Software

Google says Chrome cuts 7 billion unwanted Android notifications a day to fight abuse

Google says Chrome’s anti-abuse systems reduced unwanted notifications on Android by more than 7 billion per day during the first quarter of 2026. In a new blog post, Google argues that notification abuse has increasingly been used to distribute scams, malware, phishing attempts, and fraudulent payment requests. To reduce the abuse, Google developed a “Swiss

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Mozilla updates GPG signing key for Firefox releases after exposure

Mozilla announced today that it updated the GPG key used to sign Firefox and Thunderbird releases after it was accidentally exposed on GitHub. However, in a Monday blog post, it noted that the risk of a supply chain attack in which threat actors could distribute malicious installers signed with the exposed key is low because

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DDoS attacks over 1 Tbps surged fivefold in the second quarter

Cloudflare says it mitigated more than 800 network-layer distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks exceeding 1 Tbps in the second quarter of the year. Compared with the first quarter, when the company recorded just 130 attacks above 1 Tbps, the latest figure represents a more than fivefold increase. Cloudflare is a major web infrastructure and security firm

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CISA: Microsoft SharePoint flaw now exploited in ransomware attacks

CISA confirmed today that ransomware gangs have begun abusing a high-severity Microsoft SharePoint remote code execution vulnerability, which has been flagged as actively exploited since early July. Tracked as CVE-2026-45659, this security flaw stems from a deserialization of untrusted data weakness and allows attackers with low privileges to execute arbitrary code on unpatched SharePoint servers.

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As if PCs weren’t expensive enough already, Microsoft is reportedly now charging OEMs more for Windows licenses

Taiwanese news site United Daily News reports that, according to one source, Microsoft is charging Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) significantly more for Windows licensing fees this year than in previous years (via Wccftech). These are the fees that PC makers, for instance, must pay to Microsoft to package their machines with the operating system. UDN

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Cisco warns of high-severity ClamAV flaws with public exploits

Cisco warned of two high-severity vulnerabilities affecting the Secure Endpoint Connector that allow threat actors to crash the ClamAV scanning process in denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. The security flaws (tracked as CVE-2026-20337 and CVE-2026-20338) were found in the ZIP archive parser of ClamAV (Clam AntiVirus), the open-source and cross-platform engine used to scan files for malware.

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Firefox stunts on Edge as Microsoft gears up to neuter adblockers: ‘uBlock Origin isn’t going anywhere’

Earlier this year, Google Chrome annoyed a whole lot of adblock users by killing support for Manifest V2 extensions. It’s a Manifest V3 world now, which means the permissions and APIs that thoroughgoing adblockers like uBlock Origin rely on are a thing of the past on Chrome (it’s since been replaced by a pared-down version:

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US and South Korea warn of Gunra ransomware targeting govt agencies

U.S. federal agencies and South Korea’s National Policy Agency warned government and critical infrastructure organizations worldwide to secure their systems against Gunra ransomware attacks. In a Monday joint advisory, they said the ransomware group uses a malware variant based on the Conti ransomware source code leaked in February 2022, in attacks targeting a wide range

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When Credentials Are No Longer Enough: Device Trust in the AI Era

Identity security is under growing strain. The passwords, multi-factor authentication (MFA) responses, IP reputation, geolocation and browser characteristics organizations have traditionally used to judge whether a login is legitimate are becoming easier for attackers to steal, imitate or work around. AI is adding to that pressure, not by creating a completely new class of attack,

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