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If anything, 2026 has made clear that cybersecurity is no longer a background concern. Today, security is at the front and center of many conversations, woven into almost every major story of the year. 

The U.S. military has the first time acknowledged that it has deployed a space weapon into Earth’s orbit.

Hackers have a new phishing lure – the automated voicemail transcript notification, and have already used it against thousands of organizations already, sending tens of thousands of malicious emails.

A swarm of OpenAI agents attacked RubyGems, a package manager for the Ruby programming language, uploading thousands of malicious packages until they were eventually cut off. No one really knows what the agents’ endgame was, but it appears they were using a nuclear bomb to kill a fly.

Europe has a new unicorn: Italian startup Exein has just raised a $270 million funding round led by Headline at a $1.7 billion valuation on the promise of providing a cybersecurity layer for physical AI — an evolution of its initial focus on IoT.

If you clicked on an HBO Max ad on Reddit over the past week, you might want to check your computer for malware.

Carnegie Mellon University’s CERT Coordination Center has warned Skullcandy’s Dime 3 wireless earbuds will accept a Bluetooth pairing request from a stranger’s device without the owner doing anything.

A browser extension for Twitch was harvesting people’s OAuth tokens and sending them to a Russian-owned server. The move was deliberate, but whether or not it was malicious is not that easily determined.

Digital banking platform Revolut was tricked into giving away a treasure trove of sensitive customer data to hackers, and it is now coming back to bite it.

A £3 Wi-Fi extender bought through Temu has exposed security problems that challenge the idea of cheap connected devices being simple bargains.