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The Register
PLUS: Toyota wheels out basketball bot; Arm scores AI server win with SK Telecom; India ponders payment pauses to foil fraudsters; And more! China’s National Data Administration last Friday its action plan for AI in education which calls for upskilling of the nation’s citizens to ensure they can put the technology to work.… Asia In Brief published
The Register
Or it's a bunch of pre-IPO hype. Either way, we're giving it the once-over on this week's episode Anthropic dropped a doozy on us this week with the launch of Mythos, an AI model it says is able to find and exploit zero-day vulnerabilities with a shocking level of ability. … Kettle
Bleeping Computer
A critical pre-authentication remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in Marimo is now under active exploitation, leveraged for credential theft. [...]
The Hacker News
Adobe has released emergency updates to fix a critical security flaw in Acrobat Reader that has come under active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2026-34621, carries a CVSS score of 8.6 out of 10.0. Successful exploitation of the flaw could allow an attacker to run malicious code on affected installations. It has been described as
The Hacker News
Unknown threat actors compromised CPUID ("cpuid[.]com"), a website that hosts popular hardware monitoring tools like CPU-Z, HWMonitor, HWMonitor Pro, and PerfMonitor, for less than 24 hours to serve malicious executables for the software and deploy a remote access trojan called STX RAT. The incident lasted from approximately April 9, 15:00 UTC, to about April 10, 10:00 UTC, with
Have I Been Pwned
In March 2026, after attackers gained access to data stored within Salesforce. The data was later published after the extortion deadline passed, exposing 1.7M unique email addresses across both Hallmark and the Hallmark+ streaming service, along with names, phone numbers, physical addresses and support tickets. Hallmark suffered an alleged breach and subsequent extortion
Bleeping Computer
An international law enforcement action led by the U.K.'s National Crime Agency (NCA) has identified over 20,000 victims of cryptocurrency fraud across Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States. [...]
Graham Cluley
The fraud landscape has been changed by AI and cryptocurrency in a way that should concern organisations and individuals alike. Read more in my article on the Fortra blog.
The Register
Time to start dropping SBOMs Two supply chain attacks in March infected open source tools with malware and used this access to steal secrets from tens of thousands – if not more – organizations. We won't know the full blast radius for months.… FEATURE
The Register
Nearly 800 state logins surfaced in breach data, including defense and NATO-linked accounts Hungary's government has discovered the hard way that the biggest threat to national security might just be its own password choices.…