'Near-autonomous' AI agents attack Taiwan's nuclear safety agency
Some say the world will end in fire, some say an agentic swarm [...]
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Spectre rears its ugly head again as researchers show some RISC-V chips are susceptible
Eight years on, we're still paying to hide the future glimpsed during speculative execution [...]
Uber Freight keeps on trucking after extortion crew breaks in
Helix claims nearly a million files, while the logistics biz says operations never hit the brakes [...]
Exposed: Woeful security at UK criminal records office that led to sensitive data leak
Nobody patched the CMS or read the alerts, and ACRO still cannot tell whether info was exfiltrated [...]
Akira ransomware scum blocked victim's security tools – and broke their own encryptor
Gives a whole new meaning to Safe Mode [...]
Brit rail cops bring live facial recognition to the London Underground
Victoria is the first stop as privacy campaigners warn the technology is becoming routine [...]
Signal adds an extra layer of security to make sure you're actually chatting with the right person
One big caveat, though: You need your contact's phone number [...]
421 bugs in Microsoft's Patch Tuesday release, and the Norks have already attacked one
Sysadmins, welcome to your new norm [...]
DEF CON dingus suspected of trying to take over Delta in-flight Wi-Fi
This is why we can't have nice things, people [...]
Two wars and a World Cup lead to epic DDoS attacks on publishers
Ukraine, Iran, and football inspire geopolitically motivated DDoS attacks, while 1 Tbps traffic jams up 519 percent [...]
Deepfake hiccup unmasks suspected digital certificate fraudster
Face-swap software blinked for 'barely a second,' giving Spanish cops the break they needed [...]
Mozilla revokes Firefox signing key after unencrypted copy lands in GitHub
Audit logs found no unexpected visitors, but release verification still needs an update [...]
Malicious SIMs can shut down phones, steal files, and drag 5G back to 2G
Researchers find standards-compliant functionality can be abused to hijack modems, downgrade connections, and even execute code [...]
DEF CON hackers add new muscle to water utility protection
Franklin project adds new security providers, employs digital twins and AI [...]
North Korean spies are running local LLMs to cause AI mischief
Kimsuky's phishing attacks get an AI boost [...]
Gym rat asks AI agent to book him a class, it hacks a waitlist API to bump him up the list
What wouldst thou ask of the monkey's paw? [...]
Attackers pick Levi's pockets in social engineering attack
Crims talked their way onto three employee PCs before trousering corporate data [...]
Wetherspoons bars smart glasses from filming customers
Pub chain says turn off the cameras, reminds punters not to blare sound from phone vids either [...]
Cyber vulnerability sweep picks up Royal Navy drones sending data to China
No, no nasties to see here, guv... [...]
Framework loses customer data in Metabase zero-day attack
Repairable hardware is little comfort when personal details escape [...]
Claude Code puts auto mode in the driver's seat
Walk away and hope the classifier catches anything irreversible or destructive [...]
Advertisers are trying to influence AI bots with secret ads
PLUS: Hiveminds are emerging to hack the planet, and open-weight models are the new new red scare [...]
Ransomware gangs skip the CEO, head straight for the 40-something IT manager
Gen Xers who feel triggered by this should remember to unplug the network cable and call the cops [...]
Devs to Anthropic, OpenAI, Cursor, and friends: Make security and privacy the default
Researchers scour social media to measure developer concerns about AI coding tools [...]
OpenAI pledges to add Astra security as Anthropic loosens Fable's leash
Or how I learned to stop worrying and love dangerous AI [...]
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