Priya Nair is a RECATOOLS editorial persona focused on AI governance, data protection, privacy, digital trust, and responsible technology policy. Articles under this byline explain how organisations can adopt AI and data-driven tools while managing legal, operational, and reputational risk.

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Cyber Threat Intel

Four Linux Root Exploits Published, for Bugs Up to 21 Years Old

Mistakes a decade or more old, in networking code read by thousands of people, found in months by a researcher whose AI tooling is credited in the kernel's own fix.

19 Sep 2026 · 6 min read
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Cyber Threat Intel

Three Agencies Blamed Iran for CHOSEN BRICK. Only the FBI Named the Ministry.

CHOSEN BRICK gives every victim their own Telegram bot. The NCSC, FBI and AIVD signed one advisory and stopped at different levels of attribution.

17 Sep 2026 · 5 min read
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Privacy & Data

Singapore's data protection law does not cover the government

The PDPA's data protection obligations do not bind ministries, departments or gazetted statutory boards, so the right to sue that exists against a company does not exist against them. Government data runs under a separate criminal regime, and the exemption that once covered government vendors was repealed in 2021.

17 Sep 2026 · 7 min read
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Cyber Threat Intel

BambooToken Malware Takes Its Orders Over MQTT, the Smart-Device Protocol

Infected machines never connect to the attacker. They subscribe to a topic on a message broker and wait. About a dozen victims, most of them in Asia.

17 Sep 2026 · 6 min read
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Cyber Threat Intel

The CVSS score was never meant to be your patch queue

Patch everything above 9.0 is the most common vulnerability rule there is, and FIRST — who publish CVSS — write that base scores "are not risk, and should not be used alone for patch prioritization". Their own figures put exploitation at roughly 0.5% of published CVEs.

16 Sep 2026 · 6 min read
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Privacy & Data

OpenAI Has Hundreds of Contractors Reading Whole ChatGPT Conversations

They see whole conversations and score them 1 to 7. Names are stripped; the memory summaries describing where you live and what you do are not.

16 Sep 2026 · 6 min read
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Cyber Threat Intel

AI Agents Compromised 440 PaperCut Servers. Only Twelve Became Domain Admin.

Eleven organisations fell in 26 seconds, and schools took 204 of the 395 victims. The gap between landing on a box and owning a domain is where the automation stopped.

16 Sep 2026 · 6 min read
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Cyber Threat Intel

A 30,000-User Twitch Ad-Blocker Was Sending Live Login Sessions to a Bot Service

The extension blocked ads by routing traffic through its own proxies, and forwarded each viewer's login token as it passed. A token needs no password and no 2FA.

15 Sep 2026 · 6 min read
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AI & ML

DeepSeek Planned to Answer V4 Pro Calls With a Different Model. Then It Backed Down.

The redirect to V4.1 Flash was due at noon on 14 September. DeepSeek now says V4 Pro stays, at the same price. A better model behind the same name can still break things.

15 Sep 2026 · 6 min read
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AI & ML

Anthropic, OpenAI and Google Want an AI Standards Body. Who Would Enforce It?

The three laboratories have met since July about a body to audit and test frontier models. The model they cite, FINRA, has something this proposal lacks: a regulator behind it.

14 Sep 2026 · 6 min read
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