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A Saudi OpenAI engineer has been arrested for allegedly planting a hidden recording device in an executive conference room at the company’s San Francisco offices to secretly record sensitive conversations. The U.S. Department of Justice announced Tuesday that Abdulrahman Alfozan, 35, who had worked at OpenAI since July 2025, was arrested on October 9 and

The U.S. Department of Justice is warning that hackers working for the North Korean regime are increasingly relying on Americans to facilitate the hacking of U.S. companies. In an announcement on Tuesday, prosecutors said they have indicted and arrested at least two people, and conducted searches across dozens of suspected “laptop farms” in Texas. The

GitLab warned users today to immediately patch a maximum-severity vulnerability in the CI/CD Regular Expression Compiler that could let remote attackers run arbitrary code on targeted instances. Tracked as CVE-2026-97229, this critical security flaw was discovered by a security researcher using the ‘joaxcar’ handle and reported via GitLab’s HackerOne bug bounty program. CVE-2026-97229 stems from

A Maryland man was found guilty of stealing more than $53 million after hacking the decentralized crypto exchange Uranium Finance twice in April 2021. 36-year-old Jonathan Spalletta (also known online as “Jspalletta” and “Cthulhon”) surrendered to law enforcement on March 30 and was charged with computer fraud and money laundering. According to court documents, Spalletta

Microsoft will soon introduce support for third-party deepfake detection solutions and impersonation protection in Teams meetings. According to new entries on the Microsoft 365 Roadmap, both changes are now in development and will reach general availability in November after a worldwide rollout. Once available, Microsoft says it will provide Teams integration and experiences to surface

UK fashion retailer ASOS confirmed that a recent data breach was caused by a social engineering attack in which hackers stole an employee’s login credentials and used them to access information on third-party platforms used by the company. “We discovered that an unauthorised party gained access to an ASOS employee account by impersonating a trusted

The co-creator of Empire Market, one of the largest dark web marketplaces before its shutdown, has been sentenced to 40 years in prison for facilitating $430 million in illegal transactions from 2018 to 2020. 30-year-old Raheim Hamilton (also known online as “Sydney” and “ZeroAngel”) owned and operated Empire Market from August 2017 until its abrupt

​​​On the second day of Pwn2Own Ireland 2026, security researchers collected $232,500 in cash awards after exploiting 45 unique zero-day vulnerabilities. The day’s highlight was the Samsung Galaxy S26 flagship getting hacked three times by KAIST Hacking Lab’s Kyeongmin Kim, PetoWorks, and Mobile Hacking Lab’s Dimitrios Valsamaras and Ken Gannon. Jack Dates of RET2 Systems