Next-level ClickFix wave sets off multi-stage attack chain
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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
Schrödinger’s backup: not actually recovered until you try to restore IT
SPONSORED FEATURE: Verify and survive: your backup isn’t real ’til you test it
Cybercrooks jet off with Manchester Airports Group customer data
UK’s largest airport operator reportedly believes 8.7 million customers affected
Nuisance-call blocker fined £190k for being a nuisance caller
Elderly Aids made 758,000 unwanted calls a year selling gear to stop unwanted calls
OpenAI explains how its naughty AI agents attacked Hugging Face
Biz describes its act of automated irresponsibility as ‘a warning shot’
FBI seizes hacking tools it says China used to attack NASA, DOE, US Senate and other critical networks
Beijing’s botnets busted.
OpenAI explains how its AI agents did crime and attacked Hugging Face
Biz describes its act of automated irresponsibility as ‘a warning shot’
More than 100 water systems were hit in July cyberattacks
‘These are test runs for a larger-scale attack’