Fake brand discounts on social media prey on shoppers’ fear of missing out
Cybercriminals are using fake discounts posted on Facebook and TikTok to lure shoppers to phishing sites that steal their payment card details and one-time passwords, Group-IB …
RemoveMacAI turns off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and deletes its models
A developer has released RemoveMacAI, a free command-line tool that turns off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and deletes about 12 GB of downloaded AI models. It requires a Mac …
Out-of-band Exchange Server update fixes high-severity mailbox access bug (CVE-2026-96940)
Microsoft has pushed out an out-of-band security update for Exchange Server that fixes a high-severity vulnerability (CVE-2026-96940) that may allow authenticated attackers to …
Detained ShinyHunters hacker reportedly helping FBI track down fellow members
A suspected ShinyHunters member known as Rey has been detained in Jordan and is reportedly helping the FBI track down the rest of the group. Reuters reports that Jordanian …
MAKERphone 2: A DIY 4G phone with plug-in camera, speaker and prototyping board
CircuitMess, a Croatian electronics kit maker, is selling MAKERphone 2.0, a build-it-yourself 4G phone on Kickstarter that buyers program in MicroPython or Arduino C++ and …
Apple tightens macOS disk access as AI agents become more powerful
Apple plans to introduce additional controls for Full Disk Access in macOS, citing growing privacy risks as AI agents become more capable and autonomous. Users will need to …
AI slop submissions force Google to freeze its open-source bug bounty
Google has stopped accepting new product vulnerability reports through its Open Source Software Vulnerability Reward Program (OSS VRP), after a wave of invalid, AI-generated …
Three questions a hospital CISO should ask a healthcare fintech vendor
In this Help Net Security interview, Drew McCombs, CTO and CISO at Cylerity, explains how he balances both roles. Security work is scheduled into every sprint, and issues …
Keyorix: Open-source secrets management for teams that can’t use SaaS
Keyorix is an open-source secrets manager that runs entirely on a company’s own servers. A secrets manager is the locked store where an application fetches the database …
How RMM abuse gives attackers a way in that looks like business as usual
Huntress found attackers using legitimate remote monitoring and management (RMM) software in 45% of the endpoint-related incidents it recorded in the first quarter of 2026. …
Week in review: Researcher breaks into Microsoft analytics service, NetScaler RCE 0-day exploited
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: 16-year-old researcher breaks into Microsoft analytics service with access to …
AI is giving attackers a head start, Microsoft warns
Threat actors are using AI to find bugs, build malware and run intrusions faster than defenders can keep up. Microsoft’s 2026 Digital Defense Report, covering July 2025 …
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