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Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a two-pronged artificial intelligence (AI)-augmented initial access campaign targeting WordPress sites, e-commerce platforms, and critical infrastructure entities in Ukraine. The activity, which brings together commodity offensive tools like Cobalt Strike with an AI orchestration layer powered by Anthropic’s Claude Code, has been attributed…
The Hacker News
Websites that rely on Let’s Encrypt will soon have to renew their TLS certificates more often. Starting February 10, 2027, the certificate authority will issue certificates valid for 64 days by default, down from 90 days. Subscribers who already use Let’s Encrypt’s optional 45-day or 6-day certificates are not affected. The organization expects the last…
Help Net Security
A side hustle often starts small: a few clients, a laptop and whatever tools you need to get the work done. But if it becomes your full-time business, a lot can change. You may be working online all day, handling more customer information, using more business accounts and services, or even bringing other people into…
Bitdefender
Running a small business means dealing with problems you can’t always control: finding good employees, keeping costs down, bringing in enough sales, paying taxes and planning for what’s next. Scammers often take advantage of those pressures, offering solutions that turn out to be scams. Key takeaways: * Labor quality or availability was the top problem…
Bitdefender
You’re in the airport security line, one eye on your boarding pass and the other on a Black Friday deal that expires in ten minutes. The airport Wi-Fi is right there, free and fast. Do you trust it with your card details? The last months of the year change how we use the internet: more…
Bitdefender
A list of topics we covered in the week of October 5 to October 11 of 2026…
Malwarebytes
In this Help Net Security interview, Akshay Joshi, Head of the Centre for Cybersecurity at the World Economic Forum, talks about how AI, geopolitics and industrialized fraud are changing cyber risk. He discusses findings from the Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2026, including that CEOs now rank cyber-enabled fraud above ransomware as their top concern. Joshi explains…
Help Net Security
CyberLeek threatens to leak a playable GTA 6 build if its Solana meme coin hits a $30 million market cap, but the build remains unverified. CyberLeek, the anonymous figure behind this summer’s wave of GTA 6 leaks, just raised the stakes considerably. After dropping 25 minutes of gameplay footage earlier last week, including nudity and…
Security Affairs
AWS released Strands Box, an open source sandbox for AI agents that pairs operating-system isolation with rules that can weigh what an agent has already done before letting it act again. Box is in developer preview and runs on Macs with Apple silicon, with Linux support planned. If you run coding assistants, you’re familiar with…
Help Net Security
Online & Mobile tracking In 2020, noyb (in cooperation with the Norwegian Consumer Council) has filed a complaint against the online advertising company Xandr (now part of Microsoft) for processing personal data from the dating app Grindr. Now, the Norwegian Data Protection Authority has issued its decision – and fined Xandr € 8.5 million (NOK…
noyb
Researchers at Northwestern University tested AI coding agents on 112 real security bugs. They found that a patch which stops a crash often fails the checks the project’s maintainers wrote for the fix. With Claude Opus 4.7, third of the patches that made the crash go away still failed those maintainer tests. If you’re thinking…
Help Net Security
Many organizations adopt open source software because they see it as a cheaper alternative to proprietary development. Maintaining it, however, still requires engineering effort, according to Google’s case study, “How much does it cost to maintain a copy of an open source software package (at Google)?” Study suggests that most updates to its internal copies…
Help Net Security