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AI is changing the game and so are the risks
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming businesses operations, from automating tasks to analysing data faster than any human can. With every...
Close your cybersecurity gaps before attackers find them
We all know that in today’s fast-moving digital world, it’s not a matter of if your systems will be prodded by cybercriminals, it’s when. From...
No business is too small: Why hackers are interested in you
Think your business is too small to be hacked? Think again. In 2024, 70% of organisations globally suffered a significant cyber attack, and small...
Bridging the cyber skills gap: Outsourcing your cybersecurity needs
Cybercrime is rising fast, but skilled professionals who can defend against it are in short supply, especially across Africa. Building a full-time...
Caught in the web: How cyber ‘spiders’ harvest your personal information
Ever heard of cyber spiders? They’re not the creepy kind but are just as dangerous. Cyber spiders are bots used by criminals to scan the internet,...
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- New Exim BDAT Vulnerability Exposes GnuTLS Builds to Potential Code Executionby info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) on May 12, 2026 at 4:44 pm
Exim has released security updates to address a severe security issue affecting certain configurations that could enable memory corruption and potential code execution. Exim is an open-source Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) designed for Unix-like systems to receive, route, and deliver email. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-45185, aka Dead.Letter, has been described as a use-after-free
- RubyGems Suspends New Signups After Hundreds of Malicious Packages Are Uploadedby info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) on May 12, 2026 at 2:47 pm
RubyGems, the standard package manager for the Ruby programming language, has temporarily paused account sign ups following what has been described as a "major malicious attack." "We're dealing with a major malicious attack on Ruby Gems right now," Maciej Mensfeld, senior product manager for software supply chain security at Mend.io, said in a post on X. "Signups are paused for the time being.
- New TrickMo Variant Uses TON C2 and SOCKS5 to Create Android Network Pivotsby info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) on May 12, 2026 at 12:50 pm
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new version of the TrickMo Android banking trojan that uses The Open Network (TON) for command-and-control (C2). The new variant, observed by ThreatFabric between January and February 2026, has been observed actively targeting banking and cryptocurrency wallet users in France, Italy, and Austria. "TrickMo relies on a runtime-loaded APK (dex.module),
- Webinar: What the Riskiest SOC Alerts Go Unanswered - and How Radiant Security Can Helpby info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) on May 12, 2026 at 11:58 am
Why do the Riskiest SOC Alerts Go Unanswered? Security operations teams are drowning in alerts. But the real problem isn't always alert volume; it's the blind spots. The most dangerous alerts are the ones no one is investigating. A recent report from The Hacker News examined why certain high-risk alert categories - WAF, DLP, OT/IoT, dark web intelligence, and supply chain signals- consistently
- Mini Shai-Hulud Worm Compromises TanStack, Mistral AI, Guardrails AI & More Packagesby info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) on May 12, 2026 at 11:46 am
TeamPCP, the threat actor behind the recentsupply chain attack spree, has been linked to the compromise of the npm and PyPI packages from TanStack, UiPath, Mistral AI, OpenSearch, and Guardrails AI as part of a fresh Mini Shai-Hulud campaign. The affected npm packages have been modified to include an obfuscated JavaScript file ("router_init.js") that's designed to profile the execution









