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FBI signals renewed wave of ATM jackpotting; 700+ incidents and $20M losses in 2025
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FBI signals renewed wave of ATM jackpotting; 700+ incidents and $20M losses in 2025

The FBI issued an alert raising alarms about a sharp rise in malware-driven ATM cash-out schemes, with over 700 incidents recorded in 2025 and cumulative reports near 1,900 since 2020. Losses linked to last year’s events topped $20 million, prompting fresh guidance, indicators of compromise, and renewed enforcement actions.

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Discord ends Persona pilot after UK age-check uproar

Discord ends Persona pilot after UK age-check uproar

Discord halted a small UK trial with identity vendor Persona after users discovered the experiment and raised privacy alarms; the pause comes as Discord prepares a broader age-verification push that would ask some users for ID or a video selfie, which the company says are processed transiently. The episode — which exposed frontend files and recalled a prior vendor breach — eroded trust in third-party verification and amplified concerns about accessibility, vendor audits and the operational burden of enforcing age gates.

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Cecuro’s specialized AI flags 92% of exploited DeFi contracts
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Cecuro’s specialized AI flags 92% of exploited DeFi contracts

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Advantest Hit by Ransomware; probe ongoing
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Advantest Hit by Ransomware; probe ongoing

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Amazon tightens controls after AI coding assistant triggers limited AWS disruptions
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Amazon tightens controls after AI coding assistant triggers limited AWS disruptions

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Meta, Apple in Court Over Child‑Safety and Encryption Choices
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Meta, Apple in Court Over Child‑Safety and Encryption Choices

Separate state suits and a bellwether Los Angeles trial are using internal documents and executive testimony to challenge how product design and encryption choices affect child safety; lawmakers and international regulators are watching as outcomes could force technical remedies, new disclosure duties, or national policy responses.

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NIST single-photon chip expands practical quantum key distribution

NIST has demonstrated an on-demand single-photon source integrated on a chip and paired advances in detectors, potentially extending secure quantum key links far beyond today's practical limits. This could lower barriers for quantum key distribution adoption and enable new quantum networking use cases within a few years.

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Amazon: Hackers Used AI to Breach 600+ Firewalls in Weeks

Amazon: Hackers Used AI to Breach 600+ Firewalls in Weeks

Security teams at Amazon traced a compact, likely Russian‑speaking operation that used widely available AI tooling and automated agents to compromise more than 600 perimeter firewalls across roughly 55 countries in about five weeks. The campaign—which automated reconnaissance, credential validation and rapid probing—typifies a broader 2026 trend in which off‑the‑shelf AI compresses the time from discovery to exploitation, forcing defenders to treat exposed management interfaces and self‑hosted AI endpoints as high‑risk assets.

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Runlayer introduces enterprise governance for OpenClaw agent security

Runlayer released a commercial governance layer that discovers unmanaged OpenClaw agents and enforces low-latency controls to stop dangerous tool calls and credential exfiltration. The product combines endpoint/cloud discovery, SIEM integration, identity-aware policy enforcement and sub-100ms interception; internal tests and customer pilots show large gains against prompt-based takeovers and exfiltration chains.

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West Virginia attorney general sues Apple over iCloud handling of child exploitation images

West Virginia attorney general sues Apple over iCloud handling of child exploitation images

West Virginia's attorney general has filed a consumer-protection lawsuit accusing Apple of failing to curb child exploitation images across iCloud and iOS. The state seeks damages and court-ordered technical fixes that could force Apple to adopt automated detection measures previously rejected over privacy concerns.

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Surge in Threats Against U.S. Officials Drives Record Federal Prosecutions

Federal authorities prosecuted an unusually high number of threat-related cases last year as violent and harassing communications against judges, lawmakers and law-enforcement officials increased sharply. The rise has driven new security spending, intensified prosecutions, and raised concerns that public service will become harder to staff and protect.

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Salt Typhoon hackers believed to be retaining stolen telecom data for later exploitation

An FBI cyber official warned the China-linked group Salt Typhoon likely preserved exfiltrated telecom records as a long-term intelligence cache rather than for immediate monetization. Investigators say the intrusion touched dozens of providers and may involve data tied to more than one million U.S. residents, heightening risks from future targeted surveillance and fraud.

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AI chatbots vulnerable to simple web manipulation, researchers warn

Security researchers and SEO experts demonstrated that a short, fabricated web article can prompt major chatbots and search AI to repeat false claims within hours. The gap between rapid model deployment and weak provenance checks makes automated answers easy to hijack for misinformation or marketing abuse.

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CX platforms enable AI-driven lateral breaches in enterprise stacks

Customer-experience platforms are becoming unmonitored conduits attackers exploit to move laterally into core systems; a recent token theft exposed access across 700+ Salesforce instances and showed that traditional DLP and perimeter controls miss sensitive, free-text disclosures. Defenders must pair CX-layer input hygiene and API gating with identity-first controls — machine-identity inventories, automated rotation and cryptographic attestations — because stale service tokens and non-human credentials are the fastest-growing enablers of lateral movement.

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AI-powered SAST sharply cuts false positives and finds logic flaws

Legacy static analysis often generates roughly 68–78% false positives, forcing heavy manual triage. Layering fast rules, program-level dataflow, and LLM reasoning reduces noise and uncovers business-logic flaws—but organizations should run staged pilots, codify human-in-the-loop boundaries, and integrate remediation workflows to manage data risk and avoid false assurance.

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Automakers selling driver telemetry to insurers fuels privacy and pricing fights

Automakers selling driver telemetry to insurers fuels privacy and pricing fights

A driver discovered his braking event reached an insurer via his vehicle maker’s telemetry, sparking a lawsuit and renewed scrutiny of data sales. Regulators and consumer groups warn that widespread collection—affecting roughly nine in ten new cars—has real price and consent implications.

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U.S. Signals Tighter Cyber Retaliation Tied to Adversary Moves, Seeks Industry Coordination
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U.S. Signals Tighter Cyber Retaliation Tied to Adversary Moves, Seeks Industry Coordination

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OpenAI unveils EVMbench to benchmark AI for smart-contract security

OpenAI released EVMbench, a new evaluation framework that measures AI systems’ ability to detect, exploit in test conditions, and remediate vulnerabilities in EVM-compatible smart contracts. Built with Paradigm and drawing on real-world flaws, the benchmark aims to create a repeatable standard for assessing AI-driven defenses around code that secures large sums of on‑chain value.

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U.S. Treasury to publish AI cyber-risk guidance for financial firms
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U.S. Treasury to publish AI cyber-risk guidance for financial firms

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Moonwell pricing glitch lets liquidators seize millions in cbETH collateral

A misconfigured Chainlink oracle on Moonwell briefly priced cbETH at roughly $1, triggering rapid liquidations that generated about $1.8M in protocol bad debt and the seizure of 1,096.317 cbETH. Governance timelocks and the need for an on-chain vote delayed a fix, spotlighting oracle risk and protocol governance trade-offs.

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