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The Hacker News (Security) 1 hr ago

AI Attacks Move in Minutes. Join This Webinar on Building a Defense That Keeps Up

AI has changed how fast attacks move. Work that once took an attacker days now takes minutes. Using models like Mythos, attackers write tailored bait, pick t...

The Hacker News (Security) 3 hr ago

Summer of Clearinghouses

Everyone seems to have announced a clearinghouse over the past few weeks. We did too. Ours is called Athena, and the main thing that sets it apart is that it...

The Hacker News (Security) 3 hr ago

GodDamn Ransomware Uses PoisonX Driver to Disable Endpoint Defenses

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new ransomware family called GodDamn that employs the PoisonX kernel driver to neutralize security software as part ...

The Hacker News (Security) 5 hr ago

Microsoft Patches RoguePlanet Defender Flaw That Can Grant SYSTEM Privileges

Microsoft has released security updates for a Defender vulnerability known as RoguePlanet, nearly a month after details of the flaw became public. The vulner...

The Hacker News (Security) 6 hr ago

Meta's New AI Image Tool Lets Others Use Your Public Instagram Photos in AI Images

Meta has announced that its new artificial intelligence (AI) model Muse Image lets people use public Instagram posts and reels to generate AI content, and it...

The Hacker News (Security) 8 hr ago

Top AI Agents Built to Catch Malicious Code Can Be Tricked Into Running It

Ask an AI coding agent to scan open-source code for security holes, and it might run the attacker's code on your own machine instead. That is the finding in ...

The Hacker News (Security) 9 hr ago

GhostApproval Symlink Flaws Could Let Malicious Repos Run Code in AI Coding Agents

Researchers at Wiz found that a flaw in six popular AI coding assistants lets a booby-trapped code project quietly take control of a developer's computer. Th...

The Hacker News (Security) 10 hr ago

Fake 7-Zip Installers Turn Devices Into Residential Proxy Nodes

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new threat actor dubbed Lurking Lizard that has been operating an end-to-end malicious residential prox...

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The Hacker News (Security) 21 hr ago

AI Coding Agents Found Triggering Endpoint Security Rules Built to Catch Attackers

Sophos looked at a week of its own endpoint data and found that AI coding agents such as Claude Code, Cursor, and OpenAI Codex are setting off detection rule...

The Hacker News (Security) 23 hr ago

New HalluSquatting Attack Could Trick AI Coding Assistants Into Installing Botnet Malware

AI coding assistants have a habit of making things up. Ask one to fetch a popular tool, and it will sometimes hand back a real-sounding name for a project th...

The Hacker News (Security) 23 hr ago

Ubiquiti Patches Critical UniFi Flaws Across Connect, Talk, Access, Protect, and OS

Ubiquiti has shipped updates to address multiple critical security flaws impacting UniFi Connect, UniFi Talk, UniFi Access, UniFi Protect, and UniFi OS that ...

The Hacker News (Security) 1d ago

New Ghost Phishing Wave Is Breaking Traditional Email Security

A recent EvilTokens campaign targeting businesses across the US and Europe is exposing a new email security blind spot. This “ghost phishing” technique keeps...