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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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- Microsoft Legal Action Disrupts RedVDS Cybercrime Infrastructure Used for Online Fraudby info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) on January 15, 2026 at 9:37 am
Microsoft on Wednesday announced that it has taken a "coordinated legal action" in the U.S. and the U.K. to disrupt a cybercrime subscription service called RedVDS that has allegedly fueled millions in fraud losses. The effort, per the tech giant, is part of a broader law enforcement effort in collaboration with law enforcement authorities that has allowed it to confiscate the malicious
- Palo Alto Fixes GlobalProtect DoS Flaw That Can Crash Firewalls Without Loginby info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) on January 15, 2026 at 8:18 am
Palo Alto Networks has released security updates for a high-severity security flaw impacting GlobalProtect Gateway and Portal, for which it said there exists a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-0227 (CVSS score: 7.7), has been described as a denial-of-service (DoS) condition impacting GlobalProtect PAN-OS software arising as a result of an improper check for
- Researchers Null-Route Over 550 Kimwolf and Aisuru Botnet Command Serversby info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) on January 14, 2026 at 7:03 pm
The Black Lotus Labs team at Lumen Technologies said it null-routed traffic to more than 550 command-and-control (C2) nodes associated with the AISURU/Kimwolf botnet since early October 2025. AISURU and its Android counterpart, Kimwolf, have emerged as some of the biggest botnets in recent times, capable of directing enslaved devices to participate in distributed denial-of-service (DDoS)
- AI Agents Are Becoming Authorization Bypass Pathsby info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) on January 14, 2026 at 3:07 pm
Not long ago, AI agents were harmless. They wrote snippets of code. They answered questions. They helped individuals move a little faster. Then organizations got ambitious. Instead of personal copilots, companies started deploying shared organizational AI agents - agents embedded into HR, IT, engineering, customer support, and operations. Agents that don’t just suggest, but act. Agents
- Hackers Exploit c-ares DLL Side-Loading to Bypass Security and Deploy Malwareby info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) on January 14, 2026 at 2:18 pm
Security experts have disclosed details of an active malware campaign that's exploiting a DLL side-loading vulnerability in a legitimate binary associated with the open-source c-ares library to bypass security controls and deliver a wide range of commodity trojans and stealers. "Attackers achieve evasion by pairing a malicious libcares-2.dll with any signed version of the legitimate ahost.exe (









