Amazon Web Services (AWS) research indicates that at least one actor began attempting to exploit two critical PHP vulnerabilities, collectively called PHP2Shell, on October 17. That was four days before the fixes and public disclosure on Wednesday, October 21, at 10 am ET. AWS found the activity by reviewing honeypot logs. The attempt cam…
CrowdStrike researchers analyzed AI infrastructure left openly exposed on web servers by four previously unreported criminal groups (Chinese-, Spanish/English-, Indonesian- and Russian-speaking). The groups ran attacks between May and August 2026 using mostly older versions of Anthropic's Claude and open-weight Deepseek models. All four b…
Researchers at Claroc disclosed GhostShares, a design flaw in Meta's Muse AI assistant that lets anyone discover shared conversations through passive DNS. Muse share links use the domain cf.metaaiusercontent.com and embed the conversation title and a random identifier in the hostname. Once a browser resolves the name, passive DNS sensors …
A WIRED long-read profiles Lili Infante, a Russian-born DEA special agent who became a pioneer of cryptocurrency and digital money-laundering investigations. This opening installment is biographical. It covers her childhood in post-Soviet Moscow, her early work translating wiretaps in a RICO case against the Boris Nayfeld Bratva gang in B…
Federal prosecutors charged Abdulrahman Alfozan, a 35-year-old Saudi national and US permanent resident who joined OpenAI in July 2025, with using a device to intercept oral communications. He allegedly planted a covert audio recorder in an executive-only conference room no later than 28 September 2026. OpenAI's countersurveillance sweep …
The Citizen Lab disclosed AdFection on 15 October 2026. It calls this the first public technical confirmation of zero-click mercenary spyware delivered to real devices through targeted online advertising. The Israeli ad firm Discover-Tech (spelled Discovere-Tech by bleepingcomputer.com) posed as a legitimate ad company while acting as a b…
Documents released by the defense team in the federal case against the Minnesota 15 show that a joint task force of six local officers and eight HSI Chicago agents surveilled an April 2 talk at the Co-Prosperity gallery in Chicago. The talk was part of a Crimethinc national tour in which Twin Cities anarchists discussed resisting Operatio…
A US federal magistrate judge in San Francisco ordered former OpenAI engineer Abdulrahman Alfozan to remain in custody, citing flight risk. Prosecutors allege he planted a covert audio recording device, hidden in toilet paper behind a TV, in an executive conference room used for confidential meetings. OpenAI found the device in late Septe…
Canada's proposed C-22 bill, first put forward in 2025 and since partly revised, would require tech companies, including foreign ones, to introduce "technical capabilities" for law enforcement data access. It would also require retention of user metadata. Signal has said it would exit the Canadian market, and Psiphon VPN says it will leav…
Privacy firm Redact found that around 80 WhatsApp help and FAQ pages exposed hidden text instructions written for a Meta large language model support chatbot. The text, about 100 blocks in total, sat in the page source under a code block headed "HelpContentGalaxyLLMInclude". Some instructions told the chatbot not to recommend contacting a…