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Cyber-Attacks Surge 63% Annually in Education Sector

Quorum Cyber report finds higher and further education institutions experienced 63% increase in attacks over a year

Microsoft Teams Rolls Out Efficiency Mode to Optimize Performance on Low-End Devices

Microsoft is set to introduce Efficiency Mode in Microsoft Teams, a performance-enhancing feature designed to improve app responsiveness

Vercel Confirms Security Breach – Set of Customer Account Compromised

Web infrastructure platform Vercel has disclosed a significant security incident involving unauthorized access to internal systems, tracing the

AI Can Autonomously Hack Cloud Systems With Minimal Oversight: Researchers 

Palo Alto Networks has developed Zealot, a multi-agent penetration testing PoC capable of reconnaissance, exploitation, and exfiltration.  The

Researchers Uncover 10 In-the-Wild Prompt Injection Payloads Targeting AI Agents

Forcepoint has found 10 new indirect prompt injection attacks targeting AI agents

New Tropic Trooper Attack Uses Custom Beacon Listener and VS Code Tunnels for Remote Access

A sophisticated cyberattack campaign linked to the well-known threat group Tropic Trooper has recently surfaced, leveraging military-themed document

‘Zealot’ Shows What AI’s Capable of in Staged Cloud Attack

The proof of concept revealed AI-based attacks unfold too fast for human defenders to respond, and that AI

NCSC Backs Passkeys, Hailing a New Era of Sign-in

The UK’s NCSC has fully backed passkeys as consumers’ first choice for login, citing progress with FIDO and

Apple Patches iOS Flaw Allowing Recovery of Deleted Chats

Apple rolled out the security patches for dozens of iPhone and iPad models and generations. The post Apple

Recent Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Exploited as Zero-Day

The flaw allows attackers to access the SAM database, extract NTLM hashes, and gain System privileges. The post

Critical Pack2TheRoot Vulnerability Let Attackers Gain Root Access or Compromise the System

A high-severity privilege escalation vulnerability, dubbed Pack2TheRoot (CVE-2026-41651, CVSS 3.1: 8.8), has been publicly disclosed by Deutsche Telekom’s

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