Taiwan High-Speed Rail Emergency Braking Hack: How a Student Stopped the Trains and Exposed a Major Security Gap

Taiwan high‑speed rail was disrupted after a 23‑year‑old student spoofed signals and triggered an emergency alarm, stopping four trains for nearly an hour. Taiwan high‑speed rail system, one of... Read more »

After 17 years, Gavril Sandu extradited to U.S. for hacking scheme

Romanian citizen Gavril Sandu was extradited to the U.S. nearly 17 years after a hacking scheme. He was indicted in 2017 and arrested in 2026. Romanian national Gavril Sandu,... Read more »

Google’s Android Apps Get Public Verification to Stop Supply Chain Attacks

Google has announced expanded Binary Transparency for Android as a way to safeguard the ecosystem from supply chain attacks. “This new public ledger ensures the Google apps on your... Read more »

UK financial security experts participate in sector-wide hackathon

Teams of security pros from UK financial services organisations came together at the end of April to participate in a hackathon exercise. Read more »

⚡ Weekly Recap: AI-Powered Phishing, Android Spying Tool, Linux Exploit, GitHub RCE & More

This week, the shadows moved faster than the patches. While most teams were still triaging last month’s alerts, attackers had already turned control panels into kill switches, kernels into... Read more »

Iranian cyber espionage disguised as a Chaos Ransomware attack

Iran-linked APT MuddyWater used ransomware-style tactics to mask espionage, combining phishing, credential theft, data exfiltration, and extortion without encryption. A newly discovered cyber intrusion attributed to the Iran-linked APT... Read more »

Apache fixes critical HTTP/2 double-free flaw CVE-2026-23918 enabling RCE

Apache fixed several flaws in HTTP Server, including CVE-2026-23918 (CVSS score of 8.8), a double-free bug in HTTP/2 that could allow remote code execution. The Apache Software Foundation has... Read more »

China-Linked UAT-8302 Targets Governments Using Shared APT Malware Across Regions

A sophisticated China-nexus advanced persistent threat (APT) group has been attributed to attacks targeting government entities in South America since at least late 2024 and government agencies in southeastern... Read more »

Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS flaw exploited for remote code execution

Palo Alto Networks warns of a critical PAN-OS flaw (CVE-2026-0300) that is under active attack, allowing unauthenticated remote code execution. Palo Alto Networks has warned that a critical PAN-OS... Read more »

Beyond telesurgery: How Proximie uses AI to optimise surgery logistics

AWS customer Proximie delivers AI-driven operating theatre logistics and tele-surgery. We spoke to its engineering vice-president about the challenges of cloud in a life or death environment Read more »
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