Google fires sueball at alleged Chinese phishers over AI-powered fraud ops
Telegram-based 'Outsider Enterprise' accused of sending millions of scam texts and impersonating trusted brands
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Industry Reactions to Claude Fable 5: Feedback Friday
Industry professionals comment on various aspects of Fable 5, including dual-use capabilities, safeguards, and tiered access. The post Industry Reactions to Claude Fable 5: Feedbac…
Agentjacking Attack Tricks AI Coding Agents Into Running Malicious Code
Cybersecurity researchers have described what they say is a new class of attack that can trick artificial intelligence (AI) coding agents into running arbitrary code on developer m…
Microsoft fixes Windows update failures linked to WUSA installer
Microsoft has fixed a known issue that caused Windows updates released since May 2025 to fail when installed via the Windows Update Standalone Installer (WUSA) from a network share…
Elon Musk is now worth more than $1,000,000,000,000
Retail investors lined up to get a handful of Musk's magic beans in SpaceX's debut
Iranian Cyber Group Handala Claims Cal Water Hack
The hackers published 5GB of data, including customer personal information and credentials for the RTKBase platform. The post Iranian Cyber Group Handala Claims Cal Water Hack appe…
Bernie Sanders’ AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Plan
Let no one accuse Bernie Sanders of ducking the big questions. Writing in the New York Times last week, the senator asked: “Will the future of humanity be determined by a handful o…
Rethinking MDR as Attackers and Defenders Embrace AI
For most of the past decade, managed detection and response was the answer to a real problem. Security teams couldn't staff around the clock, couldn't hire enough analysts, and nee…
Met Police boss threatens to cut 700 frontline jobs after Palantir deal blocked
Commissioner Mark Rowley says automation savings are now 'at risk'
Plymouth council exposes hundreds in latest local government email gaffe
Authority admits mass message to home-schooling families revealed recipients' addresses, prompting ICO report and apology
UK digital ID gets brain trust to 'challenge' ministers on policy
CEO of Mumsnet among the six-member team
Pharma giant Novo Nordisk discloses breach of clinical trials data
Danish pharmaceutical giant Novo Nordisk, the world's largest producer of insulin, disclosed a data breach affecting patient information from some clinical trials. [...]
LangGraph Flaw Chain Exposes Self-Hosted AI Agents to Remote Code Execution
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of three now-patched security flaws impacting LangGraph, including a critical vulnerability chain that could result in remote code …
Ivanti Sentry Exploitation Attempts Hitting Honeypots
The critical-severity OS command injection vulnerability allows attackers to execute arbitrary code with root privileges. The post Ivanti Sentry Exploitation Attempts Hitting Honey…
Chrome 149 Update Patches 28 Vulnerabilities
The browser refresh resolved critical and high-severity security defects, including a dozen use-after-free bugs. The post Chrome 149 Update Patches 28 Vulnerabilities appeared firs…
BOFH: For one ambitious security type, chaos is a ladder
Mission Control sends its regards
INTERPOL Operation Takes Down Sniper Dz Phishing Platform, Arrests Administrator
An INTERPOL-led operation last month resulted in the disruption of Sniper Dz, a decade-long phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform, Group-IB said Thursday. The effort, codenamed O…
Anthropic Disputes Fable 5 AI Jailbreak
An AI hacker claims to have achieved a prompt-based jailbreak shortly after Fable 5’s launch, but Anthropic says it’s not a real jailbreak. The post Anthropic Disputes Fable 5 AI J…
Windows bowls a BSOD at sports fans
It's just not cricket
CISA orders feds to patch actively exploited Ivanti flaw by Sunday
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) ordered government agencies to patch an actively exploited Ivanti Sentry flaw within three days, as mandated by the…
Delos Data offers AI chip startups a fast track to rack scale
Half the trouble of building an Nvidia NVL or AMD Helios competitor is just getting the networking out of the box
Over 73,000 French govt employees affected in Tchap messenger breach
The French government revealed that a recent breach of its Tchap encrypted messaging platform affects the accounts of over 73,000 employees in the French public sector. [...]
Google Confirms Exploitation of Oracle PeopleSoft Zero-Day by ShinyHunters
Oracle has mitigated CVE-2026-35273, but it has not publicly confirmed the vulnerability’s in-the-wild exploitation. The post Google Confirms Exploitation of Oracle PeopleSoft Zero…
Europol Disrupts AudiA6 Crypto Laundering Service Used by Ransomware Gangs
Authorities in Europe have disrupted AudiA6, a cryptocurrency laundering service used by ransomware gangs and cybercriminal networks. Europol, in a statement issued Thursday, said…
This is your BIOS speaking. Please fix me. Your PC is broken
Casual IT team learns that building bespoke PCs can be a false economy
Phishing Attack Volume Down 20%, But Risk Still Rising
Hackers are valuing quality over quantity, using AI to upgrade their phishing attacks rather than multiply them.
Amazon claims its data centers are 7x more water-efficient than the industry average
As they face increasing backlash over their resource consumption, major data center operators are scrambling to prove they’re not a drain on the environment, or, at least, not as m…
Japanese energy firm loses drive with data of 10.9 million clients
Kyushu Electric Power Co., Inc. has disclosed a physical security incident that affects private data of more than 10 million customers. [...]
Maine breach portal abused to publish fake data breach disclosures
In an unusual misinformation campaign, fraudulent data breach disclosures were submitted to Maine's official breach portal and publicly posted before their legitimacy could be veri…
Claude is ready for its corporate close-up
IDC says recent moves show Anthropic racing to meet enterprise requirements