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📄 India's government told the Delhi High Court that it warned Telegram roughly two weeks before blocking the app amid allegations channels were selling leaked NEET-UG 2026 exam papers. The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology and the National Testing Agency identified groups, channels and bots circulating stolen material and reported them to Telegram. The affidavit says Telegram acknowledged limited proactive detection and relied on reported content, while India's block—initially framed as a measured step—remains in effect pending the court's ruling.

🔐 This column tracks recent senior security hires as companies strengthen defenses and expand leadership. It lists new CISO and CSO appointments from January through June 2026, noting prior roles and backgrounds. Entries include hires at SolarWinds, micro1, Green Impact Exchange, and Cohesity, highlighting experience in government, cloud, and enterprise security. The piece also invites readers to submit announcements to the editor.

📰 India blocked Telegram until June 22 after leaked exam materials circulated on the platform, prompting Telegram CEO Pavel Durov to allege BGP hijacking by Reliance that affected users as far as the UAE. The ban, and an additional restriction on message editing, prompted legal challenges and criticism from digital-rights groups calling the move disproportionate. Analysts confirmed a routing leak from AS18101 via FLAG Telecom but dispute claims of deliberate sabotage; MTProto proxies are recommended to restore access.

📅 This page lists Bruce Schneier’s confirmed speaking engagements in June–October 2026, including keynotes, panels, and talks across Europe and North America. Events include Cybernation 2026 in Berlin, the Potsdam Conference at Hasso Plattner Institut, panels in Vienna, a talk at Czech Technical University in Prague, the Nuremberg Digital Festival, and CanSecWest in Vancouver. Times and formats vary; one panel is via Zoom.

🔒 The French government’s secure messaging platform, Tchap, was breached after an intruder took over a user account, according to DINUM. The agency blocked the compromised access and is investigating the extent of exposed information. While encryption was not broken, public chat rooms are unencrypted and the intruder reportedly accessed thousands of messages and files. DINUM reminded users that public rooms are visible to any account and should not contain sensitive content.

🔒 WhatsApp says it detected and disrupted spear‑phishing campaigns it attributes to the NSO Group after investigating user reports of social‑engineering attacks. Meta reports the phishing lures redirected targets to external websites and that test accounts and groups linked to the activity were removed. The company provided three domains as indicators of compromise and urged users to update apps and enable protections such as Advanced Protection on Android and Lockdown Mode on iOS.

📂 Microsoft is investigating an ongoing incident that prevents some users from opening files in Office for the web and Microsoft Teams. Impacted apps include Excel and PowerPoint for the web, with affected users seeing an error stating "Office Online services aren't available right now." The company is analyzing service telemetry and has identified a potential cross-service issue while it works toward remediation.

🛡️ Dutch authorities and the National Cyber Security Center announced the takedown of a botnet that had enlisted millions of devices, including computers, smartphones, tablets, and IoT gear. The network reportedly comprised at least 17 million infected devices and relied on more than 200 servers in the Netherlands for backend infrastructure. Police seized a subset of those servers from a hosting provider, which then took the botnet offline after it was used for criminal activity. Local reporting linked the operation to proxy services such as Asocks, previously associated with proxyware campaigns affecting Android devices.

🎥 ESET Chief Security Evangelist Tony Anscombe reviews major cybersecurity stories from May 2026, focusing on industrial control system intrusions, an AI-directed data theft, a Google-reported AI-developed zero-day, and crypto kiosk scams. He outlines attack vectors such as weak passwords and internet-exposed systems, notes the partial failure of an IT-to-OT escalation, and previews mitigation advice for defenders. Watch Tony’s video for practical recommendations and refer to the April edition for additional context.

📰 The FBI's 2025 Internet Crime Report has been published, offering a range of statistics and findings on cybercrime trends. The author notes they only recently became aware of the report and references associated press releases and news articles. The post, dated May 27, 2026, points readers to additional coverage and commentary on the report's contents.

🔒 More than two-thirds of UK businesses plan to increase cybersecurity spending over the next 12 months as AI adoption and geopolitical uncertainty reshape budgets. The Q1 2026 Barclays Business Prosperity Index found 68% of leaders expect higher cyber investment and 46% say new technologies raise their exposure. Large firms have led the increase, with average cyber spend hitting £505,000 so far in 2026, and cloud, cyber and AI account for 44% of planned tech budgets.

