Author: V Diwahar

Google has released the March 2026 Android Security Update, and this one isn’t minor housekeeping. The company patched 129 vulnerabilities across the Android ecosystem one of the heaviest single-month patch loads we’ve seen in recent years. The headline issue is an actively exploited zero-day, CVE-2026-21385, affecting Qualcomm display components. According to Google’s March 2026 Android Security Bulletin and Qualcomm advisories, the flaw has already been used in limited, targeted attacks in the wild. That last part matters. This update goes well beyond routine fixes. It addresses critical Remote Code Execution (RCE), Elevation of Privilege (EoP), and kernel-level vulnerabilities that,…

In 2025, AI-powered cyber attacks stopped being a boardroom talking point and became an operational emergency. The shift wasn’t gradual. It was abrupt. According to CrowdStrike’s 2026 Global Threat Report, AI-enabled adversaries increased their activity by 89% year over year. That’s not incremental growth that’s acceleration. And it’s happening inside real enterprise environments, not lab simulations. But the headline number isn’t even the most unsettling part. The defining feature of AI-powered cyber attacks in 2025 was speed. The average eCrime breakout time the window between initial access and lateral movement dropped to just 29 minutes. That represents a 65% acceleration…

Anthropic has accused three major Chinese AI companies of orchestrating large-scale Claude distillation attacks, involving more than 16 million exchanges with its Claude models. According to the company, the activity violated its terms of service and sidestepped regional access restrictions designed to limit availability.Anthropic says the campaigns were engineered to extract advanced reasoning, coding, and agentic capabilities from its frontier systems using AI model distillation. Inside a lab, distillation is routine smaller models learn from larger ones all the time. But Anthropic’s position is blunt: when you point that technique at a rival’s model without permission, it stops being research…

Google’s Google Antigravity suspension wave has sent a jolt through the AI developer ecosystem, leaving thousands of OpenClaw users abruptly cut off from Gemini model access. What initially looked like a routine backend capacity hiccup quickly spiraled into account restrictions, persistent 403 errors, and growing accusations that Google had overcorrected. And here’s where it gets uncomfortable. The enforcement action zeroes in on developers who used the OpenClaw OAuth plugin to tap into subsidized Gemini model tokens through Google’s Antigravity platform Google DeepMind’s developer-facing gateway to Gemini AI infrastructure. Google says the setup violated its AI terms of service by funneling…

The recent PayPal data breach didn’t begin with ransomware headlines or a dramatic network intrusion. Instead, it unfolded quietly inside a specialized financial workflow used by small businesses. For roughly six months in 2025, a software error in PayPal’s Working Capital loan system exposed highly sensitive customer data, including Social Security numbers and dates of birth. According to reporting from BleepingComputer and Cybernews, approximately 100 customers were affected.That number may sound limited. But when SSNs are involved, impact matters more than scale.Some affected customers experienced unauthorized transactions. PayPal says those transactions were reversed. Still, for business owners who depend on…

When a brand as globally recognized as Adidas makes headlines for a data breach, the world pays attention. And right now, Adidas is doing exactly what no billion-dollar company wants to do  investigate a potential breach of customer and partner data.On February 16, 2026, a threat actor going by the name “LAPSUS-GROUP” posted on the dark web forum BreachForums, claiming to have infiltrated Adidas’ extranet and extracted 815,000 rows of sensitive data.If that number sounds alarming, that’s because it’s meant to but as we dig deeper, the real story is far more nuanced. How Did This All Start? Like many…