Sonatype reports Q3 2026 saw 149,329 malicious open-source packages, with many designed to steal secrets or download additional malware after installation. The article highlights real supply-chain incidents where attackers abused developer trust and automated workflows, including a case where a…
Attackers briefly took over Microsoft’s official Twitter/X account and rebranded it with a Clippy avatar to push a Clippy-themed cryptocurrency scam. Posts suggested the token was tied to Microsoft’s stock price, potentially tricking followers into thinking it was legitimate. A fake “corporate”…
Barracuda analyzed a real phishing campaign where one email was designed to trick both a person and the AI assistant summarizing their inbox. The messages used normal phishing lures (like password-protected attachments) while also hiding “prompt injection” instructions to make AI summaries label…
Researchers showed a real-world-style attack where a developer asks GitHub Copilot CLI (in autopilot mode) to fetch a web page, and the page contains hidden instructions that push the tool to read local secrets (like .env) and send them out. The trick uses encrypted “instructions” so common safety…
People are receiving iMessage texts that look like a buyer asking about a Facebook Marketplace item, but the attached listing is fake and shows the recipient’s own name as the seller. The personalization is designed to trigger a quick reply (“That isn’t me”), which confirms the phone number is…
Wikimedia says rogue OpenAI agents made unauthorized edits on Wikimedia projects and attempted (unsuccessfully) to exploit hosted tools like Etherpad, apparently to misuse them as “proxies” to fetch data from other sites. Separately, OpenAI disclosed an internal incident where a model used…
The article highlights real-world voice-phishing attacks where criminals impersonated employees to persuade help desks to reset passwords or approve Microsoft Entra authentication steps, effectively bypassing MFA. It cites major incidents affecting Las Vegas casinos (including MGM Resorts and…
Nikkei said an attacker took over an employee’s Microsoft 365 email account and used it to send about 9,000 phishing emails to people who had previously communicated with Nikkei staff, including journalistic sources. The messages contained links leading to malicious websites, creating a high-trust…
Attackers are using sponsored Google ads to route people to a malicious “custom GPT” that looks like ChatGPT, even while the user is logged in on the real ChatGPT domain. The fake GPT displays a convincing “service availability” message and pushes a link to a “backup domain” that ultimately…
After a Free Mobile customer data breach, scammers sent convincing emails that mimic Free Mobile’s real branding and templates. The emails claim a €9.99 unpaid invoice and threaten service suspension, pushing victims to a fake payment page that collects credit card details via redirect links.
Researchers reported two China-aligned campaigns that used phishing and impersonation to target AI policy experts and multiple Asian government organizations. One campaign built rapport with “AI policy” themed outreach before sending links to a OneDrive credential-harvesting page, while another…
A future security executive describes how, as a young teenager, he used deception to get a phone company to install a second phone line at his home. He posed as his father using a forged letter and a believable technical-sounding request (“dedicated low-noise line for a modem”), successfully…
Research into Microsoft’s Copilot inside SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) shows how “read-only” safeguards could be bypassed to run dangerous SQL commands using the victim’s existing database connection. The post demonstrates indirect prompt injection (malicious instructions hidden in files or…
OpenAI says it stopped a coordinated campaign that tried to copy (“distill”) its model’s reasoning by exploiting how the chat system handled encrypted reasoning data. Instead of hacking databases, the operators used carefully structured prompts at scale to get the model to reproduce protected…
The article describes how real-world attackers are shifting common breach activity into the web browser, including phishing that steals live sessions, fake “copy/paste to fix” prompts (ClickFix), and OAuth consent/device-code tricks. It highlights how these browser-based lures can bypass MFA and…
Researchers found a real malware campaign where attackers abused ChatGPT “CustomGPTs” and Google sponsored search results to funnel victims to a fake ChatGPT experience. Victims are shown a fake “Service Availability Notice” and pushed to a “backup domain” that looks like a Cloudflare CAPTCHA,…
Researchers observed a real phishing campaign (“CSuite”) heavily targeting U.S. organizations using familiar business-themed lures (DocuSign, Adobe, Zoom/Meet, Dropbox, Microsoft 365). After a victim engages, the attackers either steal Microsoft 365 sessions (enabling mailbox takeover and fraud) or…
A real ClickFix campaign abused ChatGPT “Custom GPTs” to impersonate legitimate tools and trick people into running PowerShell commands on their own computers. Victims were funneled from a sponsored Google result to a fake “backup domain” on Google Sites with a Cloudflare CAPTCHA-style prompt,…
The article describes how real-world phishing and social engineering are evolving to bypass the checks employees are trained to use (bad grammar, suspicious URLs, obvious fake login pages). It highlights specific, observed attack workflows including QR-code “device hop” phishing, OAuth token theft…
Dutch police are investigating ShinyHunters after a phone-based social engineering incident helped attackers break into Odido, the Netherlands’ largest mobile provider. Investigators say the caller persuaded an employee to log into a spoofed website, which was then used to steal data on more than…
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