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The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned two individuals and one entity for enabling ransomware attacks against U.S. organizations. On Monday, OFAC designated First VPN Service (1VPNS), a virtual private network provider that sold services to ransomware groups, and its administrator, Dmytro Rashevskyi. Since it surfaced in 2014, 1VPNS has advertised […]

Japan’s largest taxi operator, Nihon Kotsu, announced that its systems were compromised in a cyberattack, forcing the company to shut down part of its infrastructure. The incident occurred over the weekend, early Saturday morning, and impacted operations, including the company’s taxi dispatch system, which remains offline as of today. Nihon Kotsu is Japan’s largest taxi

Six vulnerabilities in the widely used U-Boot bootloader have been discovered that could allow attackers to execute malicious code during device boot, potentially enabling stealthy firmware attacks that compromise security protections and install persistent malware. U-Boot is one of the world’s most widely used open-source bootloaders and is found in many embedded Linux devices, including

The Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) issued an alert about a global exploitation campaign targeting vulnerable content management systems (CMS) and plugins. The government agency says that many Australian businesses have already been affected by the malicious activity, with webshells being deployed on their sites. Webshells provide persistent access to the compromised sites and allow

Researchers have built a pull request that steals a repository’s secrets by hiding the malicious instruction inside a PNG that AI code reviewers never open. The reviewer waves the change through. Later, a coding agent reads the picture, opens the repo’s .env, and writes every key into the source as a harmless-looking list of numbers.

Previously, Anthropic said Fable 5 would be included in Pro, Max, Team, and premium Enterprise subscriptions only through July 7. After that, you would need usage credits to keep using the model. Later, Anthropic extended Fable 5 usage via paid plans until July 12. Ahead of the deadline, Claude’s Fable usage has been extended again,

A new version of the RedHook Android malware abuses the Android Wireless Debugging (Wireless ADB) mechanism in a novel way to gain shell-level privileges without requiring a computer connection. Researchers at cybersecurity company Group-IB analyzed the new release of the mobile malware and say that it significantly expands its capabilities compared to the previous variant

OpenAI is temporarily relaxing GPT-5.6 Sol usage limits after demand for the company’s most powerful model surged over the past 48 hours. On Sunday, OpenAI confirmed that it is temporarily removing the five-hour usage restriction for Plus, Pro, and Business plans, while also resetting current usage for everyone. “The last 48 hours of Codex and

Cybersecurity agencies from the United States and eight other countries have issued a joint warning that Russian state hackers are targeting vulnerable and poorly configured routers to infiltrate critical infrastructure networks. The joint advisory, co-authored by the NSA, FBI, and CISA, along with 15 other agencies from Australia, the United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand, Estonia,

The European Union and the United Kingdom jointly sanctioned dozens of Russian individuals and entities and accused Russia of coordinating a network of hacking groups responsible for attacks across Europe. Today, the Council of the European Union announced sanctions on nine individuals and four entities, including Russian military intelligence (GRU) officers and cybercriminals, while the