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open Cookie thieves caught stealing dev secrets via fake Claude Code installers 1
By MiguelC
open Anthropic’s bug-hunting Mythos was greatest marketing stunt ever, says cURL creator 45
By LionelB
open BWH Hotels guests warned after reservation data checks out with cybercrooks 9
open Water company's leaky security earns near-£1M fine 11
open Worm rubs out competitor's malware, then takes control 4
open Disgraced US gov software contractor found guilty of database destruction 6
open 'Dirty Frag' Linux flaw one-ups CopyFail with no patches and public root exploit 53
By jake
open Meta U-turns on encryption push for Instagram as DMs go plaintext 14
open Hackers ate my homework: Educational SaaS Canvas down after cyberattack 10
open Meta fights Ofcom over how many billions count as billions 73
open Mozilla boasts Mythos boosted Firefox bug cull 5
By hmijail
open Fake IT workers rented laptops to Nork scammers, got prison time 2
By Snake
open Anthropic response to 1-click pwn: Shouldn't have clicked 'ok' 14
By Huw L-D
open 60% of MD5 password hashes are crackable in under an hour 81
open $250M crypto-robbing gang’s dirty work guy sentenced to 6.5 years behind bars 4
By tmTM
open State-backed hackers hammer Palo Alto firewall zero-day before patch lands 7
open Hungarian cops cuff suspected swatter after two-year FBI probe 4
open The network password was a key plot point in one of the most famous movies of all time 48
open 1 in 8 employees totally cool with selling work credentials 43
open UK age-gating plans risk breaking the internet, privacy groups warn 31
open Taiwan cops say student's radio kit brought bullet trains to a standstill 72
open India orders infosec red alert in case Mythos sparks crime spree 2
By druck
open Attackers are cashing in on fresh 'CopyFail' Linux flaw 40
open Real estate giant confirms vishing incident as ShinyHunters and Qilin both come knocking 5
open ShinyHunters claims dump puts 119K Vimeo emails in the wild 4
open Romance scammers turn sweet talk into £102M payday 6
open Singapore boffins get diverse SIEMs singing in harmony with agentic rule translation 4
By druck
open Kids say they can beat age checks by drawing on a fake mustache 92
open Shadow IT has given way to shadow AI. Enter AI-BOMs 12
open If the vote you rocked, your personal info can be grokked 41
open Five Eyes spook shops warn rapid rollouts of agentic AI are too risky 15
open Brace for the patch tsunami: AI is unearthing decades of buried code debt 48
By dmesg
open First reports come in of victims of critical cPanel vuln as 'millions' of sites potentially exposed 12
By Mishak
open OpenAI locks GPT-5.5-Cyber behind velvet rope despite slamming Anthropic for doing exactly that 10
open Pro-Iran crew turns DDoS into shakedown as Ubuntu.com stays down 98
open Passport to £££: Home Office adds £216M to travel doc contract before a single bid's been placed 13
open Bot her emails: most modern phishing campaigns are AI-enabled 17
open FBI cyber boss: China's hacker-for-hire ecosystem 'out of control' 3
open French prosecutors link 15-year-old to mega-breach at state’s secure document agency 23
open Nearly half of UK businesses pwned last year as phishing keeps doing the job like it's 2005 23
open What type of 'C2 on a sleep cycle' do they leave behind? Novel Chinese spy group found in critical networks in Poland, Asia 3
open Bug of the year (so far): Nasty cPanel vulnerability probably exploited as a 0-day 13
open Finance company stores DB credentials in helpfully labeled spreadsheet 29
open Researchers move in the right direction, develop powerful GPS interference alarm 23
By ChrisC
open Microsoft's patch for a 0-day exploited by Russian spies fell short. Another Windows flaw is under attack 17
open Legacy TLS tour continues with Exchange Online blocking old versions from July 2026 11
open CISA flags data-theft bug in NSA-built OT networking tool 3
open GitHub: Zounds, a genuinely helpful AI-assisted bug report that isn't total slop! Here, Wiz, take this wad of cash 2
open 30 ClawHub skills secretly turn AI agents into a crypto swarm 4
open Don't pay Vect a ransom – your data's likely already wiped out 15