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Hackers have been harvesting AI access tokens and have been using AI-assisted offensive tools to automate attacks.

A federal grand jury indicted two Canadian men for hijacking university supercomputers to secretly mine Electroneum cryptocurrency.

Using compromised credentials, the attackers accessed OpsShield’s update servers and poisoned multiple cPGuard versions.

The browser update resolves dozens of memory safety bugs and incorrect/missing authorization issues.

Binance’s first incident report traces the record theft to a months-long campaign that compromised three engineers’ computers.

In recent months, North Korea has accelerated its weapons tests in a likely bid to increase its leverage in potential diplomacy with the US.

A $300,000 award went to a pre-launch flaw that exposed conversations and tokens on internal Muse test VMs used by Meta staff.

Hackers exploited a flaw in third-party software and stole the personal information of school district staff and students.

The acquisitions will add AI agent observability and automated AI security testing capabilities to the CrowdStrike Falcon platform.

The most severe is a critical flaw in Framework leading to remote code execution without user interaction.

Multiple attacks from the same IP address attempted to deploy various payloads, including a Linux bot and webshells.

The U.K. will likely face AI cyberattacks on its critical infrastructure by 2028 as criminals and states, including China and Russia, increasingly use AI in their cyber activity.

The botnet was created and operated for financial gain by Android OEM/ODM Videostrong Technology.

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Binance’s first incident report traces the record theft to a months-long campaign that compromised three engineers’ computers.

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A $300,000 award went to a pre-launch flaw that exposed conversations and tokens on internal Muse test VMs used by Meta staff.

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The botnet was created and operated for financial gain by Android OEM/ODM Videostrong Technology.

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Attackers again tampered with internet-exposed refrigeration controllers, this time at stores in Belgium, Sweden, Ireland and beyond.

Significant cybersecurity deals were announced by Absolute Security, Aikido, Anthropic, Cohere, Hex-Rays, and Proofpoint.

The extension performed host reconnaissance and attempted to create a reverse SSH tunnel.

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A few months after details of the Heartbleed vulnerability surfaced, OpenSSL published a document outlining the project's various objectives. One of those objectives was met on Sunday with the release of the organization's first security policy.

Adobe announced on Monday night that the Adobe Reader and Acrobat security updates originally set to be released today, have been delayed until next week due to some problems that need to be addressed before being released to the public.

Cybercriminals have been serving malicious advertisements on several high-profile websites in an effort to push shady software onto the computers of their visitors, regardless if they are Windows or OS X users, Cisco reported on Monday.

After days of speculation, Home Depot has confirmed it was victimized in a data breach that compromised credit and debit cards at stores throughout the United States and Canada.

The blogosphere was atwitter last week with scintillating details about nude selfies and what you should and shouldn’t be doing with your phone. Blame has been assigned all around, from criticizing the exposed celebrities for being entirely too truthful with password reset answers to pointing the fingers at Apple for not doing more to protect data in the cloud.

In an advisory sent to Salesforce Account administrators late Friday, the largest provider of cloud-based CRM solutions warned that its customers are being targeted by key-logging malware known as Dyre.

WASHINGTON - The US Justice Department has released two memos detailing the Bush administration's legal justification for monitoring the phone calls and emails of Americans without a warrant. The documents, released late Friday, relate to a secret program dubbed Stellar Wind that began after the September 11, 2001 attacks.

Early this week, news broke that Hackers were able to gain unauthorized access to the iCloud accounts of several celebrities. After getting access to the accounts, the attacker(s) leaked numerous private photos, including several nude and intimate photos. Law enforcement authorities are investigating the incident with Apple.

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