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Klue Hack Leads to Data Breach at Top Cybersecurity Firms
Huntress, HackerOne, Jamf, Recorded Future, and Tanium are among the cybersecurity companies that had data stolen following an earlier breach at market research firm Klue.
Unpatchable Flaw in Apple Chips Enables iPhone Jailbreak
European offensive cybersecurity company Paradigm Shift released details of a flaw and a technique to exploit it that opens the door for hackers to unlock and break into older iPhones.
US Government's Ban on Anthropic Models Explained
The Trump administration's decision that forced Anthropic to pull its latest cybersecurity models could be reactionary, retaliatory, or both, but the message is clear: The AI industry isn't immune from U.S. government interference.
South Korea Fines Coupang $400M+ for Major Data Breach
South Korean authorities issued the record-breaking fine following a data breach that affected over 30 million customers.
Australia Leads Global Ban on Social Media for Children
Australia was the first country to issue a ban in late 2025, aiming to reduce the pressures and risks that young users may face on social media, including cyberbullying, social media addiction, and exposure to predators.
Anthropic's Fable: Cybersecurity Researchers Critique Strict Guardrail
Cybersecurity researchers are complaining that Anthropic's new model Fable has guardrails that are too strict for any cybersecurity work.
Top Data Breaches and Cyber Attacks of 2026
From a massive DOGE data breach and the hacking of critical energy and water systems to the hack of an FBI surveillance system, here are the most damaging security incidents and data breaches of 2026.
NSA Prepares Anthropic's Mythos for Cyber Operations
The U.S. eavesdropping agency is reportedly preparing Anthropic's Mythos for use in cyberattacks, despite a federal ban on using the AI model maker.
Google and FBI Alert: Ransomware Group Sends Fake IT Workers
Cybercriminals, part of a gang known as Silent Ransom Group, have sent people pretending to be IT support employees to law firms' offices, where the criminals have stolen data using USB drives or remote access tools.
AI Startups Encouraging Off-Screen Experiences
While the AI fundraising machine keeps breaking its own records, some founders are building in the other direction.  Mirror founder Brynn Putnam just raised money for Board, a startup focused on bringing people together through in-person games and social experiences. Cyberdeck creators are going viral crafting whimsical DIY computers that literally encourage users to touch grass. Unlike the AI-free browser crowd, this doesn’t just feel like backlash, […]
Top 2026 Data Breaches and Cyber Attacks
From a massive DOGE data breach and the hacking of critical energy and water systems to the hack of an FBI surveillance system, here are the most damaging security incidents and data breaches of 2026.
Instagram Alerts Users of AI Chatbot Hacker Attacks
Hackers appeared to take over victims’ accounts even after Meta said it fixed its AI-powered support chatbot, which granted hackers access to victims’ accounts.
Ultrahuman Data Breach: Hackers Access Customer Wellness Data
The breach at wearable ring maker Ultrahuman stemmed from credentials stolen from a malware-infected employee laptop.
7-Eleven Data Breach Exposes 185,000 Customers' Data
The data breach included names, dates of birth, postal addresses, and Social Security numbers, according to a state government listing.
Iranian Hackers Blamed for L.A. Transit System Breach
An Israeli cybersecurity firm said Iran’s government is behind Ababil of Minab, a fake hacktivist persona that has claimed a series of data breaches after the start of the war in Iran.
Unsolved Mystery: Ghost Hackers and NSA Cybersecurity Threat
A shadowy group that stole and dumped the NSA’s most powerful hacking tools still has implications for how companies think about digital risk today.
Apple, Meta, and Google's Spyware Protection Modes Explained
Apple, Meta, and Google offer special security modes that provide your devices more secure against targeted spyware attacks. Here are how those modes work, what they do, and how to switch them on.
Self-Hosted AI Companion: Moeru-AI/Airi for Gaming and Chat
💖🧸 Self hosted, you-owned Grok Companion, a container of souls of waifu, cyber livings to bring them into our worlds, wishing to achieve Neuro-sama's altitude. Capable of realtime voice chat, Minecraft, Factorio playing. Web / macOS / Windows supported.
