As for the impact of AI, X-Force reports the technology is no longer an emerging concept in cybersecurity: “It’s a force multiplier actively used by both defenders and adversaries. Threat actors are already applying generative AI to scale phishing operations, accelerate malicious code development and enhance social engineering through improved language quality and realism. At the same time, defenders are using AI-driven analytics to process vast volumes of telemetry, identify anomalous behavior and shorten detection and response timelines.” “Adversaries increasingly use AI to accelerate research, analyze large data sets and iterate on attack paths in real time, allowing them to…
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Three critical security vulnerabilities in Anthropic’s AI-powered coding tool, Claude Code, exposed developers to full machine takeover and credential theft simply by opening a project repository.Anthropic fixed the issues after Check Point Research discovered the flaws and reported it to the company last year. Anthropic plans to introduce additional security features to harden the coding platform and, in the meantime, wants developers to use the latest version of Claude Code to ensure they are protected.New Exposures”These vulnerabilities in Claude Code highlight a critical challenge in modern development tools: balancing powerful automation features with security,” Check Point researchers Aviv Donenfeld and…
Telegram is among the most popular WhatsApp alternatives around. Telegram supports messaging individuals and groups, but it also has social media-like channels where you can post to thousands of subscribers at once. In this piece, I’ll be focusing more on Telegram as a messenger, since that’s how I use it the most. In my decade of using the app, I’ve learned quite a bit about it, and I’m here to share the best Telegram hacks that you should know.You need to manually enable end-to-end encryptionUnlike Signal or WhatsApp, Telegram is not end-to-end encrypted by default. End-to-end encryption ensures that your…
Ravie LakshmananFeb 25, 2026Artificial Intelligence / Vulnerability Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed multiple security vulnerabilities in Anthropic’s Claude Code, an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered coding assistant, that could result in remote code execution and theft of API credentials. “The vulnerabilities exploit various configuration mechanisms, including Hooks, Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, and environment variables – executing arbitrary shell commands and exfiltrating Anthropic API keys when users clone and open untrusted repositories,” Check Point Research said in a report shared with The Hacker News. The identified shortcomings fall under three broad categories – No CVE (CVSS score: 8.7) – A code injection vulnerability…
Google is rolling out a significant update to how average daily budgets pace in campaigns that use ad scheduling — and it could materially change monthly spend totals. What’s happening. Starting March 1, 2026, Google Ads will begin proactively pacing budgets to spend up to the full 30.4x monthly limit, even if campaigns only run on specific days via ad scheduling. How it works: The 2x daily overspend rule stays in place. The 30.4x average daily budget monthly cap remains unchanged. Campaigns will not run outside scheduled hours. But Google will now attempt to hit the full monthly ceiling within…
HBO Max is taking us for quite an exciting ride in March. Not only is the streamer dropping a slew of hit movies from the past on us, but it’s also presenting us with some appetizing debuts of new series, films, and documentaries, one of which feels like a giant belated Valentine’s Day present for Big Lebowski fans. Viewers should be down for anything come March 1, because that’s when the platform’s most anticipated show, DTF St. Louis, drops. The limited series is about an apathetic love triangle that leads to murder. Jason Bateman, David Harbour, Linda Cardellini, Peter Sarsgaard,…
Malwarebytes researchers have uncovered a fake (but convincing) Zoom meeting page that downloads surveillance software on Windows computers and tricks users into running it. According to Microsoft MVP Steven Lim, the page has claimed nearly 1,500 victims in 12 days. The trick Potential victims likely visit the page (at uswebzoomus[.]com/zoom/) after getting a meeting invite/link via email or text. The page is made to look like a Zoom waiting room and, once a visitor interacts with it, three scripted fake participants appear to join the call, one by one. “Their conversation audio loops on repeat in the background. A permanent…
Phishing and data breaches are a constant on the internet. The single best defense against both is to use a password manager to generate and automatically fill a unique password for every site. While 1Password has recently raised their prices, and researchers have recently published potential flaws in some implementations, using a password manager is still a critical investment in keeping yourself safe on the internet. There are free options, and even ones built into your operating system or browser. We can help you choose. Password managers protect you from phishing by memorizing the connection between a password and a…
I recently bought a shiny LG TV that I’ve been wanting to get for a long time. I assumed that my new TV would give me the best possible audio and video quality right out of the box. So, I didn’t change any settings for the first few days. I soon realized that not all TVs offer the best performance settings by default. I started noticing that colors did not look their best, the screen gets brighter randomly, and the overall picture quality did not look sharp. Then I decided to dig into the settings. After spending around 20 to…
The vulnerabilities, scored as critical, affect the company’s software-defined wide-area networking (SD-WAN) systems.