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A massive collection of stolen login credentials containing roughly 24 billion records was briefly exposed online, according to cybersecurity researchers at Cybernews. Researchers say the publicly accessible Elasticsearch cluster contained usernames, email addresses, plaintext passwords, and login URLs linked to a wide range of online services. The database was taken offline after its discovery, but the scale of the collection has raised concerns about how much stolen credential data is circulating within cybercriminal ecosystems. While it’s unclear who assembled the database or how many unique victims are represented, the findings highlight a growing problem: infostealer malware and credential reuse continue…
Online scams are an ever-present threat, costing Americans nearly $119 billion a year. It’s not just happening on the internet either. Robocalls and text scams hit a six-year high in 2025. Now, with the proliferation of artificial intelligence, scammers are even more sophisticated, using AI tools to bypass spam filters and trick people into divulging sensitive information or making false payments. Attackers can use large language models — trained to mimic human writing — to create highly personalized, grammatically flawless phishing emails and texts that convincingly impersonate real individuals. They can also use machine learning to create voice clones, which mimic the…
A clinic in London, run by a former maker of artisanal ice cream, is treating patients with stage 4 cancer using a method that involves sealing them, naked from the neck down, in a plastic bag while gassing them with the oxidizing industrial bleach chlorine dioxide—a treatment that even the person administering it admits is “dangerous.”Alastair Jessel, who operates the Battersea Park Clinic in south London, spoke earlier this month on a podcast popular among those who believe that chlorine dioxide is a miracle cure that can be used to treat everything from cancer and HIV to Covid-19 and autism.“Having…
Disclaimer: Unless otherwise stated, any opinions expressed below belong solely to the author. Employment situation in Singapore remains positive, although the job market is showing signs of cooling in yet another report. According to the latest Q3 release by ManpowerGroup Singapore, the Net Employment Outlook index fell to just 13%, which is the lowest reading since 2022. NEO is measured as a simple difference between the share of companies anticipating an increase in hiring and those which are expecting cuts. Image Credit: ManpowerGroup Of course, as ever, these are only averages, and your situation is going to depend not only…
The 2026 State of AI for Business Report surveyed more than 2,100 professionals, 84% of whom work at B2B organizations and about a third of whom are marketers. This makes this one of the most relevant datasets for B2B professionals trying to understand where AI is taking their profession.
Seattle-based startup Gradial today revealed it has raised $65 million in a new round of funding to accelerate the development of its agentic artificial intelligence operating system for marketing. Today’s Series C round was first reported by Axios and led by Insight Partners, bringing the startup’s valuation to $675 million. Existing backers, including Madrona Ventures, VMG and PruVen Capital, also took part in the round, which brings the company’s total amount raised in the last 16 months to $110 million. While most software companies are racing to integrate AI agents into their existing products, Gradial, officially known as Panorama Artificial…
What kind of deceptions do you see being applied to cloud or hybrid environments?The deception in the cloud and hybrid world involves the strategic placement of fake assets, credentials, breadcrumbs and workloads throughout cloud services, cloud endpoints, identities, and on-premises infrastructure. Today, deception platforms will automatically determine the environment, the locations of high-value assets, and the areas where the attackers will look to deploy their deceptions. Through this, unauthorized or malicious activities like reconnaissance, misuse of credentials, privilege escalation, and lateral movement inside distributed environments are detected.
GeekWire File Photo An employee group filed a civil rights complaint against Amazon with the City of Seattle on Thursday on behalf of three engineers who allege that the company is wrongly investigating them for testifying before the Seattle City Council in favor of regulating data centers. The complaint, filed by Amazon Employees for Climate Justice (AECJ), invokes an unusual Seattle law that bars employers from discriminating against workers based on political ideology. Amazon acknowledged the investigations but characterized them differently, citing its policy against employees speaking publicly as representatives of the company without first going through specific procedures. A…
Anthropic is the first AI startup to join the Frontier carbon removal coalition. It’s a convenient climate play, but it doesn’t fix AI’s energy gluttony. Anthropic has officially joined the Frontier carbon removal coalition, becoming the first AI startup to sign on to the group’s $1.8 billion pledge to pull CO2 out of the atmosphere. It’s a big, bold headline meant to signal climate responsibility, but let’s not mistake a checkbook entry for a sustainability strategy. Frontier is essentially an “advance market commitment”- it’s a group of wealthy tech giants like Google and Stripe agreeing to buy carbon removal credits…
Ravie LakshmananJun 18, 2026Vulnerability / Cloud Security F5 has released security updates to address two critical security flaws in NGINX Open Source that could be exploited to achieve code execution on affected systems. The vulnerabilities are listed below – CVE-2026-42530 (CVSS v4 score: 9.2) – A use-after-free vulnerability in the ngx_http_v3_module that could be triggered by a remote unauthenticated attacker when NGINX Open Source is configured to use the HTTP/3 QUIC module to reopen a QPACK encoder stream by means of a specially crafted HTTP/3 session, and execute code on systems with Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) disabled or when…