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FIFA World Cup 2026 is a cybercriminal’s dream, and the scams are already live

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The most oversubscribed sporting event in history is also the most phished. With more than 150 million ticket requests in the first 15 days and just six million seats across 16 cities in the US, Canada, and Mexico, the 2026 FIFA World Cup has created exactly the conditions that fraud thrives on: scarcity, urgency, and money moving […]

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While tech week talks AI, Scytale is talking about what’s actually killing deals

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The conversation at this year’s NY Tech Week is about AI. The panels, the pitch decks, the happy hours: agents that code, agents that sell, infrastructure for the agents. Then a screen mounted to a truck shows a man sitting on a toilet, staring at his phone in open panic. The line underneath: “His prospect […]

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Publishing professionals are becoming prime targets for impersonation

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An aspiring author receives an email from a “literary agent” expressing enthusiasm about their manuscript. The message is polished, personalized, and professional. The sender references recent bestsellers, adaptation potential, and submission strategy. The agency website looks legitimate, the LinkedIn profile appears credible, and the tone sounds authoritative and reassuring. Then comes the catch with one […]

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A single GitHub issue could have hijacked Anthropic’s own Claude Code action and poisoned every project that uses it

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The attack starts with a GitHub issue. Not a sophisticated one. Just an issue opened by a bot account with a carefully worded body that looks like an error message. When Claude Code’s GitHub Action picks it up for triage, it follows the instructions hidden inside, reads the process’s environment variables, and writes them back […]

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A popular OpenAI Codex tool with 29,000 weekly downloads has been quietly stealing developer tokens for a month

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The npm package looked legitimate. It had an active GitHub repository, steady development history, and roughly 29,000 weekly downloads. For developers using OpenAI Codex, it offered exactly what it advertised: a remote web UI for the AI coding tool. But for the past month, every invocation of codexui-android has also been silently reading the contents of […]

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One click on GitHub.dev is all it takes to hand over your private repositories

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Every developer who has ever pressed the period key on a GitHub repository, launching the convenient browser-based VS Code editor known as GitHub.dev, has unknowingly accepted a bargain. In exchange for a lightweight coding environment, GitHub silently passes an OAuth token to the session, one that grants read and write access to every repository the user […]

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Hackers brute-forced Dashlane’s two-factor authentication and downloaded encrypted password vaults

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Dashlane disclosed on Sunday that an external attacker launched a brute-force attack against its two-factor authentication system, successfully bypassing 2FA protections on fewer than 20 personal plan user accounts and downloading copies of their encrypted password vaults. The attack, which began on 31 May, triggered automatic account lockouts across a wider set of targeted users as […]

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Hackers hijacked Instagram accounts by asking Meta’s own AI chatbot to reset the password

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Hackers hijacked Instagram accounts over the weekend by tricking Meta’s own AI-powered support chatbot into granting them access. The attack required no access to the victim’s email, no phishing link, and no malware. The hacker simply asked the chatbot to add a new email address to someone else’s account. A video posted on X showed […]

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A WordPress plugin sold to 15,000 sites has a flaw that lets anyone create an admin account, and attackers are already using it

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A critical vulnerability in WP Maps Pro, a commercial WordPress plugin with more than 15,000 sales on the Envato Market, is being actively exploited by attackers to create malicious administrator accounts on vulnerable sites. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-8732 with a CVSS score of 9.8, allows unauthenticated users to gain full administrative control of any WordPress installation […]

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A GTA V cheat service that promised “enhanced privacy” just got hacked, exposing 64,000 accounts

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Atlas Menu, a cheat service for Grand Theft Auto V’s online mode, has been hacked, exposing the personal data of nearly 64,000 users. The stolen data included email addresses, usernames, hashed passwords, IP addresses, and support tickets, according to data breach notification service Have I Been Pwned. The breach was claimed by a hacker whose stated […]

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