Russian spies had AI rewrite their malware until antivirus missed it
A Russian espionage crew fed their own malware to an AI and told it to keep rewriting the code until security software stopped catching it.
A real web address doesn't make a screenshot real
Anybody with a desktop browser can retype the words on a web page, screenshot the result, and send you the picture as proof.
Check a suspicious link without opening it yourself
Paste a suspicious link into urlscan.io and a remote browser opens it instead of yours. You get a report and usually a screenshot.
Check for leaked passwords without sending yours
A website can tell you whether your password has appeared in a leak without receiving the password itself.
An AI image passed as a real Pixel photo
An AI-made picture now carries a Google-issued credential that says a Pixel camera captured it and that nothing has touched it since.
Windows malware can steal every passkey in Google Password Manager
Malware on a Windows PC can copy every passkey that Chrome saved to your Google account. Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 team found three ways to attack Google's synced passkeys.
Free code on GitHub claims to break Firefox and Docker
A stranger is handing out code that they say can break into everyday software, and anyone can download it for free.
A gift from Soviet children spied on America for 7 years
A carved wooden eagle hung behind the desk of the American ambassador in Moscow for 7 years, and the whole time a Soviet microphone was buried inside the wood.
An FBI agent memorized a suspect's crypto keys
An FBI agent told investigators he went into bureau systems, memorized the keys to crypto wallets from a case he worked, and moved the money to himself.
700 OpenAI agents joined forces to hack Hugging Face
About 700 OpenAI agents joined an attack on Hugging Face while trying to cheat on a hacking test. They were supposed to work alone inside isolated test computers.