's economic impact rather than a technical or product announcement. No specific models, benchmarks, or metrics are named in the available text.

OpenAI News·Sep 8, 13:00 UTC · 8d agoAI industry1

What must happen for AI’s trillion-dollar gamble to pay off

Hyperscalers need 2.7x productivity gains by 2030 to justify nearly $1.1 trillion in AI data center spending, or risk bankruptcy and capital misallocation.

Wharton finance professor Jessica Wachter estimates hyperscaler AI expenditure will reach nearly $1.1 trillion through 2027 and that a 2.7x productivity increase is needed to break even by 2030. AI revenues of roughly $150-200 billion this year fall far short of about $750 billion in annual spending, with total investment from Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle potentially exceeding $5 trillion over four years. Alphabet reported its first free cash flow deficit (about $5.9 billion) since its 2004 IPO due to AI infrastructure costs. Researchers warn that failed demand could make the buildout the largest capital misallocation in history, with depreciating GPU chips risking stranded assets.

MIT Technology Review · AI·Sep 15, 10:00 UTC · 1d agoAI industry

日本のビジネスパーソンを対象としたWiz調査で 「AI導入加速」はクラウド移行を上回ることが明らかに

Wiz survey of Japanese business professionals finds AI adoption outranking cloud migration and 60% planning AI security investment.

A Wiz survey of Japanese business people found that accelerating AI adoption now outranks cloud migration as a priority. At the same time, more than 80% feel behind in preparing for AI-driven cyber-attacks, and 60% plan to invest in AI security. The findings highlight a preparedness gap as organizations adopt AI faster than they secure it.

Wiz Blog·Aug 25, 06:00 UTC · 23d agoIndustry

Risky Bulletin: Slovakia finds Russian backdoor in traffic speed cameras

Slovakia's NBU found an SMS-triggered backdoor in Russian-made NERO R-ONE traffic cameras, pausing a 279-unit deployment.

Slovakia's national security service NBU issued an alert against NERO R-ONE high-speed traffic cameras after finding a backdoor that grants shell and network access via SMS from hardcoded Russian phone numbers. The cameras are a rebranded version of the Russian CORDON PRO.M model by St. Petersburg firm Semicon, purchased via a Cyprus shell company under a €30 million EU-funded project. The report also found SecureBoot disabled, vulnerable web management, and unauthenticated live streams; the Interior Ministry paused deployment of 279 cameras pending independent assessment.

Risky Business News·Aug 19, 04:52 UTC · 29d agoThreat actor in the wild1

How much of a problem is AI’s water use?

Analysis finds AI's water footprint growing, with data-center location and cooling technology largely determining the local environmental impact.

The article examines the growing water consumption of AI data centers and argues that real-world impact varies significantly depending on where facilities are sited and which cooling technology they use. It is a contextual analysis of AI's environmental footprint rather than news of a specific incident, breach, or release.

Ars Technica · AI·Aug 27, 13:57 UTC · 20d agoAI industry

Cybersecurity jobs available right now: March 10, 2026

Help Net Security's roundup lists open cybersecurity roles at BioNTech, AIG, ServiceNow and others across Europe, the Middle East and Canada.

A job-board roundup of cybersecurity openings including Associate Director Application Security at BioNTech (Germany), CISO at AIG (Israel), Cloud Security Professional at ServiceNow (Italy), and SOC/GRC, analyst, engineer and data governance roles in the UK, UAE, India, Canada and France. Roles span application security, cloud security, SOC operations, compliance and OT environments. Most listings are marked no longer accepting applications.

Help Net Security·Aug 28, 09:06 UTC · 19d agoIndustry

Separating AI's Technological Problems from Its Capitalism Problems

Schneier and Sanders argue AI's harms stem from capitalist incentives and governance gaps, not just technical limits, urging structural reform.

Writing with Nathan E. Sanders in Tech Policy Press, Bruce Schneier argues that AI's technological problems (hallucination, sycophancy, overconfidence) must be separated from socio-political problems created by capitalist market incentives. The essay contrasts US frontier-scale, energy-intensive development with China's incentive-driven leaner open models on commodity hardware, and cites Switzerland's Apertus model - trained on licensed data using public computing and renewable hydropower - as a public-interest alternative. It contends that proposals like research pauses, data-center moratoria, and federal screening conflate technology problems with governance problems, and that society faces independent choices on both axes.

