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LLMs tend to miss the forest for the trees, understanding specific instructions but not their broader context. Bad actors can take advantage of this myopia to get them to do malicious things, with a new prompt-injection technique.

Plus: Apple offers $1 million to hack its AI cloud infrastructure, Iranian hackers successfully peddle stolen Trump campaign docs, Russia hacks the nation of Georgia, and a “cyberattack” that wasn’t.

Kremlin intelligence carried out a wide-scale phishing campaign in contrast to its usual, more targeted operations.

Apple has publicly made available its Private Cloud Compute (PCC) Virtual Research Environment (VRE), allowing the research community to inspect and verify the privacy and security guarantees of its offering. PCC, which Apple unveiled earlier this June, has been marketed as the "most advanced security architecture ever deployed for cloud AI compute at scale." With the new technology, the idea is

An attacker compromised one of Fortinet's most sensitive products and mopped up all kinds of reconnaissance data helpful for future mass device attacks.

The Russian-language malware primarily enlists computers to mine Monero, but theoretically it can do worse.

Popular titles on both Google Play and Apple's App Store include hardcoded and unencrypted AWS and Azure credentials in their codebases or binaries, making them vulnerable to misuse by threat actors.

Millions of iOS and Android users are at risk after Symantec discovered that popular apps contain hardcoded, unencrypted…

Not long ago, the ability to remotely track someone’s daily movements just by knowing their home address, employer, or place of worship was considered a powerful surveillance tool that should only be in the purview of nation states. But a new lawsuit in a likely constitutional battle over a New Jersey privacy law shows that anyone can now access this capability, thanks to a proliferation of commercial services that hoover up the digital exhaust emitted by widely-used mobile apps and websites.

Hi there! Here’s your quick update on the latest in cybersecurity. Hackers are using new tricks to break into systems we thought were secure—like finding hidden doors in locked houses. But the good news? Security experts are fighting back with smarter tools to keep data safe. Some big companies were hit with attacks, while others fixed their vulnerabilities just in time. It's a constant battle.