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New infosec products of the week: July 10, 2026
Here's a look at the most interesting products from the past week, featuring releases from Attestiv, Automox, Codenotary, and First Recon AI. Codenotary has announced AgentMon 3, the latest generation of its enterprise AI security platform…
A critical tool for fighting against an Orwellian future' - Why users of this encrypted messaging app are helping keep the project alive
Decentralized, encrypted, and completely private messages. That's what Session promises. You may never have heard of the app, but for its 1.7 million monthly users, Session is an important piece of privacy tech worth fighting to sustain. Due to a…
Meta's new AI model could spark a massive price war in the red-hot AI coding market
Meta could spark a price war in the booming AI coding market. The tech giant announced its latest AI model, Muse Spark 1.1, on Thursday, saying it performs well on industry tests for coding and AI agents. It's Meta's first AI model that it charges…
Windows Is Tracking You? What You Missed in Cybersecurity This Week
Most of us understand that companies track our activities around the web. They'd love to track our activities in the real world too, if we let them. But what we don't expect is our operating systems to track us, and for the companies that make…
UK to regulate cloud service providers to protect financial system
The UK is to regulate the biggest cloud service providers, including Microsoft and Google, in a move designed to protect the country's financial system. The Treasury said on Friday that it has designated for global cloud services and technology…
Tech, growth and financial leadership moves across the market
Christopher Porter has joined the company as global chief information security officer after 10 years at Fannie Mae as its CISO. He first joined Fannie Mae in 2015 as deputy CISO and was promoted a year later. Prior to Fannie Mae, he spent 10 years…
OpenAI is making its biggest play for the office
OpenAI has built a super app for work. On Thursday, the company announced it is now merging its popular Codex AI coding tool into its ChatGPT desktop app, a move to turn the flagship AI app into a one-stop shop for engineers and other…
Top OpenAI executive Fidji Simo is stepping down
Fidji Simo, one of OpenAI's top executives, is stepping down. Simo, the company's CEO of applications, wrote on X on Thursday that she has decided to leave her full-time role and transition to becoming a part-time advisor. She went on medical leave…
Third US Security Expert Sentenced to Prison for Helping Ransomware Gang
Another cybersecurity expert from the United States, accused of helping a cybercrime gang while working as a ransomware negotiator, has been sentenced to prison. Angelo Martino, 41, of Florida, was sentenced on Thursday to 70 months in prison after…
The Talking Points Memo Went Out Over Latest ICE-Involved Shooting
ICE officials in Houston shot and killed an illegal alien during a targeted enforcement operation. That illegal alien, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, was in the country illegally for more than three decades. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers…
China, India-Linked Hackers Both Targeted Same Pakistani Police Force
New research from SentinelOne shows that cyberespionage groups linked to both China and India spent more than two years quietly breaking into Pakistani law enforcement networks, with Balochistan Police getting hit from both sides of the region's…
Who Is Michael Coates? The Former Twitter Security Chief Now Tasked With Securing Solana
/ Block of Fame / CXO Stories / Who Is Michael Coates? The Former Twitter Security Chief Now Tasked With Securing Solana Michael Coates Secured Big Tech. Now He's Taking on Solana. Former Twitter CISO Michael Coates joins Solana Foundation to lead…
'HalluSquatting' Turns AI Hallucinations Into Botnet Delivery Mechanism
Researchers from Tel Aviv University, Technion, and Intuit have detailed a new attack technique dubbed ‘HalluSquatting' that turns AI assistants' tendency to hallucinate into a scalable infection vector. The cybersecurity community has…
GigaWiper Combines Multiple Malware for System-Level Sabotage
For over eight months, a threat actor has been using a destructive backdoor and wiper that has multiple system-level sabotage capabilities, Microsoft reports. Dubbed GigaWiper, the malware is a sophisticated Go-based backdoor that consists of…
Network of 200 GitHub Repositories Used for Malware Infection
A threat actor has built a network of over 200 GitHub repositories that have been delivering Windows malware, supply chain protection provider Socket reports. Dubbed Operation Muck and Load, the campaign involves 222 lure repositories across 190…
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