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‘If you’re reading this, your company is dead’: How one weak password ended a 158-year-old business

For 158 years, KNP Logistics Group was a trusted transport company based in Northamptonshire. Generations of workers had built its name into a...

Hackers Are Finding New Ways to Hide Malware in DNS Records

Hackers are stashing malware in a place that’s largely out of the reach of most defenses—inside domain name system (DNS) records that map...

McDonald’s AI Hiring Bot Exposed Millions of Applicants’ Data to Hackers Using the Password ‘123456’

If you want a job at McDonald’s today, there’s a good chance you'll have to talk to Olivia. Olivia is not, in fact,...

AI Agents Are Getting Better at Writing Code—and Hacking It as Well

The latest artificial intelligence models are not only remarkably good at software engineering—new research shows they are getting ever-better at finding bugs in...

Google rolls out Hyderabad hub for online safety: Launches first Indian Google Safety Engineering Centre

Google has officially opened the Google Safety Engineering Centre, India (GSEC India) in Hyderabad its first such facility in the Asia-Pacific region and...

The Rise of ‘Vibe Hacking’ Is the Next AI Nightmare

Google did not respond to a request for comment.In 2023, security researchers at Trend Micro got ChatGPT to generate malicious code by prompting...

Deepfake Scams Are Distorting Reality Itself

Imagine you meet someone new. Be it on a dating app or social media, you chance across each other online and get to...

How to Win Followers and Scamfluence People

As soon as Format Boy answers the phone, I recognize his booming voice. I’ve spent weeks immersed in the influencer’s back catalog of...

How fast hackers can break your password with AI might terrify you: The math behind the digital threat

In an age where we store our lives behind login screens—from banking to dating apps—the humble password is supposed to be our last...

WhatsApp Is Walking a Tightrope Between AI Features and Privacy

Last year, Apple debuted a similar scheme, known as Private Cloud Compute, for its Apple Intelligence AI platform. And users can turn the...

An AI Image Generator’s Exposed Database Reveals What People Really Used It For

As well as CSAM, Fowler says, there were AI-generated pornographic images of adults in the database plus potential “face-swap” images. Among the files,...

Is X under ‘massive cyber attack’? Elon Musk drops bombshell amid platform outage

Elon Musk’s social media platform X (formerly Twitter) was thrown into chaos as thousands of users reported outages on March 10, leading Musk...