We wanted to give folks a quick heads up that Pokemon has been hacked on X, also known by some still as Twitter. A suspicious message was just posted on the official account a few minutes ago. At first glance, it may seem safe… until you look at it for just a few seconds. The...Read More

A hacker exploited Anthropic PBC’s artificial intelligence chatbot to carry out a series of attacks against Mexican government agencies, resulting in the theft of a huge trove of sensitive tax and voter information, according to cybersecurity researchers. The unknown Claude user wrote Spanish-language prompts for the chatbot to act as an elite hacker, finding vulnerabilities...Read More

Here’s the kind of story that gives cold sweats to anyone who has ended up living in the cloud. A streamer going by the name Joshua Khane had his Microsoft account hacked, and the company’s response was to purely and simply delete that account – along with the twenty-five years of digital life stored inside...Read More

Crooks stole a password manager’s vaults in 2022. Here’s what happened next, friend: The strong master passwords held. The weak ones funded a $150 million heist. These safeguards decide which side you land on. 🤯 WOW! In 2022, crooks stole a password manager’s customer vaults. The vaults with strong master passwords were never cracked. The...Read More

It took one woman nearly a year to rack up hundreds of thousands of PC Optimum points. It took thieves a matter of minutes to steal them all. Mandy Campbell, who lives in Kincardine, Ont., reached out to us after making the discovery in late July. “The person behind this had used the barcode that’s...Read More

Ceva Logistics, one of the world’s largest shipping and logistics giants, has been hacked. Several companies that rely on Ceva for shipping their products to their customers say that their personal information was also stolen in the breach. The cyberattack on Ceva is affecting at least eight warehouses across Europe used for shipping goods across...Read More

Malware from a Claude chat link, and a poisoned SKILL.md hiding in the backup A startup founder says he was hacked after pasting a terminal command that came straight out of a Claude chat window. Numa, co-founder of ReFi Hub, was installing a transcription app. Claude supplied the download link, he copied the command across,...Read More

Microsoft has patched a vulnerability in Copilot that allowed attackers to obtain sensitive information, including data from a user’s email inbox, with a single click. Remarkably, researchers obtained some of the necessary technical information directly from Copilot itself. Researchers at security firm Varonis discovered that Microsoft 365 Copilot could execute commands embedded in a specially...Read More

Your browser does not support the audio element. In partnership with Mark Zuckerberg spent 6,500 words this month taking not-so-subtle shots at rival AI labs. Bold move, considering Meta was quietly projecting up to $10B a year in spending on one of those labs’ tools: Anthropic. That’s not a rounding error. Anthropic itself expects to...Read More

Michael Goddard, 71, from Cheshire, said both he and his wife, Julie, 68, had received an email earlier from MAG notifying them that their data had been breached. “I was shocked,” Goddard told BBC Radio Manchester. “To find your personal info has been stolen – it is alarming. “My information has gone and I don’t...Read More