AI Agents Enhanced with 754 Cybersecurity Skills
754 structured cybersecurity skills for AI agents · Mapped to 5 frameworks: MITRE ATT&CK, NIST CSF 2.0, MITRE ATLAS, D3FEND & NIST AI RMF · agentskills.io standard · Works with Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Codex CLI, Cursor, Gemini CLI & 20+ platforms · 26 security domains · Apache 2.0
Trump Mobile Confirms Data Breach, Exposes Customer Info
President Trump’s branded cell phone maker and cell provider said the exposure was linked to a third-party platform and was evaluating whether it needs to notify customers.
Kash Patel's Clothing Brand Website Hacked, Shut Down
According to users on X, the website was hijacked by hackers in an attempt to trick visitors into installing malware.
Europol Shuts Down VPN Used by Ransomware Groups
First VPN promised hackers complete anonymity for their cyberattacks. But Europol said it was able to notify the service’s users that they have now been identified.
CISA Exposed Passwords and Cloud Keys on GitHub
The federal cybersecurity agency left plaintext passwords in a spreadsheet uploaded to a public GitHub repository, per a report by independent journalist Brian Krebs.
Hackers Compromise Open Source Packages in Supply Chain Attack
The attacks are part of a wider campaign known as Mini Shai-Hulud, which has already compromised several open source projects and, in turn, developers and companies that use them.
Foxconn Hacked by Ransomware Group, AI Tools Used
A ransomware group has claimed responsibility for hacking the electronics manufacturing giant Foxconn and is attempting to extort the company.
Visualizing Malware Repositories: AI Stacks Hard Drives
What would some of the world's largest repositories of malware look like if they were stacked as hard drives, one on top of the other?
Community Bank Exposes Customer Data to AI App
Community Bank, which operates in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia, disclosed a cybersecurity incident that exposed customers’ names, dates of birth, and Social Security numbers.
Instructure Reaches Deal with Hackers After Two Breaches
The maker of the Canvas school software said it "reached an agreement" with the hackers, but provided no guarantees that the hackers would not release the data or keep their word.
Exaforce Secures $125M for Real-Time AI Cybersecurity
As bad actors weaponize AI to exploit software vulnerabilities at unprecedented speed, companies are increasingly recognizing the need to bolster their cybersecurity defenses. The round valued the three-year-old startup at $725 million.
OpenAI Restricts Access to GPT-5.5 Cyber for Critical Cyber Defenders
OpenAI will begin rolling out its cybersecurity testing tool, GPT-5.5 Cyber only "to critical cyber defenders" at first.
Hackers Exploit cPanel Bug Used by Millions of Websites
Web hosts are scrambling to fix the bug under active attack by hackers. One company said hackers have been abusing the bug for months.
Deepfakes: The Attention Budget Threat and Response Strategies
A framing I keep coming back to: a synthetic image or video can succeed even when almost nobody believes it. Not because it changes minds directly, but because it turns attention into the attacked resource. If a campaign, newsroom, platform, or company has to stop and answer the fake, the fake already got some of what it wanted: - the defenders spend scarce time verifying and explaining - the audience gets forced to process the claim anyway - every debunk risks replaying the artifact - institutions look reactive even when they are correct - the attacker learns which themes reliably pull defenders into the loop So detection is necessary, but not sufficient. The second half of the system is distribution response. A few practical design questions I think matter more than the usual “can we detect it?” debate: - Can we debunk without embedding, quoting, or rewarding the fake? - Can provenance signals move suspicious media into slower lanes instead of binary takedown/leave-up decisions? - Do newsrooms and platforms track attention budget as an operational constraint? - Can response teams separate “this is false” from “this deserves broad amplification”? - Can systems preserve evidence for verification while reducing replay value for the attacker? The failure mode is treating every fake as an information accuracy problem when some of them are closer to denial-of-service attacks on attention. Curious how people here would design the response layer. What should a healthy “quarantine lane” for synthetic media look like without becoming censorship-by-default?
Sri Lanka Loses $3M in Recent Cyber Attacks Amid Debt Crisis
The government of Sri Lanka has lost more than $3 million in two recent, separate cybersecurity incidents as the country continues to recover from its 2022 debt crisis.
Paragon Refuses to Aid Italian Spyware Investigation
Despite promising to help determine what happened with the hacks targeting journalists and activists in Italy, Israeli American spyware maker Paragon has reportedly not responded to authorities’ requests for information.
2025: Social Media Scams Cost Consumers $2.1B, FTC Finds
The agency reports that losses from social media scams have increased eightfold and that social media scams resulted in higher losses than any other method scammers used to contact consumers.
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