This Russian cybercrime campaign can infect a user just by viewing an email

A high-severity flaw in Zimbra allowed Russian criminals easy access, where they stole important secrets.

The hacker who humiliated spyware makers and was never caught

An awe-inspiring hacktivist who hacked two controversial government spyware makers may be the most prolific hacker to have never gotten caught. What do we know about Phineas Fisher?

Experts claim to have found more weaknesses in Apple’s Gatekeeper tool — but it doesn’t seem too bothered

Gatekeeper doesn’t blink when you archive a legitimate app and replace it with an evil doppelganger.

The OpenAI Models That Hacked Hugging Face Were ‘Active on the Internet’ for Days

Plus: Russian hackers are trying to steal US nuclear scientists’ emails, the State Department bans known scammers from entering the United States, and more.

US accuses American of allegedly wiping his phone using a ‘duress’ password during border search

A U.S. citizen has asked a court to throw out the government’s claim that he gave over a passcode to border authorities that wiped his phone’s data, opening up fresh questions about a person’s constitutional rights at the U.S. border.

Microsoft is rewiring itself for the AI era, on offence and defence
Microsoft is rewiring itself for the AI era, on offence and defence

Microsoft is remaking its own stack for the AI era, on both offence and defence. This week it moved on two fronts. It began pulling OpenAI’s models out of its most-used apps to cut costs. And it set a date to kill the text-message login, blaming a wave…

GitHub restructures bug bounty program following flood of AI-generated reports
GitHub restructures bug bounty program following flood of AI-generated reports

GitHub splits off open, public bug bounty programs from invite-only, VIP scheme which pays around 3-4x more.

Hackers hid dangerous malware on a page hidden in Anthopic’s Claude.ai domain

Claude Artifacts have been used as phishing lures, once again, this time to deliver a dangerous RAT.