Huntress has observed a 155x increase in password spraying attacks in the first half of 2026. Brute force is old news, but the spin driving that spike is new. One major contributor was a campaign targeting Microsoft’s Azure CLI, the command-line tool admins use to manage Azure and Entra resources. The traffic originated from an […]
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The developers at Guerilla Games are making a last-minute pivot for their live service co-op game set in the Horizon universe after receiving negative player feedback during recent playtests, Bloomberg reports. Horizon Hunters Gathering was supposed to be a live service co-op action game where you group up as a team of animated heroes and
A new Counterpoint Research report predicts that consumer wearables will generate more than $1 trillion in cumulative revenue through 2032, with smartwatches and wireless earbuds leading the pack. Here is the breakdown. In a report published today, Counterpoint Research says that “the global consumer wearables market is forecast to generate more than $1 trillion in
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The U.S. has charged 17 Iranians, alleged members of a hacking-for-hire company called Mabna Institute, involved in years-long operations that stole data from American organizations. Nine of the defendants were previously charged in a March 2018 indictment for hacking more than 300 universities and private companies. The U.S. Justice Department (DoJ) has also announced rewards
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ChatGPT maker OpenAI announced on Tuesday that it’s pausing the research and development of its newest AI models. This is a big course reversal for the firm, which has maintained that it can mitigate the significant cybersecurity risks posed by new AI models. “As models become more capable, the risks associated with developing and testing
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Bloomberg reports that despite Apple’s accidental inclusion of a demo video showcasing Visual Intelligence on AirPods, the product “remains on track for 2027.” Here are the details. Earlier this week, Apple accidentally included a video showcasing Visual Intelligence running on AirPods in the macOS 26.7 Release Candidate. Here is your first look at AirPods with
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In a large-scale campaign that researchers dubbed CameraSwarm, hackers compromised more than 14,500 Dahua IP cameras mostly in Ukraine and Russia. The operation ran for at least 35 days between June 17 and July 22, compromising devices by exploiting vulnerabilities, brute-forcing logins, and using offline recovery codes from serial numbers for cloud-registered cameras. Researchers at
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Health-tracking wearables offer insight into what’s going on inside our bodies, and it’s become increasingly common for those details to come at a cost – not just once, at purchase, but as part of a monthly or yearly membership. On Tuesday, Whoop, maker of the screenless Whoop 5.0 fitness tracker, announced that it’s branching beyond
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Update, 8:54 p.m. ET: OpenAI says the issue is now fully resolved. The original story follows below. OpenAI has confirmed that users are encountering errors when trying to log in to their accounts or create new ones. Here are the details. According to OpenAI’s system status page, all ChatGPT “signups and logins are down as
