Intel’s Heracles chip computes fully-encrypted data without decrypting it — chip is 1,074 to 5,547 times faster than a 24-core Intel Xeon in FHE math operations

Intel has revealed an 8192-way SIMD compute engine for fully homomorphic encryption math called Heracles. By operating directly on encrypted data, it has the potential to eliminate entire classes of attacks under some work…

Instagram Down—New Outage Leaves Users Unable To Post Or DM

It’s not just you. Social media site Instagram is down globally, with people unable to post or reply to DMs on the platform. Here’s what to know.

Qevlar AI lands $30M to expand AI security operations platform

France-based Qevlar AI, which develops AI technology for securityoperations centres (SOCs), has raised $30 million in funding for the development of its autonomous AI SOC platform. The round was joint…

Escape secures $18M Series A to develop AI cybersecurity agents

Escape,an offensive security engineering platform, has raised $18 million in a Series A funding round to develop AI agents designed to automate the security lifecycle. Theround was led by Balderton, w…

U.S. military contractor likely built iPhone hacking tools used by Russian spies in Ukraine

Google found a series of hacking tools they said were used by a Russian espionage group and a cybercriminal group in China. Sources from a U.S. government defense contractor said some of those hacking tools were theirs.

Russian government hackers targeting Signal and WhatsApp users, Dutch spies warn

Dutch intelligence is accusing Russia-backed hackers of running a “large-scale global” hacking campaign against Signal and WhatsApp users.

Salt Typhoon is hacking the world’s phone and internet giants. Here’s everywhere that’s been hit.

Salt Typhoon is by far one of the most prolific hacking groups in recent years, breaching some of the top American phone companies. Here are all the countries that have been targeted.

WhatsApp And Signal Accounts Are Under Attack—What You Need To Know

As national security services warn that Russian hackers are currently engaged in new global attacks against WhatsApp and Signal users, here’s how to stay safe.

What The Claude Code Security Panic Got Wrong About Cybersecurity

Claude Code Security spooked investors but misses the bigger problem. The real risk to enterprises is in SaaS integrations and AI agents nobody is watching.

China, Not Iran, The Biggest Zero-Day Cyber Threat

While the ongoing war has brought attention to Iran’s cyber operations, threat intelligence indicates that China dominates the zero-day cyber exploit space.