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French intelligence identifies Shahid Kaveh as an Iran-linked cyber unit operating through front groups that present themselves as vigilante hackers. The groups allegedly target Iran’s adversaries while obscuring the role of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
9:27 AMAl Jazeera
France says the cyber unit of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps carried out an unprecedented campaign against supermarket refrigerators, causing millions of euros in damage. Paris is considering sanctions in response.
8:43 AMCNBCMicrosoft released fixes for nearly 1,100 vulnerabilities across Windows and supported software, including 63 critical flaws and a zero-day affecting Outlook. Adobe, Apple, Google, and Mozilla also issued security updates.
4:55 PMKrebs on Security
Australia has unveiled a new artificial intelligence regulator following a breach involving OpenAI. The government is also considering criminal penalties for companies whose models engage in harmful conduct.
6:01 AMThe New York TimesSummary
French intelligence identifies Shahid Kaveh as an Iran-linked cyber unit operating through front groups that present themselves as vigilante hackers. The groups allegedly target Iran’s adversaries while obscuring the role of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
The decisive fact is the use of proxy identities to separate state sponsors from disruptive
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Proxy cyber groups make state-backed attacks harder to deter because responsibility remains deliberately blurred.
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France says the cyber unit of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps carried out an unprecedented campaign against supermarket refrigerators, causing millions of euros in damage. Paris is considering sanctions in response.
France's attribution turns a disruptive retail hack into a state-linked confrontation. Sanctions would raise the
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Cyberattacks on ordinary commercial systems are becoming a test of how governments respond to state-backed disruption below the threshold of armed conflict.
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Microsoft released fixes for nearly 1,100 vulnerabilities across Windows and supported software, including 63 critical flaws and a zero-day affecting Outlook. Adobe, Apple, Google, and Mozilla also issued security updates.
The immediate risk is concentrated in the Outlook zero-day and the large number of critical
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A broad, cross-platform patch cycle gives defenders a narrow window to close vulnerabilities before attackers exploit them.
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Australia has unveiled a new artificial intelligence regulator following a breach involving OpenAI. The government is also considering criminal penalties for companies whose models engage in harmful conduct.
Australia is moving from voluntary oversight toward direct accountability for AI developers. If criminal liability
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The proposal could push AI governance beyond transparency rules and toward legal responsibility for the real-world behavior of deployed models.
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A researcher found roughly 35,000 applications created with Grok Build that were publicly accessible to anyone who searched for them. The exposed apps contained confidential information, including data linked to SpaceX.
4:12 PMArs Technica
Congress returns with expiring cybersecurity authorities and unfinished AI safety legislation competing for limited floor time. Republicans have only a few weeks to act before Democrats take control of both chambers in January.
1:46 PMPYMNTS
Nintendo’s latest Switch 2 firmware update blocks a jailbreak that gave hackers access to system files and game ROMs. The company is moving quickly to close the exploit and protect its platform.
12:51 PMPolygon
Hugging Face executive Irene Solaiman warns that rising cyberattacks against open AI platforms could lead operators to impose tighter security controls and restrict access to models and tools.
8:00 AMTechCrunchA decade-old flaw involving OpenSSH and musl allows attackers to bypass disabled password authentication on certain Alpine Linux and other musl-based accounts by submitting a password longer than 256 bytes.
7:02 AMSchneier on SecuritySummary
A researcher found roughly 35,000 applications created with Grok Build that were publicly accessible to anyone who searched for them. The exposed apps contained confidential information, including data linked to SpaceX.
The exposure shows that Grok Build apps could be deployed with inadequate access controls, leaving
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AI-generated applications can turn a configuration failure into a mass data exposure when platforms publish them without strong access controls.
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Congress returns with expiring cybersecurity authorities and unfinished AI safety legislation competing for limited floor time. Republicans have only a few weeks to act before Democrats take control of both chambers in January.
The election results have turned routine reauthorization into a short-term legislative race. Cybersecurity programs face
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A narrow post-election window could determine whether key cybersecurity authorities continue uninterrupted and which AI safety priorities advance.
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Nintendo’s latest Switch 2 firmware update blocks a jailbreak that gave hackers access to system files and game ROMs. The company is moving quickly to close the exploit and protect its platform.
This is the usual cat-and-mouse game between console makers and modders. Nintendo’s update may stop
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The patch reinforces Nintendo’s control over the Switch 2’s software and piracy defenses.
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Hugging Face executive Irene Solaiman warns that rising cyberattacks against open AI platforms could lead operators to impose tighter security controls and restrict access to models and tools.
The central shift is that attacks could turn openness from a default into a privilege
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Security responses could narrow the practical access that makes open-source AI useful.
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A decade-old flaw involving OpenSSH and musl allows attackers to bypass disabled password authentication on certain Alpine Linux and other musl-based accounts by submitting a password longer than 256 bytes.
The decisive risk is an authentication bypass on systems that administrators configured not to accept
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A security setting designed to block password logins can fail under a simple, remotely supplied input.
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