Android is introducing fake call detection to help protect users from impersonation scams. The feature can detect and flag suspected spoofed calls when both parties use Phone by Google on Android 12 or later. It will roll out globally this month, starting with Pixel devices. Story of two calls from “Mom” (Source: Google) “Fake call detection helps protect you, your family and friends by identifying when a caller isn’t who they claim to be, giving … More →
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Workplace AI assistants have mostly waited for a prompt before doing anything. A user asks, the tool answers, and the exchange ends there. Microsoft is putting a different kind of agent inside its Office applications, one designed to keep operating in the background once a person stops paying attention. The company introduced Microsoft Scout, calling it the first entry in a category it labels Autopilots. What an Autopilot does Autopilots are always-on agents that run … More →
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Anthropic is expanding Project Glasswing, its cybersecurity initiative built around the Claude Mythos Preview model, by adding about 150 organizations following several weeks of work with its initial group of partners, security firms, open-source maintainers, and government agencies. Organizations joining the program must meet security requirements before gaining access, Anthropic noted. The expansion brings the program to organizations in more than 15 countries and includes sectors such as healthcare, energy, communications, technology, and other infrastructure … More →
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A single forgotten development flag left active in production code silently handed Microsoft account tokens to any app on an Android device, exposing billions of users across six major Microsoft 365 apps to account takeover without any interaction or consent. The vulnerability, dubbed FlagLeft, allowed any third-party app on the same Android device to silently request […]
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A newly disclosed flaw in the Windows search URI handler can silently leak NTLMv2 hashes to attacker-controlled servers with nothing more than a single link click. This behavior is the same bug class as CVE-2026-33829 in the Snipping Tool, but Microsoft has assigned no CVE and shipped no fix for this variant. On April 14, 2026, Microsoft […]
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Critical Start has released SOC AI, a production-proven multi-agent framework powering its AI-led Managed Detection and Response (MDR). SOC AI coordinates ten specialized agents across the full alert investigation and response lifecycle, covering detection, triage, response, threat hunting, and continuous improvement. Each agent operates with a discrete function, a defined scope, and a complete audit trail on every action taken. After implementation of SOC AI, Investigation Agent enhanced thousands of investigations, compressing analyst time-to-investigate to … More →
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