Oracle Apparently Has Been Pwned And Extortion Emails Have Gone Out To Execs Of Companies Using E-Business Suite There's a newly reported extortion campaign, where hackers claim to have stolen sensitive data through Oracle’s E-Business Suite and are now targeting executives directly: According to…

Deepgram Launches Flux  Deepgram, the world’s most realistic and real-time Voice AI platform, today announced from VapiCon 2025 the launch of Flux, the world’s first conversational speech recognition (CSR) model designed specifically for real-time voice agents. Unlike traditional automatic speech…

Deepgram Launches Flux – The World’s First Conversational Speech Recognition Model  Deepgram, the world's most realistic and real-time Voice AI platform, today announced from VapiCon 2025 the launch of Flux, the world's first conversational speech recognition (CSR) model designed specifically for…

Comparitech Research: Q3 Ransomware Roundup Today, Comparitech researchers published a ransomware roundup for the third quarter of 2025. So far this year, there have been a total of 5,186 tracked ransomware attacks. This is a 36% increase from the same period of time in 2024. Q3 of 2025 also saw a…

Lifeprinter app on iOS and Android leaked 2 million private photos: Cybernews The latest Cybernews research team findings show that Lifeprint, a portable photo printer for iPhone and Android, spilled millions of private photos onto the open internet. Any internet user could have accessed over 8…

Amazon Canada Prime Deals from Anker Innovations Below is a curated selection of top offers from Anker Innovations — covering must-haves in charging gear, home-tech, audio, and portable entertainment. Deals span up to 48% off across brands including Anker, eufy, Soundcore, and Nebula, with…

Cybersecurity Awareness Month Starts Today In recognition of October's Cybersecurity Awareness Month, I wanted to offer insights from Corian (Cory) Kennedy, Chief Threat Intelligence Officer at SecurityScorecard.  "'Is my organization hacked right now?' How confident is your answer? Cybersecurity…

Hackers Distribute Malicious AI Tools Through Chrome Extensions  According to researchers, threat actors are distributing fake Chrome extensions posing as AI tools to hijack prompts in the Chrome search bar and then redirect queries to attacker-controlled domains and track search activity. More…

Financial Services Industry: Strong at Prevention, But Weak at Vulnerability Remediation Cobalt today released its State of Pentesting in Financial Services 2025 Report with new insights into how the financial services industry identifies and resolves serious security vulnerabilities. Cobalt…

1st Anniversary of Black Kite Bridge: Strong Momentum & Adoption Surpassing 100K Intelligence Items Shared Black Kite today announced significant momentum on the first anniversary of Black Kite Bridge™, the industry’s first solution enabling customer-vendor collaboration to dramatically reduce…

Connect with Friends and Family In LEGO Party! Available Today! Developer SMG Studio, the LEGO Group, and Fictions launched their wildly fun multiplayer party game, LEGO® Party!, on Steam for PC, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, PlayStation®5 (PS5™), PlayStation®4 (PS4™), and Nintendo Switch™. The…

The CISA warns of a Sudo Privilege Escalation Flaw  The CISA has warned that a local privilege escalation vulnerability in Sudo (CVE-2025-32463, CVSS 9.3) is being actively exploited in the wild. The flaw, introduced in Sudo version 1.9.14 in 2023, allows any local user to execute commands with…

Unrelenting IT issues cost millions of hours in lost productivity Nexthink has released 'Cracking the DEX Equation: The Annual Workplace Productivity Report' showing that poor DEX directly costs global businesses an average of 470,000 hours per year, equivalent to around 226 full-time employees.…

Meta AI fooled into teaching weapon creation…. Yikes! Cybernews researchers discovered that Meta's personal assistant, which is integrated into Messenger, WhatsApp, Instagram, and other apps, is easy to manipulate into revealing harmful information. The Llama 4-based chatbot was easily tricked…

2025 Paywall Index: A Data-Driven Study Across Industries Website Planet has published a study which explores how paywalls have evolved beyond news media to become the internet's default business model, shaping digital content, SaaS, streaming, and even academic publishing. Among our key findings:…

Cybersecurity Awareness Month Is Tomorrow With Cybersecurity Awareness Month kicking off tomorrow, I have a comment from Chris Mierzwa, Sr. Director, Global Resilience Programs at Commvault. For background, Chris Mierzwa is a seasoned technology executive with over 30 years of experience in the IT…

