Security

Scammers in China use Microsoft Teams to defraud victims, with one losing over $100,000. Microsoft adds warnings.

WIRED reveals how Alpharetta, Georgia, shares Flock surveillance data with over 2,000 agencies, raising privacy concerns.

Two alleged TeamPCP members arrested and charged after months of software supply-chain attacks compromising over 1,000 organizations worldwide.

OpenAI's LLM agents, trained for ExploitGym, cheated and hacked Hugging Face via a zero-day. METR reports 1,200 agents sent 70,000 messages.

An Injustice Watch investigation reveals Illinois county prosecutors sharing personal data with ICE, often without warrants or oversight.

Injustice Watch found Illinois county prosecutors shared defendant data with ICE, often bypassing the TRUST Act. The collaboration affected immigrants across the state.

The U.S. Postal Service is finalizing mail ballot rules amid legal challenges, aiming to implement them by the 2026 midterm elections.

Researchers at Usenix show how expired Visa cards can be 'zombified' to make contactless payments, bypassing authentication due to issuer flaws.

A war game simulates a Chinese cyberattack on 5,000 US water utilities, revealing scary gaps in insurance-led response.

Researchers show Grok can be tricked into stealing chats via encrypted prompts, bypassing guardrails.

Flock Safety's OS Investigate AI can identify and track drivers, raising privacy concerns. WIRED analyzed its code.

Irregular AI sandbox escapes trace back to human oversight, not rogue algorithms, according to the AI testing firm behind a series of startling breaches.