🔍 Flare researchers analyzed ~700 underground posts on the "Lucifer DaaS" between Jan 2025 and early 2026 to reveal how modern crypto drainers evolved into professionalized, service-like platforms. The study highlights affiliate-driven distribution, automation, website cloning, Permit2 abuse, and multichain support, showing how DaaS lowers technical barriers and increases resilience. It also lists practical indicators to help users avoid wallet-draining scams.

🔎 Interpol coordinated a first-of-its-kind campaign, Operation Ramz, across 13 MENA countries from October 2025 to February 2026 to disrupt phishing, malware and scam networks. The campaign resulted in 201 arrests, identification of 382 additional suspects and 3,867 victims, and led to the seizure of 53 servers. Authorities also disseminated almost 8,000 pieces of data and intelligence to support follow-up investigations. Private-sector partners including Group-IB, Kaspersky, Team Cymru, Shadowserver and TrendAI supported operational visibility and takedown efforts.

🚀 Infosecurity Europe 2026 will introduce a new Cyber Startup competition and a dedicated Cyber Startups Zone, giving five emerging companies a platform to present technologies and connect with potential customers, partners and investors. The live pitching event takes place on Tuesday 2 June and will be judged by industry figures including Shlomo Kramer alongside CISOs Mun Valiji and Kirsty Kelly. The winner receives a prize package that includes a free exhibition stand at Infosecurity Europe 2027, PR support from Origin Communications and a brand workshop from Dusted.

🛠️ Microsoft has returned resizable taskbar and Start menu controls to Windows 11 with Insider Preview Build 26300.8493 in the Experimental channel. Users can choose smaller taskbar buttons and move the taskbar to the bottom, top, left, or right via Settings > Personalization > Taskbar > Taskbar behaviors. The update also adds Start menu toggles to hide Recommended content, resize the menu, hide profile details, and improve file relevance. No restart is required.

🏆 The Pwn2Own Berlin 2026 contest at OffensiveCon (May 14–16) awarded security researchers $1,298,250 for exploiting 47 zero-day vulnerabilities across browsers, enterprise apps, servers, virtualization, containers, LLMs and local privilege escalation. Competitors earned $523,000 on day one, $385,750 on day two, and $389,500 on day three. DEVCORE topped the leaderboard with $505,000 and 50.5 Master of Pwn points; Cheng‑Da Tsai secured the highest single payout of $200,000 for an Exchange RCE chain.

🎤 Bruce Schneier lists his upcoming speaking engagements through July 2026, including virtual and European events. He will give a virtual talk on “The Security of Trust in the Age of AI” for the Financial Women’s Association of New York at 6:00 PM ET on May 21, 2026. He is scheduled to speak at the Potsdam Conference on National Cybersecurity (evening of June 24), the Digital Humanism Conference in Vienna on June 26, and the Nuremberg Digital Festival on July 1. The list is maintained on this page.

⚠️ Dell confirmed that its SupportAssist Remediation update is causing blue-screen crashes on some Windows systems after user reports of random reboots began Friday. Dell says version 5.5.16.0 of the Dell SupportAssist Remediation or Alienware SupportAssist Remediation service can trigger 0xEF_DellSupportAss_BUGCHECK_CRITICAL_PROCESS errors and recommends disabling or uninstalling the service as a workaround. Uninstall via Windows Settings (Apps > Installed apps) but note this may remove repair points created by Dell OS SupportAssist Recovery; contact Dell Support if problems persist.

🚨 German authorities dismantled a relaunch of the criminal marketplace Crimenetwork and arrested its alleged operator after the reboot reportedly generated more than €3.6 million. The new instance had attracted roughly 22,000 users and over 100 vendors before investigators seized user and transaction data along with about €194,000 in assets. The arrest of a 35-year-old German was executed in Mallorca under a European arrest warrant, following coordinated actions by the Public Prosecutor's Office in Frankfurt am Main, the Central Office for Combating Cybercrime (ZIT), and the BKA.

⚠️Analysis by the Anti-Corruption Data Collective found significant insider activity on Polymarket. Long-shot wagers—bets of $2,500 or more at implied odds of 35% or less—had an average win rate of about 52% in markets on military and defense actions. By contrast, those long-shot bets won roughly 25% in politics-focused markets and only 14% platform-wide. Author Bruce Schneier warns that permitting such activity risks warping political and military outcomes far more severely than insider sports betting.