Attackers are hiding a data-stealing trojan inside fake exploit code aimed at the people who hunt bugs for a living. The malware, called ChocoPoC, travels in Python proof-of-concept (PoC) repositories ...
Scammers armed with artificial intelligence can now clone a grandchild’s voice from a short social media clip and place a ...
Scammers armed with cheap, widely available AI voice-cloning tools are now impersonating senior U.S. government officials, ...
Threat actors are exploiting a recently patched security flaw impacting Gravity SMTP, a WordPress plugin that's installed on about 100,000 sites. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-4020 (CVSS ...
Exploiting a race condition in Microsoft Defender, the exploit leads to local privilege escalation to SYSTEM. A security researcher has released another zero-day exploit targeting Microsoft’s Windows ...
Update: Added statement from Microsoft to the end of this article. A security researcher has released a new Microsoft Defender zero-day exploit named "RoguePlanet" just hours after Microsoft fixed two ...
AI voice scams surged 1,210% in 2025, using just three seconds of audio to clone voices. Learn how scammers use data brokers to target families.
Microsoft has cut off access to dozens of its open source projects hosted on GitHub as it investigates how hackers apparently breached the projects and injected password-stealing malware into the code ...
The social media giant has informed authorities about the impact of the recent attack involving an account recovery support tool. Meta says roughly 20,000 Instagram accounts may have been hacked in a ...
Meta has revealed that 20,225 Instagram users had their accounts hijacked in a recent incident where attackers used Meta's AI-powered support system to reset passwords. As BleepingComputer reported ...
A ransomware gang has escalated its attacks on law firms by sometimes sending fake IT workers in person to the victims’ offices, where the imposters steal data directly from the victims’ computers ...
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