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An AI Found a Use After Free Bug in Exim—the Mail Server Behind More Than Half the Public Internet—And Triggering It Takes a Single Stray Byte at the Wrong Moment
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An AI Found a Use After Free Bug in Exim—the Mail Server Behind More Than Half the Public Internet—And Triggering It Takes a Single Stray Byte at the Wrong Moment

May 14, 2026 · 6 min read

84 Malicious TanStack Packages Just Got Published Through TanStack's Own Release Pipeline—Using a Stolen OIDC Token Pulled From the Runner's Process Memory
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84 Malicious TanStack Packages Just Got Published Through TanStack's Own Release Pipeline—Using a Stolen OIDC Token Pulled From the Runner's Process Memory

May 13, 2026 · 12 min read

The Opt Out Window Closes May 29: Google Will Pay $135 Million Because Android Phones Were Calling Home in the Background—Even While Idle
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The Opt Out Window Closes May 29: Google Will Pay $135 Million Because Android Phones Were Calling Home in the Background—Even While Idle

May 13, 2026 · 10 min read

Microsoft Just Patched a Word Bug You Trigger Without Opening the File—Outlook's Preview Pane Is the Attack Vector
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Microsoft Just Patched a Word Bug You Trigger Without Opening the File—Outlook's Preview Pane Is the Attack Vector

May 13, 2026 · 10 min read

Meta Capped Its Own Anti Scam Spending at 0.15% of Revenue—Santa Clara County Just Sued Over $7 Billion in "Violating Revenue"
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Meta Capped Its Own Anti Scam Spending at 0.15% of Revenue—Santa Clara County Just Sued Over $7 Billion in "Violating Revenue"

May 13, 2026 · 10 min read

TeamPCP Just Backdoored Checkmarx's Jenkins Plugin—the Same Group That Hit Trivy and Used Stolen Credentials From One Build Server to Hop to the Next
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TeamPCP Just Backdoored Checkmarx's Jenkins Plugin—the Same Group That Hit Trivy and Used Stolen Credentials From One Build Server to Hop to the Next

May 12, 2026 · 11 min read

Four Canadian Privacy Regulators Just Ruled OpenAI Violated Five Privacy Laws to Train ChatGPT—and the 'Publicly Available Information' Defense Failed in All Four Provinces
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Four Canadian Privacy Regulators Just Ruled OpenAI Violated Five Privacy Laws to Train ChatGPT—and the 'Publicly Available Information' Defense Failed in All Four Provinces

May 12, 2026 · 11 min read

Texas Just Filed a 'Surveillance Machinery' Lawsuit Against Netflix—5 Petabytes of Behavioral Data a Day, Captured From Kid Profiles Too
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Texas Just Filed a 'Surveillance Machinery' Lawsuit Against Netflix—5 Petabytes of Behavioral Data a Day, Captured From Kid Profiles Too

May 12, 2026 · 10 min read

California Just Issued Its Largest Privacy Fine Ever—$12.75 Million—Because GM Sold Hundreds of Thousands of OnStar Drivers' Locations to Two Data Brokers
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California Just Issued Its Largest Privacy Fine Ever—$12.75 Million—Because GM Sold Hundreds of Thousands of OnStar Drivers' Locations to Two Data Brokers

May 12, 2026 · 9 min read

RansomHouse Says It Stole the Source Code Behind Trellix—the Cybersecurity Firm 50,000 Companies and Governments Rely On
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RansomHouse Says It Stole the Source Code Behind Trellix—the Cybersecurity Firm 50,000 Companies and Governments Rely On

May 11, 2026 · 7 min read

A "Screenshot" in DigiCert's Support Chat Was Actually a Screensaver Virus—And It Walked Out With 60 Valid Code Signing Certificates
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A "Screenshot" in DigiCert's Support Chat Was Actually a Screensaver Virus—And It Walked Out With 60 Valid Code Signing Certificates

May 11, 2026 · 7 min read

The First Infostealer That Doesn't Decrypt Anything on Your Computer Just Hit 1,715 Victims—Including Gmail and Coinbase Logins
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The First Infostealer That Doesn't Decrypt Anything on Your Computer Just Hit 1,715 Victims—Including Gmail and Coinbase Logins

May 11, 2026 · 7 min read

Cushman & Wakefield Got Phished by Phone—Then ShinyHunters Dumped 50GB of Salesforce Data When the Ransom Deadline Passed
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Cushman & Wakefield Got Phished by Phone—Then ShinyHunters Dumped 50GB of Salesforce Data When the Ransom Deadline Passed

May 11, 2026 · 6 min read

JDownloader's Own Website Quietly Replaced the Windows Installer With a Python Backdoor for at Least 24 Hours—Defender Was the Only Thing That Caught It
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JDownloader's Own Website Quietly Replaced the Windows Installer With a Python Backdoor for at Least 24 Hours—Defender Was the Only Thing That Caught It

May 10, 2026 · 9 min read

The #1 Trending Repository on Hugging Face Last Week Was Not From OpenAI—It Was a Rust Infostealer Disguised as 'Privacy Filter'
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The #1 Trending Repository on Hugging Face Last Week Was Not From OpenAI—It Was a Rust Infostealer Disguised as 'Privacy Filter'

May 10, 2026 · 9 min read