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Anthropic has acquired Opaque Systems, a company that developed technology for using sensitive data in AI systems while keeping it protected by the underlying hardware.  Opaque announced the deal last week, saying its team is joining Anthropic. Financial terms were not disclosed. Opaque started as a research project at UC Berkeley’s RISELab a decade ago. Its founders include Ion Stoica, co-founder of Databricks and Anyscale, and Raluca Ada Popa, an encryption and systems security researcher…

Candiru spyware has infected devices at international news network Al Jazeera in zero-click attacks, via targeted advertisements, Canadian internet watchdog group Citizen Lab reports. As part of the operation, dubbed AdFection, ads purchased by Israeli company Discover-Tech were used to de-anonymize, fingerprint, and infect users, and also allow threat actors to track millions of devices. As part of the online advertising ecosystem, companies bid at billions of daily Real-Time Bidding (RTB) auctions hosted on ad…

SecurityWeek’s weekly cybersecurity news roundup offers a concise overview of important developments that may not receive full standalone coverage yet remain relevant to the broader threat landscape. This curated summary highlights key stories across vulnerability disclosures, emerging attack methods, policy updates, industry reports, and other noteworthy events to help readers stay well-informed about the evolving cybersecurity environment. Here are this week’s highlights:  ICS-Sniper attack picks off critical OT traffic University of British Columbia researchers have…

For most of its history, cybersecurity has been reactive by design. Spot the bad event, shut it down. But as cyberattacks evolve, this thinking must evolve too. In the past, attackers relied on a single dramatic exploit to access the crown jewels. But the nature of attacks has changed. Defenders see ordinary events they don’t think are important enough to follow up on, but before they realize it, these events lead to a dramatic breach.…

A new report from Booz Allen demonstrates that “frontier super intelligence navigated unfamiliar industrial systems, adapted when blocked, and moved physical equipment within minutes.” The findings of the report were presented last week at SecurityWeek’s Industrial Control Systems (ICS) Cybersecurity Conference in Nashville, ahead of the public release. Use of the term ‘super intelligence’ is, however, confusing. This is not the first time the firm has used it, but it seems to be indistinguishable from…