Cyberdefense firm Resecurity Inc. has denied a claim from infamous hacking group ShinyHunters that it had been hacked, instead saying that the attackers were fooled by a deliberately deployed honeypot filled with synthetic data. The drama over the alleged hack began after a Telegram account from “Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters,” an umbrella alias reportedly linked to ...

Cisco Systems Inc. is reportedly in advanced talks to acquire cybersecurity asset management startup Axonius Inc. According to Ctech by Calcalist, the price Cisco is looking to pay for Axonius is $2 billion. However, a deal is not a forgone conclusion as Axonius has denied any talks are taking place. When asked, the company said that ...

Palo Alto Networks Inc. is reportedly in talks to acquire Israeli cybersecurity startup Koi Security Inc. for an estimated $400 million. According to Ctech by Calcalist today, Palo Alto Chief Executive Nikesh Arora visited Israel last month and evaluated local startups for potential deals. He reportedly emphasized that the rapid changes artificial intelligence is bringing ...

Google LLC’s Gemini 3.0 Pro large language model has delivered a notable advance in multimodal reasoning by helping decode a long-unexplained handwritten annotation in a 500-year-old copy of the Nuremberg Chronicle. The Nuremberg Chronicle, printed in 1493, is considered one of the most important illustrated books of the early modern period. A particular surviving leaf ...

Apple Inc. is reportedly planning to delay the release of the iPhone 18 until 2027 as it deals with manufacturing complexity and longer production development cycles. According to MacRumors, the iPhone 18 is not expected to arrive until the spring of 2027, leaving the iPhone 17 lineup as the latest standard model for more than ...

Though 2025 may be remembered for the artificial intelligence boom, not far behind has been the emergence of advanced humanoid robotics. And while the U.S. and the West more broadly have somewhat lagged in robotics, China enters the new year arguably well ahead in the robotics game. According to a report Tuesday from Chia-focused tech site Pandaily ...

The European Space Agency has confirmed that it suffered a data breach after a threat actor claimed to have stolen and then offered for sale a large volume of internal data claimed to be from the ESA. In a statement on X Inc., the ESA said the incident involved a “very small number” of external ...

A newly discovered third variant of the Shai Hulud malware is raising fresh concerns about the security of the open-source software supply chain, as researchers warn that the latest version shows more sophistication and improved stealth than earlier campaigns. Shai Hulud is a malware campaign first observed in September targeting the JavaScript ecosystem. It focuses ...

Two former American cybersecurity professionals have pleaded guilty in federal court for their roles in carrying out ransomware attacks using the notorious ALPHV/BlackCat malware, the very type of threat they were employed to defend against. According to the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Public Affairs, Ryan Clifford Goldberg of Georgia and Kevin Tyler Martin ...

A hacker claims to have leaked a database containing millions of user records tied to Condé Nast Inc.’s Wired magazine, as the data appeared on the Breach Stars cybercrime forum and quickly spread across other underground marketplaces. The dataset, which first surfaced late last week, is being advertised as containing more than 23 million records ...