FBI warns of expanded Chinese hacking campaign

AI-powered ransomware is a thing now

Anthropic warns about “vibe-hacking”

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DOGE Put Critical Social Security Data at Risk, Whistle-Blower Says

Alleged mastermind behind K-Pop celebrity stock heist extradited to South Korea

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If Salesforce flutters its wings in San Francisco...

How is this still tricking people?

From tagging to bagging

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Malicious Go module steals credentials via Telegram

Mirai-based botnet resurfaces targeting systems globally

Silk Typhoon hackers exploit cloud trust to hack downstream customers

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This week’s Cyber Security Headlines – Week in Review is hosted by Rich Stroffolino. This is our milestone edition, celebrating five years of the daily Cyber Security Headlines news podcast. Our guests today will be the CSH reporters themselves, reflecting on some stories from this week as well as their favorite stories from the past few years. Joining Rich live will be Hadas Cassorla and Steve Prentice, with videos from Sarah Lane and Lauren Verno.

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Apple urges iPhone, iPad and Mac update ASAP

Scattered Spider operative gets 10 years and a big fine

Microsoft seeks customer feedback on SSD failure issues

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A patch today keeps the zero-day away

Jailbreaking ChatGPT-5 Pro

The thing about vulnerabilities is they stay vulnerable

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Massive Allianz Life data breach impacts 1.1M people

Speed cameras knocked out after cyber attack

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