Phishing returned as the leading method attackers used to break into organizations in the first quarter of 2026, accounting for over a third of engagements where initial access could be determined, according to Cisco Talos. It is the first quarter phishing has led the category since Q2 2025, when exploitation of public-facing applications took over following widespread attacks against on-premises Microsoft SharePoint servers. That SharePoint exploitation wave, collectively tracked as ToolShell, drove public-facing application exploitation to a peak of 62 percent of engagements. The rate dropped to 18 percent in Q1 2026, a decline Talos attributes to the broad availability…
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Thanks to AI, local SEO has a new standard. AI-powered search doesn’t just rank pages. It synthesizes answers from your site content, schema markup, listings data, and reviews, and then it decides whether your locations are worth citing. For brands managing 10, 50, or 100+ locations, that’s a significant exposure point. What’s Actually Changing in Local Search AI search experiences, from Google’s AI Overviews to other generative answer engines, are now drawing on a broader set of signals to determine which local businesses to surface. Listing accuracy, structured data, review signals, and the quality of your actual location pages all…
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Microsoft has released out-of-band (OOB) security updates to patch a critical ASP.NET Core privilege escalation vulnerability. The security flaw (tracked as CVE-2026-40372) was found in the ASP.NET Core Data Protection cryptographic APIs, and it could allow unauthenticated attackers to gain SYSTEM privileges on affected devices by forging authentication cookies. Microsoft discovered the flaw following user reports that decryption was failing in their applications after installing the .NET 10.0.6 update release during this month’s Patch Tuesday. “A regression in the Microsoft.AspNetCore.DataProtection 10.0.0-10.0.6 NuGet packages causes the managed authenticated encryptor to compute its HMAC validation tag over the wrong bytes of the…
Progress Software on Monday rolled out patches for multiple MOVEit WAF and LoadMaster vulnerabilities that could lead to remote code execution (RCE) and OS command injection. Two of the bugs, CVE-2026-3517 and CVE-2026-3519, impact APIs in Progress ADC products and could be exploited by users with ‘Geo Administration’ and ‘VS Administration’ permissions for the execution of arbitrary commands on the LoadMaster appliance. The flaws exist because the ‘addcountry’ and ‘aclcontrol’ commands do not properly sanitize user-supplied input. Another issue, tracked as CVE-2026-3518, impacts an API in the ADC products’ LoadMaster and can be exploited by an authenticated attacker who has…
Creating video content takes time and budget, so understanding how it performs is critical. YouTube’s native analytics in YouTube Studio are robust, but they’re locked behind account access. That can make reporting difficult — especially when you need to share data or don’t have direct login access. Moving that data into Google Data Studio (formerly Looker Studio) makes it easier to analyze and distribute. With Data Studio, you can: Pull YouTube data into reports you already use. Schedule automated updates for stakeholders. Customize dashboards around the metrics that matter. Track performance without relying on backend access. Here’s how to pull…
Sustainability Week 2025This article is part of a series of sustainability-themed articles we’re running to observe Earth Day 2026 and promote more sustainable practices. Check out all of our Sustainability Week 2026 content.Fairphone has released its 2025 Impact Report, and the sustainability-focused electronics manufacturer is calling on all smartphone manufacturers to implement a fair living wage across their respective workforces.The annual report details Fairphone’s performance and initiatives for the previous calendar year, and the latest edition highlights the need to consider the human impact of smartphone manufacturing, as well as the well-documented environmental cost.“In much of the tech industry, impact…
Summary LILYGO T-LoRa ESP32 pager hacked into the Melody Machine portable music player. Plays MP3s from SD, streams internet radio, LVGL UI, Wi-Fi manager, and persistent settings. Source and build files on GitHub- grab the Melody Machine code and make your own pager player. While Raspberry Pis and ESP32s are great for hobbyists, they also regularly find themselves in products. They’re very useful, after all, so it’s only natural that companies will use them as their hardware of choice when making something small that doesn’t need to be an absolute powerhouse. However, that also means that curious tinkerers are going…
Ravie LakshmananApr 21, 2026Insider Threat / Cybercrime A third individual who was employed as a ransomware negotiator has pleaded guilty to conducting ransomware attacks against U.S. companies in 2023. Angelo Martino, 41, of Land O’Lakes, Florida, teamed up with the operators of the BlackCat ransomware starting in April 2023 to assist the e-crime gang in extracting higher amounts as ransoms. “Working as a negotiator on behalf of five different ransomware victims, Martino provided BlackCat attackers with confidential information about the negotiating position and strategy of his company’s clients without the clients’ or his employer’s knowledge or permission,” the U.S. Department…
Google introduced new features for Search that continues its evolution into a more task-oriented tool, enabling users to launch AI agents directly from AI Mode and complete more tasks. This is a trend that all SEOs and online businesses need to be aware of. Rose Yao, Product leader in Search, posted about the new features on X. The first tool is a toggle that enables users to track hotel prices directly from the search bar. Yao explained: “To help you save $$, today we launched hotel price tracking on Search! Use the new tracking toggle to get an email if…