Data protection chiefs call for ‘immediate review’ of data protection models
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Researchers used Claude to hack OpenAI employees’ ChatGPT accounts
Agentic exploits for the win (again)
North Korea’s fake job interviews infected 30,000 devices
WaterPlum recruiters used bogus coding tests to backdoor jobseekers and raid more than 7,000 crypto wallets
FBI: Fake cop and government impersonation scams cost victims $1.6B
AI, fake uniforms, and mock government offices help crooks sell the con
Ministry of Justice apologizes after court staff accessed Southport victims’ files
Sensitive personal data was involved, but there is no evidence it was shared with third parties
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Think tank points out that companies banned by Washington will help run the regime that Uncle Sam now controls
AI coding agents’ 0-click RCE flaw could hand attackers keys to the kingdom
Plugin4Shell attack affects all the major coding agents, researchers say
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Eve’s dropping in on Alice and Bob
China’s Salt Typhoon backdoors Latin American orgs with new snooping malware
Beware the SparroWocky, my son! The backdoor that bites…
London property manager breach may have exposed bank details and lockbox codes
City Relay says intruders accessed its Metabase Cloud instance twice and extracted customer data
The latest AI doomsayer is China’s intelligence boss
Beijing’s response is to ‘firmly grasp technological sovereignty’ and broad regulations
Cisco drops another exploited zero-day, this time a perfect 10
ISE authentication bypass under active attack just days after another Cisco zero-day sent admins scrambling to patch
Test environment let anyone access live customer data
Even a temporary staging server needs to be locked down.
Ofcom discovers issuing Online Safety Act fines is easier than collecting them
Platforms comply just enough to avoid being blocked, leaving the regulator chasing debt
AI agents can modify themselves without humans telling them to do so
This is a test – it is only a test
CISA decides weekly vulnerability bulletin isn’t necessary anymore
Agency’s shift from static CVSS scores to risk-based prioritization sends the old format packing September 28
UK.gov begins killing off passwords for 23 million users
Passkeys promise fewer phishing headaches – and £600 a day off Whitehall’s SMS bill
Google Pixel phones pwned in zero-click attacks
CISA gives federal agencies just 3 days to patch
Spain gets its first taste of AI-aided cyber attack
Data protection chiefs call for ‘immediate review’ of data protection models