The Water Watch Center launched at DEF CON aims to help under-resourced utilities protect their systems against hackers. The post US Water Systems Get Cyber Boost From New Senate Bill and ‘Water Watch Center’ appeared first on SecurityWeek.
OpenAI on Monday unveiled a new cybersecurity-focused model called GPT‑5.6‑Cyber that it said is focused on vulnerability research, penetration testing, and incident response. “Built on GPT‑5.6 Sol, it is trained to improve capabilities on several specialized cybersecurity tasks (e.g., finding zero-day vulnerabilities and developing exploit chains) and to reduce refusalsRead More »OpenAI Launches GPT-5.6-Cyber with Reduced Safeguards for Exploit Development
A malicious SIM card can order the device it sits in to run commands of the attacker’s choosing. On the cellular modules built into electric-vehicle chargers, industrial routers, and car telematics units, that is enough to take the whole device over. Researchers at the University of Birmingham and the securityRead More »A Malicious SIM Card Can Run Attacker Code Inside the Modems Behind Cellular IoT Devices
Mozilla has scrapped the cryptographic key behind Firefox and Thunderbird downloads for Linux after an unencrypted copy of it was committed by mistake to one of the company’s own private code repositories. That key is how a user, or a Linux distribution packaging the browser, confirms a downloaded Firefox tarballRead More »Mozilla Revokes Firefox and Thunderbird Linux Signing Key After Key Lands in Private Repo
Corma emerged from stealth with seed funding from Sequoia Capital, Khosla Ventures, and Coatue. The post Corma Raises $60 Million for Defensive Cybersecurity AI Model appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Security researchers invented a cryptocurrency startup, advertised developer jobs, and hired three people they believe were North Korean operatives. Every virtual machine the company issued was recording. The onboarding paperwork is the part hiring teams can use. The first hire claimed to live in Pasadena, Texas, then sent a CaliforniaRead More »Researchers Built a Fake Crypto Startup and Hired Three Suspected North Korean IT Workers
Windows Plug and Play can be abused to fetch signed vendor software for an emulated USB device and execute privileged installation components that researchers chained to SYSTEM access on a fully updated Windows 11 machine. The same PnP path can be triggered over Remote Desktop without physical hardware when supportedRead More »Researchers Turn USB Auto-Install Into a Full SYSTEM Takeover on Windows 11
A malicious tool server connected to an AI coding assistant can quietly walk off with SSH keys, environment secrets, source code, and customer data without ever sending one obviously harmful instruction. The trick can work even after a blunt version of the same theft is refused: split the request intoRead More »Malicious MCP Servers Can Split Instructions to Make AI Coding Agents Exfiltrate Secrets
Marcus Hutchins doesn’t personally consider himself a hacker – but he accepts the epithet because it’s a widely used term for what he once did. The post Hacker Conversations: Marcus Hutchins and the Journey From the Gray Zone to Redemption appeared first on SecurityWeek.
OpenAI has also announced the expansion of its Daybreak platform to give more organizations access to its AI. The post OpenAI Unveils New Cybersecurity Model GPT-5.6-Cyber appeared first on SecurityWeek.
