Tag: Cyber Security
Private equity giant Apollo confirms data breach saw personal info stolen
Apollo confirms July 2026 cyberattack via social engineering exposed PII in its cloud environment Data included names, DOB, contact info, addresses, and Social Security numbers Firm offers two years of identity protection; no evidence of dark web leaks yet Apollo, one of the biggest private equity firms in the world,…
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Why are ‘paranoid’ Claude agents launching a turf war and deploying self-replicating malware against each other? The experts weigh in
Three Claude agents set up to deliberately conflict with each other in Anthropic testing started behaving in a very strange way by essentially starting a ‘turf war’ over their tasks. Upon launching the experiment the agents began conflicting with each other, leading to some of the agents deliberately sabotaging their…
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Experts warn 2,000 hacked WordPress sites were secretly running a global crime ring
Researchers uncover vast cybercrime ring running on computers and infected domains where outdated versions of WordPress were installed The StopAndProtect investigation revealed the WordPress content management system was key to the ring’s success; both the core software and third-party plugins were subverted Around 2,000 WordPress sites were hijacked by the…
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Over 9 million facial recognition images leaked in major breach at reverse image search and identity verification service
Researcher inds ClarityCheck’s exposed 450GB database with 9M+ user images Leak included faces, profiles, and photos, risking identity theft and phishing abuse Company secured access quickly; no evidence of dark web distribution or misuse so far An online reverse-lookup platform has inadvertently leaked millions of faces on the internet, putting…
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Experts manage to hack Microsoft Copilot by continually asking it questions about itself
Varonis uncovers CoSnitch, a chain of flaws letting Copilot leak sensitive data Exploit used malicious URLs and persistent memory poisoning to bypass guardrails Microsoft patched CVE‑2026‑24301 server‑side; technique may affect other AI models Microsoft’s Copilot AI just told a group of researchers how to abuse it for data exfiltration, and…
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MacOS users warned to beware screen-sharing bug which can turn Macs into cryptomining slaves
CVE‑2026‑65400 macOS Screen Sharing flaw exploited for cryptojacking within days of disclosure Attackers gained root via exposed port 5900 and deployed Monero miners using XMRig Apple patched in Sequoia 15.7.9, Sonoma 14.8.9, Tahoe 26.6.1; users urged to update immediately Less than a week after being publicly disclosed, a macOS vulnerability…
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