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Crypto scammers impersonate Iran, sell fake safe-passage to ships at Hormuz
Scammers posing as Iranian authorities are extorting bitcoin and tether payments from shipping companies stranded near the Strait of Hormuz, dangling false prom
GopherWhisper: China-Linked Go Backdoors Breach 12 Mongolian Government Systems
A China-aligned threat cluster dubbed GopherWhisper has compromised at least 12 Mongolian government systems using a family of Go-based backdoors. The choice of
iOS Bug Preserved Deleted Signal Messages Long Enough for FBI Recovery
Apple has shipped a patch for an iOS defect that left supposedly-deleted Signal messages recoverable by forensic tooling. The flaw meant the operating system re
iOS Push Notification Database Leaks Signal Messages to Forensic Extraction
FBI forensic analysts pulled incoming Signal message content from a defendant's iPhone even after the Signal app was deleted. The messages persisted in iOS's pu
Mirai variant weaponizes RCE bug in end-of-life D-Link routers
A fresh Mirai botnet campaign is hunting end-of-life D-Link routers, chaining a remote code execution flaw to conscript unpatched devices into DDoS infrastructu
Qwen3.6-27B runs flagship coding benchmarks on a laptop in 16.8GB
Alibaba's Qwen team released Qwen3.6-27B, a dense 27B-parameter open-weight model they claim beats their previous flagship Qwen3.5-397B-A17B across major coding
RFK Jr. refuses to back CDC director on evidence-based vaccine policy
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. declined to commit to supporting evidence-based vaccine guidance from incoming CDC director nominee Erica Schwartz during
Tesla Q1 2026: $477M profit on thinner margins as regulatory credit revenue drops
Tesla posted $22.4 billion in Q1 2026 revenue, up 16 percent year over year, with net income of $477 million. Automotive revenue climbed to $16.2 billion on rou
Vercel Widens Compromised-Account Count in Context.ai Breach Fallout
Vercel has expanded the scope of a breach tied to Context.ai, disclosing that additional customer accounts were compromised beyond the initial set identified. T
'Zealot' Demo Shows AI Executing a Full Cloud Attack Chain End-to-End
A staged exercise dubbed Zealot illustrates how an AI agent can chain together the discrete steps of a cloud intrusion — reconnaissance, credential abuse, later
1,300+ SharePoint servers still exposed to actively exploited spoofing zero-day
Shadowserver's scans show more than 1,300 internet-facing Microsoft SharePoint servers remain unpatched against CVE-2026-32201, a spoofing flaw Microsoft disclo
Anthropic quietly A/B tested pulling Claude Code from Pro tier, then backtracked
Anthropic ran an unannounced pricing experiment on roughly 2% of new Pro-tier signups, gating Claude Code behind the $100/month Max plan. The test caught wider