‘Swatting’ Hits a Dozen US Universities. The FBI is Investigating Summary As students returned to campus this month, a wave of false reports about active shooters targeted about a dozen…
Proof-of-Concept in 15 Minutes? AI Turbocharges Exploitation Summary An independent research duo built an AI-driven pipeline, dubbed Auto Exploit, that uses LLM prompts, CVE advisories and open-source patches to auto-generate…
Ransomware gang takedowns causing explosion of new, smaller groups Summary The ransomware ecosystem is fragmenting: law enforcement takedowns of major RaaS (ransomware-as-a-service) operations have scattered affiliates and prompted rebrands, producing…
UK government dragged for incomplete security reforms after Afghan leak fallout Summary Senior officials have been summoned to the UK Science, Innovation and Technology Committee to explain why the government…
Scammer steals $1.5 million from Baltimore by spoofing city vendor Summary The City of Baltimore made more than $1.5 million in fraudulent payments after a scammer spoofed a vendor and…
Enterprise password management outfit Passwordstate patches Emergency Access bug Summary Australian vendor Click Studios has issued Passwordstate build 9972 to fix two security issues: a clickjacking mitigation for its browser…
Pentagon ends Microsoft’s use of China-based support staff for DoD cloud Summary The Pentagon has ordered Microsoft to stop using China-based engineers to support Azure services used by US government…
AWS catches Russia’s Cozy Bear clawing at Microsoft credentials Summary Amazon says it disrupted a watering-hole campaign run by Russia-linked APT29 (aka Cozy Bear / Midnight Blizzard) that tried to…
Researcher who found McDonald’s free-food hack turns her attention to Chinese restaurant robots Summary Security researcher Bobdahacker — the white-hat who recently exposed a McDonald’s ordering flaw — investigated Pudu…
Is a Backlash Building Against Smart Glasses That Record? Summary This Slashdot piece links to reporting from Futurism and the Washington Post about growing public unease with always‑on, recording smart…
