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mobile
Novel-reading apps used users’ phones to generate fake ad traffic

A new mobile ad fraud scheme, dubbed Papyrus, is using a cluster of novel-reading apps to generate hidden browser traffic, according to IAS Threat Lab. Sample novel-reading …

lock
Snowflake hacker pleads guilty, faces up to 32 years in prison

A Canadian man is facing decades in prison for hacking customer accounts at cloud storage provider Snowflake and stealing data from more than 165 organizations. Connor Riley …

Agentic AI
Discounted Claude access bought on the gray market may expose every prompt you send

More than half a dozen services advertised on underground forums and messaging platforms, offering discounted or “unlimited” token access to frontier AI models, …

GitHub
AI developers targeted via trojanized GitHub repositories

Cybercriminals are cloning popular GitHub repositories for AI tools and developer resources to distribute an infostealer, according to Netskope Threat Labs. (Source: Netskope) …

wireless
Russian hackers abuse hotel Wi-Fi networks to steal Microsoft 365 credentials and deploy malware

Midnight Blizzard, the Russian threat actor tied to the country’s foreign intelligence service, has spent months targeting users of public Wi-Fi networks at places like …

EU
EU begins enforcing AI Act, putting AI models under the microscope

Europe’s fight to regulate AI models moved from paper to practice on 2 August 2026, when the European Commission’s AI Office and national authorities began …

crypto scams
Fake IRS letters direct crypto holders to bogus compliance portal

Scammers are sending physical letters to cryptocurrency holders that copy the look of official IRS notices. The letters tell recipients they must enroll in something called a …

AI
Chinese hacker used DeepSeek to launch autonomous cyberattacks on vulnerable servers

A Chinese threat actor operating under the aliases “knaithe” and “KnYuan” used multiple LLMs to automate cyberattacks against internet-facing systems …

fraud
Criminals used AI and children’s coding software to build a multimillion-dollar ad fraud empire

A security investigation into inexpensive Android TV boxes led researchers to an ad fraud operation that had remained unnoticed for several years. Fuyao apps ecosystem …

Claude
Anthropic’s Claude breached three companies during security tests

Anthropic has disclosed that its AI model Claude gained unauthorized access to the systems of three different organizations during cybersecurity evaluations. The disclosure …

Google Chrome
AI takes on a bigger role in finding Chrome vulnerabilities

Google has expanded the use of AI in Chrome’s security workflow, using it to find vulnerabilities, triage bug reports, generate patches, and review code to shorten the …

Microsoft 365 phishing
Attackers are using Microsoft’s legitimate login system to camouflage phishing attacks

Attackers are moving away from fake Microsoft login pages in favor of abusing Microsoft’s own authentication system, letting phishing campaigns slip past the warning …

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