Bryce Austin

"Speaking in Munich in February, the Commission’s technology lead, Henna Virkkunen, warned the European Union could no longer afford to be 'naive' about adversaries’ ability to switch off critical infrastructure, saying that power grids, hospitals...." buff.ly/9Rgr5Wy

"The ban comes amid a wave of online blowback in China against Anthropic as posts on Reddit and GitHub outlined the use of hidden code meant to detect if users might be based in the country." buff.ly/oluAdEE

622 patches in Microsoft's Patch Tuesday, three of which fix zero-day vulns, and two of those zero-days are being actively exploited. Patch early, patch often. #Microsoft #PatchTuesday #securitypatch #cybersecurity buff.ly/qp0XC6u

"In a blog post published on July 9, Symantec researchers said the attackers were spotted leveraging AnyDesk, a remote desktop application, which was hidden on the affected endpoint in a folder named ‘Music’ and made outbound connections to unknown IP..." buff.ly/EyLEgxl

"YouTube and Instagram parent company Meta were found liable this year of intentionally addicting and harming young people. All four companies face thousands of lawsuits with similar claims, which they have disputed ... Features were categorized as..." buff.ly/W87FU4L

This is all kinds of not good. "While a simple search of the map wouldn’t reveal sensitive information, anyone who understands how websites request data could download unprotected personal information such as Social Security numbers without a username..." buff.ly/hy70DQu

Wow. Not surprising, but wow. "Security researchers have confirmed that a European politician had his phone hacked with the Pegasus spyware while serving on an investigatory committee probing abuses of the notorious surveillance tool..." buff.ly/jQaU7h3

"The statement comes after a threat actor known as '888' claimed to have stolen 35 GB of data from the company in July and began offering the data for sale on a cybercrime forum." #cybersecurity #cybersecuritynews #cyberattack #Accenture ift.tt/MftKnwj

Good advice here about what to do if your Facebook account is hacked: "There are a number of signs that your Facebook has been hacked, most of which are easy to spot and show up pretty quickly. The most brutal is attempting to log in..." buff.ly/3xQPJIs

It's been a busy 2026 so far in the world of cybersecurity. Here are some of the largest breaches YTD. #cybersecurity #cybersecuritynews buff.ly/ZWyLS4f

This could be seen coming from a mile away, but now it's here. Agentic AI ransomware campaign start to finish. A human gave AI a server to run on and a target to attack, and it did the rest. buff.ly/XXECLuK

"Published on June 17, the Zscaler 2026 AI Threat Report said that there has been a 93% year-over-year increase in employees transferring enterprise data to AI tools." buff.ly/Q2WGAxn

"Lytvynenko admitted in court to joining the Conti operation in September 2021 and working on the development of a malware loader for the group. He also admitted to possessing data from 12 victims, including eight in the US ... Lytvynenko pleaded..." buff.ly/22HCgCI

"For Ukraine, which continues to face relentless cyberattacks amid the ongoing war with Russia, the EU's decision carries political significance as well as practical benefits." buff.ly/j0S3FUN

"Anthropic and the Trump administration have continued to tussle publicly and in courtrooms, after the startup refused to give the U.S. military unrestricted access to its latest frontier models."

April Windows OS updates (specifically CVE-2026-33825) got weaponized. Patch early, patch often. "'At that point, [the attackers] basically own the system, & can do things like spawn a SYSTEM-privileged shell,' Dormann said." #cybersecurity #WindowsUpdate buff.ly/GEmSrgR

"The cybercriminals used a Go-based Remote Access Trojan (RAT) to abuse Microsoft Teams' TURN relay servers and mask command-and-control traffic." buff.ly/M95CCYC

“The goal eventually is to figure out, ‘Hey, how do I just tell the computer essentially what I want it to do, and then have it do it?’” Nvidia and Microsoft are revamping Windows to do more of that. buff.ly/ogc0fyo

I can't believe it's been a whole year since I had the pleasure to be on Maartje van Krieken's podcast, the Business Emergency Room. Congratulations on reaching 100 episodes Maartje! #cybersecurity #cybersecuritynews #cyberaware buff.ly/3Glvuee

"In a letter sent to Anthropic’s cofounder and chief compute officer Tom Brown obtained by WIRED, US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told the AI lab it would permit certain trusted partners to access Mythos because he had 'determined that...'" buff.ly/luXEodm