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Earliest post: 2026-04-21

Latest post: 2026-08-14

In-depth technology and cybersecurity reporting, analysis, and commentary — covering vulnerabilities, breaches, privacy issues, and tech-industry security developments with a focus on accuracy and context.

01/01/2020
08/16/2026
Title Date Published Describes IncidentAuthorVisible
Vulnerability giving attackers full control of Macs is under active exploitation2026-08-14True Dan Goodin True
Terabytes of credentials leaked in massive supply-chain attack2026-08-12True Dan Goodin True
Researchers found a way to hijack devices through Zoom screen sharing2026-08-12True Lily Hay Newman, wired.com True
DEF CON crowd suspected in fake-hotspot attack on Delta flight2026-08-12True Cyrus Farivar True
New Pass-ta-key attack reveals all the things we didn't know about passkeys2026-08-11True Dan Goodin True
Thousands of servers can be backdoored by exploiting buggy motherboard controllers2026-08-05True Dan Goodin True
Anthropic’s AI used fake identities, malware in rogue attack on GitHub project2026-08-05True Jeremy Hsu True
Claude published malicious code to the Internet and attacked 3 real companies2026-07-31True Dan Goodin True
AI scammers outperform humans when it comes to building trust2026-07-31True Andy Greenberg, wired.com True
Max-severity Exchange server flaw under active exploitation by Kremlin hackers2026-07-30True Dan Goodin True
Anthropic is finding bugs faster than Microsoft can fix them2026-07-29True Renee Dudley, ProPublica True
We now have a better understanding how OpenAI hacked into Hugging Face2026-07-28True Dan Goodin True
OpenAI says its AI agent broke out of testing sandbox to hack Hugging Face2026-07-22True Kyle Orland True
Apps targeted at US troops contain Chinese and Russian code2026-07-21True Dell Cameron, wired.com True
Pay up or not? Ransomware surge has victims facing tough choices.2026-07-20True Hannah Murphy, Financial Times True
Windows 0-day drops the same day Microsoft releases record number of patches2026-07-15True Dan Goodin True
Microsoft’s Secure Boot has been broken for a decade and no one noticed until now2026-07-14True Dan Goodin True
The US government warns that Russia state hackers are coming after your router2026-07-13True Dan Goodin True
Now, defenders are embracing the prompt injection, too2026-07-13True Dan Goodin True
Newly discovered PamStealer isn't your typical macOS malware2026-07-02True Dan Goodin True
New attack provides one more reason why AI browsers are a bad idea2026-06-30True Dan Goodin True
US offers $10 million for info on group behind Signal and WhatsApp hacking spree2026-06-29True Dan Goodin True
One-two punch delivered in global operation disrupts cybercrime "assembly line"2026-06-24True Dan Goodin True
Microsoft discovers new lightweight backdoor that steals cryptocurrency2026-06-18True Dan Goodin True
Apple patches high-severity eavesdropping vulnerability in Beats Studio Buds2026-06-18True Dan Goodin True
Massive breach spills credentials for thousands of sensitive networks2026-06-17True Dan Goodin True
Windows and Linux users: The deadline to update Secure Boot keys is near2026-06-17True Dan Goodin True
Critical Copilot vulnerability allowed hackers to steal 2FA code from users2026-06-16True Dan Goodin True
PeopleSoft 0-day affecting hundreds of organizations steals gigabytes of data2026-06-12True Dan Goodin True
Locked in heated rivalry with researcher, Microsoft fixes 0-day they disclosed2026-06-09True Dan Goodin True
High-severity vulnerability in Linux caused by a single faulty character2026-06-09True Dan Goodin True
For the 2nd time in weeks, Microsoft packages laced with credential stealer2026-06-08True Dan Goodin True
How a USB-connected speaker can infect a PC without ever being touched2026-06-05True Dan Goodin True
Dashlane explains how attackers managed to download encrypted password vaults2026-06-04True Dan Goodin True
Can't make sense of Dashlane's vault theft notification? You're not alone.2026-06-03True Dan Goodin True
Hackers duped Meta AI support chatbot to steal celebrity Instagram accounts2026-06-01True Jeremy Hsu True
Dozens of Red Hat packages backdoored through its official NPM channel2026-06-01True Dan Goodin True
Botnet of more than 17 million devices dismantled2026-05-29True Dan Goodin True
Websites have a new way to spy on visitors: analyzing their SSD activity2026-05-27True Dan Goodin True
Millions of AI agents imperiled by critical vulnerability in open source package2026-05-26True Dan Goodin True
Police boast of hacking VPN where criminals "believed themselves to be safe"2026-05-22True Jon Brodkin True
A hacker group is poisoning open source code at an unprecedented scale2026-05-22True Andy Greenberg and Lily Hay Newman, WIRED.com True
Google publishes exploit code threatening millions of Chromium users2026-05-20True Dan Goodin True
In stunning display of stupid, secret CISA credentials found in public GitHub repo2026-05-19True Lee Hutchinson True
Zero-day exploit completely defeats default Windows 11 BitLocker protections2026-05-14True Dan Goodin True
Linux bitten by second severe vulnerability in as many weeks2026-05-11True Dan Goodin True
Chaos erupts as cyberattack disrupts learning platform Canvas amid finals2026-05-08True Dan Goodin True
Mozilla says 271 vulnerabilities found by Mythos have "almost no false positives"2026-05-07True Dan Goodin True
Widely used Daemon Tools disk app backdoored in monthlong supply-chain attack2026-05-05True Dan Goodin True
Ubuntu infrastructure has been down for more than a day2026-05-01True Dan Goodin True

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