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Thousands of cheap Android phones shipped with ad-fraud malware
Image: Yianni Mathioudakis via Unsplash Thousands of cheap Android phones shipped with ad-fraud malware Researchers have found malware preinstalled on thousands of cheap Android phones that can generate fraudulent ad...
Writing the Next Chapter
Dear Reader, One of my favorite assignments at Dark Reading, when I first joined the newly launched media site in 2006, was to interview and write human-profile stories about cybersecurity industry pioneers. Although I...
Quantum computers could break today’s encryption. Washington needs to prepare now.
The country is consumed right now with debating artificial intelligence and whether increasingly powerful AI systems could escape human control. Those are valid concerns, but lawmakers are overlooking another...
FortiBleed Attackers Locking Victims Out of Fortinet Devices
The FortiBleed credential-harvesting and access-broker campaign is still active, and attackers are locking organizations out of their Fortinet devices. Targeting internet-accessible Fortinet FortiGate firewalls and SSL...
Oracle Health Data Breach Tally Climbs to Nearly 20 Million
The personal and medical information of nearly 20 million people was compromised in a cyberattack on Oracle Health’s legacy Cerner systems early last year, Bloomberg reported, citing a report from the Texas attorney...
Fake Decryption Tools Masked $11M Markup in Ransomware Recovery Scheme
The owner of a US company was charged with defrauding clients through a ransomware remediation scheme. Zohar Pinhasi, 50, the owner of MonsterCloud, a US and Israeli national also known as ‘Zack Silver’ and ‘Zack...
TP-Link Faces State Lawsuits and New Scrutiny Over ISP Router Flaws
Four US states have sued TP-Link Systems, accusing the router maker of misleading consumers about the security of its products and its ties to China. The attorneys general of Florida, Iowa, Montana, and Nebraska filed...
Rein Security Raises $25 Million to Guard AI Agents at Runtime
Cybersecurity startup Rein Security today announced raising $25 million in a Series A funding round that brings the total raised by the company to $35 million. The fresh investment round was co-led by Glilot Capital and...
SonicWall and Splunk Patch Critical Vulnerabilities
Splunk and SonicWall on Wednesday announced patches for multiple critical- and high-severity vulnerabilities in their products, including flaws that could lead to arbitrary code execution. SonicWall rolled out fixes for...
US Seeks Alleged Chinese Hafnium Hacker With $10 Million Reward
The US Department of State is offering up to $10 million for information on Zhang Yu, a Chinese national accused of taking part in the Hafnium campaign against Microsoft Exchange servers. The State Department’s Rewards...
Samsung Galaxy S26 hacked three more times at Pwn2Own Ireland
On the second day of Pwn2Own Ireland 2026, security researchers collected $232,500 in cash awards after exploiting 45 unique zero-day vulnerabilities. The day's highlight was the Samsung Galaxy S26 flagship getting...
Owner of Empire cybercrime market gets 40 years in prison
The co-creator of Empire Market, one of the largest dark web marketplaces before its shutdown, has been sentenced to 40 years in prison for facilitating $430 million in illegal transactions from 2018 to 2020....