Schneier on Security·Aug 15, 00:00 UTC · Aug 15, 2026AI policy

Proofpoint Strengthens Executive Leadership Team with Appointment of Chief Legal Officer and Chief People Officer

Proofpoint appointed Brian Levey as Chief Legal Officer and Puja Jaspal as Chief People Officer, strengthening its executive leadership team.

Proofpoint announced on September 8, 2026 the appointments of Brian Levey as Chief Legal Officer and Puja Jaspal as Chief People Officer. Levey previously served as Chief Business Affairs & Chief Legal Officer at Upwork and spent 13 years at eBay; Jaspal was Chief People Officer at Fastly with prior senior roles at Cisco, Visa, and Google. The hires support Proofpoint's stated expansion around human and AI-agent security.

Proofpoint Threat Insight·Sep 8, 09:30 UTC · 8d agoIndustry

Retail Cybersecurity in ANZ: Five Decisions That Keep Trading

Huntress outlines five key cybersecurity decisions for ANZ retail businesses to secure identities and maintain trading continuity against ransomware.

Huntress published guidance aimed at retailers in Australia and New Zealand, describing five decisions that help retail businesses stay trading through cyber incidents. The piece covers identity security, dependency management, and ransomware resilience. It is guidance content rather than a report of a specific incident.

Huntress·Aug 27, 13:00 UTC · 20d agoIndustry

UBoatRAT Navigates East Asia

Unit 42 discovers UBoatRAT, a new custom RAT targeting South Korean and video-game industry personnel, delivered via Google Drive with GitHub-based C2 and BITS persistence.

Unit 42 identified UBoatRAT, a new custom remote access trojan first found in May 2017, whose initial version used a public Hong Kong blog service and a compromised Japanese web server for command and control. The latest variants target personnel or organizations related to South Korea or the video games industry, are delivered through Google Drive, and masquerade as Microsoft Word, Excel, or folder icons. The RAT checks for virtualization software and domain join, retrieves its C2 address from a Base64-encoded string in a GitHub-hosted file, uses a custom XOR-encrypted C2 protocol, and maintains persistence via Windows Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) jobs that survive reboots.

Palo Alto Unit 42·Aug 17, 12:55 UTC · Aug 17, 2026Malware in the wild1

Is Cyber Facing an Affordability Crisis?

Dark Reading analysis argues record breach costs and roughly $240 billion in cyber defense spending leave small businesses dangerously exposed, threatening supply chains.

The analysis examines an affordability crisis in cybersecurity, noting breach costs have reached record highs while defense spending approaches $240 billion. It argues small businesses are dangerously under-protected relative to rising attack costs. Weak small-business defenses are framed as a supply chain security risk for larger organizations.

Dark Reading·Aug 25, 14:53 UTC · 22d agoIndustry

Viral AI assistant Instinct now has its own email address

AI assistant Instinct, valued at $2.5 billion, is giving every agent its own email address to autonomously create accounts and complete tasks.

Instinct, the AI assistant founded by Noah Shinn and valued at $2.5 billion, now provisions dedicated email addresses so the agent can sign up for services, contact businesses, and manage accounts autonomously. Users can also forward emails such as order confirmations so Instinct can handle tasks like product returns and join group threads to track decisions. The feature follows recent partnerships with 1Password for logins and Stripe for payments, plus a new location-sharing capability.

TechCrunch · AI·Sep 9, 15:13 UTC · 7d agoAI industry

Securing the Infrastructure of Intelligence

NVIDIA positions AI factories combining chips, networking, power and data as the defining infrastructure of the AI economy needing full-stack security.

NVIDIA's blog argues that AI factories are the defining infrastructure of the AI era, transforming energy and data into intelligence that powers businesses and countries. It frames compute as revenue and lists the full stack of critical resources required: advanced chips, packaging, memory, networking, land and power. The piece is a corporate positioning article about securing this infrastructure, with no specific incident or product announcement detailed in the excerpt.

NVIDIA Blog·Aug 17, 12:34 UTC · Aug 17, 2026AI industry

AgenticGen: Reward-Guided Agentic Video Generation for Advertising

AgenticGen applies DPO and GRPO reward-guided reasoning to ad video generation, improving TikTok CTR 2.72%, CVR 2.63%, and Advv 9.61%.

