09 Mar

AI vs AI: Agent hacked McKinsey’s chatbot and gained full read-write access in just two hours

Researchers at red-team security startup CodeWall say their AI agent hacked McKinsey’s internal AI platform and gained full read and write access to the chatbot

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09 Mar

ShinyHunters claims more high-profile victims in latest Salesforce customers data heist

ShinyHunters told The Register that it has stolen data from about 100 high-profile companies in its latest Salesforce customer data heist, including Salesforce itself. “Have

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09 Mar

EV charger biz ELECQ zapped by ransomware crooks, customer contact data stolen

Exclusive ELECQ, maker of smart electric vehicle (EV) chargers, is warning customers that their personal details may have been stolen in a ransomware attack that

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09 Mar

Dutch cops warn 100 alleged scammers: Turn yourselves in or we tell Grandma

Dutch national police are taking a novel stand against scammers – 100 suspects now have less than two weeks to hand themselves in or face

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09 Mar

Russian cybercrims phish their way into officials’ Signal and WhatsApp accounts

Russian-linked hackers are trying to break into the Signal and WhatsApp accounts of government officials, journalists, and military personnel globally – not by cracking encryption,

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09 Mar

Microsoft Azure CTO set Claude on his 1986 Apple II code, says it found vulns

AI can reverse engineer machine code and find vulnerabilities in ancient legacy architectures, says Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich, who used his own Apple II

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09 Mar

Royal Navy races to arm ships against drone threat

Britain’s Royal Navy is urgently seeking a ship-based counter-drone system and recent world events likely explain why. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has issued a

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09 Mar

Iran is the first out-loud cyberwar the US has fought

Kettle Unlike previous military conflicts, the cyber domain has been front and center since the Trump administration invaded Iran, upending the traditionally quiet role played

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08 Mar

FBI is investigating breach that may have hit its wiretapping tools

Infosec In Brief The FBI is investigating a breach of its systems which reportedly affected systems related to wiretapping and surveillance. “The FBI identified and

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08 Mar

AI agents now help attackers, including North Korea, manage their drudge work

interview AI agents allow cybercriminals and nation-state hackers to outsource the “janitorial-type work” needed to plan and carry out cyberattacks, according to Sherrod DeGrippo, Microsoft’s

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06 Mar

Firefox taps Anthropic AI bug hunter, but rancid RAM still flipping bits

Thanks to Anthropic’s AI and its bug-detecting abilities, Firefox users can now enjoy stronger security. Unfortunately, if browser crashes rather than security flaws are the

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06 Mar

Spyware disguised as emergency-alert app sent to Israeli smartphones

Hamas-linked attackers are dropping spyware disguised as an emergency-alert app on Israelis’ smartphones via SMS messages, according to security researchers. Acronis Threat Research Unit (TRU)

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06 Mar

Cisco warns of two more SD-WAN bugs under active attack

Just when network admins thought the Cisco SD-WAN patch queue might finally be shrinking, Switchzilla has confirmed miscreants are exploiting more vulnerabilities in its SD-WAN

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06 Mar

Microsoft spots ClickFix campaign getting users to self-pwn on Windows Terminal

A new twist on the long-running ClickFix scam is now tricking Windows users into launching Windows Terminal and pasting malware into it themselves – handing

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06 Mar

Son of government contractor arrested after alleged $46M crypto heist from US Marshals

The son of a government contractor was arrested in the Caribbean after allegedly stealing more than $46 million in seized cryptocurrency from the US Marshals

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06 Mar

Microsoft finally gets around to fixing Windows 10 Recovery Environment after breaking it in October

Microsoft has finally fixed a Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) bug it introduced in Windows 10’s final update. The October 14, 2025 update – released the

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06 Mar

Transport for London says 2024 breach affected 7M customers, not 5,000

Transport for London has confirmed that a 2024 breach exposed the data of more than 7 million people – a far larger crowd than the

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06 Mar

What cybersecurity actually does for your business

Business Security The ability to continue operating safely in an unsafe environment where competitors cannot is a competitive advantage that is rarely measured or discussed

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