Forcepoint X-Labs researchers have identified a large Phorpiex botnet-aided phishing campaign that uses weaponized Windows shortcut files to deploy Global Group ransomware across victim systems. The campaign, observed in late…
January 5, 2026, Seattle, USA — ZAST.AI announced the completion of a $6 million Pre-A funding round. This investment came from the well-known investment firm Hillhouse Capital, bringing ZAST.AI’s total…
A single benign-sounding prompt can systematically strip safety guardrails from major language and image models, raising fresh questions about the durability of AI alignment when models are customized for enterprise…
By Reena SenGupta The news of Anthropic’s plug-in for legal work caused major upset in the legal technology world recently, with behemoths such as RELX, Thomson Reuters and Wolters Kluwer…
SmarterTools confirmed last week that the Warlock (aka Storm-2603) ransomware gang breached its network by exploiting an unpatched SmarterMail instance. The incident took place on January 29, 2026, when a…
Productivity gains, but at what cost? AI may be making junior lawyers faster, but new findings suggest it could also be weakening the very skills the profession depends on. According…
Concerns over conflating ‘art with evidence’ More than 60 senior legal and cultural figures have backed a push for clearer statutory safeguards on the use of music lyrics as evidence…
The Netherlands’ Dutch Data Protection Authority (AP) and the Council for the Judiciary confirmed both agencies (Rvdr) have disclosed that their systems were impacted by cyber attacks that exploited the…
This year will mark the turning point where artificial intelligence will stop assisting and start acting. We will witness a qualitative leap towards agent-based or agentive AI, capable of making…
Enterprise CISOs are increasingly willing — and eager — to jump ship, with some frustrated enough to want to leave cybersecurity entirely. A recent survey of security leaders from IANS…
Fortinet has released security updates to address a critical flaw impacting FortiClientEMS that could lead to the execution of arbitrary code on susceptible systems. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-21643, has…
When LayerX Security published a report on Monday describing what it called “a critical zero-click RCE vulnerability in Claude Desktop Extensions (DXT) that allows a malicious Google Calendar invite to…
As GenAI’s influence grows, so do the risks which are already playing out in courtrooms across England and Wales, where some early adopters are setting precedents they would rather not.…
Broadfield – the new international law firm supported by a global management consultancy – has achieved a lot in its first year but there is much more to do, according…
The High Court has rejected an accusation of abuse of process levied against a leading consumer claim law firm and a KC over their conduct of a data breach case.…