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Google this week announced a new set of Play policy updates to strengthen user privacy and protect businesses against fraud, even as it revealed it blocked or removed over 8.3 billion ads globally and suspended 24.9 million accounts in 2025.
The new policy updates relate to contact and location permissions in Android, allowing third-party apps to access the contact lists and a user’s location in

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has announced changes to the way it handles cybersecurity vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs) listed in its National Vulnerability Database (NVD), stating it will only enrich those that fulfil certain conditions owing to an explosion in CVE submissions.
“CVEs that do not meet those criteria will still be listed in the NVD but will not

An international law enforcement operation has taken down 53 domains and arrested four people in connection with commercial distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) operations that were used by more than 75,000 cybercriminals.
The ongoing effort, dubbed Operation PowerOFF, disrupted access to the DDoS-for-hire services, took down the technical infrastructure supporting them, and obtained access to

A recently disclosed high-severity security flaw in Apache ActiveMQ Classic has come under active exploitation in the wild, per the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).
To that end, the agency has added the vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-34197 (CVSS score: 8.8), to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, requiring Federal Civilian

Cybersecurity researchers have warned of an active malicious campaign that’s targeting the workforce in the Czech Republic with a previously undocumented botnet dubbed PowMix since at least December 2025.
“PowMix employs randomized command-and-control (C2) beaconing intervals, rather than persistent connection to the C2 server, to evade the network signature detections,” Cisco Talos

In 2024, compromised service accounts and forgotten API keys were behind 68% of cloud breaches. Not phishing. Not weak passwords. Unmanaged non-human identities that nobody was watching.
For every employee in your org, there are 40 to 50 automated credentials: service accounts, API tokens, AI agent connections, andOAuth grants. When projects end or employees leave, most

Cisco has announced patches to address four critical security flaws impacting Identity Services and Webex Services that could result in arbitrary code execution and allow an attacker to impersonate any user within the service.
The details of the vulnerabilities are below –

CVE-2026-20184 (CVSS score: 9.8) – An improper certificate validation in the integration of single sign-on (SSO)

A “novel” social engineering campaign has been observed abusing Obsidian, a cross-platform note-taking application, as an initial access vector to distribute a previously undocumented Windows remote access trojan called PHANTOMPULSE in attacks targeting individuals in the financial and cryptocurrency sectors.
Dubbed REF6598 by Elastic Security Labs, the activity has been found to leverage

A bank approved a Taboola pixel. That pixel quietly redirected logged-in users to a Temu tracking endpoint. This occurred without the bank’s knowledge, without user consent, and without a single security control registering a violation.

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The Computer Emergencies Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) has disclosed details of a new campaign that has targeted governments and municipal healthcare institutions, mainly clinics and emergency hospitals, to deliver malware capable of stealing sensitive data from Chromium-based web browsers and WhatsApp.
The activity, which was observed between March and April