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Meta contractors posed as teens to test rival AI chatbots on suicide, sex and drugs: report 2026-07-01 at 17:28 By Ariel Zilber The covert effort was managed by Meta contractor Covalen and targeted OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini and Character.AI, according to Wired. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post […]

US-based ‘Amazon of South Korea’ forced to recover laptop from bottom of Chinese river in bizarre data privacy clampdown: report 2026-07-01 at 16:12 By Thomas Barrabi A Coupang rep traveled to Shanghai on Dec. 17 to meet with the suspect and his lawyer, who handed over a desktop PC, four hard drives and copies, a […]

2026 Cybersecurity Assessment: The Gap Between Awareness and Resilience 2026-07-01 at 16:02 By Organizations have never had greater awareness of cyber risk. Yet turning that awareness into operational resilience has never been more challenging. The 2026 Bitdefender Cybersecurity Assessment confirms this is the case, as this year’s findings reveal a series of surprising contradictions. Here […]

Microsoft Accelerates Post-Quantum Cryptography Shift to 2029 2026-07-01 at 15:12 By Microsoft on Tuesday said it’s accelerating its quantum safe security roadmap, stating technology advances in quantum computing are making it essential to replace existing encryption standards sooner than previously expected. “Advances in quantum research and development have shifted the risk horizon,” Mark Russinovich, chief […]

Marc Andreessen is making the same audacious bet the Founding Fathers did: that America’s best days are ahead 2026-07-01 at 14:00 By Lydia Moynihan “We’re the best country in the world,” Marc Andreessen told The Post. “The idea that we still have that level of risk-taking spirit in the country … is a really, really […]

Phantom Squatting Uses AI-Hallucinated Domains for Phishing and Malware 2026-07-01 at 13:52 By Large language models keep inventing web addresses that do not exist. Attackers have started buying those made-up domains before anyone else can, then hosting phishing pages on them to catch traffic that AI tools point their way. Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 calls the […]

AV-TEST Gives Symantec® Endpoint Security Complete a Perfect Score 2026-07-01 at 13:00 By Mark Kennedy From detection to protection, SES Complete is the total package This article is an excerpt from SECURITY.COM View Original Source

A CISO’s Guide to Robocall Mitigation: Applying MITRE ATT&CK to Voice-Based Threats 2026-07-01 at 10:00 By The challenge for security leaders is no longer simply blocking unwanted calls.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Anthropic Restores Claude Fable 5 After U.S. Lifts Jailbreak-Linked Export Controls 2026-07-01 at 09:46 By Anthropic is putting Claude Fable 5 back online worldwide. On June 30, the U.S. Commerce Department lifted the export controls it had imposed on Fable and its more tightly controlled sibling Mythos 5 about two and a half weeks earlier. Fable […]

Azure CLI Password Spray Hits at Least 78 Microsoft Accounts in 81M+ Attempts 2026-07-01 at 08:46 By Cybersecurity researchers have warned of a “massive, ongoing, automated password spray attack” aimed at Microsoft’s Azure command-line interface (CLI), compromising dozens of accounts in the process. The activity, per Huntress, originates from an IPv6 address range (2a0a:d683::/32) controlled […]

Researcher Analyzes 3,000 Live ClickFix Payloads, Exposing API-Driven Malware Delivery 2026-07-01 at 08:32 By ClickFix, the trick that fools people into running malware by hand, has quietly grown a back office. New research shows the malicious commands behind its fake “prove you’re human” pages are now handed out by API-driven servers that give each visitor […]

Citrix Patches Six NetScaler Flaws Allowing File Read and Denial-of-Service 2026-07-01 at 08:22 By Citrix on Tuesday released security updates to address multiple flaws in NetScaler ADC (formerly Citrix ADC) and NetScaler Gateway (formerly Citrix Gateway) that could be exploited by an attacker to facilitate arbitrary file reads or trigger a denial-of-service (DoS) condition. The […]

Nearly Half of Organizations Lack “Full” Visibility Into Employee AI Usage 2026-07-01 at 07:00 By A recent report by Bitdefender analyzed employee AI tool usage.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Trump administration lifts export controls on Anthropic’s most powerful AI models, ending bitter standoff 2026-07-01 at 03:15 By James Franey Because the San Francisco-based startup could not reliably filter out foreign users in real time, it had disabled the cutting-edge software worldwide. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post […]

Microsoft Warns Poisoned MCP Tool Descriptions Can Make AI Agents Leak Data 2026-06-30 at 20:46 By New Microsoft research shows how attackers can hijack AI agents that act on a user’s behalf, using nothing more than a poisoned tool description to make the agent quietly hand over company data to an outsider. The trick is that the […]

RustDuck Botnet Rebuilds in Rust to Hijack Routers and Servers for DDoS 2026-06-30 at 20:45 By A new two-stage malware family called RustDuck is hijacking home routers, IP cameras, Android boxes, and poorly secured servers, then stitching them into a network built to knock websites and online services offline. Researchers at QiAnXin’s XLab have tracked it since […]

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta loses bid to toss lawsuit alleging Facebook and Instagram addict children 2026-06-30 at 19:08 By Reuters Meta said attorneys general had no evidence it misled consumers about its platforms’ alleged addictiveness, including in congressional testimony by Mark Zuckerberg. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post View […]

Langflow RCE Exploited to Deploy Monero Miner on Exposed AI App Endpoints 2026-06-30 at 18:47 By Threat actors are continuing to exploit a critical Langflow vulnerability as part of fresh attacks designed to deliver a Monero cryptocurrency miner. The activity has been found to weaponize CVE-2026-33017 (CVSS score: 9.3), an unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) […]

Silent Swap Crypto Clipper Uses Fake Google Notes Extension to Replace Wallet Addresses 2026-06-30 at 18:40 By Cybersecurity researchers have flagged an active browser extension campaign that is designed to steal cryptocurrency by stealthily replacing wallet addresses when unsuspecting users initiate a transaction. The cryptocurrency clipper activity has been codenamed Silent Swap by McAfee Labs. […]

What the Numbers Say About FIFA 2026 Cyber Risk 2026-06-30 at 17:48 By The FIFA World Cup 2026 opened on June 11. By that date, according to Check Point Research, the fraud infrastructure targeting it had already been built, staged, and partially deployed. Threat actor activity was pre-planned, months out, across three sectors and at […]