Security Stories

Curl Battles Wave of AI-Generated False Vulnerability Reports 26
CISA Budget Faces Possible $500 Million Cut 47
Messaging App Used by Mike Waltz, Trump Deportation Airline GlobalX Both Hacked in Separate Breaches 36
Hundreds of E-Commerce Sites Hacked In Supply-Chain Attack 16
May is 'Maintainer Month'. Open Source Initiative Joins GitHub to Celebrate Open Source Security 6
Man Pleads Guilty To Stealing 1.1 Terabytes of Disney's Slack Data 32
Microsoft Appoints Deputy CISO For Europe To Reassure European IT leaders 19
Apple Notifies New Victims of Spyware Attacks Across the World 5
Millions of AirPlay Devices Can Be Hacked Over Wi-Fi 39
AI-Generated Code Creates Major Security Risk Through 'Package Hallucinations' 34
Government Hackers Are Leading the Use of Attributed Zero-Days, Google Says 3
4chan Returns, Details Breach, Blames Funding Issues, Ends Shockwave Board 59
Employee Monitoring App Leaks 21 Million Screenshots In Real Time 31
New Android Spyware Is Targeting Russian Military Personnel On the Front Lines 29
Hackers Can Now Bypass Linux Security Thanks To Terrifying New Curing Rootkit 40
UN Says Asian Scam Call Center Epidemic Expanding Globally Amid Political Heat 52
AI Hallucinations Lead To a New Cyber Threat: Slopsquatting 51
CISA Extends Funding To Ensure 'No Lapse in Critical CVE Services' 19
Cybersecurity World On Edge As CVE Program Prepares To Go Dark 127
4chan Has Been Down Since Monday Night After 'Pretty Comprehensive Own' 69
Android Phones Will Soon Reboot Themselves After Sitting Unused For 3 Days 98
Hertz Says Customers' Personal Data, Driver's Licenses Stolen In Data Breach 30
Hacked Crosswalks In Bay Area Play Deepfake-Style Messages From Tech Billionaires 37
Hackers Spied on 100 US Bank Regulators' Emails for Over a Year 14
Microsoft Uses AI To Find Flaws In GRUB2, U-Boot, Barebox Bootloaders 57
Open Source Coalition Announces 'Model-Signing' with Sigstore to Strengthen the ML Supply Chain 10
NSA Warns 'Fast Flux' Threatens National Security 21
Google Launches Sec-Gemini v1 AI Model To Improve Cybersecurity Defense 2
Hackers Strike Australia's Largest Pension Funds in Coordinated Attacks 11
Oracle Tells Clients of Second Recent Hack, Log-In Data Stolen 16
HTTPS Certificate Industry Adopts New Security Requirements 29
New Ubuntu Linux Security Bypasses Require Manual Mitigations 14
Madison Square Garden Bans Fan After Surveillance System IDs Him as Critic of Its CEO 99
Oracle Health Breach Compromises Patient Data At US Hospitals 5
Oracle Customers Confirm Data Stolen In Alleged Cloud Breach Is Valid 20
Microsoft Announces Security AI Agents To Help Overwhelmed Humans 23
America's College Board Launches AP Cybersecurity Course For Non-College-Bound Students 26
'Unaware and Uncertain': Report Finds Widespread Unfamiliarity With 2027's EU Cyber Resilience Requirements 6
Microsoft Isn't Fixing 8-Year-Old Shortcut Exploit Abused For Spying 34
Cybersecurity Alert Warns of 300 Attacks with 'Medusa' Ransomware 21
End of Windows 10 Leaves PC Charities With Tough Choice 125
Chinese Hackers Sat Undetected in Small Massachusetts Power Utility for Months 22
Mozilla Warns Users To Update Firefox Before Certificate Expires 28
Thousands of TP-Link Routers Have Been Infected By a Botnet To Spread Malware 43
Feds Link $150M Cyberheist To 2022 LastPass Hacks 17
1Password Introduces 'Nearby Items,' Tying Passwords To Physical Locations 12
CISA Tags Windows, Cisco Vulnerabilities As Actively Exploited 16
US To Halt Offensive Cyber Operations Against Russia 390
Malicious PyPI Package Exploited Deezer's API, Orchestrates a Distributed Piracy Operation 24
Perl's CPAN Security Group is Now a CNA, Can Assign CVEs 10
