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Trezor
Trezor warns some of its wallets may hide a seed-stealing implant

A Trezor Safe 5 sold by CryptoBilis, the reseller linked to the recent Ledger wallet drains, may contain a hidden implant that steals the owner’s recovery phrase, Trezor has …

Chainalysis
Chainalysis breached using “offensive agentic techniques”

Blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis has suffered a cybersecurity incident that led to a data breach. According to the company’s Friday announcement, the incident is …

Binance
FBI pins $6.3 billion Binance crypto heist on North Korea while scammers circle anxious users

North Korea was behind the theft of more than $6 billion in cryptocurrency from Binance, the FBI has confirmed. “The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is releasing …

deepseek
DeepSeek open-sources Super-Agent, a coding agent that watches team chats for work

Deepseek released a research prototype of dsh-superagent, a coding agent that does work on a GitHub repository for you. Who can ask for work The agent gets to work in two …

Vinay Thakker
The first ten lines of a command policy for AI coding agents

In this Help Net Security interview, Vinay Thakker, CTO of KloudStax, explains how to set identity, credentials, and network limits for AI agents. He argues that agents should …

Byoky
Byoky: Open-source wallet for AI API keys

Byoky is an open-source wallet for AI API keys, available as a Chrome and Firefox extension and as iOS and Android apps. Users store their keys for OpenAI, Anthropic, Google …

Trust Onion
Product showcase: Trust Onion uses rotating codewords to verify callers

Trust Onion is a free app that gives trusted groups three rotating codewords to check who they are communicating with. It also includes signed selfies, message checks, and …

ransomware
Ransomware gang talked AI agents into doing much of its dirty work

The group behind the Aur0ra ransomware has been using AI agents to move through victim networks, collect credentials and work its way up to domain administrator access, …

cybersecurity week in review
Week in review: Binance hit by $6.3 billion theft, impact of Brotli vulnerability

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: r/opensource bans AI projects, and solo devs go down with them Moderators of …

sentence
Assad regime hacker who caused $136 billion market drop sentenced to 42 months

A Syrian man who used a hijacked news agency Twitter account to post a fake report of explosions at the White House has been sentenced to 42 months in prison, the US …

door
Claude Code extension poisoned with persistent SSH backdoor

A tampered build of Anthropic’s Claude Code extension for VS Code-compatible editors planted an SSH backdoor on developers’ machines, researchers at macOS security firm …

AI
Open-weight AI model GLM-5.3 cheated its way to correct answers

Irregular evaluated Zhipu AI’s open-weight model GLM-5.3 across 13 offensive cyber scenarios using CyScenarioBench, the company’s framework for measuring an LLM’s ability to …

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