2+ day, 18+ hour ago   (1179+ words) Bottom line up front: no single product “stops ransomware.” Modern attacks are staged intrusions initial access, credential theft, lateral movement, exfiltration, then encryption and each stage has different controls. The list below is therefore organized by role in the kill…...

4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (513+ words) Panzer ransomware has entered Italy amid a sharp rise in attacks. The ransomware-as-a-service, or RaaS, operation surfaced on August 5 and listed a kitchen manufacturer in Treviso and a telecommunications engineering firm in Catanzaro among its alleged victims. The group advertises…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (622+ words) Anthropic has expanded access to its frontier AI cyber-defense capabilities by making Claude Mythos 5 available in Claude Security, enabling enterprise customers to scan codebases for vulnerabilities and receive AI-generated remediation guidance. The move is designed to give defenders stronger vulnerability…...

5+ day, 18+ hour ago   (1524+ words) Macs get malware. Not as much as Windows, but the volume of macOS infostealers harvesting browser credentials, crypto wallets, and keychain data has grown sharply, and they arrive through cracked software, fake installers, and malicious ads rather than exploits. Bitdefender…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (657+ words) A new remote access trojan called CoreRAT is giving the Core Werewolf threat group a way to take over infected Windows systems. The malware appeared in campaigns observed from June through July 2026, though evidence shows it has been active since…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (403+ words) Anthropic has quietly pushed one of its most consequential agentic upgrades yet, letting Claude take control of a user’s desktop and complete tasks while they work on something else entirely. The company confirmed this week that computer use inside Claude…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (494+ words) A new threat intelligence report from Gambit Security has documented one of the clearest real-world examples yet of artificial intelligence being weaponized inside an active ransomware campaign. Researchers found that a suspected affiliate of The Gentlemen ransomware-as-a-service operation used Anthropic’s…...

5+ day, 12+ hour ago   (616+ words) A new Linux bot called Tengu is built to stay hidden and turn compromised systems into tools for disruption. The 32-bit malware poses as a routine kernel worker, persists across several Linux setups, and can generate traffic floods against selected…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (823+ words) On the defensive side, Anthropic expanded Claude Security’s vulnerability-scanning capabilities, underscoring how the same technology is being pulled in opposite directions by attackers and defenders alike. Identity and access management dominated the vulnerability news cycle, with a critical Entra ID…...

2+ day, 18+ hour ago   (1415+ words) Bottom line up front: the encryption engines are largely solved BitLocker and FileVault are strong, free, and built in. What you’re actually buying in 2026 is management: proof for auditors, key escrow and recovery, policy across mixed fleets, and pre-boot options…...