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Google finds state-sponsored hackers use AI at ‘all stages’ of attack cycle 

A new report from Google found evidence that state-sponsored hacking groups have leveraged AI tool Gemini at nearly every stage of the cyber attack cycle. The research underscores how AI tools have matured in their cyber offensive capabilities, even as it doesn’t reveal novel or paradigm shifting uses of the technology. John Hultquist, chief analyst…

DHS privacy probe will focus on biometric tracking by ICE, OBIM

The Department of Homeland Security’s watchdog office has launched an audit of the agency’s privacy practices amid allegations that DHS and its components have used facial recognition tools and other technologies to collect data broadly and violate civil liberties. The audit, according to a Feb. 5 letter from DHS Inspector General Joseph Cuffari and published…

DHS privacy probe will focus on biometric tracking by ICE, OBIM

The Department of Homeland Security’s watchdog office has launched an audit of the agency’s privacy practices amid allegations that DHS and its components have used facial recognition tools and other technologies to collect data broadly and violate civil liberties. The audit, according to a Feb. 5 letter from DHS Inspector General Joseph Cuffari and published…

Lawmakers Call on Meta to Stop Running ICE Ad Featuring Neo-Nazi Anthem

Members of Congress are demanding answers from Meta after it ran advertisements by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement that they say included imagery and music intended to appeal to white nationalists and neo-Nazis. In a letter sent to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Reps. Becca Balint, D-Vt., and Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., questioned how the social media…

Ivanti’s EPMM is under active attack, thanks to two critical zero-days

Attackers are again focusing on a familiar target in the network edge space, actively exploiting two critical zero-day vulnerabilities in Ivanti software that allows administrators to set mobile device and application controls.  The vulnerabilities — CVE-2026-1281 and CVE-2026-1340 — each carry a CVSS rating of 9.8 and allow unauthenticated users to execute code remotely in…

Apple Workers Are Livid That Tim Cook Saw “Melania” Movie Hours After CBP Killed Pretti

Just hours after a U.S. Border Patrol officer gunned down Minneapolis resident Alex Pretti, Apple CEO Tim Cook, donned his tuxedo to attend an exclusive screening of a new documentary about First Lady Melania Trump. A growing number of Apple workers are now internally criticizing Cook and the company’s silence in the face of an…

WhatsApp releases account feature that looks to combat spyware

WhatsApp unveiled a lockdown-style feature on Tuesday similar to those offered by other tech providers aimed at blocking sophisticated cyberattacks, with spyware in mind. The “Strict Account Settings” feature will roll out in the coming weeks and once enabled, will allow users to limit features in certain ways, such as blocking attachments and media from…

CISA publishes a post-quantum shopping list for agencies. Security professionals aren’t sold

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is hoping to guide federal agencies through the murky process of updating their technology stack with quantum-resistant encryption. On Jan. 23, the agency released a list of different IT software and hardware products that are commonly purchased by the federal government and use cryptographic algorithms for encryption or authentication.…

FBI’s Washington Post Investigation Shows How Your Printer Can Snitch on You

Federal prosecutors on January 9 charged Aurelio Luis Perez-Lugones, an IT specialist for an unnamed government contractor, with “the offense of unlawful retention of national defense information,” according to an FBI affidavit. The case attracted national attention after federal agents investigating Perez-Lugones searched the home of a Washington Post reporter. But overlooked so far in…

DOGE Cuts “Unexpectedly and Significantly Impacted” Critical Pentagon Unit

Efforts to gut the federal workforce by Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency significantly derailed operations at a Pentagon tech team with a key U.S. military role, according to materials reviewed by The Intercept. Related Musk Is Firing Federal Workers Who Prevent Bloated Tech Contracts Beginning nearly a year ago, DOGE embarked on an…

Predator spyware demonstrates troubleshooting, researcher-dodging capabilities

Predator spyware operators have the ability to recognize why an infection failed, and the tech has more sophisticated capabilities for averting detection than previously known, according to research published Wednesday. Jamf Threat Labs found from an analysis of a Predator sample that it has an error code system that can alert operators to why an…

CESER chief touts AI projects as congressional Dems point to federal cuts

A Trump administration official endorsed a slate of congressional bills Tuesday targeting cybersecurity in the energy sector while touting the office’s new emphasis on AI-driven cyber defenses. Meanwhile, Democratic members repeatedly pressed him over the cybersecurity and reliability impacts from thousands of job cuts that have taken place at the Department of Energy over the…

Why Is Everyone Suddenly Talking About Putting Data Centers in Space?