AgenticGen decomposes advertising video generation into two trainable reasoning stages, strategy selection and draft generation, supervised by online business feedback. It learns a performance-based reward from accumulated online feedback plus a rubric-based reward aligned with human quality standards, then optimizes policies with DPO followed by GRPO using process and outcome rewards. Online A/B experiments in the TikTok advertising system show CTR up 2.72%, CVR up 2.63%, and Advv up 9.61% over an SFT baseline.

Hugging Face daily papers·Aug 30, 20:00 UTC · 17d agoAI research

Water sector passes, government sector fails attempts to spot and halt simulated CISA attack

CISA red teamers compromised both a government and a water organization; water defenders detected and contained the simulated attack, government defenders did not.

CISA's red team gained initial access, elevated domain privileges, and lateral movement into sensitive business systems and cloud resources at an unnamed government organization, whose SOC ignored low- and medium-severity EDR alerts buried under thousands of false positives. A water organization's SOC quarantined phishing-compromised workstations within 2, 10, and 20 minutes, and later detected and isolated intrusions reaching the OT DMZ bastion host. Both organizations underestimated cloud risk, lacked Microsoft Conditional Access for workload identities, and had no process to revoke compromised access and refresh tokens. This is one of CISA's rare public red-team reports since 2023.

CyberScoop·Aug 25, 17:11 UTC · 22d agoAdvisory1

How to level up from security pro to security leader

Career advice piece argues aspiring CISOs must pair technical depth with business fluency, communication, and cross-department influence.

The article offers guidance for security professionals moving into CISO and security leadership roles, drawing on interviews with CISOs at ExtraHop, BlueVoyant, Infosys, and others. It emphasizes translating technical risk into business priorities, building trust across departments, and understanding how the company makes money. An analysis of CISO job postings found employers value communication skills, regulatory knowledge, and business education over mastery of specific security platforms.

CSO Online·Sep 14, 08:25 UTC · 2d agoIndustry

Mirage2FA Surge Hits 4,500 US and EU Companies, Abusing Microsoft 365 Login Flows

Mirage2FA phishing-as-a-service campaign hit ~4,500 organizations, mostly US, stealing Microsoft 365 passwords and session cookies to bypass 2FA.

ANY.RUN research links the Mirage2FA phishing-as-a-service toolkit to 4,532 unique organization email domains between 2024 and 2026, with the US accounting for 63.7% of victims. The kit uses adversary-in-the-middle login flows to harvest credentials and session cookies, bypassing MFA on Microsoft 365 accounts. Researchers recorded more than 9,000 potential compromise events and estimated 48% of targeted email addresses were potentially compromised. Hijacked sessions extend to SSO-connected services, enabling impersonation, fraud and further compromise.

The Hacker News·Aug 25, 11:56 UTC · 22d agoPhishing & fraud in the wild1

Quoting Laurie Voss

Laurie Voss argues AI collapses code-writing and review costs, leaving product discovery and precise definition as the core of software engineering.

Simon Willison quotes Laurie Voss's essay "We are all Product Engineers now," which argues that AI is collapsing the cost of writing code and will likewise collapse the cost of reviewing, fixing, and operating it. Voss contends the remaining work is finding out what people want, defining it precisely, and making software pleasant to use. He expects the amount of software to grow without limit because demand has no ceiling, making product-definition skills the whole job. No specific models, tools, or incidents are named; this is career and industry commentary.

Simon Willison·Sep 14, 14:34 UTC · 2d agoAI industry

Mines, Minds, and Machines: The Journey of AI

Recorded Future essay traces AI's supply chain from minerals and chips to embodied AI, mapping geopolitical rivalry and cyber operations at every stage.

Recorded Future published an analysis following the supply chain of the fourth industrial revolution: minerals become chips, chips become data centers, and data centers become models that are acquiring physical capabilities. It argues geopolitical rivalry and cyber operations now run along every link, from mine to embodied AI machines.

Recorded Future·Aug 11, 00:00 UTC · Aug 11, 2026AI industry

Microsoft Offers Up to $30,000 for Critical AI Flaws in Dynamics 365 and Power Platform

Microsoft expands AI bug bounty to Dynamics 365 and Power Platform, paying up to $30,000 for critical inference manipulation flaws.

