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AI is flooding bug bounties. Microsoft paid a record; Apple slammed the door

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AI has learned to find software bugs faster than people can, and the programmes that pay for them are straining. In a single week, the three biggest went three different ways. Microsoft paid out a record sum. Apple slammed the door on how many bugs a researcher can file. Google quietly repriced the whole thing. […]

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Cracken opens self-serve access to its AI-powered offensive cybersecurity platform

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Cracken, a San Francisco-based applied AI lab focused on offensive cybersecurity, has launched a self-serve version of its proactive security platform. Enterprise security teams and individual practitioners can now create an account and start testing their own organisations against real attack paths without a procurement cycle or sales call. It is the first time the […]

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Deel acquires deepfake-detection startup Clarity as fake hire problem grows

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Deel, the global HR and payroll platform, has acquired Clarity, a Tel Aviv-based AI cybersecurity startup that detects deepfakes and verifies identities in real time. The deal, reportedly worth between $45 million and $50 million in a mix of cash and shares, is Deel’s 15th acquisition and its first in Israel. The announcement landed alongside […]

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A gang stole £14,244 to buy AI chatbot credits. His bank spotted the first charge and let the rest happen.

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A businessman in Sussex watched £14,244 drain out of his Metro Bank account. The money went on credits for Claude, the AI chatbot he already paid to use. Two things failed at once. Criminals had turned a chatbot into a way to cash out stolen cards. And his bank spotted the first fraudulent charge, warned […]

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A worm tore through npm by making the malware look perfectly legitimate

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A self-spreading worm tore through npm on Tuesday. It poisoned hundreds of packages that huge swathes of the software world quietly rely on. Researchers named it ChainDrop. It is a bigger, meaner descendant of the smaller Shai-Hulud attack that hit the registry earlier this summer. It began by hijacking the GitHub account of the developer […]

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Upwind first to report malicious Keyv release that threatened thousands of JavaScript projects

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For years, software supply chain attacks focused on compromising widely used applications after they had already been deployed. Increasingly, however, attackers are shifting their attention further upstream, targeting the open-source packages developers rely on every day. The latest example arrived when Upwind became the first to identify and publicly report a malicious release of the […]

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Someone posted 55 vulnerabilities in days. 54 were AI-invented. One still scored a perfect 10.

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The software industry runs on a shared list of known bugs. Someone is now seeding that list with breakage that no one ever found. Security firm JFrog found six critical SQLite flaws that were pure fiction, it reported. The advisories claimed severe memory bugs with scores up to 9.8. But the functions they blamed did […]

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Britain didn’t drop its Apple backdoor. It cut the Americans out and tried again.

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Britain tried to force a backdoor into Apple’s encryption last year and lost. It has not given up. It has narrowed the demand, served it again, and Apple is back in a secret court to fight it. Apple has filed a fresh challenge at the Investigatory Powers Tribunal, the closed UK court for secret-surveillance cases, […]

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AI agents are breaking into companies on their own. The law has no idea who to blame.

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The strangest security story in AI has an unanswered question at its centre. When an AI agent breaks its leash, hacks a company it was never meant to touch, and no human told it to, who is liable? Nobody is quite sure. That gap is starting to matter. The question is not hypothetical. Over recent […]

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A hack hit the one list a wealth haven guards most: the names behind its shell companies

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Of all the databases a wealth haven would least like to lose, this one is near the top. A cyberattack has reached the data of about 31,000 people in Liechtenstein’s register of the individuals behind its companies, foundations and trusts. The government disclosed the breach on Monday. Intruders reached the “register of economic beneficiaries” overnight […]

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