A vulnerability in Mac screen sharing allows remote attackers to log in without a password and gain control of the system. The flaw is already being actively exploited.
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Active Exploitation Meets a Faster, More Expensive Threat Environment
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A malicious actor stole French taxpayers' data during a cyberattack in June, according to the French Finance Ministry. The ministry disclosed the breach on Thursday but provided no further details about the affected information.
6:12 AMFinextra
Data breach notices in 2026 have already exceeded last year’s total. Artificial intelligence is increasingly enabling cyberattacks, while incidents involving malicious insiders are also rising.
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Vulnerability giving attackers full control of Macs is under active exploitation
Summary
A vulnerability in Mac screen sharing allows remote attackers to log in without a password and gain control of the system. The flaw is already being actively exploited.
Active exploitation turns a remote screen-sharing flaw into an immediate risk for Macs with the
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An exposed Mac can become fully compromised without the attacker needing valid credentials.
6:12 AMFinextra
French taxpayers' data stolen in cyberattack
Summary
A malicious actor stole French taxpayers' data during a cyberattack in June, according to the French Finance Ministry. The ministry disclosed the breach on Thursday but provided no further details about the affected information.
The breach puts sensitive taxpayer records at risk and raises questions about the ministry's detection,
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A breach of government tax data can expose highly sensitive information at a scale that makes individual protection difficult.
8:15 AMCNBC
Data breach notices have already blown past last year’s total — and AI is playing a growing role
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Data breach notices in 2026 have already exceeded last year’s total. Artificial intelligence is increasingly enabling cyberattacks, while incidents involving malicious insiders are also rising.
The pace of reported breaches has accelerated, and attackers are adding AI to established methods
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The expanding volume and sophistication of breaches raises the cost of weak access controls and delayed detection for every organization handling sensitive data.
Other Developments
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The share of organizations planning to increase cybersecurity spending rose to 85% in May, up from 64% between March 2025 and February 2026, after companies assessed the capabilities of frontier AI models.
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A free service called DecryptAds collects and correlates fragmented adtech data to show which companies track users across websites and mobile apps. It turns information that was previously difficult to access and interpret into a more usable view of online surveillance.
7:24 AMKrebs on Security12:24 PMPYMNTS
Frontier AI Threats Drive Companies to Boost Security Budgets
Summary
The share of organizations planning to increase cybersecurity spending rose to 85% in May, up from 64% between March 2025 and February 2026, after companies assessed the capabilities of frontier AI models.
The jump shows that perceived AI-enabled cyber risk is moving from a technical concern to
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AI is changing cybersecurity spending from a discretionary upgrade into a strategic requirement.
7:24 AMKrebs on Security
Who’s Tracking You? Use This New Service to Find Out
Summary
A free service called DecryptAds collects and correlates fragmented adtech data to show which companies track users across websites and mobile apps. It turns information that was previously difficult to access and interpret into a more usable view of online surveillance.
DecryptAds lowers the barrier to identifying the advertising and data firms behind targeted tracking. That
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Making the adtech ecosystem legible could shift privacy oversight from abstract policy debate toward specific, accountable companies.
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