Speaker Johnson has introduced a new fig leaf over the American surveillance state, the Foreign Intelligence Accountability Act. Introduced with only days to go before Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) expires and the U.S. government loses one of its most invasive surveillance programs, the bill does nothing to make any of the substantial changes privacy advocates have been asking for — most notably, it fails to give us a real warrant requirement for the FBI to snoop through the private conversations of people on U.S. soil. Section 702 needs to be reauthorized by Congress every few years. These reauthorizations give us a chance to tinker with the…
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Microsoft previewed four new AI reporting features for Bing Webmaster Tools: citation share, grounding query-intent labels, grounding query topic labels, and Generative Engine Optimization (GEO)-focused recommendations. Krishna Madhavan, Principal Product Manager at Microsoft AI and Bing, previewed the features during a presentation at SEO Week in New York City. Slides shared by attendees on X preview four additions to the AI Performance dashboard. Citation Share would show the percentage of citations a site captures within a specific grounding query, sitting alongside the raw citation counts already available in the dashboard. Grounding Query Intent would classify queries into 15 predefined intent…
Online trading platform Robinhood’s account creation process was exploited by threat actors to inject phishing messages into legitimate emails, tricking users into believing their accounts had suspicious activity. Starting last night, Robinhood customers began receiving “Your recent login to Robinhood” emails stating that an “Unrecognized Device Linked to Your Account” was detected, containing unusual IP addresses and partial phone numbers. “We detected a login attempt from a device that is not recognized,” reads the phishing email. “If this was not you, please review your account activity immediately to secure your account.” Included in the email was a button titled “Review Activity Now”,…
Your brand’s AI visibility score covers the part of the search landscape that traditional SEO rank tracking can’t see. Tracking it is becoming as essential as monitoring Google rankings — and a lot harder to pin down.
Google has analyzed AI indirect prompt injection attempts involving sites on the public web and noticed an increase in malicious attacks over the past months, but the tech giant’s researchers say their sophistication is relatively low. Direct prompt injection is a ‘jailbreak’ where a user interacts with the AI to bypass its rules, whereas indirect prompt injection is a ‘hidden trap’ where the AI is tricked by malicious instructions found in external data. Cybersecurity researchers have discovered many indirect prompt injection methods in recent years, using specially crafted prompts planted on websites, in emails, and developer resources to trick Gemini,…
Ginny Marvin didn’t get into PPC because she had a grand plan. She got into it because she was ready to start again. After years working in print publishing and ad sales marketing, Marvin found herself at a career pivot point. A startup magazine she had helped launch folded, and she decided it was time to move fully into digital. That meant going from marketing director to entry-level applicant. “I don’t know what I’m doing, so I’ll start from the beginning,” she recalled. That reset eventually led her into search marketing, Search Engine Land, and later Google, where she is…
A new threat actor is combining social engineering techniques, abuse of legitimate cloud infrastructure, and custom malware together to create what appears to be novel attack chain. Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) and Mandiant on April 23 published a blog post detailing the activities of a threat actor tracked as UNC6692. While the researchers did not attribute the threat actor to any previously established identity or location ( calling it only a “newly tracked threat group”), they described a multistage intrusion campaign leveraging both persistent social engineering and custom modular malware.The attack also involves the abuse of legitimate cloud infrastructure in…
When AI tools mention your brand, it’s not always your site they’re linking to.A Perplexity answer might name your product but cite a G2 review page, a Reddit thread, or a Forbes comparison instead. This means you don’t always have control over how AI talks about your brand. This guide shows you how to find out whether AI is citing your site or third-party resources and how to make sure your brand shows up accurately in AI-generated answers.What does it mean when AI cites a source?When an AI tool cites a source, it means the AI links to a specific webpage as…
Ravie LakshmananApr 27, 2026Cybersecurity / Hacking Everything is dumb again. This week feels broken in a very familiar way. Old tricks are back. New tools are doing shady crap. Supply chains got hit. Fake help desks worked. Weird research showed how easy some attacks still are. Most of it feels like stuff we should have fixed years ago. Bad extensions. Stolen creds. Remote tools are getting abused. Malware hides in places people trust. Same mess, cleaner packaging. Coffee is cold. The vuln list is ugly. Let’s get into it. ⚡ Threat of the Week New fast16 Malware Was Developed Years…
A federal agency was impacted by a hacking campaign that exploited flaws in Cisco devices.