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We know that ICE wants to deploy eyeglasses with facial recognition that can identify people in real time. Turns out Meta is prototyping the feature with a Pentagon supplier. (Alternate news story.)

A database of almost a million passports from around the world was leaked online. Note what happened. A high-value credential—a passport—was used in an ancillary low-value authentication system: ID verification for cannabis dispensaries. And it’s the low-value system that got hacked, putting the...

Authorities in Poland have arrested four members of an organized cybercrime group accused of breaching telecommunications partners and hijacking email accounts to carry out SIM-swapping attacks. [...]

Earlier this month, a German court ruled that Google is liable for its AI search summaries. Rejecting defenses like “users can check for themselves,” and that they generally know “that information generated with AI should not be blindly trusted,” the court held that the AI’s summaries are...

Despite the abundance of telemetry at analysts’ disposal, many security operations teams struggle to answer a few basic questions during incident investigation: What happened? What evidence do we have? How do we know we’re seeing it all, in context? Answering these questions requires teams to go...

Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced that Jonathan Rinaldi has been charged with forgery and criminal possession of a forged instrument for allegedly creating and distributing false political endorsements and fake news articles u ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1557#7455)

A coordinated law enforcement operation, in partnership with private sector companies, including Bitdefender, Bitsight, ESET, and Microsoft, has resulted in the takedown of criminal infrastructure powering Amadey and StealC. "The main common goal was to disrupt the 'assembly lines' cybercriminals...

1\. Introduction Fletcher v. Experian Info Solutions is an appellate sanctions decision arising from a Fair Credit Reporting Act dispute in which the Fifth Circuit confronted a rapidly recurring litigation risk: the use of generative artif ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1453#7449)

AUGUSTA --- A Belfast man who killed his wife and assaulted his mother with a fire poker in Readfield was deemed not criminally responsible for those acts Thursday. He was ordered held by the state in a psychiatric hospital over the objecti ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1491#7440)

In July 2025, Alice Carrier was doing something she had been regularly doing for months, her family says --- messaging with OpenAI's ChatGPT. Carrier, a 24-year-old web developer in Montreal, had been using the chatbot to discuss her depre ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1535#7430)

WARNING: This story contains references to suicide. Resources can be found below. When 24-year-old Alice Carrier told ChatGPT that she had to die to stop the pain she was feeling, the chatbot allegedly appeared to agree. "If someone else ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1535#7429)

A new report from INTERPOL has revealed a "dramatic increase" in cybercrime in Asia and the South Pacific, fueled by rapid digitalization, internet penetration, new technologies, organized criminal networks, and a disparity in cybersecurity maturity. According to INTERPOL's 2025/2026 Asia and South...

Es sind wichtige Sicherheitsupdates für unter anderem Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) erschienen. Netzwerkadmins sollten zeitnah tätig werden.

Hersteller F5 bessert außer der Reihe in Nginx vier Schwachstellen aus, von denen zwei als kritisches Risiko gelten.

Ein Anruf des BSI um 2:30 holte kürzlich Windchill-Kunden aus dem Schlaf. Jetzt wird klar, wieso. Doch welche Rolle spielte das BKA dieses Mal?

Fake photos generated by artificial intelligence (AI) are being misused to claim refunds from Chinese online shops, sparking moral and legal concerns. As China's Double 11 shopping festival took place around November 11, several e-commerce ... (report_number: 7412)

For the past four years, a sprawling Android-based botnet called Popa has forced millions of consumer TV boxes to relay Internet traffic linked to advertising fraud, account takeovers, and mass data-scraping efforts. This week, researchers from multiple security firms concluded that the Popa botnet...

"Shield-6G" will combine AI threat detection, digital twins, honeypots, and more, to help carriers protect 6G networks against the threats of tomorrow.

In a recent BBC report, Google appears to have acknowledged that its earthquake alert system failed to warn users in Turkey about the February 2023 earthquake, which resulted in massive destruction and loss of life. Ideally, around 10 mill ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1546#7404)

Chinese bike-sharing giant Hellobike saw its robotaxi operations halted in a central Chinese city after a rare collision involving pedestrians. Hellobike's robotaxi service in Zhuzhou, Hunan province, has been temporarily suspended with no ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1538#7385)

An unknown threat actor has been observed leveraging paid or promoted posts on legitimate news websites to drum up buzz for their warez, according to new findings from Check Point Research. The threat actor also has at their disposal a dedicated WordPress phishing page that acts as the central hub,...

India has banned Telegram until June 22 after the app was used to circulate leaked exam papers. CEO Pavel Durov accuses telecom Reliance of BGP hijacking that disrupted the app as far away as the UAE. Here's what happened, and how to get around the block with an MTProto proxy. [...]

Security teams have never had more IP data at their disposal. Every day, analysts ingest enrichment feeds, geolocation data, reputation scores, telemetry, and threat intelligence from a growing ecosystem of vendors and platforms. Yet despite this abundance of information, many organizations...

There are over a dozen cases around the country where police officers are using the Flock surveillance camera system to obsessively and illegally stalk people. Alternate link.

A proposed FCC rule would kill burner phones: phones whose accounts are not attached to a particular person. The FCC plans to do this by legally forcing the country’s telecoms to store a wealth of personal information about essentially all phone customers, including a government issued...

The US government has ordered Anthropic to block all foreign nationals from accessing Fable 5 and Mythos 5, forcing the company to suspend both models worldwide. Anthropic is complying but disputes the basis, calling the cited jailbreak narrow and the capability widely available elsewhere. [...]

A major bug in Oracle's ERP software disproportionately affected American universities, and hackers have capitalized by stealing gobs of data.

An INTERPOL-led operation last month resulted in the disruption of Sniper Dz, a decade-long phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform, Group-IB said Thursday. The effort, codenamed Operation Ramz, took place between October 2025 and February 2026, and saw authorities from 13 countries in the Middle...

An AI hacker claims to have achieved a prompt-based jailbreak shortly after Fable 5’s launch, but Anthropic says it’s not a real jailbreak. The post Anthropic Disputes Fable 5 AI Jailbreak appeared first on SecurityWeek.

"Ghost-Sender" uses Exchange Online or on-premises in hybrid mode with a third-party mail server or spam filter to achieve this level of spoofing.