Data centers present sprawling engineering and political problems, with ravenous appetites for land and resources. Building them on Earth has proven problematic enough — so why is everyone suddenly talking about launching them into space? Data centers are giant warehouses for computer chips that run continuously, with up to hundreds of thousands of processors packed…

Inside Vercel’s sleep-deprived race to contain React2Shell

Talha Tariq and his colleagues at Vercel, the company that maintains Next.js, endured many sleep-deprived nights and weekends when React2Shell was discovered and disclosed soon after Thanksgiving. The defect, which affects vast stretches of the internet’s underlying infrastructure, posed a significant risk for Next.js, an open-source library that depends on vulnerable React Server Components. He…

‘Elon Musk is playing with fire:’ All the legal risks that apply to Grok’s deepfake disaster

As collective disgust has continued to build over the widespread generation and sharing of nonconsensual, sexualized deepfakes generated by X’s GrokAI tool, angry onlookers have expressed shock that the activity continues unabated and company owner Elon Musk isn’t being compelled – by either U.S. regulators or law enforcement – to put a halt to the…

FCC finalizes new penalties for robocall violators

The Federal Communications Commission finalized new financial penalties for telecoms that submit false, inaccurate or late reporting to a federal robocalling system. The new regulations, which go into effect Feb. 5, will require providers to recertify every year that their information is accurate in the Robocall Mitigation Database (RMD). It would also impose fines on…

These Apps Let You Bet on Deportations and Famine. Mainstream Media Is Eating It Up.

Tarek Mansour, co-founder of Kalshi, during a joint SEC-CFTC roundtable at SEC headquarters in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 29, 2025.  Photo: Kent Nishimura/Bloomberg via Getty Images How many people will the Trump administration deport this year? Will Gaza suffer from mass famine? These are serious questions with lives at stake. They’re also betting propositions that…

ServiceNow agrees to buy cyber firm Armis for $7.75B

ServiceNow has agreed to buy cybersecurity firm Armis for $7.75 billion in cash, a deal that would push the enterprise software company deeper into a fast-growing corner of security focused on tracking and reducing “exposure” across sprawling networks of connected devices. The companies said Tuesday that combining ServiceNow’s workflow and risk products with Armis’ asset…

NIST, MITRE announce $20 million research effort on AI cybersecurity

The National Institute of Standards and Technology announced that it will partner with The MITRE Corporation on a $20 million project to stand up two new research centers focused on artificial intelligence, including how the technology may impact cybersecurity for U.S. critical infrastructure. On Monday, the agency said one center will focus on advanced manufacturing…

Anti-Palestinian Billionaires Will Now Control What TikTok Users See

TikTok’s Chinese owner ByteDance has signed binding agreements with U.S. and global investors to operate its business in America, it told employees on Dec. 18, 2025. Photo: Qin Zihang/VCG via Getty Images The TikTok deal announced on Thursday poses a fundamental threat to free and honest discourse about Israel’s ongoing genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. Under…

FBI says ‘ongoing’ deepfake impersonation of U.S. gov officials dates back to 2023

The FBI said that unknown actors have continued to deploy AI voice cloning tools in an ongoing effort to impersonate U.S government officials and extract sensitive or classified information or conduct scams. The bureau initially warned back in May that the campaign had been ongoing since at least April 2025. In an update Friday, they…

Policymakers grapple with fallout from Chinese AI-enabled hack

Policymakers and companies are reckoning with increased reports over the past few months showing AI tools being leveraged to conduct cyber attacks on a larger and faster scale. Most notably, Anthropic reported last month that Chinese hackers had jailbroken and tricked its AI model Claude into assisting with a cyberespionage hacking campaign that ultimately targeted…

Senate Intel chair urges national cyber director to safeguard against open-source software threats

Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Tom Cotton is raising the spectre of foreign adversaries playing too heavy a role in open-source software, and asking the national cyber director to counter the risks. The Oklahoma Republican wrote to National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross Thursday, saying he was concerned about reports that “state-sponsored software developers and cyber espionage…

AI is causing all kinds of problems in the legal sector 

The American Bar Association believes the use of artificial intelligence in the legal sector is eroding key procedures, documentary records and evidence relied on to establish ground-level truth in the court system. In a report released this month the ABA, which sets ethical standards for the legal profession and oversees the accreditation of roughly 400,000…

Microsoft’s last Patch Tuesday of 2025 addresses 57 defects, including one zero-day

Microsoft addressed 57 vulnerabilities affecting its various products for business operations and core systems, including one actively exploited zero-day, the company said in its latest monthly security update. The zero-day vulnerability — CVE-2025-62221 — affects the Windows Cloud Files Mini Filter Driver and has a CVSS rating of 7.8. Attackers could exploit the use-after-free defect…

More evidence your AI agents can be turned against you

Agentic AI tools are being pushed into software development pipelines, IT networks and other business workflows. But using these tools can quickly turn into a supply chain nightmare for organizations, introducing untrusted or malicious content into their workstream that are then regularly treated as instructions by the underlying large language models powering the tools. Researchers…

Intellexa remotely accessed Predator spyware customer systems, investigation finds

Leaked training videos suggest that Intellexa retained the ability to remotely access the systems of customers who had used its Predator spyware, raising questions about human rights safeguards, according to an investigation published Thursday. That was just one finding from a series of separate but overlapping probes released over the past 24 hours. The training…

Google addresses 107 Android vulnerabilities, including two zero-days

Google disclosed two actively exploited zero-day vulnerabilities Monday, which it addressed among a total of 107 defects in the company’s monthly security update for Android devices. The zero-days — CVE-2025-48633 and CVE-2025-48572 — are both high-severity defects affecting the Android framework, which attackers can exploit to access information and escalate privileges, respectively. Google said both…