Google Calls for Measurable Memory-Safety Standards for Software 44
Serbian Student's Android Phone Compromised By Exploit From Cellebrite 22
Apple's Find My Network Exploit Lets Hackers Silently Track Any Bluetooth Device 22
Thousands of Exposed GitHub Repositories, Now Private, Can Still Be Accessed Through Copilot 19
A Disney Worker Downloaded an AI Tool. It Led To a Hack That Ruined His Life. 96
North Korea's Unprecedented $1.5 Billion Crypto Heist Exploited Human Element, Not Code 28
Google To Eliminate SMS Authentication in Gmail, Implement QR Codes 164
Encrypted Messages Are Being Targeted, Google Security Group Warns 20
Bybit CEO Confirms Exchange Was Hacked for $1.46B, Says His Firm Can Cover The Loss 64
Apple Removes Cloud Encryption Feature From UK After Backdoor Order 134
Ghost Ransomware Continues To Infect Critical Infrastructure, Feds Warn 6
Palo Alto Firewalls Under Attack As Miscreants Chain Flaws For Root Access 28
US Army Soldier Pleads Guilty To AT&T and Verizon Hacks 21
Hackers Planted a Steam Game With Malware To Steal Gamers' Passwords 31
'Uber For Armed Guards' Rushes To Market 72
Nearly 10 Years After Data and Goliath, Bruce Schneier Says: Privacy's Still Screwed 57
China's 'Salt Typhoon' Hackers Continue to Breach Telecoms Despite US Sanctions 42
Woeful Security On Financial Phone Apps Is Getting People Murdered 161
New Hack Uses Prompt Injection To Corrupt Gemini's Long-Term Memory 23
AUKUS Blasts Holes In LockBit's Bulletproof Hosting Provider 11
Google Chrome May Soon Use 'AI' To Replace Compromised Passwords 46
Hackers Call Current AI Security Testing 'Bullshit' 69
Apple Fixes Zero-Day Exploited In 'Extremely Sophisticated' Attacks 8
How To Make Any AMD Zen CPU Always Generate 4 As a Random Number 62
India To Launch New Domain Name For Banks To Fight Digital Fraud 8
Phishing Tests, the Bane of Work Life, Are Getting Meaner 99
'Zombie Devices' Raise Cybersecurity Alarm as Consumers Ignore Smart Tech Expiry Dates 54
Ransomware Payments Dropped 35% In 2024 44
First OCR Spyware Breaches Both Apple and Google App Stores To Steal Crypto Wallet Phrases 24
Google Stops Malicious Apps With 'AI-Powered Threat Detection' and Continuous Scanning 15
America's FDA Warns About Backdoor Found in Chinese Company's Patient Monitors 51
Sensitive DeepSeek Data Was Exposed to the Web, Cybersecurity Firm Says 17
Malicious PDF Links Hidden in Text Message Scam Impersonating US Postal Service 13
Zyxel Firewalls Borked By Buggy Update, On-Site Access Required For Fix 18
Chinese and Iranian Hackers Are Using US AI Products To Bolster Cyberattacks 19
Apple Chips Can Be Hacked To Leak Secrets From Gmail, ICloud, and More 28
Software Flaw Exposes Millions of Subarus, Rivers of Driver Data 47
Researchers Say New Attack Could Take Down the European Power Grid 33
FBI: North Korean IT Workers Steal Source Code To Extort Employers 27
Backdoor Infecting VPNs Used 'Magic Packets' For Stealth and Security 17
DHS Terminates All Its Advisory Committees, Ending Its Investigation Into Chinese Telecom Hack 144
Mastercard DNS Error Went Unnoticed for Years 33
DDoS Attacks Soar 53% To 21.3 Million, Cloudflare Reports 21
HPE Investigating Breach Claims After Hacker Offers To Sell Data 3
Employees of Failed Startups Are at Special Risk of Stolen Personal Data Through Old Google Logins 7
Google Upgrades Open Source Vulnerability Scanning Tool with SCA Scanning Library 2
FBI Warned Agents It Believes Phone Logs Hacked Last Year 20
Microsoft Research: AI Systems Cannot Be Made Fully Secure 28
Microsoft Patches Windows To Eliminate Secure Boot Bypass Threat 39
A New Jam-Packed Biden Executive Order Tackles Cybersecurity, AI, and More 127
Governments Call For Spyware Regulations In UN Security Council Meeting 13