New Spearphishing Attacks Uses DarkCloud Infostealer to Steal Credentials Researchers have uncovered new spearphishing campaign that leverages the DarkCloud Infostealer to steal FTP credentials, keystrokes and other information. You can find out more details about this campaign here: Henrique…

CISA Issues Alert Regarding Cisco Firewall Zero-Days Late last week, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency issued an emergency directive in response to a widespread campaign that involves exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities in Cisco firewall devices - giving threat actors access to…

ESET Research’s has a deep dive into DeceptiveDevelopment, North Korean crypto theft via fake job offers ESET Research has released new findings on DeceptiveDevelopment, also known as Contagious Interview – a threat group aligned with North Korea that has grown increasingly active in recent years.…

Harrods Has Been Pwned With 430K Records Swiped Hackers have apparently breached British retail giant Harrods via a third-party supplier stealing 430,000 records that included sensitive e-commerce customer information. Harrods said it would not engage with the "threat actor" and added the affected…

Abby Connect Scales Personalized Service and Launches AI Receptionist with Deepgram’s Real-Time Speech-to-Text Deepgram today announced that Abby Connect, a premier virtual receptionist service, has successfully launched its new AI Receptionist product line built on Deepgram’s real-time…

Dedicated IP is now available on Surfshark’s extension Surfshark has launched a dedicated IP feature for its browser extension, available on Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and Microsoft Edge. This addition allows users to route only browser traffic through a dedicated IP. According to Justas…

Keepit upsizes and refinances credit facilities to $60 million USD Keepit, the world's only vendor-neutral and truly immutable cloud dedicated to SaaS data protection, today announced a strategic financial update to upsize and refinance its credit facilities amounting to $60 million USD from the…

Maximor get $9m for AI that takes on finance grunt work while keeping it BAU Finance leaders know they should be spending more time guiding business decisions, yet their teams spend most of their time shuffling data between systems and fixing spreadsheets. Maximor wants to change that. The company…

New Phishing Campaign Uses LLMs To Craft SVG Payloads To Pwn You Microsoft has flagged a new phishing campaign that appears to leverage large language models (LLMs) to craft obfuscated SVG payloads, making them appear like legitimate business analytics dashboards. The attack chain uses compromised…

Wallarm Leads Development of New A2AS Standard for Agentic AI Security Wallarm today announced its role in the publication of “A2AS: Agentic AI Runtime Security and Self-Defense,” a groundbreaking research project led by Eugene Neelou (OWASP, Wallarm) together with researchers from AWS, Bytedance,…

NEW FROM FORCEPOINT X-LABS: XWorm RAT Delivered via Shellcode This morning, the researchers from Forcepoint X-Labs have released a new blog post detailing a new way attackers are using shellcode as an enabling technology for modern remote access trojan campaigns --- and an old technique with a new…

Darktrace Unveils Automated Forensics Capabilities in its ActiveAI Security Platform™ to Advance Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Security   Darktrace, today announced the launch of Darktrace / Forensic Acquisition & Investigation™, the industry's first truly automated cloud forensics solution. The solution…

Guest Post: Why Voice AI Could Be the Career Move That Puts You on the Executive Shortlist By Praveen Rangnath, CMO, Deepgram If you’re in IT leadership, you’ve seen tech trends come and go. Some flare up in the headlines, get hyped at conferences, and then quietly fade away. Others — the rare…

Tech failures are slowing down nearly half of Canada’s frontline workforce, new survey shows A new national survey conducted by Samsung Canada and Leger, surveyed 510 Canadian workers across construction, healthcare, energy, mining, retail, and public safety, found that: Roughly 2 in…

Stealthy BRICKSTORM Backdoor Enables Espionage into Tech and Legal Sector Researchers have tracked a stealthy “next-level” Chinese hacking campaign dubbed “BRICKSTONE” that targets and maintains persistent access to legal services and technology companies by stealing intellectual property, mining…

PyPI Warns of Phishing Attacks – Urges Users to Reset Credentials In the wake of a new phishing campaign, PyPl, the default source for Python's package management tools, is asking its users to reset their credentials. The fake email asks users to "verify their email address" for "account…

Nearly 150,000 Patient Records Exposed in Healthcare Data Breach A data breach affecting a home healthcare provider Archer Health Inc, was discovered and reported to Website Planet by cybersecurity researcher Jeremiah Fowler. What happened:A non-password-protected database containing 145,000 files…

