Cyber News

Google on Wednesday announced Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber, which it described as its most capable cybersecurity model, and has made it available to a set of trusted defenders via a new initiative called the Fairwind Program.

“The Fairwind Program gives high-priority defenders (like governments, healthcare providers, and telecommunications services) early access to advanced models that help them

An active malware campaign is using bogus software-download websites to impersonate trusted vendors and distribute malicious installers.

“The campaign has targeted users looking to download popular software and has resulted in compromises across multiple organizations and industries, primarily affecting China-based operations of multinational organizations and Chinese-speaking users,” Microsoft

Manifold Security has disclosed eight security flaws across seven command-line AI coding agents in which a repository’s own Git configuration names a command that the agent runs on the developer’s machine, four of them still unpatched at publication.

The command executes as the user, outside the agent’s sandbox and without an approval prompt, and exploitation requires the repository to arrive

A Chinese-speaking cybercrime cluster known as Gambling Goblin has been observed installing malicious Apache modules on compromised web servers run by Brazilian government and educational institutions, and using them to divert visitors to attacker-controlled pages promoting online gambling and sports betting.

Check Point Research said it has tracked the campaign since mid-2025.

The modules

Virtualizor said hackers used a Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) hijack to divert Softaculous traffic. The hackers then used the diverted update traffic to deliver a malicious Virtualizor package to some installations. A hosting-provider account separately said 5 of its 34 checked Virtualizor hypervisors sustained root-level compromise.

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