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FBI says ATM ‘jackpotting’ attacks are on the rise, and netting hackers millions in stolen cash
In 2010, the famed security researcher Barnaby Jack spectacularly hacked into an ATM cash machine on stage at the Black Hat security conference, forcing it to spit out reams of bank notes in front of…
The rise of Moltbook suggests viral AI prompts may be the next big security threat
Currently, Anthropic and OpenAI hold a kill switch that can stop the spread of potentially harmful AI agents. OpenClaw primarily runs on their APIs, which means the AI models performing the agentic actions reside on…
eBay bans illicit automated shopping amid rapid rise of AI agents
On Tuesday, eBay updated its User Agreement to explicitly ban third-party “buy for me” agents and AI chatbots from interacting with its platform without permission, first spotted by Value Added Resource. On its face, a…
PayPal and Spotify scam emails are on the rise. Here’s how to stay safe
Both PayPal and Spotify have made negative headlines in recent weeks. In late August, a data leak of 15.8 million PayPal accounts appeared for sale on the web. More recently, Spotify went live with a…
Genetic sharing site openSNP to shut down, citing concerns of data privacy and ‘rise in authoritarian governments’
OpenSNP, a large open source repository for user-uploaded genetic data, will shut down and delete all of its data at the end of April, co-founder Bastian Greshake Tzovaras has confirmed. In a blog post, openSNP’s…
The rise of AI voice cloning: A new era of phone scams begins
Imagine being woken up late one Tuesday night by a phone call from your young relative. They’ve been in a car accident and urgently need money sent to their phone, not having their wallet on…
Beware! Fake parking ticket SMS scams are on the rise
Scammers might be criminal scum, but you can’t deny that they’re always trying to innovate. With automation and generative text now much easier, we seem to be experiencing a new flood of phishing attempts. The…
4 exotic phishing scams are on the rise. Here’s how to identify them
Despite ever-improving junk mail filters and more sophisticated defense measures, phishing is still one of the biggest threats to cyber security and they’re becoming increasingly difficult to recognize. Criminals are using Large Language Models (LLMs)…
Intel’s Core Ultra 200 gaming performance could rise 25% after patch
Intel appears to have finally, at long last, put its Core Ultra 200 performance debacle to rest. And if you apply the appropriate software updates and BIOS fixes, the performance impact should be pretty significant.…