Mozilla revokes Firefox signing key after unencrypted copy lands in GitHub
Audit logs found no unexpected visitors, but release verification still needs an update [...]
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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 [...]
Water system controllers don't belong on the internet, says ex-NSA chief after suspected Iran attacks
Calling all defenders [...]
Ransomware attacks spike as world distracted by AI
What, you didn't think the top gangs were busy watching agents escape their sandboxes too, did you? [...]
N-able God mode flaw: Vendor confirms attackers reached customer networks as second hotfix lands
Attackers turned admin access into a route downstream, while N-able tells N-central customers to patch – again [...]
MIT boffins' TONTOU attack slips through Spectre defenses on Intel and AMD CPUs
Timer interrupts reopen branch predictor poisoning window, with a working Zen 2 exploit to prove it [...]
Scot NHS trust probes access to medical records of 9-year-old girl after man arrested on suspicion of murder
Investigation into whether staff improperly accessed Minnie Merriman’s file after she was named for the first time this week [...]
Attacker phished way into US defense supplier's Microsoft 365 account
Intruder gained access to engineering files and potentially export-controlled technical data [...]
'Asimov was right' about rules for robots, says ex-US Cyber Director
Humans will get the AI models they deserve [...]
China launches mysterious probe into security of Palo Alto Networks' products
Beijing’s not saying why, which is just what happened when it investigated Micron [...]
How the famed USENIX Security conf is managing a flood of papers in the AI era
AI usage is evident but isn't yet a serious problem [...]
AI struggles to patch vulns without adult supervision
Left alone, autonomous fixes often fail to fully remediate flaws [...]
Humans in the loop miss a third of dangerous AI coding agent requests
You wouldn't let Claude Code cat your AWS credentials or Kubernetes config on request, would you? [...]
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