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Aliyu Ibrahim Usman, founder of the Cyber Cadet Academy in Nigeria, shares his passion for raising cybersecurity awareness in the wake of mounting security concerns worldwide.

Microsoft revoked more than 200 digital certificates that threat actors used to sign fake Teams binaries that set the stage for Rhysida ransomware attacks.

The shared responsibility model of data security, familiar from cloud deployments, is key to agentic services, but cybersecurity teams and corporate users often struggle with awareness and managing that risk.

AI interactions are becoming one of the most revealing records of human thinking, and we're only beginning to understand what that means for law enforcement, accountability, and privacy.

Be aware: a rash of phishing campaigns are leveraging the anxiety and trust employees have in password vaults securing all of their credentials.

Researchers discovered more than 550 unique secrets exposed in Visual Studio Code marketplaces, prompting Microsoft to bolster security measures.

AI might help some threat actors in certain respects, but one group is proving that its use for cyberattacks has its limits.

The deal, which builds on LevelBlue's recent acquisition of Trustwave and Aon, aims to provide customers with a broad portfolio of extended detection and response, managed detection and response, and forensic services.

The cyber-espionage group has been using sophisticated custom tools to target government and diplomatic entities in South Asia since early 2025.

F5 disclosed a breach this week that included zero-day bugs, source code, and some customer information.

The Clop ransomware group claimed responsibility for stealing the university's data as part of a broader campaign against Oracle customers.

Organizations across the continent saw 10% fewer attacks in September, but Africa remains the most attacked region in the world, leading the Global South.

October 2025's enormous Patch Tuesday offers plenty of nightmares for admins, including actively exploited zero-days and insidious high-severity privilege-escalation bugs — and it spells curtains for Windows 10 updates.

Chinese APT threat actors compromised an organization's ArcGIS server, modifying the widely used geospatial mapping software for stealth access.

The proof-of-concept exploit allows an attacker to steal sensitive data from Gmail, Google Accounts, Google Authenticator, Google Maps, Signal, and Venmo.

Despite daunting technical challenges, a quantum computer capable of breaking public-key encryption systems may be only a decade or two off.

OT and ICS systems indeed hold the crown jewels of critical infrastructure organizations, but unmonitored data sprawl is proving to be pure gold for increasingly brazen nation-state threat actors like Volt Typhoon, Pearce argues.

With artificial intelligence supplanting entry-level security jobs, new cyber professionals will have to up their game to stay competitive in the industry.

The security company looks to tackle new authentication challenges that could lead to credential leakage, as enterprises increasingly leverage AI browser agents.