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ScamBuster Turns Phishing Emails Into Intelligence by Pretending to Be the Victim
A French engineer built an AI system that replies to scam emails, plays along long enough to extract bank details and phone numbers, then hands the data to investigators.
37 Cybersecurity Deals in One Month: What June 2026's M&A Surge Tells Us
From a $4 billion Accenture mega-deal to a $70 million automated-patching pickup, June was a busy month for security industry consolidation. Here is what moved and why it matters.
Meta's Patent Bid: An AI That Listens All Day and Guesses Your Mood
A newly filed Meta patent describes software that would listen to a user's voice, infer their emotional state, and log it against time, location, and phone activity.
AI Is Making Rich Organisations Even Safer. What Happens to Everyone Else?
A growing body of security leaders says artificial intelligence is deepening a divide that has existed for years between well-resourced organisations and those just trying to keep the lights on.
OpenAI Lifts the Five-Hour Cap on ChatGPT and Codex After a Weekend of Overloaded Demand
Plus and Business subscribers get a usage reset and a temporary reprieve from the rolling limit, as OpenAI tunes GPT-5.6 Sol to burn through allowances more slowly.
Meta Kills AI Image Tool Days After Launch Over Privacy Backlash
A new feature that let users generate pictures by pulling content from public Instagram accounts lasted less than a week before Meta pulled it following an outcry from users and a Hollywood union.
You Probably Can't Spot an AI Fake Face. Researchers Think They Can Teach You
A team of scientists across three countries is testing whether ordinary people can be trained to tell real faces from AI-generated impostors. The early results are cautiously encouraging.
Anthropic gives paying Claude users another week of Fable 5 access
The company pushed the deadline from July 12 to July 19, blaming compute constraints for the on-again, off-again availability of its top model.
'Ghostcommit' smuggles hacker instructions inside images to trick AI coding assistants
Researchers hid secret commands in an ordinary PNG file, walked past two popular AI code reviewers, and got a coding assistant to leak a project's passwords.
The Hidden Cost of AI Coding Tools: Security Gaps, Leaked Secrets, and a Bill That Keeps Growing
New research shows AI coding assistants leak sensitive credentials at twice the normal rate, routinely produce flawed code, and may cost more than a developer's salary within three years.
Three flaws in OpenClaw AI assistant let attackers steal passwords and run code on your computer
A researcher chained three now-patched bugs in the OpenClaw personal AI assistant into a full takeover of the host machine, starting from a single WhatsApp message.
CrowdStrike Flags Five New Ways Criminals Can Trick AI Into Obeying Them
Researchers have mapped out a fresh set of prompt injection attacks, where criminals feed deceptive instructions to AI systems to make them behave in harmful ways. Here is what each one does and why ordinary employees are part of the risk picture.
HalluSquatting: How AI Hallucinations Are Being Turned Into a Doorway for Malware
Security researchers have found a way to turn a known quirk of AI chatbots into a method for delivering malicious software directly to developers' computers, without hacking the AI itself.
AI Is a Force Multiplier for Defenders and Attackers Both, Says Check Point CTO
Jonathan Zanger says every AI platform his team examined over the past year had serious security flaws. The fix isn't to avoid AI. It's to build security in from the start.
Scammers Sent AI Fake Photos of a Missing Man to His Parents and Demanded $6,000
Criminals used a social media plea about a missing autistic man to generate a fake image of him and threaten his family. It is a preview of where AI-powered extortion is heading.