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SMS blasters, npm brandsquatting, and 3.4M exposed RDP/VNC servers headline weekly threat roundup
Canadian authorities arrested three men running an SMS blaster — a fake cellular tower that forces nearby phones to connect and delivers phishing texts imperson
Sygnia, DigitalMint insiders get 4 years for moonlighting as BlackCat affiliates
Two incident response professionals who were supposed to defend victims instead joined the attackers. Ryan Clifford Goldberg, a former Sygnia IR manager, and Ke
TeamPCP hijacks SAP npm packages in scaled-down Shai-Hulud-style worm attack
A threat actor tracking as TeamPCP compromised npm packages tied to SAP, deploying a self-propagating payload that researchers are calling a 'Mini Shai-Hulud' d
Trump pulls Means surgeon general pick, taps Fox News radiologist Saphier
Trump withdrew Casey Means's stalled surgeon general nomination and replaced her with Nicole B. Saphier, a Memorial Sloan Kettering breast radiologist, Fox News
UK AISI: GPT-5.5 matches Claude Mythos on vuln-finding, and it's shipping now
The UK's AI Security Institute has published its evaluation of OpenAI's GPT-5.5, focusing on the model's ability to discover security vulnerabilities. AISI prev
Windows 11 admins get dynamic uninstall list for preinstalled Store apps
Microsoft has expanded its RemoveDefaultMicrosoftStorePackages policy so IT admins can specify any preinstalled MSIX/APPX app for removal by Package Family Name
Windows 11 KB5083631 preview ships Xbox mode, hardened batch file execution
Microsoft pushed the KB5083631 optional preview to Windows 11 24H2 and 25H2, bumping builds to 26100.8328 and 26200.8328 with 34 non-security changes destined f
Windows 11 KB5083769 update breaks third-party backup tools via VSS timeout
Microsoft's April 2026 KB5083769 security update is breaking backup software on Windows 11 24H2 and 25H2 by causing Volume Shadow Copy Service snapshots to time
Zig creator: LLM-assisted PRs leave a 'digital smell' maintainers can detect
Andrew Kelley, creator of the Zig programming language, pushed back on the assumption that maintainers can't distinguish AI-generated contributions from human o
AI Agent Surfaces 38 Bugs in OpenEMR, Exposing Health Record Attack Surface
An AI-driven code analysis run against OpenEMR, a widely deployed open-source electronic health record platform, surfaced 38 distinct security flaws. The findin
AI-Assisted Reverse Engineering Surfaces High-Severity GitHub Flaw
Researchers leveraged AI tooling to reverse engineer GitHub internals and uncover a high-severity vulnerability in the platform. The approach demonstrates how l
Anthropic's Mythos Disclosure Rattles Japanese Financial Sector
Anthropic's recent disclosure of a Claude-driven autonomous attack campaign — dubbed Mythos — has triggered alarm across Japan's financial services industry. In