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SIM
Malicious SIMs can hijack smartphones, steal files, and lock them onto 2G

Researchers have found that compromised or malicious SIM cards can issue commands to some smartphones and cellular-connected devices, allowing attackers to steal information, …

network
An AI tool found 84 flaws in 5G network software and 23 of them still have no fix

Researchers at Nanyang Technological University turned a set of AI agents loose on the software that runs 4G and 5G phone networks, and the agents came back with 84 security …

phishing
Gut feeling does nothing against AI spear phishing texts

A banker at a credit union sat down at a table with a dozen printed text messages, all of them written for that banker personally, and put them in order from the one most …

Keys
Three in four AI-generated vulnerability patches leave something broken

Ask a frontier model to patch a real vulnerability and it will hand you something that looks like a fix. It reads like the patch a maintainer would write. When there is a …

lock
Pre-auth RCE in enterprise Java hits Bonita and OFBiz servers

An attacker sends a single web request to a Bonita server and lands inside an internal API that assumed nobody could reach it. The request arrives unauthenticated. From there …

broken
Code review used to be the only way to catch these bugs

An automated system called NOVA read the source code of 3,915 open-source projects over two months and came back with 14,090 vulnerabilities, each one confirmed through the …

Omada TP-Link
15 TP-Link Omada vulnerabilities let attackers hijack routers and intercept camera traffic

TP-Link prints the serial number of an Omada router on its packaging and on a label attached to the device. Those numbers run in sequence, and feeding a guessed one to the …

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 …

Android
Android malware detection collapses when the context stage comes out

A phone backup app asks for storage, contacts, SMS, and call logs. A device-management tool asks for more than that. Run either one past a machine learning malware scanner and …

error
Exposed BMCs hand out password hashes before login

An attacker who reaches UDP port 623 on a server’s baseboard management controller can ask it for a password hash and receive one before logging in. The exchange is part …

Ladder
AI took more than junior developer jobs and the bill comes later

A ticket comes in for a small bug fix. Hand it to the junior on your team and you wait a day, review something that half works, and sit down to explain what went wrong. …

Car
The automotive software vulnerabilities hiding in your dashboard

Pop the hood on a new car and you won’t find much you can fix with a wrench. What you’ll find is software, and a lot of it. The screen in the dash probably runs …

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