Microsoft's bug bounty program offers up to $30,000 for critical 'Inference Manipulation' or 'Inferential Information Disclosure' bugs in Dynamics 365 and Power Platform, including Copilot Studio, AI Builder, Power Apps, Power Automate, and Dataverse. Payouts scale by report quality ($30,000/$20,000/$12,000 for critical) with important-severity AI flaws earning $6,000-$20,000, plus 20% multipliers for Dataverse privilege escalation and Plugin Sandbox escapes. Prompt injection affecting only the attacker, hallucinated execution, and system-prompt disclosure are excluded from scope.

Cyber Security News·Sep 14, 16:11 UTC · 2d agoIndustry

Who gets to define the rules for AI?

Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez attacks big-lab antitrust exemption proposals as cartel behavior that lets incumbents write AI safety rules.

Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez argues that proposals from large AI labs—particularly Anthropic's roadmap requesting antitrust exemptions for safety coordination—amount to a cartel letting incumbents define rules for everyone else. He draws parallels to the 1975 SEC NRSRO credit-rating designations and the EU's 1985 Motor Vehicle Block Exemption, where safety justifications produced incumbent-protecting market structures. Gomez supports independent review of highly capable AI systems but disputes who writes the standards, who conducts review, and who participates. He also warns AI cyber offense is getting cheaper faster than defenses are improving.

Hacker News · AI·Sep 14, 04:49 UTC · 3d agoAI policyHN 41↑ · 29 comments

When the Whole Company Adopts AI: What It Does to Your SOC

Analysis of 16.9 million SOC alerts finds AI-related alerts at 0.43%, growing 685% since February, with 94.1% noise and 0.02% real attacks.

A review of roughly 16.9 million SOC alerts found about 73,000 (0.43%) were AI-related, a share that grew 685% between February and June 2026. Of AI-related alerts, 94.1% were noise, 5.8% genuine risks, and 0.02% real attacks; 79.8% received benign verdicts, 81.7% were automatically suppressed, and only 5.4% reached a human analyst. The only confirmed attacks were phishing campaigns that weaponized AI brand names as lures, while developer coding agents spawning shells and reading credential stores routinely tripped detections written before AI agents existed.

The Hacker News·Sep 12, 10:24 UTC · 4d agoResearch2

'Lake America' makes one thing clear: We can't trust U.S. tech companies

TVO opinion analysis argues the 'Lake America' dynamic shows foreign organizations can no longer trust US tech companies.

An opinion analysis argues that US tech companies can no longer be trusted by foreign customers, coining the framing 'Lake America'. The piece reflects growing concerns around data sovereignty and dependence on US cloud and software providers. No specific incident, breach, or vulnerability is described.

Hacker News · security·Sep 8, 20:40 UTC · 8d agoIndustryHN 23↑ · 8 comments

Hackers Can Hide Malicious AI Commands Inside Normal English to Bypass Security Filters

Check Point's PuzzleMask technique hides malicious prompts in ordinary English that fast gatekeeper models miss but high-reasoning downstream models execute.

Check Point researchers disclosed PuzzleMask, a technique concealing policy-breaking instructions in natural-language prose without encodings or invisible characters. Fast screening models classified all 23 crafted wrappers as safe, while a high-reasoning model recovered and acted on the hidden instruction in 17 of 18 tests (94.4%). The gap stems from capability imbalance between gatekeeper and target models, with defenses including paraphrasing untrusted input, stricter self-referential wording rules, and output/tool-call monitoring.

Cyber Security News·Sep 11, 07:36 UTC · 5d agoAI safety & security1

From ‘High/Medium/Low’ to Dollars: Making Cyber Risk Legible to Your CFO

Cyble argues security teams should express cyber risk in financial terms for CFOs instead of high/medium/low ratings, citing its 2025 threat forecast results.

Cyble published guidance on cyber risk quantification, arguing qualitative high/medium/low ratings fail to convey financial exposure to executives. The piece notes that over 80% of its 2025 threat predictions, including AI-driven ransomware and supply-chain attacks, materialized as anticipated.

Cyble·Aug 25, 09:45 UTC · 22d agoIndustry

Ferrari denies data breach and ransomware attack following gang’s online claims

The Record·Aug 5, 00:00 UTC · Aug 5, 2026Ransomware

MasterControl Seventeen Every Time

Governed enterprise analytics study shows deterministic policy execution matched 110/110 answer-and-evidence contracts while runtime agent planning matched none.

