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We start this week with Jason’s story about OpenAI and Microsoft’s big admissions from court records that they are destroying the internet in all sorts of ways, and stealing intellectual property on an unprecedented scale. He admit it. After the break, Emanuel explains how he hijacked a real band’s Spotify page with AI-generated slop. In the subscribers-only section, we hear all about iLands, the AI agent platform that is basically just spam. Listen to the weekly podcast on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , or YouTube . Become a paid subscriber for access to this episode's bonus content and to power…

You work in your company's human resources department and use HR software to check employee information, benefits, and payroll. So, when you see a downloadable Windows version promising a faster alternative to the usual web interface, you grab it. Unfortunately, the app isn't what it claims to be. Instead, it silently installs ConnectWise's legitimate ScreenConnect software, giving the operator persistent remote access to your PC. Cybersecurity outfit Allure Security reported the discovery of the campaign Thursday, describing it as the latest evolution in a trend of abusing ScreenConnect and…

A OnePlus 15 running the latest OxygenOS can be rooted by a malicious app the owner installs, one that asks for no special permissions. A researcher, Rasmus Moorats, chained two flaws in OnePlus's own software to gain root access, the highest level of control over an Android phone. OnePlus told him the same flaws affect many more of its own devices and those of OPPO, though it has not

The private email address GitLab gives you for filing issues by email is a credential. Anyone who gets it can email a patch that GitLab commits in your name, to any branch you can push to, including main, and can start CI/CD jobs that run as you. GitLab shows each user this address behind a button labeled "Email work item to this project." Mail sent to it opens an issue in that project, authored

The CEO of crypto exchange Bitget has confirmed that a cyberattack with all the hallmarks of a North Korean operation resulted in approximately $387.5 million worth of digital assets being stolen from the exchange’s wallets. Bitget initially estimated the loss at $351.6 million, but later revised the figure to $387.5 million after identifying additional affected assets on Zcash and TRON that were not included in the initial estimate. Blockchain intelligence company Arkham published its preliminary observations of the attack, estimating at the time that roughly $350 million was stolen and that…

Security flaws in Salesforce Agentforce allowed poisoned leads to hijack its AI agents, silently steal CRM data without requiring a click, and send phishing messages under the agents’ identities. Zenity Labs uncovered the three vulnerabilities, collectively called SalesBleed, and reported them to Salesforce, which worked with the AI agent security provider to fix the issues. While these attack chains no longer work, Zenity co-founder and CTO Michael Bargury told The Register that the vulnerabilities highlight the difficulties in controlling what agents can access - and what happens if and…

Two actions-cool GitHub Actions have been disabled for a second time after the repositories became accessible last week, months after they were compromised during the May 2026 Mini Shai-Hulud campaign. The affected GitHub Actions are listed below - actions-cool/issues-helper actions-cool/maintain-one-comment Visiting either of the repositories now shows the message: "Access to this

Google has jumped on the AI-defense-for-critical-systems train with its Scan for Good initiative, and says that its threat-hunting models have already autonomously uncovered critical security issues at hospitals, a municipality, a public rail operator, and major technology providers. So don't fear these bots. The initiative, announced on Thursday, uses Google’s Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber, a version of the model tuned for software bug hunting and remediation, and Wiz’s Red Agent - this is the Google-owned cloud security shop’s pentesting AI agent. The AI systems will uncover public exposures and…

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new version of PamStealer that ensures that the main payload can only be recovered using a server-side decryption chain. The latest artifacts, per Jamf Threat Labs, continue to rely on the same JavaScript for Automation (JXA) dropper mechanism, but modify the lure and the delivery method. "Where earlier variants embedded their payload key material

Well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well. We're back. Sorry. We've been watching the onslaught of vulnerabilities flood the internet. Every man, dog, and their grandmas (apparently?) are now using LLMs to find and reproduce vulnerabilities - it’s a free-for-all (unless you’re trying to buy RAM). Unfortunately, while we're all finding more vulnerabilities and flexing obfuscated stack traces… (or emoji-ridden HTTP requests that are actually complete slop and not real, and please, for the love of god, no, those slop-ridden payloads appearing in…