Breaches, vulnerabilities, and the security industry’s response.
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Ben Schoon / 9to5Google ·
Google has confirmed that an Android TV device maker snuck a backdoor for malware onto certified devices …
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat ·
Google announced its latest and most intelligent frontier AI model today: Gemini 4 Carbon promises improvements in cybersecurity …
Marissa Newman / Bloomberg ·
Upwind Security, a San Francisco-based startup offering cybersecurity for artificial intelligence and cloud applications …
Washington Post ·
The start-up firm Cathedral has told makers of the Claude chatbot that its researchers were able to quickly penetrate sensitive systems, a report reviewed by The Post shows.
Thomas Brewster / Forbes ·
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The Information ·
Enterprise software firm Datadog recently offered to buy Israeli cloud cybersecurity startup Upwind Security for nearly $4 billion …
Foo Yun Chee / Reuters ·
EU tech regulators will investigate whether online hotel reservation website Booking.com is doing enough to weed out fraudulent listings …
MiniMax ·
Space Bunny 🐰, which processed more than 200 trillion tokens while operating anonymously, was an early version of MiniMax M3.1 Flash.
Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security ·
U.S. federal investigators pursuing the ShinyHunters hacking group that recently stole highly sensitive data from the FBI …
Kevin Townsend / SecurityWeek ·
CyberSN's Cybersecurity Jobs Report provides visibility into the US cybersecurity job market. It's a mixed bag.
Jaspreet Singh / Reuters ·
Thoma Bravo-owned cybersecurity company Proofpoint will buy data security firm Varonis Systems (VRNS.O) in all-cash deal valued at about $6.3 billion, the companies said on Thursday.
Matt Kapko / CyberScoop ·
In less than 10 months, cybercriminals used the arsenal of customized, targeted phishing kits to send more than 1 billion malicious messages …
Lauren Thomas / Wall Street Journal ·
Privately held Elisity stops cyber attackers and ransomware from spreading across organizations
Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security ·
Agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Thursday arrested the co-founder of a Canadian cybersecurity firm in connection …
Sarah Hilton / Bloomberg ·
A cascade of cyberattacks has hit Japanese companies over the past few weeks, prompting the government to call for security checks …
Etiido Uko / Tom's Hardware ·
Engineers and open-source maintainers reportedly overwhelmed by thousands of sloppy reports
Matthew Green / A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering ·
Quick caveats: this is a post on AI safety, written by a cryptography professor. If that troubles you, you should read something else.
Anzar Mehraj / Reuters ·
Armadin said on Thursday that it raised $255.5 million in a Series B funding round, which values the AI cybersecurity company at more than $2.5 billion.
Allie Garfinkle / Fortune ·
Nikesh Arora is the guy CEOs of Fortune 500 and tech companies call when AI gets scary.
Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer ·
Update: Article rewritten with official confirmation from Citrix.
Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security ·
A U.S. Army soldier who pleaded guilty to hacking into multiple telecommunications companies and stealing mobile call and text metadata …
Joseph Cox / 404 Media ·
A sample of 5,000 alleged agents seen by 404 Media includes names, addresses, phone numbers, and details on FBI employees' spouses.
Lily Hay Newman / Wired ·
Cisco Talos researchers created a new framework for identifying malware and hacking tools that rely on AI chatbots
Andy Greenberg / Wired ·
TeamPCP pulled off the worst-ever software supply-chain hacking spree and breached thousands of companies.
Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal ·
A bug-hunting independent security research team was able to access OpenAI's internal code system, exposing growing risks in automated cyber threats
Bloomberg ·
The Trump administration is weighing a plan to establish a government-led incubator aimed at investing in cybersecurity research …
Kevin Collier / NBC News ·
Cybersecurity experts told NBC News that they were concerned that fundamental issues of cybersecurity weren't being addressed.
Tom Wilson / Financial Times ·
Rome-based company is developing a foundation model to protect billions of internet-connected devices, from robots to lightbulbs
Britney Nguyen / Dow Jones Newswires ·
The software sector outperformed the chip sector to a historic degree in the face of escalating AI fears
Washington Post ·
Gen. Joshua M. Rudd is retooling the massive spy agency to focus on priorities including AI, China and cybersecurity.