The paper studies a governed approach where a language model interprets the question while deterministic policy selects and runs a pre-approved analytical program returning results and evidence. Across 440 runs, three 8B models generated SQL and selected tools at runtime, while Qwen3-8B only interpreted intent and policy executed the approved program. None of 330 runtime-planning episodes satisfied the full answer-and-evidence contract, whereas the policy-executed analyzer matched 110 of 110. The authors note this is configuration-specific and expressiveness is preserved via relational operations, aggregation, comparison, windows, ranking, and similarity with replayable results.

Hugging Face daily papers·Sep 1, 20:00 UTC · 15d agoAI research

Guide to Cybersecurity Budget Planning: How Much + How To | Huntress

Huntress publishes guidance on planning cybersecurity budgets and getting more value from security spend.

Huntress released a guide aimed at helping businesses plan their cybersecurity budgets without overspending. The content is promotional guidance on prioritizing security spend rather than incident reporting. No vulnerabilities, incidents, or threat activity are described.

Huntress·Aug 12, 17:00 UTC · Aug 12, 2026Industry

The Regulators Already Assume You Have an AI Inventory. Do You?

Checkmarx argues regulators now expect organizations to maintain an AI inventory as AI-generated code and outputs enter security workflows.

Checkmarx contends that implicit trust in AI-generated code, AI summaries, and scanner output has become a governance liability that regulators no longer accept. The piece argues security teams must formalize AI inventories and treat AI outputs as untrusted inputs. It frames AI governance as an emerging compliance expectation rather than an internal maturity project.

Checkmarx·Aug 26, 09:15 UTC · 21d agoAI policy1

Expanding AI access and cyber defense for federal, state, local, and tribal governments

OpenAI and GSA agreed to provide ChatGPT to federal, state, local, and tribal governments with $0 licenses, 50% off usage, and cyber-defense access.

OpenAI for Government and the U.S. General Services Administration announced a 27-month agreement (October 1, 2026 through December 31, 2028) waiving the $15 per-user monthly license fee and cutting usage costs 50% for federal, state, local, and tribal agencies. More than one million government employees already have ChatGPT access, with eligibility extending across a roughly 23 million-person U.S. public-sector workforce. Every verified government entity is approved for Daybreak Blue cyber-defender access at 50% off, with Daybreak Red available for vulnerability research, exploit validation, and red teaming at standard pricing. The deal builds on the $1 billion Daybreak for Frontline Defenders commitment announced the prior week.

OpenAI News·updated Sep 10, 18:25 UTC · 6d ago·first Sep 10, 07:00 UTC · 6d agoAI industry 3 sources1

Pilot Early, Commit Late: A Real-Options Model of Enterprise AI Adoption under Rapid Technological Progress

Real-options model shows firms should pilot AI early and commit late because rapid frontier progress raises experimentation value over irreversible deployment.

The paper builds a two-period decision model where firms choose among immediate AI deployment, a limited pilot, or waiting under frontier uncertainty. It derives five timing results plus a comparative result on where learning occurs, including that frontier uncertainty raises the value of waiting and piloting. Valuable organization-specific learning creates a region where 'pilot early, commit late' is optimal, and a closed-form modularity threshold exists above which immediate deployment dominates. A continuous-time extension recovers the standard result that uncertainty raises adoption thresholds while capability and modularity lower them.

arXiv cs.AI / cs.LG / cs.CL·Sep 14, 17:30 UTC · 2d agoAI research

Helping older adults use AI in everyday life

OpenAI and AARP's OATS launch the Older Adults AI Skills Jam, a free program teaching seniors to use ChatGPT and spot scams.

OpenAI Academy, with Older Adults Technology Services (OATS) from AARP, is hosting in-person AI Skills Jam events in 10 US communities as part of a multi-year Senior Planet program. OpenAI says the share of US ChatGPT messages from people 55+ grew from 6% to nearly 10% in a year. The workshops include scam-awareness training, teaching warning signs like urgent language and suspicious links, and note that users ask ChatGPT tens of millions of times weekly to evaluate suspicious messages.

OpenAI News·Sep 16, 15:49 UTC · 14h agoAI industry

Logistics Giant Ceva Suffers Data Breach Impacting European Clients

Ceva Logistics suffers a supply chain attack and data breach with a large blast radius impacting European clients.

Ceva Logistics, a major global logistics provider, suffered a data breach impacting its European clients. The incident appears to be a supply chain attack with a large potential blast radius affecting downstream customers. Details on compromised data volumes and the initial intrusion vector remain limited.

