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Hackers Steal $6.3 Billion From Binance in Record Crypto Heist

October 30, 2026
Binance
Cloudflare Reports Millions of Exploit Attempts After PHP Flaws Disclosed
Cybersecurity // October 22, 2026

Cloudflare reported millions of attempts to exploit newly disclosed vulnerabilities in PHP, or Hypertext Preprocessor, as companies and governments raced to secure websites and online services built on the widely used programming language. Cloudflare Chief Executive Matthew Prince described the rapid escalation in a post...

Cyera Raises $400 Million as Customers Push for AI Cyber Defense
Cybersecurity // September 23, 2026

Cyera is reportedly a now $12 billion company amid concerns about artificial intelligence (AI)-related cyberthreats. The data security company reached that valuation after raising $400 million from Goldman Sachs Growth Equity, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported Tuesday (Sept. 22). “The urgency in the market...

Cybersecurity Firms Weigh Controlled Internet Access for Frontier AI During Testing
Artificial Intelligence // August 25, 2026

Artificial intelligence (AI) labs and cybersecurity firms are considering ways to give advanced AI models controlled access to the internet during testing, rather than trying to keep the models confined to a sandbox, Bloomberg reported Tuesday (Aug. 25). This consideration comes after OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta disclosed separate incidents in...

Hasbro Warns of Weeks-Long Upheaval Following Cyberattack
Cybersecurity // April 01, 2026

Toymaker Hasbro says it could take weeks to resolve a recent cyberattack. The company revealed the incident in a filing Wednesday (April 1) with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), saying that it had uncovered a breach March 28, which led it to take some...

Interviews & Exclusives
Future of Bank Security Is Being Written by Ethical Hackers

March 26, 2025
Historically, banks built security the same way they built vaults: thick walls, high fences and minimal exposure. But digital transformation has upended that perimeter. Open banking APIs, third-party FinTech integrations, cloud-native architectures and rapid app deployments have created an attack surface far too broad for static defenses. Banks’ security postures have to evolve in parallel […]

Why Fraudsters Like ‘Delivery Attacks,’ And Why AI and ML Alone Won’t Stop Them

May 19, 2020
The pandemic — and specifically, the lockdowns resulting from it — has spurred criminals to shift their cyber fraud schemes to exploit new avenues of attack. To that end, the...

Can Robots Fight Fraud And ID Theft?

July 17, 2018
Robots flip burgers, make cocktails, engage in the practice of law and perform an increasing number of tasks all across the global economy. What if they were able to better...

As Bitcoin Swoons, Might Hacking Balloon?

January 19, 2018
Prices go up and prices fall and cryptos capture the imagination of traders, investors…and hackers. As 2018 gets underway, beware the risks beyond trading frenzies – such as being duped...

Quick Reads
Hackers Steal $6.3 Billion From Binance in Record Crypto Heist

October 30, 2026
Hackers stole $6.3 billion from Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, in the biggest crypto theft ever. The attack breaks the previous record by a wide margin. It also comes at a hard time for digital assets, which were already under pressure from higher interest rates in the United States and weaker demand from exchange-traded […]

Cloudflare Reports Millions of Exploit Attempts After PHP Flaws Disclosed

October 22, 2026
Cloudflare reported millions of attempts to exploit newly disclosed vulnerabilities in PHP, or Hypertext Preprocessor, as companies and governments raced to secure websites and online services built on the widely...

Cyera Raises $400 Million as Customers Push for AI Cyber Defense

September 23, 2026
Cyera is reportedly a now $12 billion company amid concerns about artificial intelligence (AI)-related cyberthreats. The data security company reached that valuation after raising $400 million from Goldman Sachs Growth...

Cybersecurity Firms Weigh Controlled Internet Access for Frontier AI During Testing

August 25, 2026
Artificial intelligence (AI) labs and cybersecurity firms are considering ways to give advanced AI models controlled access to the internet during testing, rather than trying to keep the models confined...