AI agents carried out every step of this ransomware attack – then left the victim an 80-page security audit
Adding insult to injury [...]
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SonicWall's SMA1000 boxes under active attack again
Miscreants use chained zero days to pwn boxen as third-party SOCs say further attacks 'almost certain' [...]
Legacy Lenovo login opens 5,000 Dropbox accounts to attackers
Cloud storage biz severs old integration and urges victims to reset credentials [...]
UK cyber bill targets AI users, not the vendors building it
Ministers reject proposed red lines and emergency shutdown powers, pointing instead to voluntary safeguards [...]
Cops, CrowdStrike disrupt Sality botnet by poisoning the network and diverting into sinkholes
23-year-old botnet down [...]
Another Artifactory CVE under attack by AI agents or humans
Unauthenticated intruders can mint admin tokens, and exposed servers are already being hit [...]
Attacker stole a METR API key, used $600K worth of credits, and no one noticed for weeks
The model provider gave METR the credits for free. An actual customer would not have been so lucky [...]
Firefox helps iPhone users bypass ads on web sites while making money showing its own ads
Baked-in Firefox ad blocking on iOS begins rolling out slowly today, and is off by default [...]
Anthropic pledges to try harder to keep models under control, asks partners to chip in
Security... this time it will be different [...]
33-hour BGP hijack of Softaculous traffic prompts security scramble
Hosting software vendor tells customers to reset credentials and hunt for malicious packages [...]
Healthcare cyberattacks hit pacemakers and millions of patient records
McKesson admits breach as ShinyHunters demands $55.2M [...]
OpenClaw 2.0 pours glitter on slow-burning security dumpster fire
Making installation easier and putting a new wrapper on the interface while leaving most of the security to users is a recipe for more trouble with the popular agent harness [...]
Attack hides malware in PNGs and drops custom reverse tunnel on victims' machines
Next-level ClickFix wave sets off multi-stage attack chain [...]
Anthropic cracks down on hijacked user accounts mining AI tokens
Commodity malware steals authenticated sessions, letting thieves freeload on victims' paid usage [...]
Turns out Brits would quite like their private messages to stay private
Polling finds two-thirds don't trust this government, or any future one, with access to their encrypted chats [...]
Researcher shows how Claude Code can be tricked simply by asking it to summarize a website
More prompt-injection hijinks from wunderwuzzi [...]
US government snitch-finder pleads guilty to leaking state secrets to foreign spies
The IT specialist began contacting a foreign government within days of being assigned to the DIA’s Insider Threat Division [...]
CISA: Most exploited vulnerabilities should have been eradicated decades ago
Organizational culture and systemic gaps in Secure by Design adoption blamed for sorry state of affairs [...]
Industry that built the problem offers to sell you the solution
100+ tech giants warn AI attacks are coming, skip the part where they pay for defenses [...]
Print management outfit PaperCut is under 0-day attack, and it’s drawing customers’ blood
The fix is either an unvalidated and unofficial emergency patch or taking the server offline [...]
Australian cops cuff alleged TeamPCP masterminds
Alleged crew behind the Shai-Hulud worm and other supply chain attacks nabbed with help from the FBI [...]
CRPx0 hacking service for dummies claims victim count more than quintupled
It's 'built to be operated by a human with no technical background' [...]
AI girlfriend review site's secrets were exposed to the world for three weeks
Even testing and staging sites need protection from prying eyes [...]
Omarchy distro gains serious backing
Polarizing opinions while tech heavyweights put up $10M [...]
ATF responds to 'major' cybersecurity incident after ransomware gang's claims
US Justice Department investigating the breach [...]
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