3+ hour, 4+ min ago   (862+ words) The theft is only step one. What comes after is designed to make you finish the job yourself. Security researchers at SOCRadar have uncovered AnonyMousKIT, a phishing-as-a-service operation built specifically to help criminals steal Apple credentials and disable Activation Lock…...

2+ day, 10+ hour ago   (767+ words) Most WhatsApp account takeovers don't begin with someone breaking the app's encryption. They begin with a convincing message asking for a six-digit verification code, or a stranger persuading you to scan a QR code that quietly links a new device…...

5+ day, 14+ hour ago   (438+ words) For a stretch last week, Microsoft 365 users could open their emails, files and SharePoint sites normally. What they couldn't reliably do was find anything through search. Microsoft confirmed on August 17 that search had failed across SharePoint Online, OneDrive, Outlook on…...

5+ day, 17+ hour ago   (220+ words) A study from Mexico's Colegio de México found that the Jalisco New Generation Cartel dominates recruitment-linked content, while the Sinaloa Cartel and the Cartel del Noreste each appeared in roughly 5.4% of the accounts examined. Analysts have nicknamed the phenomenon "CartelTok,…...

1+ week, 16+ hour ago   (554+ words) Microsoft's latest Windows 11 security update was supposed to make PCs safer. Instead, some gamers are finding their games crashing mid-match, freezing or even forcing full system reboots. "Microsoft received reports of issues involving inability to run certain games as expected…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (690+ words) Scientists have found that a surprising part of human biology can be traced to ancient viral infections. About 8% of the human genome contains sequences of viral origin, and some of those sequences were later repurposed by evolution. One of the…...

4+ week, 10+ hour ago   (699+ words) The AI model wasn't trying to escape; it was trying to complete the cybersecurity task researchers had assigned it. That distinction helps explain why two recent incidents involving OpenAI and Anthropic are raising broader questions about how frontier AI systems…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (612+ words) You want Claude on your laptop. You search for the desktop app, click what looks like the official download and run the installer. The application opens normally. It looks like Claude, behaves like Claude and lets you start chatting. The…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (569+ words) The call took 13 minutes. By the end of it, a fraudster had taken out a loan in the victim's name and was using the victim's own Android phone to relay live card data to a payment terminal while the physical…...

2+ week, 15+ hour ago   (701+ words) An open-weight Chinese AI model just edged Anthropic and OpenAI on a cybersecurity benchmark that measures whether AI can find real software vulnerabilities. Then its own developer decided the model wasn't ready to release. Z.ai announced GLM-5.3 on August 14, reporting…...