Gartner suggests Friday afternoon Copilot ban because tired users may be too lazy to check its mistakes

2026-03-17T07:23:55Zaf8dd043f4da6408f611d5b5189367fad98258bf6af77d217c753c40c5684938
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What happened

A roundup of security news covering multiple active threats and high-impact incidents: Google pushed emergency Chrome patches for two actively exploited zero-days; CISA warns of a max-severity RCE in n8n being exploited in the wild; Microsoft Excel/CoPilot Agent information-disclosure flaw reported; several data breaches and credential-theft campaigns disclosed (Intuitive, Telus, Ericsson, Companies House, WordPress compromises, Storm-2561 VPN client spoofing); large-scale cybercrime and fraud increases tied to AI and geopolitical conflict (Akamai, Interpol, Iran-linked activity); law-enforce­

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