Security – The TechBriefs

A researcher bought noreply.net. Companies started sending him secrets.

“I did not realize that this was going to be as big of a problem as it is,” says Solovewicz, […]

Thousands of servers can be backdoored by exploiting buggy motherboard controllers

Baseboard management controllers from the world’s biggest manufacturers are a security mess. A data center corridor lined with rows of […]

Anthropic’s AI used fake identities, malware in rogue attack on GitHub project

Skip to content The real decepticons are here Anthropic and OpenAI models’ unprompted actions forced halt to UK cyber tests. […]

Defcon’s new badge is a security key you can see inside

A removable chip lets hackers inspect their badge—and keep using it after Defcon. All badges have a transparent, removable core […]

Likely illegally, Claude gained access to 3 networks. Will Anthropic be held to account?

Anthropic said its Claude-based security models gained unauthorized access to the sensitive production environments of three outside organizations during internal […]

AI scammers outperform humans when it comes to building trust

Compound-free pig butchering The AI chatbot was more effective at creating “exploitable trust” than the humans. The notion that scammers […]

Max-severity Exchange server flaw under active exploitation by Kremlin hackers

Russian state hackers are using a maximum-severity vulnerability in Microsoft Outlook’s Exchange Server to backdoor unpatched machines and steal credentials […]