Scattered Spider teen cuffed after buying games and meals with extortion bitcoin
Jessica Lyons / theregister - Bad opsec Thalha Jubair, one of the two UK teens arrested on Tuesday and accused of being members of the notorious Scattered Spider cybercrime gang, allegedly played a role in bilking more than 100 organizations out of at least $115 million in ransom paym…
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ChatGPT tricked to swipe sensitive data from Gmail
Robert Hart / theverge - Security researchers employed ChatGPT as a co-conspirator to plunder sensitive data from Gmail inboxes without alerting users. The vulnerability exploited has been closed by OpenAI but it’s a good example of the new risks inherent to agentic AI. The heist…
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OpenAI fixes zero-click ShadowLeak vulnerability affecting ChatGPT Deep Research agent
therecord - Cybersecurity firm Radware discovered a vulnerability they call “ShadowLeak” where an attacker could exploit the vulnerability by simply sending an email to the user.
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Google partners with UK nonprofit to detect and remove nonconsensual intimate images from Search
Aisha Malik / techcrunch - Google has been slow to adopt StopNCII's system, as its partnership with the nonprofit comes a year after Microsoft integrated the tool into Bing.
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UK arrests 'Scattered Spider' teens linked to Transport for London hack
Sergiu Gatlan / bleepingcomputer - Two teenagers, believed to be linked to the August 2024 cyberattack on Transport for London, have been arrested in the United Kingdom. [...]
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Irregular raises $80M to set AI security standards for frontier models
Duncan Riley / siliconangle - Artificial intelligence security lab startup Irregular announced today that it has raised $80 million in new funding to build its defensive systems, testing infrastructure and security tools to help vet and harden next-generation AI models for safe deploy…
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VC giant Insight Partners warns thousands after ransomware breach
Sergiu Gatlan / bleepingcomputer - New York-based venture capital and private equity firm Insight Partners is notifying thousands of individuals whose personal information was stolen in a ransomware attack. [...]
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1Password partners with Perplexity to bring secure credential management to Comet browser
Duncan Riley / siliconangle - Cybersecurity and password service provider 1Password LLC today announced a new partnership with artificial intelligence search startup Perplexity AI Inc. to bring 1Password’s credential management, secure autofill and access controls into Perplexity’s Co…
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Microsoft blocks bait for ‘fastest-growing’ 365 phish kit, seizes 338 domains
Jessica Lyons / theregister - Redmond names alleged ringleader, claims 5K+ creds stolen and $100k pocketed Microsoft has seized 338 websites associated with RaccoonO365 and identified the leader of the phishing service - Joshua Ogundipe - as part of a larger effort to disrupt what Red…
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Kering Faces Cyber Breach Impacting Luxury Fashion Brands
Kering is under fire after hackers stole client data from its high-end labels, including Gucci, Balenciaga, and McQueen. Although credit card information appears safe, the company has reached out to affected customers while scrambling to contain the breach and tighten its cybersecurity defenses.
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North Korean hackers used ChatGPT to help forge deepfake ID
techxplore - A suspected North Korean state-sponsored hacking group used ChatGPT to create a deepfake of a military ID document to attack a target in South Korea, according to cybersecurity researchers.
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Assessing Tech Platform Responses Following the Assassination of Charlie Kirk
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Apple warns customers targeted in recent spyware attacks
Sergiu Gatlan / bleepingcomputer - Apple warned customers last week that their devices were targeted in a new series of spyware attacks, according to the French national Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-FR). [...]
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F5 acquires AI security provider CalypsoAI for $180M
Maria Deutscher / siliconangle - F5 Inc. today announced plans to acquire CalypsoAI Inc., a startup that helps enterprises protect their artificial intelligence applications from hackers. The all-cash deal values CalypsoAI at $180 million. That’s more than four times the amount of fundin…
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New VMScape attack breaks guest-host isolation on AMD, Intel CPUs
Bill Toulas / bleepingcomputer - A new Spectre-like attack dubbed VMScape allows a malicious virtual machine (VM) to leak cryptographic keys from an unmodified QEMU hypervisor process running on modern AMD or Intel CPUs. [...]
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Box Beefs Up AI Agents With Workflow, Security Upgrades
Jon Swartz / techstrong - Box Inc. is burnishing its platform of artificial intelligence (AI) agents to rev up workflows and beef up security within enterprises. At the company's annual BoxWorks conference in San Francisco on Thursday, the company introduced Box Extract, an AI-pow…
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'Every Major Game Faces This Issue' — Activision Steps Up War on PC Cheaters Ahead of Black Ops 7 Launch
Wesley Yin-Poole / ign - Activision has outlined the steps it’s taking to combat Call of Duty cheating on PC, while stressing that there’s no easy solution to the problem.
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Hackers left empty-handed after massive NPM supply-chain attack
Bill Toulas / bleepingcomputer - The largest supply-chain compromise in the history of the NPM ecosystem has impacted roughly 10% of all cloud environments, but attackers made little profit off it. [...]
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Jaguar Land Rover confirms data theft after recent cyberattack
Sergiu Gatlan / bleepingcomputer - Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) confirmed today that attackers also stole "some data" during a recent cyberattack that forced it to shut down systems and instruct staff not to report to work. [...]
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Lookout uses AI to guard against mobile social engineering threats
Ian Barker / betanews - As we do more and more on our mobile devices it’s clear that the front line of cyber defense isn't the corporate server it's the employee's phone. As AI boosts social engineering, hackers are bypassing traditional firewalls to target people directly with …
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