A Civilian Plane Crashed in New Mexico. Was the Military’s Tech to Blame?
Drone warfare is making the skies more dangerous, even for airplanes far from the battlefield.
Drone warfare is making the skies more dangerous, even for airplanes far from the battlefield.
SALT LAKE CITY — Utah and over 40 other states on Wednesday announced a $18 million settlement agreement with genetic information company 23andMe after the company filed for bankruptcy in March 2025. The bankruptcy filing came after the company struggled with the fallout of a data breach and weak demand for its ancestry testing kits….
A threat actor abused Anthropic’s Claude Artifacts feature to funnel users toward malware, Huntress researchers have disclosed. Employees at at least 29 organizations were compromised over two days in July, after searching for the Claude desktop app and clicking a sponsored Bing ad. The ad pointed to the genuine claude.ai domain, but landed on an…
Microsoft, along with more than two dozen tech companies, are pressing policymakers to support open-source AI systems and code across society, arguing that it will be a safer approach than attempting to restrict access or relying on a handful of closed, proprietary models. The open letter, posted Friday, draws parallels to the software industry of…
Ravie LakshmananJul 19, 2026Malware / Cyber Warfare Russian state-sponsored threat actors have been observed leveraging the infamous ClickFix strategy to trick Ukrainian targets into infecting their own machines with data-stealing malware. According to the Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA), the activity has been attributed to UAC-0145, a sub-cluster within Sandworm, an advanced hacking…
A cybersecurity startup dangling millions of dollars to acquire zero-day security vulnerabilities in popular software is run by a pair of far-right conspiracy theorists and convicted felons whose most recent ventures included fake intelligence companies and a now-defunct AI-based lobbying platform they operated under assumed names. The X/Twitter account IRIS C2 (@C2IRIS) has gained more…
Shutting down endpoint detection and response (EDR) tools before encryption begins has become standard operating procedure across the ransomware ecosystem, analysis of attacks by researchers at Halcyon has warned. The practice, sometimes called EDR-kill, was once considered a specialist capability. It has now become standard practice among leading ransomware groups, giving defenders even less time…