The FBI and CISA have warned that Russian intelligence hackers are now targeting Signal users’ backup recovery keys, an escalation of a phishing campaign that has already compromised thousands of accounts worldwide. The updated advisory, published Thursday, says that handing over the key once gives attackers the ability to restore an account’s backup, read its […]
Russian hackers were behind last year’s devastating cyberattack on Jaguar Land Rover, according to a New York Times investigation published Thursday. The breach, which began on 31 August 2025, shut down production across JLR’s factories for nearly six weeks and cost the British economy an estimated two and a half billion dollars, making it the […]
A high-severity flaw in Amazon Q Developer allowed a malicious code repository to silently execute commands on a developer’s machine and steal their AWS credentials. Wiz Research discovered the vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-12957, and reported it to Amazon on April 20. Amazon patched the issue on May 12, and the disclosure went public today. The […]
Xprize Foundation founder Peter Diamandis has joined a growing list of tech executives who believe global surveillance is a good idea, writing on X this week that “humans behave better when they’re being watched.” In a Substack essay titled “Visibility, Transparency and Trust,” he described what he called “radical transparency” as inevitable and positive, envisioning […]
The institution that counts France found itself counting victims this week. INSEE, the national statistics department, said a cyberattack had exposed personal data belonging to about 12,800 current and former staff, along with members of the civil-service corps attached to the agency. The breach was detected on 19 June. What was taken, according to INSEE, […]
Polymarket confirmed on Thursday that hackers stole funds from users after a third-party vendor was compromised, allowing malicious code to be injected into the prediction market’s website. Blockchain monitoring firm PeckShield estimated the losses at roughly three million dollars worth of cryptocurrency, drained from more than 11 victims. The company said in a post on […]
Klue, the market intelligence firm whose breach earlier this month exposed customer data at LastPass, HackerOne, and nearly a dozen other companies, says the hacking group responsible is now cooperating and deleting the stolen data. But a second, unnamed group of hackers has emerged claiming to possess the same data and is attempting to extort […]
A Citizen Lab report puts forensic evidence and a Russian court document behind a familiar problem: surveillance tools do not come home when the seller asks. Russian government unit broke into the iPhone of a detained opposition politician using a forensic tool made by Cellebrite, three months after the Israeli firm publicly announced it had […]
Anthropic has accused Alibaba of waging the largest distillation campaign yet against a US AI company, telling senators and White House officials that operators linked to Alibaba’s Qwen AI lab used nearly 25,000 fraudulent accounts to extract Claude’s capabilities between April and June. The letter, a copy of which was seen by Bloomberg, described nearly […]
Google has made computer use a built-in tool inside Gemini 3.5 Flash, the model it launched at I/O 2026 as its fastest agentic AI model. The capability, which lets AI agents see screens, click, type, and scroll across browsers, mobile devices, and desktops, previously required a separate standalone model and is now available as a […]