Russia's Largest Platform For State Procurement Hit By Cyberattack 53
Dead Google Apps Domains Can Be Compromised By New Owners 34
UnitedHealth Hid Its Change Healthcare Data Breach Notice For Months 24
PowerSchool Data Breach Victims Say Hackers Stole 'All' Historical Student and Teacher Data 21
US Removes Malware Allegedly Planted on Computers By Chinese-Backed Hackers 17
UK Plans To Ban Public Sector Organizations From Paying Ransomware Hackers 16
Snyk Researcher Caught Deploying Malicious Code Targeting AI Startup 3
Ransomware Crew Abuses AWS Native Encryption, Sets Data-Destruct Timer for 7 Days 18
New LLM Jailbreak Uses Models' Evaluation Skills Against Them 37
CES 'Worst In Show' Devices Mocked In IFixit Video - While YouTube Inserts Ads For Them 55
OpenAI's Bot Crushes Seven-Person Company's Website 'Like a DDoS Attack' 78
Hackers Are Exploiting a New Ivanti VPN Security Bug To Hack Into Company Networks 14
DEF CON's Hacker-In-Chief Faces Fortune In Medical Bills 127
Japan Says Chinese Hackers Targeted Its Government and Tech Companies For Years 8
Hackers Claim Massive Breach of Location Data Giant, Threaten To Leak Data 42
Popular DNA Sequencer Left Vulnerable By 7-Year-Old Firmware, Unfixed Security Flaws 38
Are US Computer Networks A 'Key Battlefield' in any Future Conflict with China? 72
FSF Urges Moving Off Microsoft's GitHub to Protest Windows 11's Requiring TPM 2.0 152
Dire Predictions for 2025 Include 'Largest Cyberattack in History' 98
Online Gift Card Store Exposed Hundreds of Thousands of People's Identity Documents 15
Hackers Target Dozens of VPN, AI Extensions For Google Chrome To Compromise Data 12
US Treasury Says Chinese Hackers Stole Documents In 'Major Incident' 34
Massive VW Data Leak Exposed 800,000 EV Owners' Movements 69
Hackers Hijack a Wide Range of Companies' Chrome Extensions 10
Chinese Hackers Breach Ninth US Telecoms Group in Espionage Campaign 41
Japan Airlines Hit By Cyberattack, Delaying Flights During Year-End Holiday Season 3
North Korean Hackers Stole $1.3 Billion Worth of Crypto This Year 22
Health Care Giant Ascension Says 5.6 Million Patients Affected In Cyberattack 5
Apple Sends Spyware Victims To Nonprofit Security Lab 'Access Now' 14
Justice Department Unveils Charges Against Alleged LockBit Developer 4
Microsoft Won't Let Customers Opt Out of Passkey Push 203
Hackers Can Jailbreak Digital License Plates To Make Others Pay Their Tolls, Tickets 72
Tracker Firm Hapn Spilling Names of Thousands of GPS Tracking Customers 14
Bluesky Has an Extortion Problem 36
Chinese Hacker Singlehandedly Responsible For Exploiting 81,000 Sophos Firewalls, DOJ Says 16
Hackers Hit Rhode Island Benefits System In Major Cyberattack 29
Yearlong Supply-Chain Attack Targeting Security Pros Steals 390,000 Credentials 8
UnitedHealthcare's Optum Left an AI Chatbot, Used By Employees To Ask Questions About Claims, Exposed To the Internet 22
Yahoo Cybersecurity Team Sees Layoffs, Outsourcing of 'Red Team,' Under New CTO 12
Amazon Paused Rollout of Microsoft Office for a Year After Hacks 13
Researchers Uncover Chinese Spyware Used To Target Android Devices 34
Dozens of Countries Hit in Chinese Telecom Hacking Campaign, Top US Official Says 41
Backdoor in Compromised Solana Code Library Drains $184,000 from Digital Wallets 22
Vodka Maker Stoli Says August Ransomware Attack Contributed To Bankruptcy Filing 43
US Officials Urge Americans to Use Encrypted Apps Amid Unprecedented Cyberattack 58
Telcos Struggle To Boot Chinese Hackers From Networks 49
UK Cyber Chief Warns Country 'Widely Underestimating' Risks From Cyberattacks 7
Spacecraft Face 'Sophisticated and Dangerous' Cybersecurity Threats 17
