The US Department of Homeland Security has revealed plans to spend more than $100 million on systems designed to take out hostile drones.   While not a formal announcement per se, DHS published a notice Wednesday in its Acquisition Planning Forecast System,...

Jon von Tetzchner, CEO of Norway-based browser maker Vivaldi, believes the tech industry's efforts to automate web browsing using generative AI models have gone too far. "Every startup is doing AI, and there is a push for AI inside products and services...

The U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has sanctioned two individuals and two companies associated with North Korean IT worker schemes that operate at the expense of American organizations. These schemes involve placing in U.S. firms...

The FBI and Dutch police today said that they seized two domains and a blog tied to VerifTools, an international criminal marketplace that sold identity documents for as little as $9. VerifTools was one of the largest online shops for fake driver's licenses,...

OpenAI's ChatGPT appears to be more likely to refuse to respond to questions posed by fans of the Los Angeles Chargers football team than to followers of other teams. And it's more likely to refuse requests from women than men when prompted to produce...

Microsoft warns that a threat actor tracked as Storm-0501 has evolved its operations, shifting away from encrypting devices with ransomware to focusing on cloud-based encryption, data theft, and extortion. The hackers now abuse native cloud features to...

The Sangoma FreePBX Security Team is warning about an actively exploited FreePBX zero-day vulnerability that impacts systems with the Administrator Control Panel (ACP) is exposed to the internet. FreePBX is an open-source PBX (Private Branch Exchange) platform...

Google says a recent spate of Salesforce-related breaches was caused by attackers stealing OAuth tokens from the third-party Salesloft Drift app. Drift is used for automating sales processes, and it integrates with Salesforce databases, pulling relevant...

Cyberbullying is a fact of life in our digital-centric society, but there are ways to push back 27 Aug 2025  •  , 4 min. read For better or worse, the digital world in many ways resembles its physical counterpart. Unfortunately, that means it sometimes enables,...

The discovery of PromptLock shows how malicious use of AI models could supercharge ransomware and other threats 26 Aug 2025  •  , 2 min. read ESET researchers have discovered what they called "the first known AI-powered ransomware". The malware, which ESET has...