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Google Cloud cleared for Dutch public sector use

đź”’ Google Cloud announced completion of a Dutch data protection impact assessment (DPIA) by SLM Rijk, confirming there are no known high data protection risks when recommended measures are applied. The outcome enables the Dutch central public sector to adopt Google Cloud from a privacy-assessment perspective and builds on earlier DPIA work for Google Workspace. Google emphasizes continued investment in privacy-enhancing technologies and support resources for customers.
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Claude Apps Gateway for Google Cloud announced

🔒 Anthropic’s Claude Apps Gateway is a self-hosted intermediary that centralizes identity, policy, telemetry, spend controls, and routing between local Claude Code clients and Google Cloud. It replaces per-developer credentials with OIDC-based sessions, enforces RBAC server-side via gateway.yaml, and attributes metrics to verified user sessions. Deploy as a stateless container on Cloud Run (or GKE) with Cloud SQL and Secret Manager for state and secrets.
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AWS Workload Credentials Provider: Role Chaining and Prefetch

đź”’ This post explains how to use two enhancements to the AWS Workload Credentials Provider: role chaining for cross-account secret retrieval and prefetching to reduce cold-start latency. It covers configuration, required IAM permissions, SSRF token usage, and how to build and deploy the Rust-based provider across EC2, ECS, EKS, and Lambda. Examples show curl and Python calls, TOML configuration for max roles, and prefetch settings for individual secrets or tag-based discovery.
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Risks and Safeguards for AI API Proxy Aggregators

đź”’ As organizations adopt AI more broadly, third-party API proxies and aggregators promise convenience, cost savings, and failover between models. Some providers operate transparently, but many exploit forged or stolen accounts, reroute queries to cheaper models, and capture or manipulate prompts and outputs. These practices expose firms to data leakage, IP loss, compliance violations, and security threats such as injected malicious code or reduced model accuracy.
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Ousaban banking trojan targets Spain and Portugal

🛡️ Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs uncovered a May 2026 campaign deploying the Brazilian banking trojan Ousaban against Windows users who bank in Spain and Portugal. The attack begins with a deceptive PDF that either prompts victims to click an "Atualizar" button or auto-opens a malicious page; successful targets download a steganographic image that conceals a ZIP containing the malware. Ousaban monitors browser activity for over two dozen Iberian banks and can capture keystrokes, screenshots, tamper with the clipboard, display fake messages, and grant remote control to attackers.
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Adobe fixes critical ColdFusion and Campaign flaws

🛡️ Adobe released urgent patches addressing multiple maximum-severity vulnerabilities in ColdFusion and Adobe Campaign Classic, including several CVSS 10.0 issues. The ColdFusion fixes are included in ColdFusion 2023 Update 21 and ColdFusion 2025 Update 10, while the Campaign patch is in ACC v7: 7.4.3 build 9397. Adobe reports no known active exploitation and credited external researchers for several reports.
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Critical Cursor sandbox escape bugs demand urgent patch

🛡️ Two high-severity flaws in the Cursor AI code editor allow a crafted prompt to escape the editor's sandbox and execute arbitrary commands on a developer's machine without any user interaction. Discovered by Cato AI Labs as DuneSlide and tracked as CVE-2026-50548 and CVE-2026-50549 (both rated 9.8), the issues are patched in Cursor 3.0 released April 2; versions before 3.0 are affected. The vulnerabilities exploit how Cursor handles a tool parameter and symlink resolution to cause writes that disable the sandbox, enabling full code execution as the user.
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Cloudflare Proposes New Economics for AI Search

🔍 Cloudflare outlines initiatives to make AI-driven search more efficient and to compensate creators fairly. The company will launch a research program using network signals to surface fresher, higher-quality content and reduce unnecessary crawling. It is also evolving Pay Per Crawl toward Pay Per Use, experimenting with partners like Ceramic.ai and You.com to enable pay-per-query and other payment models.
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Agentic Internet: Bot Traffic and Content Market

🧭 Cloudflare reports a rapid shift toward an agent-driven Internet where AI training and mixed-use crawlers dominate. Publishers face falling referral traffic as over 50% of Internet traffic is now non-human, and AI companies increasingly ingest content without compensation. Cloudflare highlights tools and marketplace developments that restore publisher control, enable attribution, and support licensing between content owners and AI firms.
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Cloudflare Monetization Gateway and x402 Payments

