Microsoft’s Twitter account, with its 13 million followers, was hijacked by a paperclip. There was no ransomware or data ...

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When a chap called Matt noticed his Bluetooth headphones wouldn’t switch to his phone, he was surprised to realise the reason was a single AliExpress webpage sitting open in his browser – playing ...

A Russian intelligence-linked hacker is arrested in Thailand while enjoying a beach holiday – and the trail of evidence that nailed him to the Russian government includes 14 separate orders of chicken ...

What if your AI coding assistant could be tricked into stealing your own company’s secrets – by reading a single booby-trapped bug report? No phishing email. No malware. No password ever stolen. Just ...

A company that ran anonymous tip lines for 35,000 American schools – handling reports of bullying, weapons, and self-harm – boasted on its website that it had suffered zero security breaches in over ...

Would you like access to Anthropic’s Claude at 90% off the normal price? All you have to do is redirect your traffic to a mysterious service called “Poison Claude”. Only problem is that it’s run by ...

A hacker calling themselves “CYBERLEEK” has been leaking gameplay footage from GTA 6 ahead of its official reveal this week – but they’re not asking Rockstar Games for a ransom. Instead, they’ve ...

One of the world’s largest online travel agencies, Booking.com, is being used by fraudsters to trick hotel guests into handing over their payment card details. How do I know? The fraudsters tried it ...

Graham gets a phone call from the police. Well, someone who sounds convincingly like the police. There’s just one small problem: what they really want is the 24-word seed key to Graham’s ...

A 15-year-old boy asked a chatbot for help – and cancelled nearly 47,000 anime streaming subscriptions in under four hours. Meanwhile, researchers have documented the first fully autonomous, agentic ...

Microsoft gets itself into a pickle with a privacy-popping new feature on its CoPilot+ PCs, the FTC warns of impersonated companies, and is your company hiring North Korean IT workers? All this and ...