Infosecurity Magazine·Aug 11, 10:45 UTC · Aug 11, 2026Data breach

Florida water agency latest to confirm cyber incident as feds warn of nation

A ransomware gang hit Florida's St. Johns River Water Management District as CISA warned of IRGC-linked CyberAv3ngers attacks on exposed Unitronics water-sector PLCs.

The St. Johns River Water Management District, which oversees Florida drinking-water supply planning, confirmed suspicious activity in its IT environment and said containment measures were implemented; a ransomware gang claimed the attack and shared samples of stolen data. Separately, CISA, FBI, NSA, EPA and Israel's INCD warned that IRGC-affiliated CyberAv3ngers are actively compromising Israeli-made Unitronics Vision Series PLCs in the water sector using default credentials since at least November 22. The group, motivated by opposition to Israel-linked products, defaces controller interfaces and could cause deeper cyber-physical effects. Shadowserver found at least 539 Unitronics PLC instances still exposed online, and CNN reported fewer than 10 US water facilities faced recent attacks.

The Record·Sep 8, 00:00 UTC · 9d agoRansomware in the wild 3 sources

Securing Data in the AI era

Wiz published guidance arguing AI adoption reshapes data risk, urging teams to identify what data is connected to AI services and exposed.

Wiz published a viewpoint on how AI adoption changes the context of data risk. The post argues that understanding what data is connected to AI systems, what is exposed, and why is now critical for managing that risk. No specific incident, vulnerability, or product release is described in the available text.

Wiz Blog·Aug 14, 12:19 UTC · Aug 14, 2026Industry

DoppelCart fraud network uses 119,000 fake shops to steal credit cards

DoppelCart, the largest documented fake-shop network, runs 119,000 domains impersonating 44,182 brands to steal payment card details via WebSocket-connected checkout pages.

German cybersecurity startup Nebty discovered DoppelCart, a network of more than 119,000 fake e-commerce domains, mostly in the .SHOP TLD, that harvest payment card details through fraudulent checkout pages. Over 105,000 shops remain active, impersonating 44,182 brands with discounts of up to 65%, and 96% of confirmed shops share identical build files resolving to 27 commerce backends. Checkout code exfiltrates card numbers, expiration dates, CVVs, cardholder names, contact details, and even bank one-time codes to attacker C2 over WebSockets in real time, potentially bypassing bank security controls. The network surpasses BogusBazaar, the previously largest documented fake-shop cluster with 75,000 sites and an estimated 850,000 fraudulent transactions.

BleepingComputer·Sep 8, 20:35 UTC · 8d agoPhishing & fraud

Securing Your Business: The Vital Role of Cyber Insurance | Huntress

Huntress explains cyber insurance coverage types, insurer security requirements, and the shift toward documented evidence of controls.

Huntress outlines first-party and third-party cyber insurance coverage, including business interruption, data recovery, extortion, privacy liability, and regulatory fines. Insurers now commonly require EDR, MFA, security awareness training, patching, tested backups, least-privilege access, and incident response plans. With ransomware accounting for 91% of insurance losses in H1 2025 and average US breach costs at $10.22 million, underwriters increasingly demand evidence packs rather than self-attestation.

Huntress·Sep 1, 16:00 UTC · 15d agoIndustry

Patch Tuesday to Pentest Wednesday: How an Equipment Rental Company Is Turning Continuous Testing Into Continuous Exposure Management

An equipment rental company uses Horizon3 NodeZero for continuous exposure management, surfacing an SSH key exposure in eight hours versus annual pentesting.

The company moved from periodic penetration testing to continuous exposure management using the NodeZero Proactive Security Platform, feeding telemetry into a Splunk-based CTEM pipeline via Horizon3 APIs. NodeZero exposed SSH RSA key pairs from a PHP web server change about eight hours after introduction and found more findings in 12 hours than a third-party engagement found in roughly 30 days. An Active Directory password audit of 15,000 passwords found about 300 identical or similar compromised passwords, driving a banned-password list, 12-character minimums, service desk changes, and self-service reset rollout; users with similar passwords later dropped from 880 to 209. NodeZero also validated a suspected Cisco vulnerability as exploitable.

Horizon3.ai·Sep 9, 15:58 UTC · 7d agoIndustry