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These "SMS blasters" can trick your phone into connecting to them, bombarding anyone in the vicinity with scam texts.

Scammers Are Now Driving Around With Fake Cell Towers That Blast 100,000 Texts Per Hour

By Frank Landymore

The vendor was one of a many whose code modules were infected by a never before seen strand of malware known as "Shai-Hulud."

CrowdStrike Infested With “Self-Replicating Worms”

It's alarmingly easy for bad actors to trick a browser AI into following malicious instructions embedded in publicly available content.

Artificial Intelligence

Using an AI Browser Lets Hackers Drain Your Bank Account Just by Showing You a Public Reddit Post

By Victor Tangermann

An embarrassing exploit just uncovered the personal data of some 64 million McDonald's applicants sitting right out in the open.

Artificial Intelligence

McDonald’s Idiotic AI Hiring System Just Leaked Personal Data About Millions of Job Applicants

Secretary of state Marco Rubio has fallen victim to a scammer who's been using AI to clone his voice and writing style.

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An Unknown Entity Has Voice Cloned the Secretary of State and Is Calling High Level Officials

By Victor Tangermann

For the first time ever, an AI model has seized the top spot on a white hat hacking leaderboard in the United States.

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AI Seizes Top Spot on Leaderboard for White Hat Hackers

By Noor Al-Sibai

White House communications experts were ignored when they flagged major concerns about Elon Musk's recently installed Starlink network.

The Internet System Elon Musk Installed at the White House Is Causing Concerns

By Frank Landymore

Lovable, a "vibe coding" app that allows anybody to build websites with AI, has a huge cybersecurity problem.

Companies Are Discovering a Grim Problem With “Vibe Coding”

By Victor Tangermann

A clone of the messaging app Signal, which was used by since-ousted national security advisor Mike Waltz, has been hacked.

The Trump Administration Switched to a Sketchy Signal Clone and It Got Hacked, Leaking Messages

By Victor Tangermann

US secretary of defense Pete Hegseth has been using the same phone he uses to send out war plans to also go on sports betting websites.

The Head of the Pentagon Has Been Using His Personal Phone for Sports Betting and Sharing Military Secrets

By Frank Landymore

Sam Altman's grand vision of democratizing artificial intelligence seems, per a new study, to extend to spammers.

OpenAI Is Taking Spammers’ Money to Pollute the Internet at Unprecedented Scale

By Noor Al-Sibai

The teenage DOGE staffer, Edward Coristine, aka "Big Balls," once ran a company that provided services to a cybercriminal ring.

One of Elon Musk’s DOGE Kids Reportedly Helped a Cybercrime Ring

By Frank Landymore

A Pentagon-wide advisory sent to staffers on March 18 warned against using Signal for any sharing of information, classified or not.

Pentagon Issued Warning About Signal Messaging One Week Before Its Head Was Caught Using It

By Victor Tangermann

After downloading an AI tool, a hacker used a virus embedded into the software to upend a Disney employee's life.

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Man’s Entire Life Destroyed After Downloading AI Software

By Frank Landymore

To this day, the last name "Null" totally flummoxes computer systems, much to the chagrin of Nulls everywhere,

Woman Whose Last Name Is “Null” Keeps Running Into Trouble With Computer Systems

By Frank Landymore

In an unmistakable case of irony, KnowBe4, the developer of a security awareness program, accidentally hired a North Korean hacker.

Security Firm Alarmed to Discover Their Remote Employee Is a North Korean Hacker

By Victor Tangermann