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer ·
A Ukrainian national has been sentenced to four years in prison for his role in Conti ransomware attacks between 2021 and 2022.
Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch ·
ID verification service IDScan has confirmed that a data breach involved the theft of driver's licenses from its systems …
Gian Volpicelli / Bloomberg ·
Anthropic PBC has handed the European Union's cybersecurity agency access to its powerful Mythos artificial intelligence model …
Reuters ·
AI agents unleashed by OpenAI used more than 10 previously undisclosed websites for unsanctioned communications earlier this year …
Dustin Volz / New York Times ·
The attack, discovered by A.I. researchers, could have compromised hundreds of millions of devices within hours, experts said.
Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer ·
Google has updated the Chrome browser to address an actively exploited high-severity zero-day flaw in the V8 engine and 11 other vulnerabilities.
Ryan Gould / Bloomberg ·
Thoma Bravo-backed Proofpoint Inc. is in talks to acquire cybersecurity company Varonis Systems Inc., according to people familiar with the matter.
Financial Times ·
Executives and biosecurity experts are concerned that future models could help users create novel viruses or bioweapons.
Anthropic ·
On July 30, we reported three incidents in which Claude models gained unauthorized access to real computer systems.
Fox News ·
FIRST ON FOX: The Trump administration is launching "Project Watershed 250" Monday, Fox News Digital exclusively learned, deploying American artificial intelligence …
Mayank Parmar / BleepingComputer ·
Anthropic is warning some Claude users that infostealer malware on their PCs has stolen active Claude login sessions …
Mark Bergen / Bloomberg ·
Companies are racing to create devices that could revolutionize finance, supercharge medical and climate research …
Raphael Satter / Reuters ·
Russian-speaking hackers used SpaceX's (SPCX.O) AI coding assistant, Cursor, to help break in to a Belgian chemical company …
Hayden Field / The Verge ·
In July, an unreleased OpenAI model broke out of a restricted environment, figured out how to get access to the internet …
Reuters ·
The United States said Wednesday that it had disrupted a Chinese hacking operation responsible for break-ins at the U.S. Justice Department …
Meir Orbach / CTech ·
The cybersecurity startup failed to gain enough commercial momentum to continue operating. Customers will have 60 days to migrate …
Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE ·
Cybersecurity data company Prevalent AI Ltd. today said it has raised $22 million in growth funding, the first primary capital it has taken since being founded nine years ago.
Alexander Martin / The Record ·
The company at the center of a series of incidents in which AI models compromised real-world computer systems during supposedly …
Reuters ·
Chinese AI startup Z.ai said on Friday its open-source GLM-5.3 model had neared Anthropic's restricted Mythos 5 in identifying software …
Tom Wilson / Financial Times ·
AI agents ran simultaneous reconnaissance and break-ins in display of new phase of cyberwarfare.
OpenAI ·
Introducing new ways to unlock advanced cyber capabilities together with GPT-5.6-Cyber, our latest cybersecurity-specific model.
Emily Forlini / Fortune ·
The growing number of powerful, widely available AI models has ushered in a dangerous era for cybersecurity.
John Paul Rathbone / Financial Times ·
Move raises concern about 'absolute digital obedience' among social media and gaming platforms
Will Knight / Wired ·
Security researchers say that Kimi K3, an open-weight model from China, wandered off to the internet in an attempt to cheat on a test it was given.
Reuters ·
Ransom-seeking hackers who use phone calls to compromise their victims targeted dozens of prominent U.S. financial institutions …
Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg ·
Coupang Inc. reported a larger-than-expected loss, underscoring the damage from a massive personal data leak that resulted …
Reuters ·
Sensitive lists of components and suppliers, and photos of Apple's upcoming iPhone 18 Pro models are part of files posted on the dark web …
Lorelei Smillie / Bloomberg ·
Investigators used new tools to defeat old malware technology.