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ShinyHunters breached 100+ companies through an unpatched Oracle PeopleSoft zero-day

Oracle warned customers on Thursday of a critical vulnerability in its PeopleSoft software that hackers have already exploited to breach more than 100 organisations. The flaw, CVE-2026-35273, carries a CVSS score of 9.8 and can be exploited over the internet without any authentication. Oracle has not released a patch. The advisory came a day after […]

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A warrantless wiretap law is about to expire — but surveillance networks aren’t actually ‘going dark’

Congress has failed to pass a three-week extension of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), with the House voting 218-198 against reauthorizing the controversial warrantless wiretapping authority through July 2nd. After a short-term extension earlier this year, the spying program now appears set to lapse for at least a week. This is […]

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Coram raises $35M to turn security cameras into autonomous AI investigators

Coram AI has raised $35m to turn the security cameras already bolted to walls into something closer to an autonomous detective. The Series B is co-led by the new investor Ansa Capital and Battery Ventures, with UP Partners, 8VC and Mosaic Ventures joining. It takes the San Francisco company’s total funding to $66m. Coram’s pitch […]

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Canada wants to ban under-16s from social media, and rein in AI chatbots too

Canada has introduced a bill that would bar under-16s from social media and, in a twist that sets it apart from other countries, regulate AI chatbots in the same sweep. The Digital Safety Act, tabled on Wednesday, is the latest move in a global wave of governments cracking down on platforms over harm to children. […]

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South Korea hits Coupang with record $409 million fine over massive data breach

South Korea’s privacy watchdog has slapped e-commerce giant Coupang with a record-breaking 624.7 billion won ($409 million) fine, the largest data breach penalty in the country’s history. The ruling, handed down today by the Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC), dwarfs the previous record of 134.8 billion won imposed on telecoms firm SK Telecom last year. The […]

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A California city just approved $3.15 million in police drones that respond to 911 calls in 30 seconds

Stockton, California, has approved a $3.15 million investment in police drones that can respond to 911 calls in as little as 30 seconds. The city council voted 7-0 to expand its contract with Flock Safety, adding a drone-as-first-responder platform to the automatic licence plate readers the company already supplies. The total contract value now exceeds […]

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A Chinese state-linked botnet has grown to 1,500 hacked routers and is mapping vulnerable targets within hours of disclosure

A covert botnet linked to Chinese state-sponsored hackers has more than doubled in size and is now scanning for newly disclosed vulnerabilities within hours of publication. The JDY botnet comprises over 1,500 compromised small office and home office routers, firewalls, and IoT devices, according to new research from Lumen’s Black Lotus Labs. Most of the […]

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Russia unbans Roblox after 63,000 children wrote letters of complaint, half saying they wanted to leave the country

Russia restored access to Roblox on Wednesday after concluding the company had complied with local legal requirements, the Interfax news agency reported. The gaming platform had been blocked since December 3, cutting off an estimated 18 million monthly users, most of them children and teenagers. The Digital Ministry said Roblox had implemented “a comprehensive set […]

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Google will save your Lens photos, Search Live recordings, and Translate audio for AI training

Google is making some changes to how it saves your interactions with Search. In an email sent to users, Google says it will save the images, files, audio, and video you use to search under a new “Search Services History” setting. That includes the images you search for with Google Lens, recordings from its real-time […]

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KPMG secretly and repeatedly accessed a whistleblower’s computer, then shared the files with its CEO

KPMG secretly and repeatedly accessed a whistleblower’s work computer to extract documents detailing their allegations of data misuse, then shared the material with senior partners and the firm’s former chief executive, the Australian Financial Review has reported. The global accounting firm had the legal right to access an employee’s work laptop. What makes it striking […]

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