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Half of American finance professionals have let an unusual payment request through, or nearly did, because it appeared to come from someone they trusted. That figure sits at the center of the Yooz 2026 Payment Fraud Readiness Report, published this month. It matters because trust was never a control. It was a shortcut that worked … Read more
Silent Push researchers pointed a proxy connection at a home router in Portugal. They reached its management interface. Then they pulled an image file off it as proof. The router belonged to a customer of MEO, Portugal’s largest internet provider. The researchers held no credentials. They planted no malware. They held a subscription to a … Read more
The number cyber underwriters need from Allianz Commercial’s new data center report sits on page 24. It is not fire. Wilful acts, a category Allianz describes as “largely cyber crime related,” account for 19% of data center claims by number. Only water damage ranks higher, at 21%. Fire places third by frequency, at 14%. Fire … Read more
In late June, an energy utility in Australia lost its firewall. The attacker did not want that. Neither did his tool. A suspected ransomware operator had pointed Claude Code at the device. The model tried to rewrite the VPN configuration through the API. Those calls failed. So it downloaded the full device configuration, edited it … Read more
Threat intelligence has a timing problem. Most of it arrives after the damage. An indicator of compromise is a receipt, not a warning. Silent Push announced on Aug. 4 that it will sell its underlying infrastructure data to other cybersecurity companies. The Reston, Virginia firm previously kept that data inside its own platform. Now product … Read more