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UNC3753 Used Vishing and Physical Intrusions in U.S. Data Theft Extortion Campaign 2026-06-08 at 13:09 By Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a financially motivated data theft extortion campaign that has targeted dozens of organizations across professional, legal, and financial services in the U.S. between January and May 2026. The activity has been attributed by…

VS Code Adds 2-Hour Extension Auto-Update Delay to Limit Supply Chain Attacks 2026-06-08 at 13:09 By Microsoft has announced that Visual Studio Code (VS Code) will apply a two-hour delay before extensions for the integrated development environment (IDE) are updated automatically to a newer version in an attempt to tackle software supply chain threats. “When…

Microsoft launches incubator for Chinese tech startups — reigniting fears about cozy Beijing ties: ‘Makes no sense’ 2026-06-08 at 13:00 By Thomas Barrabi Local Chinese Communist Party officials stood side-by-side with Microsoft executives when the “Shenzhen Global Expansion Center” was unveiled on May 8th. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New…

Everything in One Place: Best Practices for Keeping Mobile Devices Secure 2026-06-08 at 12:00 By With everything a cell phone can access, it’s imperative that they remain secure. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

China beats Elon Musk to launch world’s first commercial brain chip 2026-06-07 at 20:02 By News.com.au Brain chips could improve the lives of more than 3 billion people with neurological conditions, especially those related to movement and speech. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post View Original Source

Sheriff warns the child predators are already inside homes — and says platforms like Roblox aren’t doing anything 2026-06-06 at 22:49 By Fox News Livingston Parish Sheriff says the 14-year-old victim had no idea she was talking to a 40-something-year-old man This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post View…

New ChatGPT Lockdown Mode Limits Tools That Could Enable Data Exfiltration 2026-06-06 at 16:36 By OpenAI has begun rolling out a new Lockdown Mode to ChatGPT for eligible personal accounts to reduce the risk of data exfiltration arising from prompt injection attacks. The feature is primarily designed for people and organizations that handle sensitive data…

Robot soccer player that will likely render humans obsolete kicks ball so hard it dents wall 2026-06-06 at 16:32 By Ben Cost Is it Cristiano Roboto? This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post View Original Source

Free Apps Are Quietly Turning Smart TVs Into Web-Scraping Proxies for AI 2026-06-06 at 11:29 By A researcher has reverse-engineered the iOS SDK that Bright Data embeds in consumer apps and documented how it turns devices, including always-on smart TVs, into exit nodes that relay web-scraping traffic for a data business Bright Data markets heavily…

CISA Adds Actively Exploited SolarWinds Serv-U DoS Flaw to KEV Catalog 2026-06-06 at 11:14 By The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a high-severity security flaw impacting SolarWinds Serv-U multi-protocol file server software to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-28318 (CVSS score:…

AI Agent Uncovers 21 Zero-Days in FFmpeg; Chrome Patches Record 429 Bugs 2026-06-06 at 10:28 By Two things landed within days of each other this week. A security startup reported 21 previously unknown vulnerabilities in FFmpeg, the media library inside almost everything that touches video, all of them found by an autonomous AI agent. The…

Miasma Worm Hits 73 Microsoft GitHub Repositories in Major Supply Chain Attack 2026-06-06 at 09:58 By Microsoft’s GitHub repositories have become the latest to fall victim to the ongoing Miasma self-replicating supply chain attack campaign. The incident impacted 73 Microsoft repositories across four of its GitHub organizations, including Azure, Azure-Samples, Microsoft, and MicrosoftDocs, per OpenSourceMalware.…

Elon Musk outlines bold vision for SpaceX, goes light on details at JPMorgan event touting historic IPO 2026-06-06 at 04:28 By Ariel Zilber At a Thursday discussion at JPMorgan’s Manhattan headquarters, Dimon introduced Musk as “the Edison of our time.” This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post View Original…

90% of AI chatbot answers about midterm elections are flawed, stunning analysis shows 2026-06-06 at 00:18 By Thomas Barrabi Researchers at Forum AI conducted an audit of four-leading chatbots: OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Anthropic’s Claude, Google’s Gemini and xAI’s Grok. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post View Original Source

When Nation-States Stop Caring About Size 2026-06-06 at 00:17 By Dan Mellinger Why obscurity no longer buys protection This article is an excerpt from SECURITY.COM View Original Source

Product Spotlight on Access Control 2026-06-06 at 00:16 By Security magazine highlights a few access control products for 2026. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

IronWorm and New Miasma Worm Variant Hit npm in Supply Chain Attacks 2026-06-05 at 22:04 By Multiple software supply chain attacks have hit the npm ecosystem, with threat actors using both malicious and poisoned versions of over 50 legitimate packages to distribute a Rust-based information stealer and a self-spreading worm, respectively. According to JFrog, the…

Meta quietly added facial recognition to smart glasses, sparking major privacy concerns: report 2026-06-05 at 21:56 By Marc Vartabedian Meta has been quietly laying the groundwork for smart glasses that could identify people as wearers of the shades walk by, according to a report – causing privacy watchdogs to sound the alarm.  Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta…

3 Hospital Security Guards Assaulted 2026-06-05 at 20:16 By A man was arrested after assaulting three security officers.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Android Spyware Asin Targets Arabic Users via Fake News, PDF and War Map Apps 2026-06-05 at 20:16 By Arabic-speaking users have emerged as the target of a new Android spyware codenamed Asin, according to findings from ESET. The Slovakian cybersecurity company said it first detected the malware spread via multiple campaigns in early 2025, with…