1+ week, 5+ day ago   (583+ words) Hackers Turned an AI Coding Assistant Into a Hacking Sidekick, With Two Magic Words: “It’s a Test” NewsAffinity A Russian-speaking ransomware gang spent about seven weeks this spring using a mainstream AI coding assistant to help break into companies across…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (577+ words) NewsAffinity There is a stampede happening in British fintech, and almost everyone is running the same direction. Revolut, Klarna, and others have been applying for US banking licences, drawn by the world’s biggest economy and a Trump administration promising lighter…...

2+ week, 2+ hour ago   (591+ words) The Fake “Prove You’re Human” Box That Tricks You Into Opening Your Own Network NewsAffinity We have all clicked the little “verify you are human” box without a second thought. Microsoft’s threat researchers have documented a campaign, dubbed TerminalFix, that…...

2+ week, 1+ hour ago   (469+ words) NewsAffinity There is a certain poetry to how this one unravelled. A cybercrime operator linked to Blind Eagle, a group that has spent years phishing Colombian government agencies and businesses, made the mistake every one of their victims makes: they…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (476+ words) NewsAffinity There is an uncomfortable irony at the center of this story. Days before it happened, ReliaQuest’s own threat researchers published a warning about the extortion group ShinyHunters registering lookalike “.claims” domains to impersonate company help desks. Then, on August…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (556+ words) Five Flaws in Palo Alto’s VPN, and a Disclosure Fight That Says More Than the Bugs NewsAffinity Security researcher Martijn van Ramesdonk has gone public with five vulnerabilities in Palo Alto Networks’ GlobalProtect, the VPN and endpoint agent running on…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (361+ words) China has placed quantum technology among the priority frontier fields in a new 2026–2030 plan designed to strengthen its cybersecurity and information technology industries. The move adds quantum computing and related technologies to a wider national push covering artificial intelligence, advanced…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (196+ words) The crates themselves were clean. Each carried a single extra line in its manifest: a dependency on proc-macro1, a typosquat of the hugely popular proc-macro2. The malicious part lived in that fake crate’s build script. Why build-time is the frightening…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (471+ words) Quest’s Data Breach Started With a Supplier, Not Its Own Systems NewsAffinity Quest Apartment Hotels has told customers their personal details were exposed in a data breach, and the way it happened is becoming the norm rather than the exception....

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (561+ words) NewsAffinity A single unsafe line in a GitHub workflow left one of Snowflake’s public repositories open for five days, and the thing that found it was not a human researcher. Wiz’s Red Agent, an autonomous AI security tool, scanned the…...