Critical 0-Click Microsoft Excel Security Bug Lets Copilot Steal Data

Excel users are warned to update now, as a critical vulnerability has been confirmed that can lead to “zero-click information disclosure” via Copilot AI Agent.

Microsoft Confirms SQL Zero-Day Security Vulnerability—Here’s The Fix

Microsoft has confirmed that a hacker who successfully exploits a zero-day SQL vulnerability could gain system administrator privileges. Here’s how to fix it.

4 Ways To Make AI Agents Safe For Businesses

Tech industry insiders break down 4 ways to make AI agents like OpenClaw safe for business use.

Google wraps up $32B acquisition of cloud cybersecurity startup Wiz

Google has officially acquired Israeli cybersecurity firm Wiz for $32 billion in all-cash, a full year after the companies announced the deal. This marks Google’s biggest acquisition in its history.

Intel’s Heracles chip computes fully-encrypted data without decrypting it — chip is 1,074 to 5,547 times faster than a 24-core Intel Xeon in FHE math operations

Intel has revealed an 8192-way SIMD compute engine for fully homomorphic encryption math called Heracles. By operating directly on encrypted data, it has the potential to eliminate entire classes of attacks under some work…

Instagram Down—New Outage Leaves Users Unable To Post Or DM

It’s not just you. Social media site Instagram is down globally, with people unable to post or reply to DMs on the platform. Here’s what to know.

Qevlar AI lands $30M to expand AI security operations platform

France-based Qevlar AI, which develops AI technology for securityoperations centres (SOCs), has raised $30 million in funding for the development of its autonomous AI SOC platform. The round was joint…

Escape secures $18M Series A to develop AI cybersecurity agents

Escape,an offensive security engineering platform, has raised $18 million in a Series A funding round to develop AI agents designed to automate the security lifecycle. Theround was led by Balderton, w…

U.S. military contractor likely built iPhone hacking tools used by Russian spies in Ukraine

Google found a series of hacking tools they said were used by a Russian espionage group and a cybercriminal group in China. Sources from a U.S. government defense contractor said some of those hacking tools were theirs.

Russian government hackers targeting Signal and WhatsApp users, Dutch spies warn

Dutch intelligence is accusing Russia-backed hackers of running a “large-scale global” hacking campaign against Signal and WhatsApp users.