Calvin Wankhede / Android AuthorityTL;DR OpenAI has introduced a $100/month ChatGPT Pro plan in the US. The new tier offers 5x higher coding limits than the $20 Plus plan and is targeted at heavy users. OpenAI is now directly competing with Anthropic, which also offers a $100 Claude plan. OpenAI has introduced a new $100-per-month ChatGPT plan, driven by the growing popularity of its coding tool, Codex.The update was confirmed by Sam Altman on X, saying, “It is very nice to see Codex getting so much love. We are launching a $100 ChatGPT Pro tier by very popular demand.”The new…
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Threat actors using a previously undocumented phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform called “VENOM” are targeting credentials of C-suite executives across multiple industries. The operation has been active since at least last November and appears to target specific individuals who serve as CEOs, CFOs, or VPs at their companies. VENOM also seems to be closed access, as it has not been promoted on public channels and underground forums, thus reducing its exposure to researchers. The VENOM attack chain The phishing emails, observed by researchers at cybersecurity company Abnormal, impersonated Microsoft SharePoint document-sharing notifications as part of internal communication. The messages are highly personalized…
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“Threat actors can, for pennies, cycle through IP addresses to get fresh positive-reputation IP addresses minute to minute and use them for their wares at various parts of the attack lifecycle, whether it’s brute forcing, whether it’s leveraging known positive credentials, or whether it’s exfiltrating information at the end of the attack chain,” she said. Kimwolf: How a botnet scaled to 30 Tbps The Kimwolf botnet is the clearest illustration of what residential proxy exploitation looks like at operational scale. Kimwolf emerged in late 2025 as a breakaway from Aisuru, at the time the most powerful DDoS botnet on the…
Threat actors can extract Google API keys embedded in Android applications to gain access to Gemini AI endpoints and compromise data, CloudSEK warns. For over a decade, Google has said that API keys for public services such as Maps are not secrets, but recent research from Truffle Security showed that these keys can be used to authenticate to the Gemini AI assistant, potentially exposing personal data. “We scanned millions of websites and found nearly 3,000 Google API keys that now also authenticate to Gemini even though they were never intended for it. With a valid key, an attacker can access…
YouTube is pushing further into traditional TV-style advertising, signaling a shift that could reshape the viewing experience — and attract bigger brand budgets. What’s happening. Some TV viewers are being shown ads up to 90 seconds long before they can skip, a significant jump from the 30-second unskippable formats introduced recently. How it works. The longer ad blocks appear primarily on TV devices and may exceed 90 seconds in total length, with the skip option only becoming available after that initial window. Why we care. YouTube is creating more premium, TV-like ad inventory that allows for longer, more impactful storytelling…
Fully encrypted email has been available in at least some form for Gmail since the end of 2022, but now it’s finally ready for mobile. Google is now offering end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for Gmail on Android devices and iPhones through the official email app. The move comes days after Google simplified encryption for Workspace users on the desktop, and follows a similar approach. If both the sender and recipient are using the Gmail app, encrypted messages will appear like typical email threads. You only have to tap the lock icon and choose “additional encryption.” Recipients who don’t use the Gmail…
Streaming services are getting more expensive all the time, with Netflix raising its prices again just this past March. It’s getting to the point where it doesn’t make sense to keep up with all of these subscriptions. Happily, there are plenty of free streaming services out there that make better-than-expected substitutes. That includes Tubi, the best free streaming service you’re not using. Full disclosure: there is a lot of chaff to sort through on these services; when the price is free, sometimes you get what you pay for. But there’s also a lot of high-quality stuff if you know where…
Ravie LakshmananApr 09, 2026Malware / Windows Security A previously undocumented threat cluster dubbed UAT-10362 has been attributed to spear-phishing campaigns targeting Taiwanese non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and suspected universities to deploy a new Lua-based malware called LucidRook. “LucidRook is a sophisticated stager that embeds a Lua interpreter and Rust-compiled libraries within a dynamic-link library (DLL) to download and execute staged Lua bytecode payloads,” Cisco Talos researcher Ashley Shen said. The cybersecurity company said it discovered the activity in October 2025, with the attack using RAR or 7-Zip archives lures to deliver a dropper called LucidPawn, which then opens a decoy file and launches…
In a recent interview, Google’s CEO, Sundar Pichai, explained how search is changing in response to advances in AI. The discussion centered on a simple question: If AI can act, plan, and execute, then what role will search play in the future? Information Queries May Become Agent AI Search The interviewer asked whether search remains a product or becomes something else as AI systems begin handling tasks instead of returning results. They asked: “What do you view as a future of search? Is it a distribution mechanism? Is it a future product? Is it one of N ways people are…