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Rockstar Games receives “pay or leak” warning after cyberattack

Rockstar Games, the developer behind titles such as Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption, has confirmed a cyberattack claimed by hacking group ShinyHunters, which says it accessed the company’s Snowflake environment and obtained data. The attackers exploited Anodot, a third-party SaaS platform used for cloud cost monitoring and analytics, as the entry point and are reported to have extracted authentication tokens, enabling access to a connected Snowflake account without exploiting vulnerabilities in Snowflake itself. … More → The post Rockstar Games receives “pay or leak” warning after cyberattack appeared first on Help Net Security.
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Google makes it harder to exploit Pixel 10 modem firmware

Google is working to improve the security of Pixel phones by focusing on the cellular baseband modem, a part of the device that handles communication with mobile networks and processes external data. In the Pixel 9, the company introduced measures to reduce memory-related vulnerabilities. With the Pixel 10, the approach goes further by integrating a DNS parser written in the Rust programming language into the modem firmware. The DNS protocol is known for helping browsers … More → The post Google makes it harder to exploit Pixel 10 modem firmware appeared first on Help Net Security.
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Siemens expands Industrial Automation DataCenter with edge AI and cybersecurity

Siemens will present the next generation of its Industrial Automation DataCenter, a custom-configured data center for IT needs in production, expanding its turnkey solution into an AI-ready platform. Structure of the Siemens Industrial Automation DataCenter and its Remote Industrial Operations Services (Source: Siemens AG) In partnership with NVIDIA and in collaboration with Palo Alto Networks, Siemens delivers secure NVIDIA computing infrastructure at the edge for powerful AI acceleration, alongside NVIDIA BlueField data processing units (DPUs) … More → The post Siemens expands Industrial Automation DataCenter with edge AI and cybersecurity appeared first on Help Net Security.
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Adobe issues emergency fix for Acrobat Reader flaw exploited in the wild (CVE-2026-34621)

Adobe has pushed out an emergency security update for Adobe Acrobat Reader, patching a zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2026-34621) exploited in the wild since November 2025. About CVE-2026-34621 CVE-2026-34621 is a critical prototype pollution vulnerability – a type of vulnerability that occurs in JavaScript and allows attackers to add or modify an application’s JavaScript objects and properties. CVE-2026-34621 can lead to arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user, but it cannot be triggered remotely. … More → The post Adobe issues emergency fix for Acrobat Reader flaw exploited in the wild (CVE-2026-34621) appeared first on Help Net Security.
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‘Memflation’ pushes semiconductor market across $1.3 trillion threshold

Gartner expects DRAM and NAND flash costs to more than double this year, disrupting component supplies into 2028, the firm said Wednesday.
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Seized VerifTools servers expose 915,655 fake IDs, 8 arrested

On April 7 and 8, Dutch police arrested eight suspects in a nationwide operation targeting users of the VerifTools platform as part of an identity fraud investigation. The suspects, all men aged 20 to 34, are accused of identity fraud, forgery, and cybercrime-related offenses. During searches, officers seized smartphones, laptops, cash, cryptocurrency, and weapons or items resembling them. How VerifTools operated The case traces back to August 27, 2025, when the Dutch National Police, working … More → The post Seized VerifTools servers expose 915,655 fake IDs, 8 arrested appeared first on Help Net Security.
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Introducing the first end-to-end enterprise agentic quality platform

Beyond automation: Meet the AI agents redefining enterprise software quality and trust.
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Why securing GenAI use starts in the browser

GenAI adoption in the enterprise is no longer experimental. Daily use has grown by nearly 60% in just one year, and weekly use has tripled in the past two, according to Wharton research. But employees are embracing AI faster than security teams can keep up.  Traditional security tools wer…
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Forget the technical implications of AI – How we procure and demand business outcomes is forever changed

The business infrastructure is evolving from a static licensed layer into a programmable, context-rich ecosystem.
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Fixing vulnerability data quality requires fixing the architecture first

In this Help Net Security interview, Art Manion, Deputy Director at Tharros, examines why vulnerability data across repositories stays inconsistent and hard to trust. The problem starts with systems not designed to collect or manage that data well. They introduce the idea of Minimum Viable Vulnerability Enumeration (MVVE), a minimum set of assertions needed to confirm two systems describe the same vulnerability, and find no true minimum exists. Assertions vary by case and change over … More → The post Fixing vulnerability data quality requires fixing the architecture first appeared first on Help Net Security.
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