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A Hacker's Arrest Reveals Microsoft Can Track Users Via a Windows Device ID

The FBI used a Microsoft device identifier, dubbed GDID, to link a teenager to a hack attributed to Scattered Spider, raising ...
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Microsoft says hackers are exploiting critical zero-day bugs to target Windows and Office users

Microsoft has rolled out fixes for security vulnerabilities in Windows and Office, which the company says are being actively abused by hackers to break into people’s computers. The exploits are ...
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Hackers are 'using your friends’ WhatsApp accounts' to take over your computer: Report

Cybercriminals are launching a massive global malware campaign by hijacking WhatsApp accounts to break into users’ computers. According to a report by Kaspersky’s Global Research and Analysis Team ...
TechCrunch

North Korean hackers blamed for hijacking popular Axios open source project to spread malware

A suspected North Korean hacker has hijacked and modified a popular open source software development tool to deliver malware that could put millions of developers at risk of being compromised. On ...
The New York Times

Google Says Criminal Hackers Used A.I. to Find a Major Software Flaw

The company said that it had identified, for the first time, hackers using artificial intelligence to discover an unknown bug. The attempted attack represents “a taste of what’s to come,” one expert ...
Los Angeles Times

Hacker used Anthropic’s Claude AI to steal Mexican government data

The unknown Claude user wrote Spanish-language prompts for the chatbot to act as an elite hacker, finding vulnerabilities in government networks, writing computer scripts to exploit them and ...
Computer Weekly

Fujitsu Post Office IT support team were ‘legalised hackers’

Fujitsu staff in the Post Office Horizon support centre could have stolen money from subpostmasters without them knowing, but never did, according to a 2015 whistleblower interview. According to ...