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Fake and divisive ads proliferate in Israel’s first AI election

Israel's elections will be the country's first since the deadly Hamas attacks on southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.

SharePoint Flaw Initially Listed as Spoofing by Microsoft Enables Authenticated RCE

A SharePoint Server vulnerability that Microsoft initially classified as a spoofing flaw with a CVSS score of 6.5 actual...

The EU spent billions on a cyberattack shield — nobody checked if it worked

The EU built an early-warning system to catch the next major cyberattack before it spreads. Roughly 20 months later, aud...

GPT-6 Astra Breaks an Old Enigma Message

This is pretty amazing: However, the most astonishing thing about this break is that the GPT­6 Astra did it entirely on ...

AI Drives Surge in Bot and API Threats

Akamai report warns of increase in bot traffic, API threats, chatbot leaks and other AI-related threats

Invisible pixels protect South Korean graduates’ photos from deepfake abuse

A South Korean university has embedded graduation photos with anti-deepfake technology to prevent a repeat of a scandal ...

The Closed Quorum: Inside the first reported autonomous AI C2 implant

CLOSEDQUORUM, a malware binary discovered through Cisco Talos’ CAIRN project, exhibits fully autonomous command and cont...

Introducing CAIRN: Frontier tracking for AI-integrated malware

Talos is releasing CAIRN, a research toolkit for hunting, classifying, and tracking emerging AI-integrated malware.

Another worry for water systems: infostealer exposure

SpyCloud’s study found 1,787 of the approximately 10,000 U.S. organizations had it, including one infected device that s...

New Windows Defender zero-day blocks Microsoft antivirus updates

Over the weekend, security researcher Abdelhamid Naceri (also known as Nightmare Eclipse) released another Microsoft Def...

Malicious npm Package indexed-btree Hid Its Loader in Runtime Code Before Removal

A malicious npm package named "indexed-btree" has been observed hiding its malicious behavior within application code ra...

Fake and Divisive Ads Proliferate in Israel’s First AI Election

In a recent video widely circulated online, Israel’s top justices and its attorney general are seen being dragged by sec...

Looking for free Robux? Here’s what’s real, and what’s a scam

Fake giveaways, free Robux generators and lookalike login pages all target the same thing – your Roblox account

CISA orders feds to patch Zyxel flaw exploited for data theft

​Attackers are now actively exploiting a high-severity vulnerability in Zyxel GS1900 series switches, according to the U...

Putin slams AI spread in infocommunications as 'serious challenge'

The Russian leader noted that it is necessary to establish modern standards and rules aimed at ensuring reliable protect...

US says Australian digital care bill would 'facilitate censorship'

The Trump administration has made an extraordinary public intervention into Australia's debate about its proposed digita...

Teen tells court of 'painfully real' impacts of explicit deepfake images

A young woman who had sexually explicit deepfake images shared online by 20-year-old William Yeates has told a court the...

Bangladesh’s new cyberlaw rebrands the same old censorship

Bangladesh has spent years trying to find the perfect name for a law governing what people say on the internet. It has h...

SideCopy Broadens India Targeting to Academia With ReverseRAT Spear-Phishing

The threat actor known as SideCopy has been observed using spear-phishing lures to target academic institutions in India...

UN panel: OpenAI’s Hugging Face hack is an ‘early warning’ for loss of human control

The UN Independent International Scientific Panel on AI says the Hugging Face hack by OpenAI agents shows 'several warni...

Missed the Marque: Cyber Privateers Wanted, Compensation to Be Determined

Coverage of the new White House memorandum on combating cybercrime quickly reached the privateer label. CNN called the p...

CICC gives Discord, Reddit 24-hour ultimatum to establish PH presence

The CICC demands Discord and Reddit 'immediately designate, from receipt of the letters, a resident agent or local repre...

One Hidden Meta Muse Setting Could Let Attackers Turn the AI Assistant Into a Backdoor

Malware already running on a Mac can quietly take over Meta's Muse assistant and use the broad access its owner granted ...

Moscow to host Dialogue about Fakes 4.0 forum

Representatives of federal executive agencies, international experts, media representatives, and the business community ...

WordPress Comment2Shell Flaw Can Turn Anonymous Comment XSS Into RCE via Admin Session

A new flaw in WordPress core let an anonymous visitor leave a comment that planted a hidden script on the page. If a log...

Zyxel and Veeam Flaws Under Active Exploitation With Command and SYSTEM Access

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added a now-patched security flaw impacting Z...

Protect the person, not just the network

We spend enormous amounts of money protecting the networks around our most important people. Then, at the end of the day...

DICT retracts claim House called Meta CEO Zuckerberg to hearing

The DICT's new statement contradicts its September 18 'breaking news' post, which said the House of Representatives had ...

[Virtual Event] Cybersecurity Outlook 2027

LG, Microsoft step up AI partnership across data centers, physical AI

LG Chairman Koo Kwang-mo has taken the group’s relationship with Microsoft to a new level, agreeing with CEO Satya Nadel...

POGOs and Online Scams, From the Philippines to Myanmar

A conversation with award-winning Filipina journalist Eunice Barbara Novio.

Cambodia’s Online Scamming Crackdown Stops at the Top

This week's international anti-scam conference is an attempt to distract global attention from Phnom Penh's abetment of ...

Taiwan faces 2.6m daily cyberattacks, minister says

AI poses new national security threat, outgoing Hong Kong deputy police chief warns

Retiring deputy police commissioner Andrew Kan Kai-yan has said artificial intelligence (AI) poses a new threat to natio...

Russia's internet shutdowns disrupt warnings about incoming drone attacks

Russia’s growing restrictions on mobile internet and cellular service are making it harder for people to receive warning...

Cilluffo Warns Cyber Attackers Still Hold the Advantage in AI Era

Frank Cilluffo, Director of the McCrary Institute for Cyber and Critical Infrastructure Security at Auburn University, s...

British Columbia Sues OpenAI Over Tumbler Ridge Shooting

The province claims in its lawsuit that the shooting at a rural school “could have been prevented” if OpenAI had shared ...

Canadian province sues OpenAI in US over school shooting

British Columbia filed a lawsuit on Monday against OpenAI in California over the company’s failure to report violent act...

BigCommerce alerts merchants of data breach linked to Ribon apps

Ecommerce platform BigCommerce has alerted multiple merchants to data breaches after attackers compromised credentials f...

OpenAI proposes development of global AI standards to guide alignment, RSI

Jacob Coxon's post nearly two weeks ago that Anthropic and OpenAI were "gambling with our lives" set off a global debate...