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The green circuit board of a D-Link ShareCenter Pulse DNS-320 two-bay network storage device, with its processor, memory chips and network port

Hackers turned old D-Link and Ubiquiti devices into paid internet proxies

GreyNoise found an attacker who broke into at least 143 storage boxes, video recorders and servers in 34 countries and quietly signed them up to a pay-for-bandwidth app.

October 16, 2026

A hand holds an Android phone showing the Google Messages page in the Play Store with an Open button.

Google Messages gets an opt-in Gemini mode to catch slow-burn scams

Google is rolling out an Enhanced protection mode for Google Messages, scam alerts on more Android phones, and new blocks on call-forwarding and screen-sharing tricks.

October 15, 2026

Bank of America hired 1,000 contractors to patch bugs that AI models found

CEO Brian Moynihan says the bank added 1,000 outside contractors in the second quarter to fix software flaws uncovered by AI models like Anthropic's Mythos, on top of 3,000 people already doing that work.

October 15, 2026

Technology

Microsoft takes down a phishing marketplace behind 1 billion scam messages

Microsoft and Health-ISAC seized domains behind YAM Store, CoGUI and Iron Man, three services that sold scammers accounts, fake websites and ready-made lures used in more than 1 billion messages this year.

October 15, 2026

The 102 Petty France tower in Westminster, London, home of the UK Ministry of Justice, seen from street level against a blue sky

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UK Legal Aid Agency hackers took records going back to 1978

Eighteen months after the attack, the Ministry of Justice says about 250,000 stolen Legal Aid Agency records predate 2007, and some probation data was taken too.

October 15, 2026

The Al Jazeera English newsroom in Doha seen from above, with a round anchor desk, rows of monitors and studio lights on circular rigs

Technology

Citizen Lab says spyware rode in on online ads, no click needed

Researchers say an Israeli ad company let spyware makers infect devices the moment an ad loaded, including 45 computers at Al Jazeera.

October 15, 2026

AIOctober 14, 2026
Anthropic says AI worms could soon spread through cheap smart TV boxes
Anthropic's Frontier Red Team ran a 26-billion-parameter AI model across 15 cheap Android TV boxes and found small models may be months away from copying themselves across home devices.
TechnologyOctober 14, 2026
Ledger confirms a hidden spy chip behind crypto thefts from resold wallets
Ledger found an unauthorized hardware implant in a wallet sold by CryptoBilis, a reseller in Southeast Asia, after buyers lost tens of millions of dollars in crypto.
AIOctober 14, 2026
Hinton, Bengio and 400 scientists want a global body to keep AI contained
An open letter signed by researchers from 34 countries asks AI labs to cut risky models off from the internet for now, and asks governments to create an international body that tracks every containment failure.
TechnologyOctober 14, 2026
DOJ says North Korean IT workers fooled more than 70 US companies
The FBI searched more than 40 suspected laptop farms in Texas and seized about 187 devices, and prosecutors charged 14 people in a remote job scheme worth about $3 million.
TechnologyOctober 7, 2026
Arizona court hack exposed data on 1.3 million people after one phishing click
A phishing link opened by a court employee let attackers copy backups with Social Security numbers, protective order records and foster care reports.
TechnologyOctober 6, 2026
Hackers hijacked three country domains to get fake Google certificates
Attackers took over the .gh, .sl and .as registries, rewrote DNS records and got real certificate authorities to issue HTTPS certificates for Google and other big brands. Chrome has blocked the ones Google found.

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