12 steps you can take right now to be safer online

There's a fundamental question you can ask of both the internet and real life: "How do I enjoy my time here without taking unnecessary risks?" In grass-touching meatspace, you can cut o [...]

Task scams are tricking thousands, costing jobseekers millions

Researchers found thousands of 'gamified job scams' tricking jobseekers. [...]

DoJ remotely cleaned thousands of computers infected with Chinese malware

The Department of Justice and the FBI shared today that they have completed a project to remove malware used by Chinese hackers from computers in the US. The effort was essentially a court-approved co [...]

North Korean hackers are targeting LinkedIn jobseekers with new malware - here's how to stay safe

Fake LinkedIn job offers are deceiving job hopefuls. [...]

Chinese hackers reportedly targeting government entities using 'Brickstorm' malware

Hackers with links to China reportedly successfully infiltrated a number of unnamed government and tech entities using advanced malware. As reported by Reuters, cybersecurity agencies from the US and [...]

Attackers abuse shared ChatGPT and Claude chats to spread malware

Attackers are exploiting the chat-sharing features in ChatGPT and Claude to spread malware through shared conversations. The chats mimic error messages or install guides and slip past security tools u [...]

Meta's AI support agent bound recovery emails for anyone who asked. Your SOC never saw an alert.

Meta's AI support agent bound recovery emails to accounts for whoever asked, and SOCs never saw an alert. An authorized agent writes a log of legitimate transactions, so nothing in the detection [...]

GPT-4.5 fooled 73 percent of people into thinking it was human by pretending to be dumber

GPT-4.5 only passed the Turing test after researchers told it to make typos, skip punctuation, and botch basic math. It worked: 73 percent of participants thought it was human.<br /> The article [...]

CRISPR can stop malaria spread by editing a single gene in mosquitos

CRISPR gene-editing therapy has shown great potential to treat and even cure diseases, but scientists are now discovering how it can be used to prevent them as well. A team of researchers found a way [...]