Author: InfoForTech
Ravie LakshmananMay 19, 2026Malvertising / Mobile Security Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new ad fraud and malvertising operation dubbed Trapdoor targeting Android device users. The activity, per HUMAN’s Satori Threat Intelligence and Research Team, encompassed 455 malicious Android apps and 183 threat actor-owned command-and-control (C2) domains, turning the infrastructure into a pipeline for multi-stage fraud. “Users unwittingly download a threat actor-owned app, often a utility-style app like a PDF viewer or device cleanup tool,” researchers Louisa Abel, Ryan Joye, João Marques, João Santos, and Adam Sell detailed in a report shared with The Hacker News. “These apps trigger…
If I’ve learned anything in my decades covering the tech industry, it’s that we have a pathological obsession with “the engine.” In the 90s, we obsessed over clock speeds while our software crashed. In the 2000s, we obsessed over browser wars while our security was a sieve. Today, the world is losing its collective mind over LLMs (Large Language Models), acting as if the “engine” is the entire car. It isn’t. You can have a Ferrari engine, but if you bolt it to a lawnmower frame with no transmission, you aren’t going to win Le Mans; you’re just going to…
Google is expanding how users discover apps and games on Google Play, with a series of new features announced at I/O 2026 that lean heavily on AI and short-form video. Discovery beyond the store The biggest shift is Google Play’s integration with the Gemini app. In the coming weeks, Google will enable app discovery in the Gemini app on Android and the web, connecting apps and games to Gemini users. Google Later this year, Gemini will also start surfacing over 450,000 movies and TV shows, as well as where to stream live sports, and deep-link users directly into app content.…
The Fitbit Air. Fitbit/CNETGoogle’s latest health announcements lay out a clear vision for where both the company and the industry are headed. Wearables, like the new Fitbit Air, are becoming gateways to Gemini-powered software that helps people understand years of biometric data, including medical records.The rebranded Fitbit app, now called Google Health, includes an AI health coach that can personalize training advice using data pulled directly from a person’s health history.Google is not alone in the race; companies like Whoop and Oura are already building their own AI health coaches. But first, there’s a trust problem to solve. Letting Gemini draft an email is…
Two former OpenAI employees and a group of AI safety nonprofits are warning that Elon Musk’s AI lab, xAI, could become a liability for prospective investors in SpaceX, which is preparing to file what’s expected to be the largest initial public offering in Wall Street history.In a letter directed to investors published on Tuesday, the ex-staffers highlighted what they describe as “unpriced risks” related to xAI that could complicate SpaceX’s reported plans to raise up to $75 billion as part of its IPO. The rocket company’s private valuation shot up to over $1 trillion after it acquired xAI last year.…
The emergence of the new malware playbook represents a fundamental shift in how cyberattacks are executed, with attackers becoming more intelligent, stealthy, and reliant on sophisticated techniques to bypass traditional defenses. In response, EDR must evolve into a comprehensive solution capable of detecting, analyzing, and responding to threats in real time. Fidelis Endpoint exemplify this evolution by combining continuous endpoint monitoring, behavioral analytics, automated response, and deep forensics to quickly identify and contain advanced threats. With capabilities such as real-time visibility, threat intelligence integration, and automated incident response, modern EDR platforms enable organizations to reduce dwell time and respond proactively…
It will hold a public farewell campaign ahead of its closure Snow City, Singapore’s first indoor snow centre, will close on Sept 30 after 26 years, the Science Centre Board (SCB) said in a media release on May 19. The SCB added that the closure reflects its commitment to “keeping its offerings fresh and relevant amid shifting visitor interests and an evolving attractions landscape,” while aligning with SCB’s science education mission and future plans. Snow City’s staff will be supported closely during this transition. SCB said the attraction’s eight full-time employees have been offered redeployment opportunities within the organisation. “For…
Today, we are thrilled to announce a monumental milestone in Clarifai’s journey: we have entered into an agreement for Nebius (NASDAQ: NBIS), the AI cloud company, to license our core engineering and research talent and license our AI inference and compute orchestration intellectual property. For over a decade, we at Clarifai were obsessed with building the ultimate software layer for AI. As the industry’s fastest AI inference and reasoning platform on GPUs, we focused on system-level inference optimization, empowering developers with seamless compute orchestration to run models cost-effectively. Now, we take our technology to the biggest stage possible. Why We…
Fully autonomous AI has crossed the threshold from concept to commercial reality, forcing enterprises to rethink the very foundation on which they run their businesses. The shift is arriving faster than most organizations anticipated, bringing with it an urgent new set of economic and architectural demands. But the pressure is especially acute for enterprises that still treat legacy infrastructure as the center of their technology universe, according to John Roese (pictured), global chief technology officer and chief AI officer at Dell Technologies Inc. Now, as agentic AI moves from buzzword to board-level priority, the conversation has gone from possibility to implementation…
Ravie LakshmananMay 19, 2026Vulnerability / Email Security Critical security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in SEPPMail Secure E-Mail Gateway, an enterprise-grade email security solution, that could be exploited to achieve remote code execution and enable an attacker to read arbitrary mails from the virtual appliance. “These vulnerabilities could have been exploited to read all mail traffic or as an entry vector into the internal network,” InfoGuard Labs researchers Dario Weiss, Manuel Feifel, and Olivier Becker said in a Monday report. The list of identified flaws is as follows – CVE-2026-2743 (CVSS score: 10.0) – A path traversal vulnerability in the SeppMail…