SecurityWeek’s weekly cybersecurity news roundup offers a concise overview of important developments that may not receive full standalone coverage but 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 maintain a well-rounded awareness of the evolving cybersecurity environment. Here are this week’s highlights: Google Cloud highlights faster cloud attacks in new threat report Google has released its Cloud Threat Horizons Report for the first half of 2026, drawing on data from the second half of 2025. The report shows…
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With people now increasingly asking ChatGPT questions and product recommendations, if your brand doesn’t show up in those responses, you’re invisible to them.The problem: ChatGPT doesn’t have “rankings”. At least not in any traditional sense. Its responses are probabilistic: different every time, with brands appearing and disappearing from one query to the next.According to research from SparkToro, there’s a <1 in 100 chance that ChatGPT, if asked 100X, will give you the same list of brands in any two responses.So you can’t rank #1 in ChatGPT. But you can increase your visibility, the percentage of relevant queries where your brand gets mentioned…
TL;DR Samsung’s Qi2 Magnet Wireless Battery Pack for the Galaxy S26 is now available to buy. The accessory costs about $65 and is listed on Samsung’s online store, though shipping is rolling out gradually in some regions. The power bank packs a 5,000mAh battery, delivering up to 15W wireless charging or 25W wired charging through USB-C. Samsung is now offering a solution with the Qi2 Magnet Wireless Battery Pack (via Notebookcheck). This compact power bank snaps onto the back of Galaxy S26 devices using magnets for easy alignment. Don’t want to miss the best from Android Authority? The accessory packs…
I write frequently about the threat of malware and how threat actors are using it to do everything from steal personal information to fully take over users’ devices or add them to botnets. These malicious programs spread through various forms of phishing, ClickFix attacks, malvertising, and even apps that have been vetted and approved by Apple and Google. However, as users (and security tools) have gotten better at identifying the signs of a malware infection and savvy enough to avoid them in the first place, some cybercriminals have changed tactics: Living Off the Land (LOTL) attacks exploit built-in system utilities…
A suspected China-based cyber espionage operation has targeted Southeast Asian military organizations as part of a state-sponsored campaign that dates back to at least 2020. Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 is tracking the threat activity under the moniker CL-STA-1087, where CL refers to cluster, and STA stands for state-backed motivation. “The activity demonstrated strategic operational patience and a focus on highly targeted intelligence collection, rather than bulk data theft,” security researchers Lior Rochberger and Yoav Zemah said. “The attackers behind this cluster actively searched for and collected highly specific files concerning military capabilities, organizational structures, and collaborative efforts with Western…
When I started building my smart home, I was still figuring things out and making mistakes. But one thing I’m glad I got right from the start was the decision to use a mesh network, rather than just relying on Wi-Fi for everything. While this choice largely applies to server-based solutions like Home Assistant, even closed smart home platforms can take advantage. What is a smart home mesh network? A smart home mesh network is a wireless network that links devices like plugs, switches, and sensors with a server or hub. As the name suggests, these networks form a mesh…
For decades, he said, “the retirement of data center equipment was treated almost entirely as a compliance and disposal issue. Enterprises focused on secure decommissioning, certified recycling, and documented destruction of sensitive hardware. Once equipment left production environments, its economic life was assumed to be largely finished.” That assumption, he pointed out, “is beginning to change, because the hardware inside modern data centres contains a wide range of strategically important materials. Servers, storage systems, networking equipment, and power components contain copper, aluminum, silver, gold, and increasingly small but significant quantities of rare earth elements and other critical minerals.” These materials…
The European Parliament has voted to extend a temporary exemption to EU privacy legislation that allows online platforms to voluntarily detect child sexual abuse material (CSAM). The extension prolongs a derogation from the EU’s ePrivacy Directive, which was set to expire on 3 April 2026, until 3 August 2027. Lawmakers say the additional time will allow the EU to negotiate and adopt a permanent legal framework to prevent and combat child sexual abuse online. Members of the European Parliament said detection measures must remain proportionate and targeted. The exemption should not apply to end-to-end encrypted communications. They also opposed scanning…
EFF is filing a new lawsuit against the Consumer Product Safety Council (CPSC) to ensure that the public has full access to the laws that govern us. Our client Public.Resource.Org (Public Resource), a tiny non-profit founded by open records advocate Carl Malamud, has a mission that’s both simple and powerful: to make government information more accessible. Public Resource acquires and makes available online a wide variety of public documents such as tax filings, government-produced videos, and federal rules about safety and product designs. Those rules are initially created through private standards organizations and later incorporated into federal law. Such documents…
Chloe Varnfield, a digital marketing specialist at Atelier Studios with nearly eight years in PPC, joined me to share the mistakes that shaped her career — and the lessons every advertiser should take from them. When Google sneaks settings past you Chloe’s first story centers on Google’s account-level automated assets setting — a feature so well hidden that many advertisers don’t know it exists until a client sends a screenshot asking why their headline looks completely wrong. The setting, buried behind a three-dot menu, defaults to on, meaning Google can automatically generate and serve headlines advertisers never wrote or approved.…