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US cybercrime losses pass $20B for first time as AI boosts online fraud

Tue, 07/04/2026 - 18:59
Bots are now firmly in the toolbox, helping crooks scale old scams

Crims are taking advantage of AI to sharpen old scams. The FBI reported Monday that cybercrime losses hit a record $20.87 billion in 2025, with help from bots.…

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Russia's Fancy Bear still attacking routers to boost fake sites, NCSC warns

Tue, 07/04/2026 - 18:02
200 orgs and 5,000 devices compromised so far in Vlad's latest intelligence grab, Microsoft reckons

The UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has issued a fresh warning about Russia's ongoing targeting of routers to steal passwords and other secrets.…

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Yahoo<i>!</i> Japan’s owner consolidating 164 OpenStack clusters into one

Tue, 07/04/2026 - 04:21
Customizations are causing pain so new cloud will stick to upstream cuts of the open source stack

LY Corporation, the Japanese web giant that dominates messaging, e-commerce and payments in many Asian countries, has revealed it is replacing a heavily-customized OpenStack cloud with a more conventional cut of the open source cloud stack – and making massive consolidations along the way.…

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AI agents found vulns in this popular Linux and Unix print server

Tue, 07/04/2026 - 00:03
CUPS server shown spilling out remote code execution and root access

In the latest chapter on leaky CUPS, a security researcher and his band of bug-hunting agents have found two flaws that can be chained to allow an unauthenticated attacker to remotely execute code and achieve root file overwrite on the network.…

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Attackers exploited this critical FortiClient EMS bug as a 0-day

Mon, 06/04/2026 - 19:14
CISA added the flaw to KEV after Fortinet confirmed exploitation in the wild

Fortinet released an emergency patch over the weekend for a critical FortiClient Enterprise Management Server (EMS) bug believed to be under attack since at least March 31.…

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