Apple Issues New Spyware Warning To iPhone Users In 110 Countries

Apple iPhone users in 110 countries have received a concerning notification about spyware. Here’s what you need to know.

Meta Confirms New WhatsApp On-Device AI-Powered Scam Alert Beta

Meta has announced it is to roll out a new optional feature that leverages an on-device AI machine-learning model to help detect and prevent WhatsApp scam attacks.

A €4,000 scam sparked a startup that stops phone fraud before your mobile even rings

For Rita Barbosa, the idea for her startup, Guardian Labs, began when a phone scam targeted her grandmother. She recounts: “The scammers told her that the water she was drinking wasn’t safe. They led …

Just one instruction on AMD’s 2015-era CPUs cracks open secret memory areas and gives full hardware-level control — exploit for 15h and 16h chip families gets you access to Platform Security Processor, microcode, and System Management Interface

Just one instruction on AMD CPUs gets you access to Platform Security Processor, microcode, and System Management Interface — exploit for 15h and 16h chip families cracks open secret memory areas

If Apple sends you a push notification alerting you to a spyware attack, take it seriously

Apple now sends out push notifications to iPhone lock screens when the company identifies government spyware targeting someone’s devices.

Anthropic set AI agents loose on the same task. They started a turf war.

Anthropic researchers found AI agents can clash, collude, and coordinate in unexpected ways, raising new questions about whether today’s safety tests capture the risks of multi-agent systems.

Microsoft’s nemesis drops new zero-day privilege escalation vulnerability — attack grants system-level privileges, but it could already be patched
Microsoft’s nemesis drops new zero-day privilege escalation vulnerability — attack grants system-level privileges, but it could already be patched

Nightmare Eclipse drops ShieldBreak, another Windows zero-day privilege escalation vulnerability, but Microsoft has rushed quickly to block it with Defender

In a first, US will allow some private firms to carry out cyberattacks

The new order sweeps away decades of existing U.S. cybersecurity policy prohibiting private companies from conducting ‘hack back’ attacks or offensive cyber operations.

Coin-sized device can hack a Boeing 737’s Flight Management Computer, mess with takeoff weights, or even divert an aircraft — gadget connects to an easily accessible port that overrides commands from the pilots, uses in-flight Wi-Fi

Security researchers discovered a way to tap into the avionics of a Boeing 737 and remotely give its flight management computer erroneous data through in-flight Wi-Fi. This coin-sized device plugs into a diagnostic port in the plane’s avionics bay and could easily be hidden behind its protective dust cover.

Critical ‘Zoomsday’ flaw enables total device takeover during Zoom calls — AI-assisted research only used 20 prompts to find an exploit to hack hundreds of millions of people.
Critical ‘Zoomsday’ flaw enables total device takeover during Zoom calls — AI-assisted research only used 20 prompts to find an exploit to hack hundreds of millions of people.

Zoomsday vulnerability let anyone in a Zoom meeting take over anybody else. The vulnerability was developed with AI assistance and took research only used 20 prompts to find an exploit to hack hundred of millions of people.