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Google Meta
Stolen Meta and Google ad accounts are worth more than the money they hold

Ad account theft, the systematic hijacking of Meta Business Manager and Google Ads accounts, has grown into a commodity-driven cybercrime economy complete with tiered pricing, …

lock
An AI agent can pass every safety check and still leak secrets

A pull request lands with a tidy bug report in the description. A bot reads it before any person does, pulls a few shell commands out of it, gets them approved, and posts the …

Google
Google changes how it names cyber threat actors

Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) has started using a new naming system for the threat actors it tracks. The change comes after Mandiant and Google’s Threat …

Google AI
Google gives developers an AI bug hunter that also writes patches

Google has launched a preview of CodeMender, an AI agent built to scan code for security flaws, confirm they are exploitable, and generate fixes for developers to review. …

Google
Google’s newest sign-in method asks you to look at the camera

Google’s selfie video sign-in option verifies that an account owner is a real person and that the account wasn’t created or used by computer programs or bots for the purpose …

Google Gemini
Google’s Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber becomes a vulnerability hunter

Google’s Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber model finds, validates, and patches vulnerabilities before they can be exploited while helping mitigate broader misuse. It is part of a …

Google Workspace
Google adds FIDO2 keys and phone passkeys to Windows login via GCPW

Google has started rolling out FIDO2-compliant physical security key support as a second factor for authentication in Google Credential Provider for Windows (GCPW) to all …

Apple AirDrop
AirDrop and Quick Share vulnerabilities affect protocols on five billion devices as fixes begin

Phones and laptops ship with a feature that sends files to nearby devices over the air, with no cables, accounts, or prior pairing. Apple calls its version AirDrop. Google and …

Google Wallet TSA
Google Wallet adds TSA Touchless ID for faster airport screening

Google Wallet has joined the Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) PreCheck Touchless ID program, allowing travelers to pass through security checkpoints using the …

LLM
LLM security advice looks solid until you check the hard cases

Plenty of people now type their security worries straight into a chatbot. A hacked account, a suspicious email, a stalker who might be tracking a phone, all of it lands in the …

Google Workspace
Google Workspace expands password reset alerts to all admins

Google’s Alert Center, a dashboard in the Google Admin console that displays security and administrative alerts and helps administrators identify, investigate, and respond to …

Google
Forget traffic lights, Google’s reCAPTCHA may ask for hand gestures

Google has introduced hand gesture verification for reCAPTCHA, a new method for verifying that a user is human. Google’s reCAPTCHA is part of Google Cloud Fraud Defense, …

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