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Tool promises to make lazy academics' AI-written papers sound more human
Startup insists it's not trying to help anyone cheat the system - honest!
China-Linked APT Expands Arsenal With New ‘Leash’ Backdoors
Cisco says the threat actor behind the LapDogs campaign has expanded its SOHO router malware toolkit with LongLeash, DogLeash, and JarLeash backdoors. The post China-Linked APT Exp…
Police intercept tipsy teens after Waymo snitches for shooting Orbeez out of the car
Armed response and canine support called in for troublemaking duo ratted out by driverless car’s array of cameras
New HalluSquatting Attack Could Trick AI Coding Assistants Into Installing Botnet Malware
AI coding assistants have a habit of making things up. Ask one to fetch a popular tool, and it will sometimes hand back a real-sounding name for a project that does not exist. New…
Ubiquiti Patches Critical UniFi Flaws Across Connect, Talk, Access, Protect, and OS
Ubiquiti has shipped updates to address multiple critical security flaws impacting UniFi Connect, UniFi Talk, UniFi Access, UniFi Protect, and UniFi OS that could result in privile…
3 Ways AI Powers Service Desk Attacks and How to Prevent Them
Specops Software explains how AI is making service desk impersonation attacks more convincing, personalized, and scalable, along with practical steps organizations can take to stre…
Bug in top AI coding agents shows that Unix-era security headaches never really die
'GhostApproval' problem highlights human-in-the-loop fails
China tells devs to ditch Claude Code over 'backdoor code' fears
National vulnerability database claims monitoring mechanism can forward Chinese users' data to remote servers
Webinar Today: Why Email Security Keeps Failing
Join the webinar as we break down why email-layer defenses alone can’t keep pace with the modern phishing ecosystem. The post Webinar Today: Why Email Security Keeps Failing appear…
New Ghost Phishing Wave Is Breaking Traditional Email Security
A recent EvilTokens campaign targeting businesses across the US and Europe is exposing a new email security blind spot. This “ghost phishing” technique keeps the malicious page hid…
SCMBANKER Malware Uses ClickFix Lures to Target Mexican Banking Users
A new banking fraudulent operation is targeting customers of Mexican banks, fintech, payment processors, and cryptocurrency exchanges using ClickFix lures. The activity cluster, t…
Ex-NASA boss points out small flaw in Moon landing plan: No lander
Jim Bridenstine says Artemis 'extraordinarily complicated' compared to the days of Apollo and the Saturn V
Felons, Fraudsters Flog Offensive Cybersecurity Startup
A cybersecurity startup dangling millions of dollars to acquire zero-day security vulnerabilities in popular software is run by a pair of far-right conspiracy theorists and convict…
Unexpected Windows bloat is due to bug, not by design
Mystery of the disappearing storage solved (for some)
Google Dialogflow CX Bug Allowed Attackers to Hijack AI Conversations
The "Rogue Agent" vulnerability could have enabled attackers to silently manipulate AI conversations, exfiltrate data, and compromise every Dialogflow CX agent within the same Goog…
DuckDuckGo browser now blocks YouTube video ads
DuckDuckGo announced that its browser can now block most video ads on YouTube, including those shown before the video starts playing and during playback. [...]
GitHub 'Verified' Commits Can Be Rewritten Into New Hashes Without Breaking Signatures
New research shows that a signed Git commit's hash is not the one-of-a-kind name that much of the software world assumes it to be. Given any signed commit, someone without the sign…
Telstra outage: Failed emergency services calls, train chaos, payment systems down
Telco says issues all sorted, but transport networks expected to be disrupted well into Thursday
Tech divorce from Walmart cost Brit retail giant Asda £1.22B
Project which included new SAP system saw delays and costs rise from an £800m estimate while causing financial disruptions
The Verification Step Is the New ATO Battleground in 2026
For years, account takeover (ATO) followed a predictable script. Attackers bought stolen credentials in bulk, ran them through automated tools, and waited for matches. Credential s…
Telco giant KDDI says data breach affects over 12 million people
Japanese telecommunications giant KDDI says that millions of people had their email addresses and passwords exposed after attackers breached an email platform used by five internet…
GitHub Copilot Refuses Harmful Requests in Chat, Then Writes Them in Code
An AI coding assistant that refuses to answer a dangerous request in its chat box can answer it anyway if the same request is broken into small, ordinary-looking steps inside a cod…
Cybersecurity and the Gap Between Skill and Ability
Last week, national security agencies from the Five Eyes—that’s the rich, English-language-speaking countries club—jointly released a statement warning of the increasing cyber risk…
Clingy Virgin Media fined £28M for refusing to take the hint
Ofcom: Telco encouraged staff to drop calls and put customers on hold for no reason when they wanted to cancel