Delta investigating after someone set up fake Wi-Fi network mid-flight
The Delta flight crew switched off the aircraft’s legitimate Wi-Fi network for around 30 minutes due to the incident, according to a spokesperson.
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North Korean remote IT staffer worked for US government agency, says FBI
The investigation shows that North Koreans are able to infiltrate government agencies, as well as private organizations and crypto exchanges.
Signed up for Klaviyo? Dozens of advertisers may have seen your password
A bug in the tech giant’s website mistakenly shared users’ sign-up information, including personal data and their password, to third-party companies.
The AI safety test is becoming a safety risk
AI agents are escaping cybersecurity testing environments and reaching real-world systems, raising questions about whether safety infrastructure, industry standards and regulation can keep pace with increasingly powerful models.
This ‘adversarial’ pattern can prevent surveillance cameras from detecting you
A security researcher has designed an algorithm that can create computer-generated patterns capable of hiding people, faces, and vehicles from detection by surveillance cameras.
Google’s top hacker hunter explains why hacking groups get codenames
Google recently changed how it refers and assigns names to hacking groups. TechCrunch spoke with one of the world’s foremost experts on tracking hackers to understand why companies give hackers codenames.
Security researchers scanned the Polish web and found courts, hospitals, and airports at risk of hacks
Researchers found common points of failure, like software used to organize and display web content, could have allowed hackers to run riot through government websites.
Computer maker Framework notifies ‘all customers’ of a data breach
Framework told “all” of its customers that hackers accessed their names, email addresses, phone numbers, and physical addresses in a data breach.
Chinese AI model Kimi escaped its cybersecurity testing environment, researchers say
In the Kimi test, the sandbox designed to contain the experiment was not properly configured.
Google says hackers are calling financial firm employees to hack and extort victims
Groups of hackers are breaking into large U.S. financial firms to steal sensitive data and extort victims, Google’s security researchers report.