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US government body paid $1M to hackers who never locked a single file

A US government entity paid around $1m to stop stolen files from being published, according to a case study by researcher Rakesh Krishnan for Ransom-ISAC. The analysis draws on a leaked negotiation chat and the blockchain trail the payment left behind. The group behind the deal calls itself Kairos, but it may not be a ransomware gang […]

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Alibaba bans Claude Code after Anthropic is caught tracking Chinese users with hidden code

Alibaba has banned its employees from using Claude Code, Anthropic’s AI-powered coding agent, after security researchers discovered that the tool contained hidden code designed to identify Chinese users. The ban, effective 10 July, follows weeks of escalating conflict between the two companies over allegations that Alibaba stole Anthropic’s AI capabilities through industrial-scale distillation. “As Claude Code was […]

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The man who built Pegasus now sells governments the antidote, and Latin America is buying

Dream, the Israeli AI cybersecurity startup that tripled its valuation to $3 billion this year, is expanding into Latin America. The company is targeting governments aligned with Washington in a region where cyber attacks are reportedly growing 25% annually and national defences rank among the weakest in the world. The expansion is notable for what […]

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North Korea-linked npm packages impersonate Rollup polyfill tools to steal developer secrets

Security researchers at JFrog have identified a set of malicious npm packages linked to North Korean threat actors that impersonate legitimate Rollup polyfill tooling to steal developer credentials and enable remote access to compromised machines. The packages, named “rollup-packages-polyfill-core” and “rollup-runtime-polyfill-core,” mimic the legitimate “rollup-plugin-polyfill-node” project down to its description, repository metadata, and package structure. […]

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The emails that broke Anthropic and the Pentagon apart

For months, the fight between Anthropic and the Pentagon looked like a row over access to Claude. Court documents released this week suggest it was about something bigger: who decides how the US military uses frontier AI. The emails came out on Tuesday, in one of the lawsuits Anthropic has filed against the Department of […]

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Spain’s LALIGA piracy blocks knocked out 500,000+ innocent websites

For much of this year, Spanish internet users have lost access to huge parts of the web on match days. Not pirate streams, but human rights groups, climate charities and business tools. A new report puts hard numbers on the damage, and they are staggering. The culprit is Spain’s football league, LALIGA, and its court-backed […]

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GoDaddy warns India’s fake-site crackdown could damage the internet

The world’s biggest seller of website addresses says a court order in India could make the internet less safe. GoDaddy is fighting new rules meant to stop fake sites impersonating famous brands. It warns the cure could expose millions of legitimate site owners, and not only in India. The order came from the Delhi High […]

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