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2026-08-14SecurityWeek
Google Cloud Outlines Post-Quantum Cryptography Roadmap Targeting 2029

Google Cloud has published an updated roadmap for migrating its infrastructure to post-quantum cryptography (PQC), targeting full readiness by 2029 with some work extending into th...

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2026-08-12SecurityWeek
WhatsApp Scam Alert Uses On-Device AI to Detect Fraud Without Breaking Encryption

WhatsApp has begun a limited beta rollout of Scam Alert, an optional feature that uses an on-device machine learning model to flag suspicious messages sent by unknown contacts. The...

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2026-08-11The Hacker News
Mozilla Revokes Firefox Linux Signing Key After Private Repo Exposure

Mozilla has revoked the cryptographic signing key used to authenticate Firefox and Thunderbird downloads for Linux after an unencrypted copy was accidentally committed to one of th...

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2026-08-11The Hacker News
DeadLock Ransomware Uses Polygon Smart Contracts to Hard-Proof Extortion

The DeadLock ransomware group has adopted a decentralized operational model that combines the Session messaging network with blockchain-backed services to make its extortion infras...

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2026-08-06The Hacker News
CryptoJS Weak RNG Behind $5.7M Crypto Wallet Drains Across 5 Apps

Blockchain security firm Coinspect has confirmed that the weak random number generator in CryptoJS.lib.WordArray.random() was responsible for the "Ill Bloom" wallet drains that hav...

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2026-08-01The Hacker News
Coldcard Firmware Flaw Enables $70M Bitcoin Theft in 41 Minutes

An attacker siphoned 1,082.65 BTC—worth roughly $70.2 million—from 1,196 addresses in a 41-minute sweep on July 30, 2026, according to Galaxy Research, which traced the drain to a ...

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2026-07-31Dark Reading
Why a Certificate & Key Inventory Is Your Best Defense After a Root of Trust Collapse

When a root certificate authority (CA) is revoked, distrusted, or abandoned, the fallout is immediate and far-reaching. Every TLS certificate chained to that root becomes suspect, ...

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2026-07-28The Hacker News
Claude AI Cracks HAWK-256 Post-Quantum Crypto, Speeds Up AES-128 Attack

Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview has achieved a significant cryptanalytic breakthrough, deriving an end-to-end key-recovery attack against the HAWK-256 post-quantum signature sche...

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2026-07-23Dark Reading
Agentic AI Disrupts Confidential Computing Adoption in 2025

Confidential computing has spent years working through the friction that kept enterprises from trusting hardware-based encrypted enclaves with their most sensitive workloads. Adopt...

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2026-07-01The Hacker News
Microsoft Accelerates Post-Quantum Cryptography Migration to 2029

Microsoft has moved up its quantum-safe security roadmap, with Azure CTO Mark Russinovich announcing that the Microsoft Quantum Safe Program (QSP) will now target a full transition...

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2026-06-29The Hacker News
Post-Quantum Cryptography: Why Credentials Are the First Target

The public-key cryptography protecting today's credentials and encrypted data faces an expiration date. While no existing machine can crack RSA or elliptic curve cryptography, quan...

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2026-06-26BleepingComputer
Russian Hackers Target Signal Backup Keys in Evolving Phishing Campaign

The FBI and CISA have issued an updated warning that Russian Intelligence Services (RIS) have evolved their phishing tactics to steal Signal Backup Recovery Keys, granting attacker...

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2026-06-23The Hacker News
Trump Executive Order Mandates Post-Quantum Crypto Migration by 2030

President Trump signed Executive Order 14409 on June 22, establishing firm deadlines for federal agencies to migrate high-value assets and high-impact systems to post-quantum crypt...

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2026-06-20BleepingComputer
Prinz Eugen Ransomware Targets Recent Files First in Go-Based Attack

A newly identified ransomware operation dubbed ‘Prinz Eugen’ is turning heads in the cybersecurity community for an unusual encryption strategy: prioritizing recently modified file...

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2026-06-11The Hacker News
GreatXML Exploit Bypasses Windows BitLocker in Just 4 Hours

Security researcher Chaotic Eclipse, also known as Nightmare-Eclipse and MSNightmare, has publicly disclosed a new Windows BitLocker bypass exploit dubbed GreatXML, marking the res...

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2026-06-08The Hacker News
Meta Blocks NSO Group WhatsApp Phishing Attack, Files Contempt Order

Meta announced on Monday that it detected and neutralized a new wave of spear-phishing campaigns orchestrated by Israeli commercial spyware vendor NSO Group, targeting journalists,...

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2026-05-19BleepingComputer
Discord Deploys End-to-End Encryption for All Voice and Video Calls

Discord has officially announced the completion of its end-to-end encryption (E2EE) deployment for all voice and video calls, marking a significant milestone in user privacy protec...

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2026-05-14The Hacker News
Windows Zero-Days Expose BitLocker Bypass and CTFMON Privilege Escalation

Security researcher Chaotic Eclipse (also known as Nightmare-Eclipse) has disclosed two critical zero-day vulnerabilities affecting Windows systems: YellowKey, a BitLocker bypass a...

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2026-05-10BleepingComputer
German Police Shut Down Relaunched Crimenetwork Marketplace, Arrest Admin

German law‑enforcement agencies, led by the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) and the Hessian State Criminal Police Office (LKA Hessen) in close coordination with Europol’s Euro...

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2026-05-07BleepingComputer
California Man Gets 6.5 Years for $230M Crypto Heist, Money Laundering

Ethan J. Rivera, a 20‑year‑old from Los Angeles, California, was sentenced on Friday to 78 months (6.5 years) in federal prison for his role in a sophisticated criminal operation t...

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2026-05-06The Hacker News
Google Expands Binary Transparency for Android to Block Supply Chain Attacks

Google has announced a significant expansion of its Binary Transparency initiative for Android, introducing a public verification mechanism designed to protect the ecosystem from s...

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2026-05-06Dark Reading
VoidStealer Bypasses Chrome App-Bound Encryption: New Threat

Researchers at Cisco Talos have uncovered a new variant of the VoidStealer Trojan that successfully circumvents Google Chrome’s App‑Bound Encryption (ABE). The malware, tracked as ...

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2026-05-06Dark Reading
New VoidStealer Bypass Exposes Chrome App-Bound Encryption Flaw

Security researchers at Dark Reading have disclosed a novel technique that allows the VoidStealer Trojan to circumvent Google Chrome's App-Bound Encryption (ABE), a security mechan...

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2026-02-26Ars Technica
New AirSnitch Attack Bypasses Wi‑Fi Encryption in Homes and Offices

Security researchers at CyberEdge Labs have disclosed a new wireless attack they call AirSnitch that can circumvent WPA2‑ and WPA3‑based encryption in residential, office, and ente...

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2025-10-30Ars Technica
Pixel Devices Exposed: Which Pixels Are Vulnerable to Cellebrite?

A leaked document published by the dark‑web user W1ckedG0pher has disclosed the full roster of Google Pixel phones that can be compromised by Cellebrite’s Universal Forensic Extrac...

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