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An app posing as Google Chrome gathered more than 100,000 downloads on Google Play and ranked above the real browser in search: the developer paid for advertising. There was no…
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Abdulrahman Alfozan, a 35-year-old citizen of Saudi Arabia, is accused of installing a hidden recording device in an OpenAI meeting room. He had worked at the company as an engineer…
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YouTuber Anthony Sistilli built a license plate recognition system that tracks only police cars, and showed the build. On September 20, officers from Peel Regional Police in Ontario came to…
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Ledger is investigating the loss of funds from wallets linked to devices sold by reseller CryptoBilis, amid reports of more than $86 million stolen. The amount and the link have…
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A high-severity vulnerability was found in Telegram Desktop before version 7.2.9. Through a tg:// link, an unescaped IPC separator allowed files to be exfiltrated, including tdata keys. Patch in 7.2.9.
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The FBI and the US Secret Service have issued a warning about the FortiBleed campaign: attackers change passwords and delete accounts to cut organizations off from their Fortinet devices. The…
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Federal Judge Sara Hill of Tulsa ruled that a license plate check in the Flock Safety database without a warrant violated the Fourth Amendment, and barred the use of the…
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As of October 1, 2026, Google has stopped accepting reports for its Open Source Software Vulnerability Rewards Program. The reason is a flood of automated submissions, most of which are…
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In a leaked video, Magnet Forensics demonstrates GrayKey Preserve and an Evidence Preservation Mode which, according to the company, freeze an iPhone in a state that makes access to sensitive…
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OpenAI has disclosed a new class of attacks on AI agents: hidden instructions replicate themselves in emails, files and messages, passing from model to model. This is a demonstration of…
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Microsoft Threat Intelligence described NeedyMantis: this modular family is deployed after a compromise to keep access for a long time. Activity has been tracked since at least October 2025.
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On September 24, 2026, Bitget discovered unauthorized transfers from some of its hot wallets. The exchange estimates losses at about $351.6 million; cold wallets were not affected.
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