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deepfakes
The latest deepfake numbers give CISOs plenty to worry about

AI is letting cybercriminals reach deeper into organizations than a phishing email ever could. 41% of CISOs reported at least one social engineering incident involving a …

fake
Scammers use genuine Google sign-ins to sell costly, unverified AI subscriptions

Scammers are using a $249 website toolkit to sell unverified AI subscriptions worth up to $2,000 a year, and a genuine Google sign-in screen is what makes the sites …

user
Scammers impersonate cops, use arrest threats to extort victims

Scammers are posing as police officers and federal agents, threatening arrest unless victims pay up, the FBI warns. The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) …

data breach
Hackers exploit Gyazo server flaw to steal 23.6 million user records

Japanese software company Helpfeel has confirmed a data breach on its screenshot-sharing platform Gyazo, in which attackers exploited a vulnerability in its image upload …

6G
Intent injection attacks are a new worry for AI-native 6G networks

Intent-based networking (IBN) lets operators state the outcome they want and leaves its translation into network policy to software, an approach AI-native 6G designs have …

Robot
Bots with good manners are better at fooling people on social media

Most people can’t tell a bot from a human online, and the bots most likely to fool them are the polite ones, according to a new Surfshark study. The company analyzed …

key
Zero-click RCE vulnerability hit four major AI coding agents, two remain unpatched

Four major AI coding agents, Claude Code, Codex, GitHub Copilot and Gemini CLI, all share the same zero-click RCE vulnerability, one that could give an attacker the same reach …

mobile device
Abandoned IoT apps keep sending sensitive data to broken servers

Millions of people still run smart home and IoT companion apps, the apps used to control devices like smart plugs, cameras, and thermostats, that stopped receiving updates …

AWS
Iranian strikes on AWS facilities left customer data beyond recovery in Bahrain, UAE

Six months after Iranian drone strikes tore through its Middle East infrastructure, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has acknowledged the permanent loss of customer data in Bahrain …

world
FBI takes down one of the longest-running DDoS-for-hire services

The FBI has seized the domains behind NightmareStresser, a DDoS-for-hire service officials call one of the longest running “booter” operations in existence. The …

scammers
Scammers leave AI fingerprints all over fake antivirus renewal page

AI appears to be helping scammers with little web development skill build convincing fake antivirus-renewal pages, Malwarebytes found. The researchers came across a scam page …

AI
Spain reports first data breach involving autonomous AI agent

Spain’s data protection authority (AEPD) has reported its first data breach blamed on an AI agent acting on its own, after the system reportedly logged into a …

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