Apple and Samsung dominate the US phone market, and they’ve done so for years. Together with Google, they’ve shaped our sense of what a smartphone is and what it can do, pushing the boundaries of mobile photography, software, and processing power. But over the last few years, they’ve sat back, content to iterate rather than…
A previously unknown threat group using tried-and-tested social engineering tactics – Microsoft Teams chat invitations and helpdesk staff impersonation – is also using custom malware in its data-stealing attacks, according to Google’s Threat Intelligence Group. The threat hunters say they spotted a “large email campaign” in late December 2025. The attack started by spamming target…
Black Hat Asia Open source models can find bugs as effectively as Anthropic’s Mythos, according to Ari Herbert-Voss, CEO of AI-powered security startup RunSybil and OpenAI’s first security hire. Speaking at the Black Hat Asia conference in Singapore today, Herbert-Voss said Mythos excels at finding both “shallow” bugs – well-described flaws that are and easy…
Microsoft’s update to harden Remote Desktop against phishing attacks has arrived. When users open a Remote Desktop (.rdp) file, they should now see a warning listing all requested connection settings – or they would if it was displaying correctly. It isn’t. At least not for everyone. Contain your Windows apps inside Linux Windows READ MORE…
Intel is betting on AI to reverse its fortunes, wagering that inference and agentic workloads will restore the CPU to the center of compute – even as its chip manufacturing struggles persist. Speaking to analysts on its Q1 2026 earnings call, CEO Lip-Bu Tan said AI is pushing the total addressable chip market towards $1…
One tactic to deal with LLM-powered vulnerability detection is simple – just speed up the removal of old code. If it’s gone, it no longer matters if it’s buggy. Bot-powered bug-busting is in the news of late, with scary-sounding reports of automated tools detecting flaws and vulnerabilities far faster than any unaided humans. Some of…
A US federal agency was successfully targeted by a previously unknown backdoor malware called Firestarter, according to CISA cybersnoops and their UK counterparts – neither of which disclosed the agency’s name. Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) agencies include NASA; Homeland Security itself (cyberworkers at CISA are part of an operational unit in Homeland Security); the FBI; the DoJ; the IRS;…
Chinese AI darling DeepSeek is back with a new open weights large language model that promises performance to rival the best proprietary American LLMs. Perhaps more importantly, it claims to dramatically reduce inference costs and it extends support for Huawei’s Ascend family of AI accelerators. Unveiled on Friday, DeepSeek V4 is available for download on…
Carnival Corporation, the world’s largest cruise company, is dealing with choppy waters after Have I Been Pwned flagged what it claimed were 7.5 million unique email addresses all allegedly tied to one of its subsidiaries. According to HIBP, the haul totals 8.7 million records and appears to relate to the Mariner Society loyalty program run…
Windows users will no longer be forced to run automatic updates in the middle of a game or a busy day. Microsoft is rolling out some long-awaited changes to Windows Update to users on its Dev and Experimental Windows Insider channels, including the ability to indefinitely delay updates up to 35 days at a time….