WordPress Anti-Spam Plugin Vulnerability Exposes 200,000 Sites to RCE Attacks 10
Senators Say TSA's Facial Recognition Program Is Out of Control 69
The World's First Unkillable UEFI Bootkit For Linux 80
Hacker In Snowflake Extortions May Be a US Soldier 20
Russia-Linked Hackers Exploited Firefox, Windows Bugs In 'Widespread' Hacking Campaign 31
US Senators Propose Law To Require Bare Minimum Security Standards 57
Blue Yonder Ransomware Attack Disrupts Grocery Store Supply Chain 11
Thousands of Palo Alto Networks Firewalls Compromised This Week After Critical Security Hole 28
Craigslist Founder Gives $300M to Fund Critical US Infrastructure Cybersecurity 16
Russian Spies Jumped From One Network To Another Via Wi-Fi 18
Put Your Usernames and Passwords In Your Will, Advises Japan's Government 83
Fintech Giant Finastra Investigating Data Breach 8
Ubuntu Linux Impacted By Decade-Old 'needrestart' Flaw That Gives Root 87
D-Link Tells Users To Trash Old VPN Routers Over Bug Too Dangerous To Identify 144
Apple Says Mac Users Targeted in Zero-Day Cyberattacks 9
Court Documents: Spyware Group NSO's Pegasus Targeted Up To 'Tens of Thousands' 19
What Happened After Google Retrofitted Memory Safety Onto Its C++ Codebase? 140
T-Mobile Hacked In Massive Chinese Breach of Telecom Networks 25
Google Rolls Out Call Screening AI To Thwart Phone Fraudsters 37
How Italy Became an Unexpected Spyware Hub 13
Open Source Project DeFlock Is Mapping License Plate Surveillance Cameras All Over the World 35
D-Link Won't Fix Critical Flaw Affecting 60,000 Older NAS Devices 87
Amazon Confirms Employee Data Stolen After Hacker Claims MOVEit Breach 5
Android 15's Virtual Machine Mandate is Aimed at Improving Security 52
Java Proposals Would Boost Resistance to Quantum Computing Attacks 14
Hackers Are Sending Fraudulent Police Data Requests To Tech Giants To Steal People's Private Information 14
US Agency Warns Employees About Phone Use Amid Ongoing China Hack 8
DataBreach.com Emerges As Alternative To HaveIBeenPwned 21
Schneider Electric Ransomware Crew Demands $125k Paid in Baguettes 25
Google's Big Sleep LLM Agent Discovers Exploitable Bug In SQLite 36
Inside the Massive Crime Industry That's Hacking Billion-Dollar Companies 47
Millions of U.S. Cellphones Could Be Vulnerable to Chinese Government Surveillance 73
AI Bug Bounty Program Finds 34 Flaws in Open-Source Tools 23
Is AI-Driven 0-Day Detection Here? 25
Okta Fixes Login Bypass Flaw Tied To Lengthy Usernames 32
Inside a Firewall Vendor's 5-Year War With the Chinese Hackers Hijacking Its Devices 33
Want To Keep Getting Windows 10 Updates? It'll Cost You $30 95
Chinese Attackers Accessed Canadian Government Networks For Five Years 11
Canada Predicts Hacking From India as Diplomatic Feud Escalates 97
Fired Employee Allegedly Hacked Disney World's Menu System to Alter Peanut Allergy Information 135
Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability Affecting X.Org Server For 18 Years 43
Fitness App Strava Gives Away Location of Foreign Leaders, Report Finds 27
Banks and Regulators Warn of Rise in 'Quishing' QR Code Scams 56
Can the EU Hold Software Makers Liable For Negligence? 132
Researchers Discover Flaws In Five End-to-End Encrypted Cloud Services 33
Apple Will Pay Security Researchers Up To $1 Million To Hack Its Private AI Cloud 6
UnitedHealth Says Change Healthcare Hack Affects Over 100 Million 35
White Hat Hackers Earn $500,000 On First Day of Pwn2Own Ireland 2024 3
Russia Says 'Unprecedented' Cyberattack Hits Foreign Ministry Amid BICS Summit 65
Over 6,000 WordPress Hacked To Install Plugins Pushing Infostealers 32
Microsoft's Honeypots Lure Phishers at Scale - to Spy on Them and Waste Their Time 21
