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Top Trump Official Touts Enforcement Wins as Firms Warn China Is Gaining Ground
Despite pushback from tech leaders like Nvidia, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told Congress that expanded export controls, seizures and arrests are safeguarding U.S. innovation, as the Trump administration scraps Biden-era AI policies and targets Chinese access to chips.

Banking Sector Faces Challenges in Meeting March 2026 Compliance Deadline
The Central Bank of UAE has issued a directive asking financial institutions to eliminate weak authentication methods including SMS and email OTPs. Banks are also expected to implement real-time fraud monitoring and suspend sessions when malicious activity is detected.

Web-to-App Pipeline Uses Meta Pixel and Yandex Metrica
American social media giant Meta and Russian counterpart Yandex each found methods to break through privacy protections enabled by Android users, say academics in newly disclosed research. A Meta spokesperson in a prepared statement said it stopped the tracking "upon becoming aware of the concerns."

Malware Operation Shows Signs of Regrouping
Just days after a global takedown disrupted over 2,300 Lumma-linked domains, the info-stealing malware-as-a-service operation resurfaced, exposing how modular malware and resilient infrastructure allow cybercriminals to rapidly rebound and evade law enforcement.

Number of Reports Is Down, But Citizens Lost AU$60 Million to Investment Scams
While the number of reported fraud cases is down, Australians lost 28% more money to online scams in the first four months of the year, compared to the same period in 2024. The Australian government's National Anti-Scam Center said Monday that Australians lost just over AU$119 million to fraudsters.

Florida Vendor Set to Reach $100M ARR by 2027 With Identity Segmentation, ZTNA Push
With $55 million in Series C funding led by Highland Europe, Zero Networks aims to expand its zero trust architecture through identity segmentation and zero trust network access. The Orlando, Fla.-based microsegmentation startup aims to double headcount and target a $100 million ARR goal by 2027.

Context-Driven Insights, Automation Fuel Faster, Clearer Decisions for Cyber Teams
With its acquisition of San Francisco-based startup Fletch, F5 is embedding agentic AI into its security platform to automate threat detection and response. The technology provides real-time context, filters irrelevant alerts and helps security teams prioritize urgent risks and mitigation tasks.

Dutch Semiconductor Sector Among Chinese Targets
Chinese nation state groups ramped up espionage campaigns against Dutch critical infrastructure in recent months, said a state official who added that discussions are underway in the European Union on how to minimize Chinese threats.

Researchers in Proof of Concept Show Exploit Potential for Widely Used Software
Technical details for a recently patched maximum-severity vulnerability in Cisco IOS XE reveal how hackers can enable remote code execution if the flaw is exploited. The vulnerability is an arbitrary file upload triggered by a hardcoded JSON Web Token.

DHS Budget Proposal Reduces CISA’s Operational Core Amid Growing Global Threats
The Trump administration’s 2026 Homeland Security Department budget would cut $500 million from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, eliminating over a third of its staff and gutting key programs central to federal cybersecurity and private sector engagement efforts.

Ransomware, Quantum Computing, Geopolitics, Gen AI and More on the Agenda
Infosecurity Europe is set to return June 3 to London. Hot topics at this year's event include everything from quantum computing, geopolitics and artificial intelligence, to supply chain attacks, insider threats and the cybercrime juggernaut that continues to be ransomware.

It's only a matter of time before cybercriminals begin to use artificial intelligence-enabled tools, open-source software and other technologies to launch attacks to exploit sensitive genetic data, said Nicholas Morris, a practice manager at security firm Optiv.

Race-Condition Bugs in Ubuntu and Red Hat Tools Could Leak Sensitive Memory Data
Hackers could exploit a tool that stores crashed system data in older Linux operating systems to obtain passwords and encryption keys, warn researchers. The flaw lies in the way certain Linux distributions, including Ubuntu, Red Hat, and Fedora, handle application crashes.

New Open-Source Model Rivals OpenAI, While Treading Beijing's Red Line
Artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek released Thursday an updated version of its flagship reasoning model months after its Chinese origin sent shockwaves through industry. The model is a glimpse into high-performance systems being trained and deployed under norms governed by Beijing.

Funnull Technology Is Content Delivery Network for Criminals, Says US Treasury
The U.S. government sanctioned a Philippine firm linked to romance bait scam websites. The Department of Treasury cut off Funnull Technology from the U.S.-dominated international monetary system for acting as a content delivery network for scam platforms.

Gartner: Security Service Edge Market Is Experiencing Evolution, Not Revolution
Pure-play security service edge specialists Zscaler and Netskope were once again joined by platform behemoth Palo Alto Networks atop Gartner's rankings of SSE vendors. The SSE market is experiencing evolution rather than revolution, with commoditization prevalent in legacy security technologies.

After Hours-Long Disruption, XDR Vendor Promises Full Root Cause Analysis of Outage
Cybersecurity vendor SentinelOne suffered a major, global outage for about six hours on Thursday that disrupted its monitoring of managed response service customers' endpoints and networks, interrupted software updates and kept administrators from accessing consoles for troubleshooting purposes.

As Visa and Mastercard Deploy AI Agents, Experts Ask: Who Holds the Receipt?
When AI assistants order groceries or book flights, who's responsible when something goes wrong? That question is no longer hypothetical. As Visa and Mastercard enable AI agents to perform transactions on behalf of cardholders, experts weigh the legal, security and privacy stakes.