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FBI: Cyber-enabled cargo theft losses hit $725M as criminals hijack freight networks
The FBI is warning logistics and transportation operators that cyber-enabled cargo theft losses across the U.S. and Canada climbed roughly 60% year-over-year to
MSP Sales Stall When Security Pitches Skip Business Outcomes
The managed security services market is on track to nearly double to $69 billion by 2030, but MSPs keep losing winnable deals because their pitches stay anchore
Musk's OpenAI trial testimony unravels across seven self-inflicted wounds
Elon Musk spent a third day on the stand in his lawsuit seeking to block OpenAI's conversion from nonprofit to public company, and the appearance went poorly. O
Oracle Red Bull Racing leans on automation to compress its security workload
Oracle Red Bull Racing's security team is shifting routine identity and access work onto automated pipelines, reducing the manual toil that previously consumed
Press freedom hits record low; US drops below Ukraine in 2026 RSF Index
Reporters Without Borders' 2026 World Press Freedom Index shows the global landscape for journalism deteriorating to its worst state in the survey's 25-year his
PyTorch Lightning and intercom-client poisoned in Mini Shai-Hulud supply chain wave
Attackers pushed malicious 2.6.2 and 2.6.3 releases of PyTorch Lightning to PyPI on April 30, 2026, hiding a downloader and an 11MB obfuscated JavaScript payloa
Ransomware Negotiator Pleads Guilty to Working for the Gang He Was Negotiating With
A ransomware negotiator has pleaded guilty to secretly working for the same ransomware gang whose payments he was supposed to be helping victims minimize. The n
Romanian swatting ringleader gets 4 years for targeting 75+ US officials
Thomasz Szabo, a 27-year-old Romanian extradited to the US in November 2024, drew a four-year federal sentence plus three years of supervised release for runnin
Russia hides Plesetsk launch schedule as Ukrainian drones probe northern spaceport
Roscosmos chief Dmitry Bakanov told Vladimir Putin in an April 11 Kremlin meeting that the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, roughly 500 miles north of Moscow, faced 'seriou
Sleeper Ruby Gems and Go Modules Hijack CI Pipelines for Credential Theft
A GitHub account operating as BufferZoneCorp seeded RubyGems and Go module ecosystems with typosquatted packages mimicking well-known libraries like activesuppo
SMS blasters, npm brandsquatting, and 3.4M exposed RDP/VNC servers headline weekly threat roundup
Canadian authorities arrested three men running an SMS blaster — a fake cellular tower that forces nearby phones to connect and delivers phishing texts imperson
Sygnia, DigitalMint insiders get 4 years for moonlighting as BlackCat affiliates
Two incident response professionals who were supposed to defend victims instead joined the attackers. Ryan Clifford Goldberg, a former Sygnia IR manager, and Ke