How WatchTowr Explored the Complexity of a Vulnerability in a Secure Firewall Appliance 9
Internet Archive Users Start Receiving Email From 'Some Random Guy' Criticizing Unpatched Hole 18
Spectre Flaws Still Haunt Intel, AMD as Researchers Found Fresh Attack Method 33
Internet Archive Services Resume as They Promise Stronger, More Secure Return 16
Microsoft Says It Lost Weeks of Security Logs For Its Customers' Cloud Products 35
Some Americans Are Still Using Kaspersky's Antivirus Despite US Government Ban 54
The Government is Getting Fed Up With Ransomware Payments Fueling Endless Cycle of Cyberattacks 104
Fake Google Meet Conference Errors Push Infostealing Malware 6
South Korea Vows To Prevent Technology Leaks With Heavier Penalties 12
China Cyber Association Calls For Review of Intel Products Sold In China 49
Startup Can Identify Deepfake Video In Real Time 28
Ex-Palantir CISO Dane Stuckey Joins OpenAI To Lead Cybersecurity 18
Credit Cards Don't Require Signatures. So Why Do We Still Sign? 136
Sysadmins Rage Over Apple's 'Nightmarish' SSL/TLS Cert Lifespan Cuts 293
Cisco Investigates Breach After Stolen Data For Sale On Hacking Forum 9
New Passkey Specifications Will Let Users Import and Export Them 29
National Public Data, the Hacked Data Broker That Lost Millions of Social Security Numbers and More, Files For Bankruptcy 28
LLM Attacks Take Just 42 Seconds On Average, 20% of Jailbreaks Succeed 79
Microsoft's Take On Kernel Access and Safe Deployment After CrowdStrike Incident 45
Halcyon Announces Anti-Ransomware Protection for Enterprise Linux Environments 14
Casio Confirms Customer Data Stolen In Ransomware Attack 11
Robot Vacuums Hacked To Shout Slurs At Their Owners 72
European Govt Air-Gapped Systems Breached Using Custom Malware 51
US Officials Race To Understand Severity of China's Salt Typhoon Hacks 20
Fidelity Says Data Breach Exposed Personal Data of 77,000 Customers 24
Windows 11's New Passkey Design Includes Cloud Syncing, 1Password Integration 19
Hacktivists Claim Responsibility For Taking Down the Internet Archive 91
Chinese Hack of US ISPs Show Why Apple Is Right About Backdoors 119
Internet Archive Suffers 'Catastrophic' Breach Impacting 31 Million Users 29
OpenAI Says China-Linked Group Tried to Phish Its Employees 21
MoneyGram Says Hackers Stole Customers' Personal Information, Transaction Data 6
Apple Fixes Bugs in macOS Sequoia That Broke Some Cybersecurity Tools 15
American Water Warns of Billing Outages After Finding Hackers in Its Systems 15
Google Starts Adding Anti-Theft Locking Features to Android Phones 81
iOS and Android Security Scare: Two Apps Found Supporting 'Pig Butchering' Scheme 31
America's FCC Orders T-Mobile To Deliver Better Cybersecurity 13
Akamai Warns CUPS-Browsed Vulnerability Also Brings New Threat of DDoS Attacks 63
Thousands of Linux Systems Infected By Stealthy Malware Since 2021 30
Collapse of National Security Elites' Cyber Firm Leaves Bitter Wake 15
Apple Fixes Bug That Let VoiceOver Shout Your Passwords 19
A Single Cloud Compromise Can Feed an Army of AI Sex Bots 28
Even Password Manager Subscribers Reuse Passwords, Study Finds 61
Attackers Exploit Critical Zimbra Vulnerability Using CC'd Email Addresses 6
Russian Ransomware Hackers Worked With Kremlin Spies, UK Says 63
Meta Fined $102 Million For Storing 600 Million Passwords In Plain Text 28
Flaw In Kia's Web Portal Let Researchers Track, Hack Cars 16
White House Agonizes Over UN Cybercrime Treaty 43
Dozens of Fortune 100 Companies Have Unwittingly Hired North Korean IT Workers 29
Kaspersky Defends Stealth Swap of Antivirus Software on US Computers 29
Critical Unauthenticated RCE Flaw Impacts All GNU/Linux Systems 153

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