🔒 Cloudflare announced the Monetization Gateway, a control plane to charge for any asset protected by Cloudflare — web pages, APIs, datasets, or MCP tools — and to enforce payments at the edge. At launch payments will settle in stablecoins over the open x402 protocol, enabling micropayments and sub-second settlement. The Gateway moves metering and payment verification off your origin while preserving your pricing and rules.
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Cloudflare Expands AI Bot Controls and Taxonomy

🛡️ Cloudflare updates its bot management to distinguish between three AI use cases—Search, Agent, and Training—so site owners can better control access and compensation for their content. The company will change defaults on September 15, 2026, blocking Training and Agent bots on ad-bearing pages while leaving Search allowed. Cloudflare also launched BotBase, a searchable directory of tracked bots, and added a new content-use signal for robots.txt to express preferences like use=reference.
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AI-generated browser ransomware risk emerges

🛡️ Researchers warn of an AI-generated Python web app, attributed to DeepSeek, that demonstrates a practical in-browser ransomware and information-stealing toolkit affecting Chromium-based browsers on Windows and Android. The sample, named InfernoGrabber v9.0, uses a phishing decoy to gain File System Access API permissions, then enumerates, exfiltrates, encrypts files, and displays a ransomware note without installing native payloads. Check Point highlights the lowered expertise barrier as LLMs can now independently surface viable attack paths.
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Over 900 Oracle E-Business instances exposed online

đź”’ Over 900 Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) instances were found exposed online amid active attacks exploiting a critical File Transmission flaw in Oracle Payments (CVE-2026-46817). The vulnerability permits unauthenticated HTTP takeover, and Oracle released patches in its May 2026 Critical Security Patch Update, urging immediate remediation. Threat intelligence firm Defused reported active exploitation observed on honeypots, while Shadowserver noted roughly 950 exposed instances and the extent of patching remains unclear.
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2026 Cybersecurity Assessment Reveals Resilience Gap

🔍 The 2026 Bitdefender Cybersecurity Assessment surveyed 1,200 IT and security professionals across six countries and found striking contradictions between awareness and operational resilience. Leaders often overestimate visibility into AI use, while frontline staff report gaps. Organizations agree reducing the attack surface is critical but face policy, resource, and disruption concerns. Many report pressure to conceal breaches despite acknowledging the importance of transparency.
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Anthropic redeploys Mythos 5 and Fable 5 with safeguards

🛡️ Anthropic has redeployed Claude Mythos 5 and Claude Fable 5 globally after a brief suspension linked to US export controls, adding new security limitations. Fable 5 now includes an improved safety classifier that blocks reported jailbreaks in over 99% of cases, though it may increase false positives for benign coding tasks. The models will be available across major clouds and selected subscription tiers, and Anthropic is collaborating with government and industry partners on AI security testing and a HackerOne program.
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Papa John’s Uses Shopping Data to Target Ads

🍕Papa John’s partnered with NBCUniversal, Instacart, and media agency Carat to target consumers when they’re likely low on groceries by analyzing Instacart purchase patterns. The campaign creates custom audiences based on purchases of staples like eggs, milk, and produce, then serves tailored creatives on NBCU streaming with prompts such as “Light on groceries?” and QR codes. Carat framed the approach as learning what’s in consumers’ fridges without being “too creepy.” The author notes historical parallels and ethical concerns about such predictive advertising.
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Microsoft restores GIFs in Windows Emoji Panel

🛠️ Microsoft has restored GIF functionality in the Windows Emoji Panel after Tenor retired its API on June 30, causing GIF options to show as 'GIF service is not available' for some users. The company switched the provider to GIPHY in the preview KB5095093 cumulative update for Windows 11 24H2/25H2/26H1 released on June 23. Users can install the optional update via Settings > Windows Update or the Microsoft Update Catalog. Microsoft is still working on fixes for Windows 11 23H2 and Windows Server 2025.
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Microsoft Accelerates Move to Post‑Quantum Cryptography

🔒 Microsoft announced an acceleration of its Quantum Safe Program to transition critical products and services to post‑quantum cryptography by 2029. The company plans to integrate PQC requirements into its Secure Future Initiative and emphasize crypto‑agility, TLS 1.3 adoption, and protection of trust chains such as code signing and certificates. Microsoft urged organizations to begin migration now due to advances in quantum research and rising risk of 'harvest now, decrypt later.'
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