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Cyber Security News From Around The World

Latest news as of 5/11/2025, 8:11:35 PM

The Hacker News

12 days ago

New Reports Uncover Jailbreaks, Unsafe Code, and Data Theft Risks in Leading AI Systems

Various generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) services have been found vulnerable to two types of jailbreak attacks that make it possible to produce illicit or dangerous content. The first of the two techniques, codenamed Inception, instructs an AI tool to imagine a fictitious scenario, which can then be adapted into a second scenario within the first one where there exists no safety

The Hacker News

12 days ago

WhatsApp Launches Private Processing to Enable AI Features While Protecting Message Privacy

Popular messaging app WhatsApp on Tuesday unveiled a new technology called Private Processing to enable artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities in a privacy-preserving manner. "Private Processing will allow users to leverage powerful optional AI features – like summarizing unread messages or editing help – while preserving WhatsApp's core privacy promise," the Meta-owned service said in a

Bleeping Computer

12 days ago

Apple 'AirBorne' flaws can lead to zero-click AirPlay RCE attacks

​A set of security vulnerabilities in Apple's AirPlay Protocol and AirPlay Software Development Kit (SDK) exposed unpatched third-party and Apple devices to various attacks, including remote code execution. [...]

The Register

12 days ago

Enterprise tech dominates zero-day exploits with no signs of slowdown

As Big Tech gets used to the pain, smaller vendors urged to up their game

Bleeping Computer

12 days ago

SK Telecom cyberattack: Free SIM replacements for 25 million customers

South Korean mobile provider SK Telecom has announced free SIM card replacements to its 25 million mobile customers following a recent USIM data breach, but only 6 million cards are available through May. [...]

Graham Cluley

12 days ago

The AI Fix #48: AI Jesus, and is the AI Singularity almost upon us?

In episode 48 of The AI Fix, OpenAI releases the first AI models capable of novel scientific discoveries, ChatGPT users are sick of its relentlessly positive tone, our hosts say "Alexa" a lot, OpenAI eyes a social network of its own, and some robots run a half-marathon. Graham discovers AI Jesus and a great offer on some Casper mattresses, and Mark wonders if the technological singularity is actually much closer than we thought. All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of "The AI Fix" podcast by Graham Cluley and Mark Stockley.

Bleeping Computer

12 days ago

Microsoft fixes Outlook paste, blank calendar rendering issues

Microsoft has confirmed several issues affecting Microsoft 365 customers using the "paste special' option and the calendar feature in the classic Outlook email client. [...]

Dark Reading

12 days ago

US Critical Infrastructure Still Struggles With OT Security

How does a company defend itself from cyberattacks by a foreign adversary? A collection of experts gathered at this year's RSAC Conference to explain how the US can help.

The Register

12 days ago

China now America's number one cyber threat – US must get up to speed

Former Rear Admiral calls for National Guard online deployment and corporates to be held accountable Russia used to be considered America's biggest adversary online, but over the past couple of years China has taken the role, and is proving highly effective at it.… RSAC

Dark Reading

12 days ago

Risks of Using AI Models Developed by Competing Nations

The current offline/open source model boom is unstoppable. Its impact depends on how well the risks are managed today.