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Vishing crews ride SSO trust to drain SaaS estates in hours
Two crews tracked as Cordial Spider and Snarky Spider — both active since October 2025 and tied to The Com e-crime scene — are running fast extortion campaigns
Why Windows still ships with both TMP and TEMP — a 40-year compatibility scar
The dual TMP/TEMP environment variables are a fossil of the CP/M-to-MS-DOS transition. CP/M had no environment variables at all, so programs were configured by
Windows 11 gets a modernized Run dialog that beats the 30-year-old original on speed
Microsoft is testing a redesigned Run dialog in Windows 11 preview build 26300.8346, replacing the Win+R utility that has shipped largely unchanged since Window
AI-Assisted Scan Surfaces 9-Year-Old Bug Lurking in Linux
Another sweep using AI-driven static analysis has flagged a vulnerability that sat undetected in the Linux codebase for nearly a decade. The find continues a pa
Anthropic's Mythos Drop Resets the Clock on AI-Driven Vuln Discovery
Anthropic's Mythos release marks an inflection point for defensive security: an AI system capable of surfacing latent vulnerabilities at machine scale, compress
Bluekit phishing kit ships 40 templates and a multi-model AI drafting panel
Bluekit is a new phishing-as-a-service offering that bundles more than 40 ready-made templates targeting mainstream email providers, iCloud, GitHub, Ledger, and
Brazilian DDoS protection firm's infrastructure powered attacks on rival ISPs
An exposed file archive has tied Huge Networks, a Miami-registered, Brazil-operated DDoS mitigation provider, to a long-running botnet that has battered small B
Chinese EV hype meets US reality: cheap abroad, complicated at home
The Beijing Auto Show is fueling another round of breathless coverage about Chinese EVs running circles around Western automakers on price, range, and software.
Codex CLI 0.128.0 ships /goal — OpenAI's take on the Ralph loop
OpenAI's Codex CLI coding agent gained a /goal command in version 0.128.0 that turns the tool into a self-directed loop. Once a goal is set, Codex keeps iterati
'Copy Fail' kernel flaw hands root to any local Linux user since 2017
A logic bug in the Linux kernel's algif_aead cryptographic module, introduced by a 2017 in-place optimization commit, lets unprivileged local users write four c
DEEP#DOOR Python RAT hides C2 behind bore.pub tunnels, scrapes browser and cloud creds
Securonix has documented DEEP#DOOR, a Python-based backdoor framework delivered through a batch dropper that disables Windows security controls, extracts an emb
DOJ sends two cybersecurity insiders to prison for moonlighting as BlackCat affiliates
Two industry practitioners — Ryan Goldberg, an incident response manager at Sygnia, and Kevin Martin of DigitalMint — drew four-year federal sentences for runni