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Anthropic’s Claude AI experienced a partial outage on September 3, 2026, disrupting requests across several Claude models and affecting developers, enterprise users, and individuals relying on the platform for coding, research, writing, and creative work. The incident began to draw attention at around 9:40 AM EDT, when users reported elevated error rates, stalled responses, and […]

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Hackers are putting QR codes in phishing emails to steal login credentials. Known as quishing, the method hides a dangerous web address inside a square and persuades recipients to scan it with a phone. The tactic exploits a habit: people distrust suspicious links but may view a QR code as a routine shortcut. A convincing […]

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A dark web identity theft service known as Nexus has reportedly offered scans of more than 153 million driver’s licenses from people in the United States and Canada. The FBI’s New Orleans field office has opened an investigation into the suspected source of the records, which may be linked to Louisiana-based identity verification provider IDScan.net. […]

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Researchers have developed SweepLED, a low-cost smartphone accessory designed to help travelers find concealed cameras in hotel rooms and short-term rentals. The prototype uses an LED-equipped phone case, computer vision, and machine learning to identify the optical signatures of camera lenses in under 5 seconds. Hidden cameras can be placed inside common objects such as […]

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Thomson Reuters has disclosed a data breach affecting C-Track, a court case management platform operated by its subsidiaries, exposing court records and sensitive personal information across courts in at least 12 US states, the US Virgin Islands, and Canada. The company published the disclosure publicly on Wednesday, along with separate notification pages for affected individuals in the United States and Canada. What happened, and when Thomson Reuters said it discovered unauthorized activity involving certain C-Track … More →

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Threat actors impersonated Gen executives and major consulting firms in a targeted business email compromise-style operation that used forged non-disclosure agreements to isolate a legal employee and pressure the company into transferring €626,735.45 to a Hong Kong entity. Dubbed Phantom Deal, the campaign shows how financially motivated actors can abuse legitimate M&A processes, corporate history […]

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Google has introduced Gemini 3.8 Flash, available to developers today, and a gated sibling, Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber, reserved for vetted security teams. “Our 3rd Flash release in just 6 wks,” Google CEO Sundar Pichai said on X, adding that it makes sizable gains over 3.7 Flash in software engineering, agentic work, and multi-step reasoning. On the DeepSWE v1.1 benchmark, Google says it beats most larger frontier models at solving complex engineering problems end to … More →

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A malicious ScreenConnect campaign in which rogue remote-access clients do more than provide attackers with hands-on control: modified clients can automatically push a multi-stage VBScript malware chain to newly connected Windows endpoints. Once deployed, the clients repeatedly spawned wscript.exe to execute four scripts 1.vbs, 2.vbs, 3.vbs, and 4.vbs from ScreenConnect-related temporary locations. The behavior is […]

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