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  • Another npm supply chain worm is tearing through dev environments April 22, 2026
    Plus, the payload references 'TeamPCP/LiteLLM method' Yet another npm supply-chain attack is worming its way through compromised packages, stealing secrets and sensitive data as it moves through developers' environments, and it shares significant overlap with the open source infections attributed to TeamPCP last month.…
    Jessica Lyons
  • Anthropic's super-scary bug hunting model Mythos is shaping up to be a nothingburger April 22, 2026
    Hackpocalypse deferred Anthropic's Mythos model is purportedly so good at finding vulnerabilities that the Claude-maker is afraid to make it available to the general public for fear that criminals will take advantage. But early analysis shows that Mythos may not be as dangerous as some would have you believe.…
    Jessica Lyons
  • Google unleashes even more AI security agents to fight the baddies April 22, 2026
    Along with a bunch of new services to make sure those same agents don't cause chaos Google Cloud chief operating officer Francis deSouza has summed up his company's security strategy du jour as follows: "You need to use AI to fight AI."…
    Jessica Lyons
  • France's 'Secure' ID agency probes breach as crooks claim 19M records April 22, 2026
    Gov admits 'incident' as forum sellers boast of fresh haul covering up to a third of the population France's National Agency for "Secure" Documents is explaining a potential data spill just as crooks online claim they've nicked a third of the country's ID information.…
    Carly Page
  • Scotland Yard can keep using live facial recognition on people in London, say judges April 22, 2026
    Judges say cops face-slurping not a problem under current human rights laws London's Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) has survived a legal challenge that attempted to curb its rollout of live facial recognition (LFR) technology across the capital.…
    Connor Jones
  • Oil crisis? What oil crisis? IT spending de-coupled from wider war shock April 22, 2026
    Gartner sees accelerating growth in IT spending, powered by cloud and AI infrastructure investment A day after the International Energy Agency (IEA) said the US/Israel/Iran war was creating the worst energy crisis ever faced by the ‌world, Gartner increased its growth forecasts for global IT spending by nearly three percentage points.…
    Lindsay Clark
  • Mythos found 271 Firefox flaws – but none a human couldn’t spot April 22, 2026
    Mozilla CTO says AI means developers finally have a chance to get on top of security The Mozilla has revealed it tested Anthropic’s bug-finding “Mythos” AI model and feels the results it experienced represent a watershed moment for software defenders.…
    Simon Sharwood
  • Nation-states want to cause harm, not just steal cash - stop handing your cyber defenses to the cheapest contractor April 21, 2026
    NCSC boss says China's whole-of-state cyber machine has become Britain's peer competitor in cyberspace State-sponsored cyberattacks from Chinese intelligence and military agencies display "an eye-watering level of sophistication," UK National Cyber Security Centre CEO Richard Horne is expected to say in a less-than-cheery opening speech to kick off its annual conference.…
    Connor Jones
  • Murder, she wrote: Ex-FBI chief wants some ransomware crims charged with homicide April 21, 2026
    Lawmakers decry CISA cuts: 'We are shooting ourselves in the foot' If a cyberattack leads to a death, that's murder. A former FBI cyber division chief urged the US Justice Department to consider felony homicide charges against ransomware actors when attacks on hospitals lead to patient deaths.…
    Jessica Lyons
  • More Cisco SD-WAN bugs battered in attacks April 21, 2026
    CISA gives federal agencies 4 days to patch America's lead cyber-defense agency has warned that three Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager bugs are under attack, and given federal agencies just four days to patch the security holes.…
    Jessica Lyons