The House Committee on Homeland Security sent a letter about the Canvas cyberattack, the same day that the edtech company said it reached an "agreement" with the ShinyHunters cybercriminals.

In a role reversal, investment dollars in security startups exceeded the value of mergers and acquisitions in 1Q26 by more than $1 billion, a rare occurrence.

A Nitrogen ransomware attack on Foxconn's North American facilities is one of 600 hits on manufacturers this year, as gangs increasingly target the sector for its low tolerance for downtime.

Security governance needs to be more than an annual compliance exercise. New companies are emerging to address risk-management gaps in current audit tools.

Threat actors are publishing RubyGems packages that include scrapers targeting public-facing UK government servers, but with no clear objective.

An OPSEC failure provides a window into what helped the ransomware group rise: a generous affiliate model, opportunistic TTPs, and an effective organizational structure.

Informa TechTarget's flagship cybersecurity media brand launches a special content series to mark two decades as a trusted source for cybersecurity professionals.

Attackers uniquely fingerprint victims before delivering spear-phishing payloads aimed at espionage, in the latest campaign from the Belarussian nation-state threat group.

The cyberthreat group targets an Azerbaijani oil and gas firm with repeated attacks, as the China-linked actors extend targeting beyond hospitality, telecom, and government sectors.

In the latest evolution of automated cyberattacks, threat actors heavily leveraged AI agents to support campaigns against entities in Mexico and Brazil.

It's the first time in two years with no zero-days. But with 137 flaws to patch, including nine critical ones, admins still have plenty of work to do.

A tokenizer library file present in Hugging Face AI models can be manipulated to hijack the model's outputs and exfiltrate data.

As part of Dark Reading's 20th anniversary special coverage, we profile the CISOs, founders, researchers, criminals, and policymakers who rewrote the enterprise risk playbook.

Hundreds of npm packages infected by the self-propagating, credential-stealing worm from TeamPCP are related to the open source TanStack ecosystem.

The Federal Communications Commission eased some restrictions and pushed back deadlines for foreign router manufacturers, but the ban is still in place.

Security controls can do only so much. Here are four attacks where your employees are usually your first, and only, line of cyber defense.

The privilege escalation vulnerability, which is similar to other Linux flaws like Copy Fail and Dirty Pipe, may already be under limited exploitation.

Cyber adversaries have long used AI, but now attackers are using large language models to develop exploits and orchestrate complex attacks.

The campaign quietly compromises aerospace and drone operators to exfiltrate GIS files, terrain models, and GPS data and gain a clear picture of adversaries' world view.

The edtech company is struggling to wrest control from its hackers. PII belonging to hundreds of millions of people is on the line.

PCPJack makes innovative use of parquet files for stealthy, pre-validated target discovery as it canvasses multiple cloud environments.

Dark Reading investigates rumors that Tom Parker, a board room "operator" and longtime cyber exec, could be next in line to take over CISA.

Malicious repositories can trigger code execution in Claude Code, Cursor CLI, Gemini CLI, and CoPilot CLI with minimal or no user interaction, thanks to skimpy warning dialogs.

What researchers dubbed the most sophisticated AI-integrated ICS campaign to date hit a brick wall in the form of a SCADA login screen.

Authors of the VoidStealer Trojan uncovered yet another way to get around Google's App-Bound Encryption (ABE), opening the door to infostealers.

ShinyHunters' attack on Instructure, which owns the widely used Canvas learning management system (LMS), carries big questions about the trust educational institutions put into their vendors.

As part of its 20th anniversary celebration, Dark Reading looks back on 20 of the biggest newsmaking events from the past two decades that influenced the risk landscape for today's cybersecurity teams.

In hard-to-detect attacks, hackers are dropping the CloudZ RAT and a fresh plug-in, Pheno, to hijack the Windows-based bridge between PCs and smartphones.

As the war with Iran continues, breach attempts targeting the United Arab Emirates tripled in a few weeks — many targeting critical infrastructure.

Info is scant, but such breaches can reveal where a security product's controls are located and how detections are designed, giving attackers a leg up.