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AI 'antidetect' browsers are making scams, fraud, and influence operations harder to spot

By Sead Fadilpašić Published

Browsers designed to help agencies are being abused to launch scam campaigns at scale.

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The dark side of 'free' mobile games — how developers reverse-engineer your patience to milk ad revenue

By Efosa Udinmwen Published

Block Blast reportedly earned $127 million from ads, but an investigation uncovered code allegedly manipulating difficulty, player profiling, and incentives to watch ads.

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A nightmare scenario for supermarkets: Hidden daily passwords and command injection flaws leave thousands of Danfoss supermarket systems open to remote takeover

By Efosa Udinmwen Published

Claroty researchers found 2,765 publicly accessible Danfoss refrigeration systems and three vulnerabilities involving hidden passwords, command injection, and web server manipulation.

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'Some agents exhibited unintended web-browsing behavior': Tencent admits AI agents it was testing made more than 2,600 attempts in 11 days to slip past Alibaba's map defenses, just to find out which zoo gate people use

By Rahim Amir Published

Researchers hid a message for a live fleet of rogue AI agents, and the agents wrote back.

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DeepSeek AI tools banned from US government agency systems as rift with China grows

By Sead Fadilpašić Published

DeepSeek was labeled as carrying "multiple threat vectors".

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Millions of California students have sensitive data stolen — names, SSIDs, home addresses and more taken in attack on nonprofit

By Craig Hale Published

Data breach likely saw attackers obtain millions of students' PII via a simple password compromise, it seems.

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Think social media protects your data? Platforms have racked up $26 billion in privacy penalties since 2020

By Rene Millman Published

Social media giants have paid over $26 billion in privacy fines since 2020, with Meta responsible for 91% of the global total.

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Chinese hacker hits over 100 company websites using AI agents — Deere and SharkNinja among top brands affected in attack

By Sead Fadilpašić Published

It seems the goal was to establish persistence and possibly steal money down the line.

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Microsoft admits 'frontier models can't be trusted', unveils new security tools to treat AI agents as insider threats

By Sead Fadilpašić Published

Say hi to your new Guardian Agent, keeping you safe from Agentic Insiders.

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Kaspersky's VPN and password manager went dark for days worldwide — and the timing has raised awkward questions about Russia's drone-hit data centers

By Rahim Amir Published

Kaspersky outage began within hours of Ukrainian drones shutting down a third Yandex data center, but no link has been confirmed.

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