Rhysida takes credit for breach against Maryland Transit Administration Comparitech has reported that ransomware gang Rhysida today took credit for a late-August data breach at the Maryland Transit Administration. Commenting on this news is Rebecca Moody, Head of Data Research at Comparitech:…

Corintis raises $24M to target the next AI bottleneck, and collaborates with Microsoft for chip cooling breakthrough The growth of AI is hampered by computational power. Increasing demands for AI to become ever more powerful and ever more accessible have placed a requirement for there to be ever…

TELUS and League will partner to support Canadian healthcare innovation with sovereign AI TELUS and League today announced a groundbreaking collaboration to revolutionize healthcare delivery for millions of Canadians. League will power its comprehensive AI-driven healthcare platform on TELUS’…

Centreon awarded five high-profileG2 Badges in Fall 202 Centreon, a leader in digital performance monitoring, is awarded five new High-Profile Badges by G2, the world’s largest and most trusted software marketplace. These badges reflect Centreon’s continued success in driving customer satisfaction…

KnowBe4 Named Leader in G2 Grid Fall 2025 Report in Multiple Human Risk Management Categories KnowBe4, the world-renowned cybersecurity platform that comprehensively addresses human risk management, today announced its Security Awareness Training (SAT) software has maintained its position as the…

Equinix Unveils Distributed AI Infrastructure to Help Businesses Accelerate the Next Wave of AI Innovation At its inaugural AI Summit, Equinix, Inc.  unveiled its Distributed AI infrastructure—a bold new approach to power the next wave of AI innovation, including agentic AI. Today's announcement…

Jabra and Huddly Partner to Bring Plug-and-Play Simplicity to Large Meeting Rooms Jabra, a global leader in professional audio and video solutions, today announced an industry-first collaboration with Huddly, the Norwegian video technology company. With complementary product portfolios the two…

IPv4.Global Relaunches ProVision Platform Backed by Hilco Global’s Proven Expertise  IPv4.Global, part of Hilco Global's Capital Solutions division, today announced the relaunch of ProVision, the advanced network automation platform trusted by enterprises and service providers to simplify and…

Juvenile Nabbed By Cops Tied To The Threat Actor Known As Scattered Spider Last week, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department arrested a juvenile suspected of involvement in cyberattacks against multiple Las Vegas casinos attributed to the hacking group Scattered Spider. The teenager was…

Mattamy Homes can now leverage AI-driven robotics to meet Alberta’s growing housing demands with Promise Robotics  Promise Robotics today announced a multi-year strategic commercial partnership with the Alberta Division of Mattamy Homes, North America's largest family-owned homebuilder. This…

Hackers Exploit Pandoc CVE to Steal EC2 IAM Credentials Wiz has disclosed that attackers are actively exploiting CVE-2025-51591, an SSRF flaw in the Linux utility Pandoc, to target AWS Instance Metadata Service (IMDS). The vulnerability allows attackers to abuse iframe rendering to extract IAM…

KnowBe4 and Carahsoft Announce Partnership to Strengthen Public Sector Human Risk Management KnowBe4 the world-renowned platform that comprehensively addresses human and agentic AI risk management, and Carahsoft Technology Corp., the Trusted Government IT Solutions Provider®, today announced a…

Half of Canadian employees now use AI – who’s guiding them?  Today, CDW Canada released Unlocking AI's Potential: How to Build Trust and Capability in the Canadian Workplace, a report revealing that AI adoption in Canadian workplaces has reached a tipping point. Half of employees now report using…

A Fashion Week Essential Meets Cutting-Edge Tech: Galaxy Z Flip7 As global Fashion Weeks roll out, one standout accessory is catching the eyes of both tech insiders and style leaders alike — the new Galaxy Z Flip7. Blending sophisticated design with powerful innovation, the Galaxy Z Flip7 isn’t…

New Study from Sage and IDC Reveals How High-Performing Channel Partners Win with AI and Specialization A new study from IDC, commissioned by Sage, that examines how high-performing channel partners are leveraging AI to deliver powerful customer outcomes and shape the future of the channel.   The…

CData Launches Connect AI to Transform How AI Accesses Business Data in Real-Time At its second annual Foundations conference, CData Software announced Connect AI, the first managed Model Context Protocol (MCP) platform that integrates AI assistants, agent orchestration platforms, AI workflow…

Guest Post: Summer 2025 wrap up: From airport Wi-Fi to shared Netflix logins — the digital habits of the season How carefree summer habits put personal data at risk — and what to do before autumn begins As the summer sun sets, cybersecurity experts look back at how people stayed connected during…