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Your uncle’s frozen Mac says it’s infected after viewing a Google ad. Now what?
Researchers say they recently found Google ads delivering a sophisticated tech support scam that freezes the screens of both Windows […]
There’s a new way to break RSA that’s faster than anything we’ve seen before
The forgery attack drops these levels to 265, 290, and 2119 for 1024-, 2048-, and 4096-bit keys respectively. These levels […]
FBI rushes to investigate if ShinyHunters hack of thousands of employees is real
To get the advisory changed, ShinyHunters told FBI director Kash Patel and the assistant director of the FBI Cyber Division, […]
Microsoft disrupts AI-assisted platform that compromised 12,000 accounts
Microsoft said Tuesday that it led an industry-wide disruption of a subscription-based scam platform that used an AI chatbot to […]
Muse, Meta’s extraordinarily privileged AI assistant, has a serious 0-day
Skip to content A simple ClickFix attack is only one way to completely hijack the new agent. Meta founder and […]
An undercover Google analyst infiltrated a notorious supply-chain hacking gang
Google’s threat intelligence group said it had a mole inside TeamPCP’s inner circle. Before two of its alleged members were […]
Researchers used Claude to hack OpenAI
They exploited a flaw in the set-up of OpenAI’s community forum, which is hosted by a third-party, Discourse, and used […]
LLMs respond differently to harmful prompts when AI watermarking is used
Standard versus watermarked text generation. Credit: Lasso Security Standard versus watermarked text generation. Credit: Lasso Security A key feature of […]
Hackers reveal how Flock cameras really track cars and people
One hacked camera captured 1.6 million images and could detect people as well as cars. Flock license plate reader and […]