Security newsDark ReadingWhy CTF Competitions May Be More Important Than EverAs artificial intelligence squeezes early-career learning opportunities, capture-the-flag contests could be one way to help pick up the slack.Read on Dark ReadingMalwareThe Hacker NewsThreatsDay: Critical Firewall Flaws, Banking Trojans Rented, Weaponized PDF, Token Theft + 26 More StoriesSome attacks take real skill. Others just need someone to leave a door open. This week has both. Exposed passwords, old bugs still getting exploited, and trusted software…Read on The Hacker NewsSecurity newsDark ReadingClaude Model Builds Exploits Across Major Browsers & OSesAn unreleased version of the AI model has found and chained multiple vulnerabilities in Chrome, Safari, Android, Windows, and Linux, Anthropic says.Read on Dark ReadingVulnerabilityThe Hacker NewsLinux Kernel TCP Flaw With 9.8 CVSS Score Affects Ubuntu, Red Hat and Other DistributionsA flaw in the Linux kernel's TCP code, tracked as CVE-2026-98432, affects Ubuntu, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), and other Linux distributions. The kernel's own CVE team rates it…Read on The Hacker NewsSecurity newsDark ReadingThreat Modeling With 4 Simple Questions on a White BoardA four-question exercise that CISOs can use to create a threat model that promises results, without a big spend.Read on Dark ReadingAI securityThe Hacker NewsFake ChatGPT and Claude Apps Abuse Signed Executables to Deploy Crypto MinersThreat actors are delivering malicious loaders and cryptocurrency miners under the guise of artificial intelligence (AI) desktop applications for Anthropic Claude and OpenAI ChatGPT as part of a…Read on The Hacker NewsVulnerabilityThe Hacker NewsGoogle's Gemini 4 Carbon Leads Benchmarks for Finding, Exploiting, and Patching VulnerabilitiesGoogle on Wednesday took the wraps off Gemini 4 Carbon, its latest frontier model with state-of-the-art cybersecurity and long-horizon capabilities. "It shows significant gains across coding and agentic…Read on The Hacker NewsAI securityThe Hacker NewsWebinar: How to Build AI Threat Readiness Into Your Security OperationsSecurity teams have spent years trying to detect threats faster. AI is changing the harder part: how much time defenders have left to act. Advanced AI models can…Read on The Hacker NewsVulnerabilityThe Hacker NewsTelegram Android Flaw Lets Attackers Run Code When Users Answer Voice CallsA flaw in Telegram for Android could be chained with two other bugs to take full control of a victim's phone through a voice call, once the victim…Read on The Hacker NewsAI securityDark ReadingShadowy AI Relay Disables OpenAI Codex, Claude Code SandboxesThe enigmatic service is providing popular AI coding tools to mainland China and other regions where OpenAI and Anthropic products are not officially for sale — but with…Read on Dark ReadingVulnerabilityDark ReadingCyber Vulnerabilities Besiege Italy, Absent Clear CauseResearchers can't quite explain why cyber threats look so different in Italy compared with everywhere else.Read on Dark ReadingSecurity newsDark ReadingGhostAction Hacking Wave Fizzles, but Attackers Lurk on in GitHubThe supply chain attack campaign's shift toward developer endpoints and cloud access signals what could be next for the cybercrime outfit.Read on Dark Reading
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