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A fake AI agent skill passed every security scanner and reportedly reached 26,000 agents

Security firm AIR built a fake AI agent skill, pushed it through a popular skill marketplace and promoted it with an Instagram ad, and says it reached roughly 26,000 agents, including some on corporate accounts. Every skill security scanner the firm tested it against marked it safe. The payload was harmless by design, collecting only […]

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Google is simultaneously the most dominant and most vulnerable it has ever been

Google’s financial performance has never been stronger. Alphabet posted $109.9 billion in revenue in the first quarter of 2026, up 22 per cent year on year, the fastest growth rate in any quarter since 2022, with search advertising revenue climbing 19.1 per cent and queries hitting an all-time high. And yet the week before these numbers […]

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LastPass says hackers stole customer data through a supply chain breach at Klue

LastPass is notifying customers that their personal information and customer support case data were stolen after hackers breached Klue, a competitive intelligence vendor that held OAuth tokens granting access to LastPass’s Salesforce environment. The breach did not compromise LastPass’s own infrastructure or its customers’ encrypted password vaults. The stolen data includes names, phone numbers, email […]

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Tata Electronics breach claims to expose Apple and Tesla trade secrets

A ransomware group says it lifted more than 630 gigabytes from the Indian manufacturer, including purported design files belonging to two of its biggest customers. The authenticity of those files is unconfirmed. India’s Tata Electronics has confirmed that it detected a cybersecurity incident on some of its systems a few weeks ago, after a ransomware […]

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Five Eyes alliance warns frontier AI cyber threats are ‘months’ away

The Five Eyes intelligence alliance has issued a joint warning that the next generation of artificial intelligence is poised to supercharge offensive hacking, and that the window to prepare for it is closing fast. In a coordinated statement, the agencies of the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand said urgent action […]

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Cloudflare teams up with Chrome, Firefox, and Edge on a privacy-first anti-bot protocol

Cloudflare has announced a joint initiative with Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, and Microsoft Edge to develop a new internet protocol that verifies whether web traffic is legitimate without tracking users. The protocol, called Private Access Control Tokens, is designed to replace CAPTCHAs and forced logins with anonymous tokens that prove a visitor is human or […]

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Anthropic’s new privacy policy collects biometric data from flagged Claude users

Anthropic has updated its privacy policy to allow the company to require some Claude users to upload government-issued identification and submit selfie photos or videos for identity verification. The updated policy, which takes effect on July 8, introduces a new category of personal data collection that includes facial geometry templates, a data type that may […]

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Nearly 7,000 fake Amazon domains registered ahead of Prime Day 2026, researchers warn

Cybersecurity researchers have identified nearly 7,000 fraudulent Amazon-themed domains registered in the six months leading up to Prime Day 2026, which begins on 23 June. Check Point Research tracked 6,843 new domains created between December 2025 and May 2026, with registrations peaking at 1,446 in April and remaining elevated at 1,267 in May. Of the […]

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Ireland takes the EU presidency with Big Tech paying 40 per cent of its tax bill

Ireland takes over the rotating presidency of the Council of the EU on 1 July, inheriting a legislative agenda that includes proposals to curb Europe’s reliance on American tech, simplify the bloc’s digital rulebook, decide whether to ban children from social media, and overhaul telecom regulations. The country holding the presidency is supposed to act as […]

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Nearly 60% of TikTok videos shown to new users are AI slop, study finds

Nearly six out of every ten videos TikTok serves to a brand-new account are AI-generated junk. That is the central finding of a report published by video editing platform Kapwing, which analysed 10,742 TikTok videos across 20 popular categories and separately examined the first 500 videos shown on the For You page of a freshly […]

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