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AI-powered infostealer picks out the most profitable parts of your stolen data
A new Windows infostealer sends the data it steals to an AI model and asks it to rank the victim’s assets by how much money they could bring in, Cisco Talos has found. “There is a new idea in the cybercrime world — cast a wide net, steal everything, and let AI sort out the…
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Second wave of refrigeration cyberattacks hits European supermarkets
Three weeks after the attack that turned refrigeration units in French supermarkets into ovens overnight, similar cyberattacks have hit shops in other European countries and again caused refrigerated food to be spoiled. Belgium, Luxembourg and Sweden affected “[In Belgium,]…
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Trezor warns some of its wallets may hide a seed-stealing implant
A Trezor Safe 5 sold by CryptoBilis, the reseller linked to the recent Ledger wallet drains, may contain a hidden implant that steals the owner’s recovery phrase, Trezor has warned. Trezor is a Czech company and part of SatoshiLabs Group. It has made hardware wallets since 2014,…
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Chainalysis breached using “offensive agentic techniques”
Blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis has suffered a cybersecurity incident that led to a data breach. According to the company’s Friday announcement, the incident is unrelated to the recent Binance hack. What was accessed? In October, the company detected external attackers…
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FBI pins $6.3 billion Binance crypto heist on North Korea while scammers circle anxious users
North Korea was behind the theft of more than $6 billion in cryptocurrency from Binance, the FBI has confirmed. “The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is releasing information advising the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) was responsible for the theft of…
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DeepSeek open-sources Super-Agent, a coding agent that watches team chats for work
Deepseek released a research prototype of dsh-superagent, a coding agent that does work on a GitHub repository for you. Who can ask for work The agent gets to work in two situations: an allowed user asks for something, or a rule your team wrote covers it. You can also open up a…
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The first ten lines of a command policy for AI coding agents
In this Help Net Security interview, Vinay Thakker, CTO of KloudStax, explains how to set identity, credentials, and network limits for AI agents. He argues that agents should run under their own identity, with the person’s identity attached when acting on someone’s behalf. He…
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Byoky: Open-source wallet for AI API keys
Byoky is an open-source wallet for AI API keys, available as a Chrome and Firefox extension and as iOS and Android apps. Users store their keys for OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini and other providers in it, encrypted on their own device. Apps that want those keys ask the wallet…
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Product showcase: Trust Onion uses rotating codewords to verify callers
Trust Onion is a free app that gives trusted groups three rotating codewords to check who they are communicating with. It also includes signed selfies, message checks, and callback requests. It is available for macOS, iOS, and Android. I tested the iPhone app with an older…
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Ransomware gang talked AI agents into doing much of its dirty work
The group behind the Aur0ra ransomware has been using AI agents to move through victim networks, collect credentials and work its way up to domain administrator access, according to Sophos. AI-assisted intrusion workflow (Source: Sophos) The company, which tracks the group as…
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Week in review: Binance hit by $6.3 billion theft, impact of Brotli vulnerability
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: r/opensource bans AI projects, and solo devs go down with them Moderators of r/opensource, Reddit’s catch-all forum for open source software, have barred any project that “uses AI,…
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Assad regime hacker who caused $136 billion market drop sentenced to 42 months
A Syrian man who used a hijacked news agency Twitter account to post a fake report of explosions at the White House has been sentenced to 42 months in prison, the US Department of Justice has announced. Ahmad Umar Agha, also known as “Th3Pr0”, was sentenced on Thursday by a…
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Shufti ties AI agent actions to verified owners and permissions
Shufti launches Know Your Agent (KYA), an AI agent verification solution designed to verify autonomous AI agents acting on behalf of individuals and businesses. Agentic commerce enables AI agents to open accounts, place orders, and move funds for their owners. A business…
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Bedrock Data routes data exposure fixes to owners and verifies results
Bedrock Data has announced AI-assisted remediation, which federates the work of fixing data exposure to the data owners across the enterprise. Bedrock Data discovers who owns each exposed dataset, opens a ticket for that owner in the Jira or ServiceNow workflow the enterprise…
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Claude Code extension poisoned with persistent SSH backdoor
A tampered build of Anthropic’s Claude Code extension for VS Code-compatible editors planted an SSH backdoor on developers’ machines, researchers at macOS security firm Phorion have found. The company spotted the malicious package, version 2.1.313, on Open VSX, an open-source…
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Open-weight AI model GLM-5.3 cheated its way to correct answers
Irregular evaluated Zhipu AI’s open-weight model GLM-5.3 across 13 offensive cyber scenarios using CyScenarioBench, the company’s framework for measuring an LLM’s ability to plan and execute multistage attacks under realistic constraints. The model refused none of the tasks and…
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Binance hit by $6.3 billion theft in what could be the biggest crypto heist on record
About $6.3 billion in cryptocurrency was stolen from Binance in what might be the biggest crypto hack in history. “Binance’s initial investigation suggests that the security incident may involve a compromised DevOps engineer’s laptop, which allowed an attacker to gain access to…
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Fake IT help desk callers got by on little more than names and email addresses
Attackers posing as IT help desk staff contacted employees by phone, email and Microsoft Teams in the third quarter of 2026 and talked them into opening remote access sessions, Cisco Talos Incident Response (Talos IR) found across several engagements. In one case, that access…
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What exactly is ISOC? And what does it mean for you?
Gartner recently released a new category of assessing security tools: the Integrated Security Operations Center (ISOC). Even though SIEM isn’t going anywhere, a rapidly evolving threat landscape is forcing a shift in industry logic that is reflected in the emergence of this new…
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Scammers rebuild fake shopping sites within hours of a takedown
One retail scam used more than 1,200 look-alike .shop domains sharing a single IP address. The sites reused HTML, JavaScript and payment-page designs intended to harvest card numbers, expiry dates and security codes, according Akamai’s Fraud and Abuse Report 2026. A ticket scam…