A bug hunter discovered a bypass in Meta's Prompt-Guard-86M model by inserting character-wise spaces between English alphabet characters, rendering the classifier ineffective in detecting harmful content.

Researchers at Truffle Security have found, or arguably rediscovered, that data from deleted GitHub repositories (public or private) and from deleted copies (forks) of repositories isn't necessarily deleted.

The Philippines has decided to shut down its online gambling industry to tackle illegal activities such as financial scams and human trafficking. President Ferdinand Marcos Jr instructed PAGCOR to cease operations of POGOs by the end of the year.

Alphabet's planned $23 billion acquisition of cybersecurity firm Wiz has fallen through, leading Wiz to pursue its own path toward an IPO and aiming for $1 billion in annual recurring revenue (ARR).

Google has decided to continue supporting third-party cookies, instead proposing a new approach that allows users to opt-in to their Privacy Sandbox. This comes after criticism and regulatory pressure over privacy concerns and competition issues.

FrostyGoop can disrupt industrial processes by altering values on ICS devices. The malware exploited the Modbus protocol to directly affect industrial control systems, posing a significant threat to OT environments globally.

A recent report from Europol indicates that the disruption of ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) groups is causing a fragmentation of the threat landscape, complicating tracking efforts.

Beijing has claimed that the Volt Typhoon attack gang, accused by Five Eyes nations of being a Beijing-backed threat to critical infrastructure, was actually fabricated by the US intelligence community.

Indian crypto exchange WazirX disclosed a loss of virtual assets worth more than $230 million due to a cyber attack linked to North Korea. The attack targeted a multi-signature wallet with six signatories, leading to a breach in security measures.

A recent poll of tech managers from CrowdStrike's 2024 State of Application Security Report revealed that cybersecurity workers only review major updates to software applications 54% of the time.