AI customers are coming around to the idea that small is beautiful
OpenAI and Anthropic have built AI Swiss Army Knives, but the future may be smaller built-for-purpose tools
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Irish datacenters now guzzle 23% of the country's electricity
Consumption rose another 10% while restrictions on most new grid connections remained around Dublin
'Ghostcommit' hides prompt injection in images to fool AI agents, steal secrets
A PNG hiding a prompt injection could steal your repo's secrets, researchers demonstrate. The technique, dubbed 'Ghostcommit,' slipped past AI code reviewers CodeRabbit and Bugbot,…
Critical Zimbra Flaw Could Let Crafted Emails Run Malicious Code in User Sessions
Zimbra is urging customers to apply updates to address a critical security vulnerability impacting the Classic Web Client that could result in arbitrary code execution. The vulner…
New U-Boot flaws could enable stealthy firmware attacks
Six vulnerabilities in the widely used U-Boot bootloader have been discovered that could allow attackers to execute malicious code during device boot, potentially enabling stealthy…
Friday Squid Blogging: “Squidbleed” Vulnerability
In a rare combined cybersecurity/squid post, a twenty-nine-year-old squid proxy bug can leak HTTP requests. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security st…
Slothful summer app lets you scroll simply by tilting your head
ScrollPods is Mac-only, and you'll need compatible AirPods
Frontier AI: The Genie's Out of the Bottle, But Where's the Rulebook?
Cutting-edge artificial intelligence models are deploying with more independence and less human oversight. Several state governments are trying to legislate transparency in their u…
Turning the Tables on Email Scammers With 'ScamBuster'
An open source, AI-driven system adopts victim personas to engage with phishing attackers, allowing organizations and law enforcement to gather relevant data on cybercriminal opera…
Jen Ellis: Connecting Cyber Community With Political Machinery
Security Pro File: On the heels of her recent honors as a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE), we take a look back at the events that shaped Jen Ellis' advocacy on beha…
Ryuk ransomware member pleads guilty in the US, faces 15 years in prison
A 34-year-old Armenian man has pleaded guilty to hacking U.S. companies and deploying the infamous Ryuk ransomware to encrypt their systems. [...]
Destructive Windows backdoor stuffs multiple wipers and ransomware code into a single package
Microsoft says GigaWiper combines at least 3 malware families into one modular tool
Injective Labs GitHub Compromise Pushes Wallet-Key-Stealing npm Packages
Unknown threat actors compromised the Injective Labs SDK project's GitHub repository and leveraged it to publish a malicious package on the npm registry to steal cryptocurrency wal…
LisaFPGA brings Apple's magnificent misfire back in programmable logic
Open source recreation costs a fraction of the original and may even work with Twiggy drives
Cybercriminals Flock to Healthcare Businesses as Attacks Surge
While cyberattacks against hospitals and clinics grew modestly in the first half of 2026, attacks on service providers and other healthcare businesses more than doubled.
Police suspects Dutch hackers were involved in Odido breach
The Dutch National Police (Politie) says it has found "strong indications" that Dutch hackers have been involved in a February breach at the telecommunications provider Odido. [...…
URGENT - Progress Tells ShareFile Customers to Shut Down Storage Zone Controllers Over Security Threat
Progress Software has told ShareFile customers to shut down the Windows servers running their Storage Zone Controllers, confirming to The Hacker News that it is responding to a "cr…
Progress urges ShareFile admins to shut down servers over “credible” threat
Progress Software is emailing ShareFile customers who use Storage Zone Controllers to immediately shut down their servers after identifying what it describes as a "credible externa…
AI job titles expand beyond tech as IT hiring remains strong
New research from Indeed Hiring Lab found that the number of U.S. job titles referencing AI has more than tripled since 2022, growing from 264 to 822 by the first quarter of 2026. …
Orbital datacenter gold rush needs an environmental review, FCC told
Green groups want licenses frozen before a million satellites litter the exosphere
Six New U-Boot Flaws Could Let Malicious Images Crash Devices or Run Code at Boot
Researchers at firmware security firm Binarly have found six new flaws in U-Boot, the small program that starts up hardware as varied as home routers, smart cameras, and the manage…
Hackers exploit critical auth bypass in Gitea Docker image
Hackers are actively exploiting a critical vulnerability in the official Docker image for the Gitea self-hosted Git service that allows attackers to impersonate any user, including…
Money launderer accused of stealing seized crypto while in prison
A Bulgarian national has been charged with stealing $290,000 in government-seized cryptocurrency while serving 121 months in prison for helping launder millions stolen from America…
In Other News: DHS Database Hacked, Adobe Boosts Patch Cadence, Canada Disrupts Ransomware Ops
Other noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: Abnormal AI sued by Anthropic, AssuranceAmerica data breach affects 7 million people, NSA brings back TAO. The pos…
OpenAI's Atlas browser doesn't make it to its first birthday
Standalone experiment killed after less than 12 months as model maker redirects agentic ambitions towards workplace productivity
Laser Attack Resets Tangem Wallet Passwords on Cards That Can't Be Patched
Researchers at Ledger's Donjon security team have shown that a precisely timed laser pulse, aimed at the chip inside a Tangem crypto wallet card, can reset the card's password to a…
Researcher Details WhatsApp-to-Host Attack Chain Using Three OpenClaw Flaws
Details have emerged about three now-patched security flaws in the OpenClaw personal artificial intelligence (AI) assistant that, if successfully exploited, could enable credential…
AI-driven datacenter builds drive Microsoft's emissions up a quarter in one year
Firm faces quandary of wanting to help the environment, but also wanting to force AI on everyone
The Replicant in Your Directory: AI Agents and the Identity Security Gap
AI agents are accelerating the growth of non-human identities, making it harder for organizations to understand what exists, who owns it, and what it can access. Netwrix explains w…
Fresh ATM Crypto Software Bugs: Jackpot or Bust?
Organizations, and possibly ATMs, are at risk of compromise, thanks to holes in a Microsoft BitLocker security wrapper.